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10,889 words match “LIN”

INULIN n.
lianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
IRIDOLINE n.
se C10H9N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine.
ISABELLINE a.
Of an isabel or isabella color.
ISOCLINAL; ISOCLINIC a.
Of or pertaining to, or indicating, equality of inclination or dip; having equal inclination or dip. Isoclinal lines (Magnetism), lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which a dipping needle indicates the same inclination or dip.
JANGLING a. 3 definitions
Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.
JAVELIN n. 2 definitions
soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game. Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm Addison.
JAVELINIER n.
A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland.
JENTLING n.
A fish of the genus Leuciscus; the blue chub of the Danube.
JINGLING n.
The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink. "The jingling of the guinea." Tennyson.
JINGLINGLY adv.
So as to jingle. Lowell.
JOLLINESS n.
Jollity; noisy mirth. Chaucer.
JUGGLING a. 2 definitions
Cheating; tricky. -- Jug"gling*ly, adv.
JUMBLINGLY adv.
In a confused manner.
KAIROLINE n.
An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.
KAOLIN; KAOLINE n.
A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.
KAOLINIZATION n.
The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin.
KAOLINIZE v.
To convert into kaolin.
KECKLING n.
Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t.
KEELING n.
A cod.
KEMELIN n.
A tub; a brewer's vessel. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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