Camphor is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAMPHOR in dictionary:

VERB:
• To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
NOUN:
• a solid essential oil derived from camphor laurel, also CAMPHIRE, CAMPHOL
• a white volatile crystalline substance with an aromatic smell and bitter taste, occurring in certain essential oils.
• aromatic crystalline substance
• A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.
• A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
• a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a volatile compound

Words related to CAMPHOR

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Words that contain CAMPHOR

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How to use CAMPHOR in a sentence

• Fanfur is the sixth kingdom, having the best camphor, which Is sold weight for weight with gold.
• He found a woman, who took a bottle of camphor, a jug of water, and some towels, and started on the run.
• The yield of the camphor and oil varies greatly in different seasons.
• It will carry about two hundred picos of camphor, which goes to Portugal.
• It is known that some actually are identical in composition, although produced from totally different plants, such as camphor, turpentine, rosemary.
• Reduce the camphor to powder by rubbing it in a mortar with a little spirit, then sift the whole well together.
• By the distillation of the whole plant or only the stalk and the leaves, a small quantity of oil is obtained, which is rich in camphor, and is there called oil of spike.
• Ether leaves a pleasant-smelling resin, somewhat resembling camphor.
• Here the finest camphor was produced, equal in value to its weight in gold.
• Among the valuable productions of the island as articles of commerce a conspicuous place belongs to the camphor.
• Where the family can afford the expense it is strewed over with camphor.
• Before the war most of the camphor was obtained from Japan.
• We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphor.
• We occupied an adjoining room, and once an hour we were required to bathe the face of the corpse in spirits of camphor.
• A bag of camphor in each one would serve to keep away moths.
• I tried many remedies, and finally found one, camphor ice, that would prevent the drying and cracking.
• Thence we sailed to the isle of Rohat where the camphor trees grow to such a size that a hundred men could shelter under one of them with ease.
• They have plenty of Camphor and of all sorts of other spices.
• Continue the application of opium and camphor, and wash it frequently with a decoction of red clover.
• An account of this tree, and of the mode of procuring the peculiar and high-priced camphor which it yields, is given by Dr.
• In Sumatra the best camphor is obtained in a district called Barus, and all good camphor bears that local name.
• Camphor is then added, and the whole is ground together and thoroughly mixed.

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