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Filtering: UR | Found: 178 words.
Alt. of Ure
A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.
Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.
The posterior half of an animal.
Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.
Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
See Curare.
Alt. of Uralic
Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.
Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
Murexan.
Alt. of Uran-ochre
A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.
The orang-utang
A salt of uranic acid.
Urania
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A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely r...
Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
Uranic
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Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of urani...
A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
The process of forming an artificial palate.
Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy
Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.
An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yell...
Alt. of Uranographical
Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.
One practiced in uranography.
A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
A meteorite or aerolite.
A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
A uranometry.
A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.
The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.
A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.
Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.
Uranus
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One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.
See Trona.
Alt. of Urari
See Curare.
A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.
Of or containing urates; as, uratic calculi.
Urban
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Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.
Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.