washing powder

1. 1.

   soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders

   Synonymssoap powderbuilt-soap powder

   Broadersoap

Questions about washing powder

What does washing powder mean?

washing powder means "soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders".

What is another word for washing powder?

Close synonyms include soap powder, built-soap powder. 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 washing powder a common word?

washing powder 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.