These are the meanings of the letters ALIETHMOIDAL when you unscramble them.
- Ethmoidal (a.)
Like a sieve; cribriform.
- Ethmoidal (a.)
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
- Lithoidal (a.)
Like a stone; having a stony structure.
- Metalloid (a.)
Having the appearance of a metal.
- Metalloid (a.)
Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
- Metalloid (n.)
Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
- Metalloid (n.)
Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.