carbolic

Derived from German Carbolsäure (modern German Karbolsäure), which was coined in 1834 by its discoverer Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge. By surface analysis, carb- +‎ -ol +‎ -ic.

• Hyphenation: car‧bol‧ic

  Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

carbolic (not comparable)

1. of, relating to or containing carbolic acid

carbolic (usually uncountable, plural carbolics)

1. Carbolic acid or similar disinfectant.
   • 1916, Chambers's Journal, page 140:

     The carbolics are utilised for disinfectants.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     But now, if you are of my opinion, we have had thrills enough for one day, and had best get back to the surgical box at the camp for some carbolic.

• carbolic acid
• carbolic soap
• carbolize
• sulfocarbolic acid, sulphocarbolic acid

Borrowed from French carbolique.

carbolic m or n (feminine singular carbolică, masculine plural carbolici, feminine and neuter plural carbolice)

1. carbolic