heptamer
Chemistry and Biochemistry
noun
A compound whose molecule is formed from seven monomers; also, a molecule of such a compound.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- life estate
- life event
- life-everlasting
- life expectancy
- life expectation
- life-expired
- life force
- life-forcer
- life form
- lifeful
- life-giver
- life-giving
- lifeguard
- lifeguarded
- lifeguarding
- Life Guards
- Life Guardsman
- life gun
- lifehack
- lifehacking
- life history
- lifehold
- life holder
- lifehood
- life imprisonment