trinitroglycerin

Other forms of trinitroglycerin

plural

trinitroglycerins·

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 trinitroglycerin

What does trinitroglycerin mean?

trinitroglycerin 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)".

How many syllables are in trinitroglycerin?

trinitroglycerin has 6 syllables and divides as tri-ni-tro-gly-ce-rin 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 trinitroglycerin?

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

trinitroglycerin 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.