Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Solid Matter

Density

Nouns
  • density, solidity
  • solidness etc. adj.
  • impenetrability, impermeability
  • incompressibility
  • imporosity
  • cohesion etc. Coherence
  • constipation, consistence, spissitude. specific gravity
  • hydrometer, areometer. condensation
  • caseation
  • solidation, solidification
  • consolidation
  • concretion, coagulation
  • petrification etc. (hardening) Hardness
  • crystallization, precipitation
  • deposit, precipitate
  • inspissation
  • gelation, thickening etc. v.. indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness. solid body, mass, block, knot, lump
  • concretion, concrete, conglomerate
  • cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum
  • bone, gristle, cartilage
  • casein, crassamentum
  • legumin. superdense matter, condensed states of matter
  • dwarf star, neutron star.
Verbs
  • be dense etc. adj.
  • become solid, render solid etc. adj.
  • solidify, solidate
  • concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate
  • curd, curdle
  • lopper
  • fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize
  • petrify etc. (harden) Hardness. condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate
  • compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.
Adjectives
  • dense, solid
  • solidified etc. v.
  • caseous
  • pukka
  • coherent, cohesive etc. Coherence
  • compact, close, serried, thickset
  • substantial, massive, lumpish
  • impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous
  • incompressible
  • constipated
  • concrete etc. (hard) Hardness
  • knotted, knotty
  • gnarled
  • crystalline, crystallizable
  • thick, grumous, stuffy. undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed. indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Rarity

Nouns
  • rarity, tenuity
  • absence of solidity etc. Density
  • subtility
  • subtilty, subtlety
  • sponginess, compressibility. rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization. vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification. ether etc. (gas) Gaseity.
Verbs
  • rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize.
Adjectives
  • rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight
  • light etc. Levity
  • cavernous, spongy etc. (hollow) Concavity. rarefied etc. v.
  • unsubstantial
  • uncompact, incompressed
  • rarefiable.

Hardness

Nouns
  • hardness etc. adj.
  • rigidity
  • renitence, renitency
  • inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity. induration, petrifaction
  • lapidification, lapidescence
  • vitrification, ossification
  • crystallization. stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant
  • bone, cartilage
  • hardware
  • heart of oak, block, board, deal board
  • iron, steel
  • cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron
  • nail
  • brick, concrete
  • cement.
Verbs
  • render hard etc. adj.
  • harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify
  • accrust.
Adjectives
  • hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm
  • starch, starched
  • stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding
  • inflexible, tense
  • indurate, indurated
  • gritty, proof. adamant, adamantine, adamantean
  • concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous
  • horny, corneous
  • bony
  • osseous, ossific
  • cartilaginous
  • hard as a rock etc. n.
  • stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker
  • stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

Softness

Nouns
  • softness, pliableness etc. adj.
  • flexibility
  • pliancy, pliability
  • sequacity, malleability
  • ductility, tractility
  • extendibility, extensibility
  • plasticity
  • inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity. penetrability. clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding
  • alumina, argil
  • cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding
  • foam. mollification
  • softening etc. v..
Verbs
  • render soft etc. adj.
  • soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper
  • mash, knead, squash. bend, yield, relent, relax, give. plasticize'.
Adjectives
  • soft, tender, supple
  • pliant, pliable
  • flexible, flexile
  • lithe, lithesome
  • lissom, limber, plastic
  • ductile
  • tractile, tractable
  • malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic
  • aluminous
  • remollient. yielding etc. v.
  • flabby, limp, flimsy. doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony. flaccid, flocculent, downy
  • edematous, oedematous, medullary [Anat.], argillaceous, mellow. soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk
  • yielding as wax, tender as chicken.

Elasticity

Nouns
  • elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber
  • neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic. flexibility, Young's modulus.
Verbs
  • stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic etc. adj.
  • bounce, spring back etc. (recoil) Recoil.
Adjectives
  • elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant
  • ductile, stretchable, extendable.
Phrases
  • the stress is proportional to the strain.

Inelasticity

Nouns
  • want of elasticity, absence of elasticity etc. Elasticity
  • inelasticity etc. (softness) Softness
Adjectives
  • unyielding, inelastic, inflexible etc. (soft) Softness
  • irresilient.

Tenacity

Nouns
  • tenacity, toughness, strength
  • (cohesion) Coherence
  • grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) Coherence
  • sequacity
  • stubbornness etc. (obstinacy)
  • glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity) Semiliquidity. leather
  • white leather, whitleather
  • gristle, cartilage. unbreakability, tensile strength.
Verbs
  • be tenacious etc. adj.
  • resist fracture. grip, grasp, stick (cohesion) Coherence.
Adjectives
  • tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather
  • stubborn etc. (obstinate) Obstinacy. unbreakable, indivisible
  • atomic.

Brittleness

Nouns
  • brittleness etc. adj.
  • fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility
  • house of cards, house of glass.
Verbs
  • be brittle etc. adj.
  • live in a glass house. break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way
  • fall to pieces
  • crumble to, crumble into dust.
Adjectives
  • brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile
  • splitting etc. v.
  • lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

Texture (Structure)

Nouns
  • structure (form) Form, organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction
  • framework, carcass, architecture
  • stratification, cleavage. substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma [Biol.]
  • constitution, staple, organism. [Science of structures] organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology
  • angiography, adenography. texture, surface texture
  • intertexture, contexture
  • tissue, grain, web, surface
  • warp and woof, warp and weft
  • tooth, nap etc. (roughness) Roughness
  • flatness (smoothness) Smoothness
  • fineness of grain
  • coarseness of grain, dry goods. silk, satin
  • muslin, burlap. [Science of textures] histology.
Adjectives
  • structural, organic
  • anatomic, anatomical. textural, textile
  • fine grained, coarse grained
  • fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny
  • coarse
  • homespun. rough, gritty
  • smooth. smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

Pulverulence

Nouns
  • powderiness [State of powder.], pulverulence
  • sandiness etc. adj.
  • efflorescence
  • friability. powder, dust, sand, shingle
  • sawdust
  • grit
  • meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule
  • crumb, seed, grain
  • particle etc. (smallness) Smallness
  • limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder
  • cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke
  • puff of smoke, volume of smoke
  • sand storm, dust storm. [Reduction to powder] pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration [Chem], levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure
  • limitation
  • tripsis
  • filing etc. v.. [Instruments for pulverization] mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology.
Verbs
  • come to dust
  • be disintegrated, be reduced to powder etc.. reduce to powder, grind to powder
  • pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate
  • scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise
  • contuse, contund
  • beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate
  • attenuate etc. Contraction.
Adjectives
  • powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous
  • arenose, arenarious, arenaceous
  • gritty, efflorescent, impalpable
  • lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline
  • sporaceous, sporous. pulverizable
  • friable, crumbly, shivery
  • pulverized etc. v.
  • attrite
  • in pieces.

Friction

Nouns
  • friction, attrition
  • rubbing, abrasion, scraping etc. v.
  • confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub
  • elbow grease
  • rosin
  • massage
  • roughness etc. Roughness. rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction.
Verbs
  • rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw
  • file, grind etc. (reduce to powder) Pulverulence. set one's teeth on edge
  • rosin.
Adjectives
  • anatriptic
  • attrite.

Lubrication (Absence of friction Prevention of friction)

Nouns
  • smoothness etc. Smoothness
  • unctuousness etc. Unctuousness. lubrication, lubrification
  • anointment
  • oiling etc. v.. synovia [Anat.]
  • glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease etc. Oil
  • saliva
  • lather. teflon.
Verbs
  • lubricate, lubricitate
  • oil, grease, lather, soap
  • wax.
Adjectives
  • lubricated etc. v.
  • lubricous.