diethylmalonylurea

Questions about diethylmalonylurea

What does diethylmalonylurea mean?

diethylmalonylurea means "a barbiturate used as a hypnotic".

How many syllables are in diethylmalonylurea?

diethylmalonylurea has 8 syllables and divides as di-e-thyl-ma-lo-ny-lu-rea under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diethylmalonylurea?

Close synonyms include barbital, veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diethylmalonylurea a common word?

diethylmalonylurea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.