Acicular is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 152 anagrams from letters in acicular (aaccilru).
First recorded in 1785-95; acicul(a) + -ar1
By re-solution in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of colourless, prismatic, acicular crystals.
By repeated solutions in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of white, silky, acicular crystals.
acicular, as-ik′ū-lar, adj. needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed.
The picrate of silver forms beautiful starry groups of acicular crystals, having the colour and lustre of gold.
Palpi very slightly curved; second joint brown on the outer side; third acicular, a little shorter than the second.
Nitraniline forms yellow, acicular crystals, little soluble in cold water, but freely soluble in alcohol and ether.
It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and the crystals are either prismatic or acicular in habit.
Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations.
Valve very narrow, lanceolate, acicular, with obtuse apices.
They were not small and acicular, were nearly alike in the three basins, and had effloresced only on a few minute points.