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sulphuret

sulphuret is the obsolete spelling of sulfuret.

Meaning of sulfuret

Noun

sulfuret (plural sulfurets)

  1. (obsolete) A sulfide.
    • The French word for sulphur is soufre, and the new French name for the combinations of sulphur in its simple state with metals, &c. is sulfure. Thus in the French language there is a remarkable difference between the words soufre and sulfure: but in English, especially as spondees are very uncommon...

Forms of sulphuret

Noun
pluralsulphurets
Verb
third-person singular presentsulphurets
present participle USsulphureting
present participle UKsulphuretting
past participle USsulphureted
past USsulphureted
past participle UKsulphuretted
past UKsulphuretted

Words formed from sulphuret

Questions about sulphuret

What is sulphuret the obsolete spelling of?
Sulphuret is the obsolete spelling of sulfuret.

Words near sulphuret in the dictionary

  1. sulphureo-
  2. sulphureous
  3. sulphureously
  4. sulphureousness
  5. sulphurescent
  6. sulphuret
  7. sulphureted
  8. sulphureting
  9. sulphurets
  10. sulphuretted
  11. sulphuretted carbon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphuret (page history and authors); sulfuret (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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