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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Containing sulfur, used especially of a compound in which oxygen has been replaced by a divalent sulfur: thiourea.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In chem., a prefix now restricted to the names of substances in which sulphur may properly be viewed as replacing oxygen. In the older names for such substances the prefix sulpha- was often used.

Wiktionary

  1. chemistry containing sulfur / sulphur, especially a compound in which oxygen has been replaced by this element

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sulphur. See sulpho-.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek θεῖον (theion, "Sulfur") (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek theio-, from theion, sulfur. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sulphantimonate
  2. sulphantimonic
  3. sulphantimonious
  4. sulpharsenate
  5. sulpharsenic
  1. sulpharsenious
  2. sulphaurate
  3. sulphauric
  4. sulphurea
  5. RC4
  1. sulpho-
  2. sulphocarbamide
  3. sulphur-acid
  4. sulphydro
  5. thio-antimonic
  1. thio-antimonious
  2. thio-arsenious
  3. amidothiolactic
  4. azole
  5. thionic
  1. digestion products
  2. sulphoxid
  3. sulphur-salt
  4. thio-alcohol
  5. thio-antimonate
  1. thio-antimonite
  2. thiocarbamic
  3. thiocarbonyl
  4. thio-ether

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