Xanthin is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for XANTHIN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a white substance, structurally related to uric acid, found in muscle tissue, the liver and other organs, also XANTHINE
• a crystalline compound found in blood and urine which is an intermediate in the metabolic breakdown of nucleic acids to uric acid.
• any of the derivatives of this, including caffeine and related alkaloids.
• any of a group of yellow or orange carotene derivatives
• A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates).
• A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.
• One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a yellow pigment

Words related to XANTHIN

xanthins18

Words that contain XANTHIN

xanthine18 xanthins18 xanthines19 zeaxanthin29 fucoxanthin26 zeaxanthins30 astaxanthin21 anthoxanthin25 fucoxanthins27 hypoxanthine30 phycoxanthin32 astaxanthins22 anthoxanthins26 canthaxanthin28 hypoxanthines31 phycoxanthins33 canthaxanthine29 canthaxanthins29 methylxanthine32 canthaxanthines30 methylxanthines33

How to use XANTHIN in a sentence

• The principal purins are hypoxanthin, xanthin, uric acid, guanin, adenin, caffeine and theobromine.

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