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Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..

Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates..

Decompose :: Decompose (v. t.) To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.

Compost :: Compost (n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap..

Electrolyzable :: Electrolyzable (a.) Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity..

Decompose :: Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

Deconcoct :: Deconcoct (v. t.) To decompose.

Stearate :: Steapsin (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

Trass :: Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water..

Antipeptone :: Antipeptone (n.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice..

Pyrogen :: Pyrogen (n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria..

Element :: Element (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen..

Simple :: Simple (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a..

Gowan :: Gowan (n.) Decomposed granite.

Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Unform :: Unform (v. t.) To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake..

Decompound :: Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.

Invert :: Invert (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10..

Diffract :: Diffract (v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light..

Unformed :: Unformed (a.) Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed..

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