Acetous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 233 anagrams from letters in acetous (aceostu).
From the Late Latin word acetōsus, dating back to 1770-80. See acetum, -ous
“Agatha might have more sense,” returned her acetous companion.
The acetous acid thus concentrated is called radical vinegar.
Here it remains till the acetous fermentation is nearly complete, which usually occupies several weeks, or even months.
The principal of the vegetable acids are the acetous and the tartareous.
Ants also furnish us with an acid, called by the chemists Formic, which is said to answer the same purposes as the acetous acid.
There are four principal kinds of fermentation: alcoholic, acetous, lactic and viscous.
It is then found that all the alcohol has been decomposed, and that an equivalent quantity of acetous acid remains instead.
The acetous acid is concentrated by frost, which does not affect the proper acid, but only the water with which it is united.
The different stages of fermentation are noted scientifically as alcoholic, acetous, and putrefactive.
A few minutes now, and the acetous fermentation will begin, and the whole result be spoiled.