Words starting with sla

Words and definitions

Slab means: A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.

Slab means: An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

Slab means: The wryneck.

Slab means: The slack part of a sail.

Slab means: Thick; viscous.

Slab means: That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.

Slabbered means: of Slabber

Slabbering means: of Slabber

Slabber means: To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.

Slabber means: To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.