Definitions for antacid

antacid ant·ac·id

Spelling: [ant-as-id]
IPA: /æntˈæs ɪd/

Antacid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in antacid (aacdint).

Definitions for antacid

noun

  1. an antacid agent.

adjective

  1. preventing, neutralizing, or counteracting acidity, as of the stomach.

Origin of antacid

First recorded in 1725-35; ant- + acid

Examples for antacid

Any of these may be combined with antacid and antifermentative mixtures, relieving the colic, gaseous distension, and diarrhoea.

Like the latter, they are antacid or absorbent, which is probably the only virtue they possess.

antacid, an alkali, or any remedy for acidity in the stomach.

As a medicine it is deobstruent and antacid, and is given in doses of 10 to 30 gr.

This article acts on all classes of animals, as a laxative and antacid.

It is exceedingly light and porous in structure, and at one time was used largely as an antacid as well as a dentifrice.

Levigated coral was formerly used in medicine as an antacid or absorbent, and is still occasionally employed as a dentifrice.

antacid, ant-as′id, n. a medicine which counteracts acidity.

The frequent, and sometimes almost unlimited, use of antacid absorbents, viz.

Used as an antacid and grateful stimulant, often proving gently laxative.

Word Value for antacid
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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