Nitriles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 275 anagrams from letters in nitriles (eiilnrst).
1840-50; nitr- + -ile, perhaps variant of -yl
I spent an hour sprinting to four drug stores, three of which were sold out of the blue non-latex nitrile gloves I sought.
This compound combines with hydrocyanic acid to form a nitrile which hydrolyses to dichlor-hydroxy iso-butyric acid.
This process is the exact reverse of the nitrile synthesis, described above.