nitrostat

Other forms of nitrostat

plural

nitrostats·

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 nitrostat

What does nitrostat mean?

nitrostat 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 nitrostat?

nitrostat has 3 syllables: ni-tro-stat. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for nitrostat?

Close synonyms include nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, Nitrospan. 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 nitrostat a common word?

nitrostat 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.