fixative

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: fix=a=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

fixative, n. 

 That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fixative, adj. & n.
--adj. tending to fix or secure.
--n. a substance used to fix colours, hair, microscope-specimens, etc.

THESAURUS

fixative

air brush, ambergris, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, art paper, attar, attar of roses, balance, balance rudder, balance wheel, ballast, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, chalk, champaca oil, charcoal, civet, counterbalance, counterweight, crayon, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, essence, essential oil, extract, fin, flywheel, governor, ground, gyroscope, hairspring, heliotrope, jasmine oil, keel, lavender oil, lay figure, maulstick, medium, mordant, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, parfum, pastel, pencil, pendulum, perfume, perfumery, pigments, rose oil, scent, scratchboard, shock absorber, siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, springs, stabilizator, stiffening, stump, tail plane, varnish, volatile oil