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Words starting with sulp

6 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulph- — containing sulphur
  • sulpha — any of a group of sulphonamides that prevent the growth of bacteria

7 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphur — a city in SW Louisiana.
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
  • sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties

8 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
  • sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
  • sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
  • sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
  • sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur

9 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
  • sulphured — treated or combined with sulphur
  • sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
  • sulphuryl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group, =SO2
  • sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.

10 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
  • sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical

11 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur

12 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate

13 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas

14 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
  • sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.

15 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphur-crested cockatoo — a large Australian white parrot, Kakatoe galerita, with a yellow erectile crest

18 letter words starting with sulp

  • sulphate-resisting cement — a type of Portland cement that resists normal concentrations of sulphates: used in concrete for flues and underwater work

On this page, we collect all words starting with SULP. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 50 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with SULP. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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