electron-deficient
Chemistry
adjective
Having fewer electrons than normal; specifically containing a chemical bond in which a pair of electrons is shared between more than two atoms.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- ornateness
- ornative
- ornatrix
- ornature
- orneriness
- ornery
- ornis
- orniscopy
- ornith.
- ornithic
- ornithichnite
- ornithine
- ornithine carbamoyltransferase
- ornithine carbamyltransferase
- ornithine decarboxylase
- ornithine transcarbamoylase
- ornithine transcarbamylase
- ornithischian
- ornitho-
- ornithocoprophilous
- Ornithodelphia
- ornithogalum
- ornithogeographic
- ornithogeographical
- ornithogeography