menthol
Meaning of menthol
noun
a crystalline alcohol with a minty taste and odour, found in peppermint and other natural oils. It is used as a flavouring and in decongestants and analgesics.
late 19th century: from German, from Latin mentha ‘mint’ + -ol.
Information about menthol
- It is a name.
- The plural form of menthol is: menthols.
- Languages in which menthol is used:
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Hyphenation of menthol
men-thol
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- menthol is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of menthol
Words that rhyme with menthol
Athol, agurathol, bibrocathol, sympathol, Purinethol, anethol, dimethol, methol, phenoxethol, purinethol, aminonaphthol, axerophthol, benzonaphthol, benzoylnaphthol, betanaphthol, binaphthol, calcinaphthol, chinaphthol, decahydronaphthol, dichloronaphthol, dihydronaphthol, dinitronaphthol, hydroxynaphthol, isonaphthol, lactonaphthol, methylnaphthol, naphthol, nitrosonaphthol, salinaphthol, tetrahydronaphthol, parasithol, absinthol, anthol, asunthol, cryptoxanthol, echinaxanthol, hydroxymenthol, isomenthol, levomenthol, loranthol, macranthol, menthomenthol, neocarvomenthol, neoisocarvomenthol, oenanthol, phenylmenthol, spilanthol, spiranthol, synthol, zeaxanthol