Picric is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 38 anagrams from letters in picric (cciipr).
1850-55; Greek pikr(ós) bitter + -ic
It is rapidly decomposed by an excess of alcohol into picric acid and anthracene, the solution assuming a yellow tint.
No,” said the purchaser, “that picric acid you have sent me is not an explosive.
They frequently also, in order to modify the colour, mix with it a certain quantity of chromate of lead or picric acid.
The action of picric acid mixed with the paste can only augment and aggravate the irritation of the wounds.
For instance, picric acid appears in three places in this book.
This is not the case, however, as regards piperin and picric acid.
Bleaching powder, lime, and picric acid are received by rail.
The head was washed and shaved and then painted with picric acid.
This is then further nitrated into trinitrophenol or picric acid.
Maybe—but so is picric acid; so is nitroglycerin; and so is pure gold.