Term: sorbent: a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: football coach: a coach of football players
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: bar fly: a drinker who frequents bars
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: anthrax: a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: sudanese monetary unit: monetary unit in the Sudan
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: shoe industry: an industry that manufactures and sells shoes
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: noah's flood: (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: totem: a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: modillion: (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: pelobatidae: the amphibian family of spadefoot toads
Broader: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | Unrelated: matrilineage: line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family