octene

[Dave]

It might be too technical again, but this is a pretty standard chemical word for one of the aliphatic hydrocarbons... please, Sir?

(A man needs some encouragement when he has been staring for some considerable time at the challenge puzzle with no idea about that bloody nine-letter word!)

Cheers,

Dave

[technomc]

There! there! Dave,
Don't worry it will come to you in the end.....as it does to all of us....!!!!
It will all be okay....
 

[biggerbirdbrain]

Yes, we all DO get it in the END, at sometime, by someone or something, don't we?? 

[Linda]

Give me the last word at once, threeb!  Or else! 

[technomc]

I'm sure you'll get yours in the end LL..
How are we girlies today?

[biggerbirdbrain]

SPOILER BELOW!!!!!!!!







? anagram of your most dire fear!

[biggerbirdbrain]

Simply loverly, T!! 

We've got the newest thread ... just NOT for Linda -- but of course, she couldn't keep her claws away! 

[Linda]

I am gloriously haglike as usual!  Sitting in waiting for scaffolders to return .... hubby doing 'manly' things around the house and son sat in his pyjamas watching Kerrang!  Washing is blowing merrily in the breeze (I say breeze, I mean gale!) and all is fine ... it's Friday, how could it not be?!  

[technomc]

Cos Monday is looming..that's why!!

Into scaffolders now eh!!  There is no end to your tastes! 

[Linda]

Cackle, cackle .... all men fall under my spell when they venture to this house! 

[technomc]

I hope they don't fall off the scaffolding???
You may have to do emergency first aid...and do you know what often happens to men who suffer from back injuries?

[Alan W]

It might be too technical again, but this is a pretty standard chemical word for one of the aliphatic hydrocarbons...

"Pretty standard", Dave? Well, I would say so! The word octene is seldom off my lips when I'm talking aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Actually, the word is verging on being "too technical", but according to dictionary.com, it's in Webster's Unabridged, so it just scrapes in.

[Dave]

And, just to be helpful, here is the entry .

Straight-chain, of course, is more correctly termed aliphatic.  Isn't knowledge wonderful?!


Main Entry: oc·tene   
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary octa- + -ene
: any of the four oily liquid straight-chain octylenes

Citation format for this entry:

"octene." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (3 Sep. 2007).