| CHLORACNES | • chloracnes n. Plural of chloracne. • CHLORACNE n. a type of disfiguring skin disease, caused by contact with chlorinated hydrocarbon. |
| CHLORALISM | • chloralism n. (Medicine) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral. • CHLORALISM n. a morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral. |
| CHLORALOSE | • chloralose n. An avicide and rodenticide, also used in neuroscience and veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic and sedative. • CHLORALOSE n. a hypnotic drug used for anaesthetising animals in laboratory experiments. |
| CHLORAMINE | • chloramine n. (Chemistry) any of a class of unstable compounds of nitrogen and chlorine R1R2NCl; also the parent compound… • CHLORAMINE n. any of various compounds containing nitrogen and chlorine. |
| CHLORDANES | • chlordanes n. Plural of chlordane. • CHLORDANE n. a highly poisonous liquid insecticide, also CHLORDAN. |
| CHLORELLAS | • chlorellas n. Plural of chlorella. • CHLORELLA n. a member of the genus Chlorella of green freshwater algae. |
| CHLORIDATE | • chloridate v. (Transitive) To treat or prepare with a chloride. • CHLORIDATE v. to treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. |
| CHLORIDISE | • chloridise v. Alternative form of chloridize. • CHLORIDISE v. to convert into a chloride, also CHLORIDIZE. |
| CHLORIDIZE | • chloridize v. (Dated, transitive) To chloridate. • CHLORIDIZE v. to convert into a chloride, also CHLORIDISE. |
| CHLORINATE | • chlorinate v. (Transitive, chemistry) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous… • CHLORINATE v. to treat or combine with chlorine or a chlorine compound. |
| CHLORINISE | • chlorinise v. Alternative spelling of chlorinize. • CHLORINISE v. to chlorinate, also CHLORINIZE. |
| CHLORINITY | • chlorinity n. (Chemistry) A quantitative measure of the amount of chlorine and other halides in water, especially in seawater. • CHLORINITY n. in seawater, a measure of the amounts of chlorine, iodine, bromine and fluorine present. |
| CHLORINIZE | • chlorinize v. (Transitive) To chlorinate. • CHLORINIZE v. to chlorinate, also CHLORINISE. |
| CHLORODYNE | • chlorodyne n. A narcotic drug, made from chloroform, morphia and other substances. • CHLORODYNE n. a patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc. |
| CHLOROFORM | • chloroform n. (Organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling… • chloroform v. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform. • CHLOROFORM v. to treat with or as if with the colourless volatile liquid chloroform esp. so as to produce anesthesia. |
| CHLOROPHYL | • chlorophyl n. Dated form of chlorophyll. • CHLOROPHYL n. the green colouring in plants concerned with the production of sugars, also CHLOROPHYLL. |
| CHLOROQUIN | • CHLOROQUIN n. a drug used to suppress malaria, also CHLOROQUINE. |