Words starting with napierh
Maybe these words will be useful:
- napier — Sir Charles James, 1782–1853, British general.
- napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
- napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
- napierian — of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
- napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- naphthenic — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
- naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.