resolvent

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: re=sol=vent

CIDE DICTIONARY

resolvent, a. 

 Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.  [1913 Webster]

resolvent, n. [L. resolvens, p. pr. of resolvere: cf. F. résolvant. See Resolve.].

•  That which has the power of resolving, or causing solution; a solvent.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.  Coxe.  [1913 Webster]
•  An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given pproblem depends.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

resolvent, adj. & n. esp. Med.
--adj. (of a drug, application, substance, etc.) effecting the resolution of a tumour etc.
--n. such a drug etc.

THESAURUS

resolvent

ablative, anticoagulant, biodegradable, corrosive, cutting, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, dilapidated, diluent, dilutant, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dissolvent, dissolving agent, erosive, flux, liquefacient, liquefier, moldering, ravaged, resolutive, ruinous, separative, solvent, thinner, thinning, worn

ROGET THESAURUS

resolvent

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.