Words containing bic

Acerbic means: Sour or severe.

Albicant means: Growing or becoming white.

Albication means: The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

Albicore means: A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.

Alembic means: An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

Anaerobic means: Relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic.

Antihydrophobic means: Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia.

Antihydrophobic means: A remedy for hydrophobia.

Arabic means: Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.

Arabic means: The language of the Arabians.

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.