Words Containing Nitrile

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Definition of nitrile

n. - Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

acetonitrile acrylonitrile adiponitrile amygdonitrile azoisobutyronitrile benzonitrile dinitrile formonitrile isonitrile nitriles oxalonitrile polyacrylonitrile propionitrile tolunitrile xylonitrile