Word.ws English Dictionary

dodecanoic acid

dodecanoic acid noun: any of several isomeric aliphatic carboxylic acids having twelve carbon atoms; but especially n-dodecanoic acid (lauric acid).

Noun

dodecanoic acid (plural dodecanoic acids)

  1. Any of several isomeric aliphatic carboxylic acids having twelve carbon atoms; but especially n-dodecanoic acid (lauric acid).

Forms of dodecanoic acid

pluraldodecanoic acids

Questions about dodecanoic acid

What does dodecanoic acid mean?
Dodecanoic acid means any of several isomeric aliphatic carboxylic acids having twelve carbon atoms; but especially n-dodecanoic acid (lauric acid).
What part of speech is dodecanoic acid?
Dodecanoic acid is a noun.
What is the plural of dodecanoic acid?
The plural of dodecanoic acid is dodecanoic acids.

Words near dodecanoic acid in the dictionary

  1. dodecanethiol
  2. dodecanethiols
  3. dodecanoate
  4. dodecanoates
  5. dodecanoic
  6. dodecanoic acid
  7. dodecanoic acids
  8. dodecanol
  9. dodecanols
  10. dodecanophenone
  11. dodecanoyl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dodecanoic acid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dodecanoic acid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dodecanoic_acid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.