Words containing ld

Aceldama means: The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.

Acetaldehyde means: Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

Acold means: Cold.

Afield means: To, in, or on the field.

Afield means: Out of the way; astray.

Ahold means: Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.

Alcalde means: A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

Alday means: Continually.

Aldebaran means: A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.

Aldehyde means: A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.

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.