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ether
ether is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
- 2noun
Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
- 3noun
A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
- 4noun
Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
- 5noun
a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
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- 6noun
a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
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- 7noun
any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
- 8noun
the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
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