Definitions for volatiles

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volatiles vol·a·tile

Spelling: [vol-uh-tl, -til or, esp. British, -tahyl]

IPA: /ˈvɒl ə tl, -tɪl or, esp. British, -ˌtaɪl/

Volatiles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 513 anagrams from letters in volatiles (aeillostv).

Definitions for volatiles

noun

1. a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent.

adjective

1. evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor:
2. tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive:
3. changeable; mercurial; flighty:
4. (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly:
5. fleeting; transient:
6. Computers. of or relating to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails.
7. able to fly or flying.

Origin of volatiles

1250-1300; Middle English Latin volātilis, equivalent to volāt(us) (past participle of volāre to fly; see -ate¹) + -ilis

Examples for volatiles

Sam was volatile and elusive; his industry of an erratic kind.

She is young, volatile, capricious, but generous142 as the day.

Living as they do in the heart of the volatile Caucasus, Georgians are only too aware of the fires that surround them.

But politics are volatile in Ukraine and Opposition Bloc is pushing hard.

Some are warm, but volatile and inconstant; he was warm too, but steady and unchangeable.

I dare say he had fancied her ladyship as keenly as one of his volatile nature might.

Visibly affected the by military atmosphere the young man admitted his emotions were volatile.

In the volatile southern province of Kandahar, for instance, an innovative school for teenage girls will soon close its doors.

These people had the blood of the nomad and the volatile in their veins.

Pryor had yet to become the volatile social satirist who unnerved white industry executives and delighted black audiences.