nitrocellulose

Other forms of nitrocellulose

plural

nitrocelluloses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nitrocellulose

What does nitrocellulose mean?

nitrocellulose means "a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives".

How many syllables are in nitrocellulose?

nitrocellulose has 5 syllables: ni-tro-cel-lu-lose. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˌnaɪtɹoʊˈsɛljəˌloʊs/.

What is another word for nitrocellulose?

Close synonyms include cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton. 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 nitrocellulose a common word?

nitrocellulose 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.

What rhymes with nitrocellulose?

1 word rhymes with nitrocellulose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.