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THC

THC is the initialism of tetrahydrocannabinol.

THC is the abbreviation of thermohaline circulation.

Meaning of tetrahydrocannabinol

Noun

tetrahydrocannabinol (countable and uncountable, plural tetrahydrocannabinols)

  1. The psychoactive substance present in cannabis, a hydrogenated derivative of cannabinol.
    • While the agency hasn’t proposed changing its 2023 6.7 million-gram quota for marijuana for 2024, it is now calling for the manufacturing of 900,610 grams of delta-9 THC and 790,010 grams of all other tetrahydrocannabinol. That represents another increase after DEA already moved this week to nearly...2023 February 11, Kyle Jaeger, “DEA Wants Nearly 1 Million Grams Of Delta-9 THC Manufactured For Research Next Year In Latest Schedule I Quota Hike”, in Marijuana Moment
    Synonyms:
    THC

Meaning of thermohaline circulation

Noun

thermohaline circulation (plural thermohaline circulations)

  1. Any of the global circulatory currents, such as the Gulf Stream, that are driven by differences in temperature and salinity.

Questions about THC

What is THC the initialism of?
THC is the initialism of tetrahydrocannabinol.

Words near THC in the dictionary

  1. Thayne
  2. Thaynes
  3. thaz
  4. thazz
  5. Thaïland
  6. THC
  7. THCV
  8. THD
  9. THDOC
  10. thdr.
  11. the

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Adapted from Wiktionary: THC (page history and authors); tetrahydrocannabinol (page history and authors); thermohaline circulation (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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