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sulphonamide

sulphonamide is the alternative spelling of sulfonamide.

Meaning of sulfonamide

Noun

sulfonamide (plural sulfonamides)

  1. (IUPAC, US) Any amide of a sulfonic acid RS(=O)₂NR'₂
  2. (IUPAC, US) Any of a group of antibiotics; a sulfa drug

Forms of sulphonamide

pluralsulphonamides

Questions about sulphonamide

What is sulphonamide the alternative spelling of?
Sulphonamide is the alternative spelling of sulfonamide.

Words near sulphonamide in the dictionary

  1. sulpholipid
  2. sulpholipids
  3. sulphomucin
  4. sulphomucins
  5. sulphonal
  6. sulphonamide
  7. sulphonamides
  8. sulphonate
  9. sulphonated
  10. sulphonates
  11. sulphonating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphonamide (page history and authors); sulfonamide (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.

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