Words starting with lign
5 letter words starting with lign
- ligne — (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
6 letter words starting with lign
- lignan — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of phenylpropanoid (propylbenzene) type of molecules found in essentially all plants, generally dimeric or higher order, and produced by secondary metabolic pathways branching off of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, in some cases having associated antioxidant or estrogenic (phytoestrogenic) activities; having in common with lignin the phenylpropanoid monomers, where lignin is a random oxidative polymerization of the same.
- ligni- — indicating wood
- lignin — Botany. an organic substance that, with cellulose, forms the chief part of woody tissue.
- lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
7 letter words starting with lign
- lignane — (organic compound) The hydrocarbon formed by joining two propylbenzene residues at the \u03b2-carbon atom of the propyl side chain; this structure is the basis of all lignans.
- lignans — Plural form of lignan.
- lignify — to convert into wood; cause to become woody.
- lignite — a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- lignose — an explosive compound composed of nitroglycerin and wood fibre
8 letter words starting with lign
9 letter words starting with lign
10 letter words starting with lign
- lignocaine — lidocaine.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
11 letter words starting with lign
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- lignivorous — xylophagous.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
12 letter words starting with lign
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
13 letter words starting with lign
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
14 letter words starting with lign
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
15 letter words starting with lign
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
On this page, we collect all words starting with LIGN. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 28 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with LIGN. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.