Dictionary Entry
alcohol
alcohol is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An impalpable powder. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
An impalpable powder.
- 2noun
The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
- 3noun
Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
- 4noun
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
- 5noun
a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
"alcohol (or drink) ruined him"
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- 6noun
any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation
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