nitrospan

Other forms of nitrospan

plural

nitrospans·

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 nitrospan

What does nitrospan mean?

nitrospan means "a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nitrospan?

nitrospan has 3 syllables and divides as ni-tro-span 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 nitrospan?

Close synonyms include nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, Nitrostat. 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 nitrospan a common word?

nitrospan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.