All solvent synonyms
sol·vent
S s noun solvent
- abstergent — cleansing or scouring
- cleanser — A cleanser is a liquid or cream that you use for cleaning your skin.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- aqua vitae — alcohol
- diluent — serving to dilute; diluting.
- detergent — Detergent is a chemical substance, usually in the form of a powder or liquid, which is used for washing things such as clothes or dishes.
- diluter — (chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
- inebriant — an intoxicant.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- chloroform — Chloroform is a colourless liquid with a strong sweet smell, which makes you unconscious if you breathe its vapour.
- firewater — alcoholic drink; liquor.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- liquor — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
- decoction — the extraction of the water-soluble substances of a drug or medicinal plants by boiling
adj solvent
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- fusible — capable of being fused or melted.
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- flyest — clever; keen; ingenious.
- meltable — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- aqueous — In chemistry, an aqueous solution or cream has water as its base.
- dissoluble — capable of being dissolved: tablets dissoluble in water.
- mellifluent — mellifluous.
- all there — having his or her wits about him or her; of normal intelligence
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- bread-and-butter — providing a livelihood or basic source of income; supplying the basic needs of life: a bread-and-butter job; the agency's bread-and-butter account.
- economic — of or relating to the science of economics.
- fluidic — the technology dealing with the use of a flowing liquid or gas in various devices, especially controls, to perform functions usually performed by an electric current in electronic devices.
- deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
- dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- goer — a person or thing that goes: We sat in the lobby watching the comers and goers.
adjective solvent
- liquid — composed of molecules that move freely among themselves but do not tend to separate like those of gases; neither gaseous nor solid.
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.