Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 12 compound words that contain substance. The most common are listed below. Open substance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- substance abuseAn overindulgence in and dependence on a drug or other chemical.
- controlled substanceA drug or chemical whose use, possession, manufacture, or sale is regulated or banned by the government.
- amount of substanceThe number of particles or formula units (depending on type) present of some substance in some sample; SI unit: mole.
- Substance use
- Hazardous substance
- chemical substanceA material with a specific chemical composition.
- elementary substanceA pure chemical substance consisting of a single element (e.g. hydrogen gas).
- amounts of substanceplural of amount of substance: The number of particles or formula units (depending on type) present of some substance in some sample; SI unit: mole.
- substance PA tachykinin neuropeptide associated with inflammatory processes and pain.
- sum and substanceThe essential meaning of written or spoken words; gist, crux.
- economic substanceA substantial purpose (aside from reduction of tax liability) and an economic effect (aside from the tax effect), which a transaction must have in order to qualify for any tax benefits.
- ground substanceAn amorphous gel-like substance in the extracellular space of animals, containing all components of the extracellular matrix except for fibrous materials such as collagen and elastin.
- queen substanceSynonym of queen mandibular pheromone: A honey bee pheromone produced by the queen and fed to her attendants, who share it with the rest of the colony to give the colony the sense of belonging to the queen.
- substance dualismThe doctrine that the body and the mind are separate, distinct and causally-related substances, where the body is physical and the mind is nonphysical.
- substance dependenceSynonym of drug addiction: A dependency on drugs, especially which are illegal or improperly procured.
- pith and substanceThe content or subject matter, the leading feature or true nature and character of a law.
- polyfluoroalkyl substanceAny group of man-made chemicals created for a variety of household and industrial uses.
- Nissl substanceNissl body
- innominate substanceSynonym of substantia innominata: A series of layers in the human brain consisting partly of gray and partly of white matter, which lies below the anterior part of the thalamus and lentiform nucleus.
- alarm substanceA chemical emitted from the skin of a fish after an injury that warns nearby fish of danger.
- substance-wiseWith respect to substance.
- all style and no substanceUsed to describe an entity that looks flashy and attractive, but is impractical and inefficient in practice.
- substance dependencesplural of substance dependence: A dependency on drugs, especially which are illegal or improperly procured.
- take the shadow for the substanceTo be easily deceived, credulous, superficial.
- taken the shadow for the substancepast participle of take the shadow for the substance: To be easily deceived, credulous, superficial.
Compound words 12
- substantificationThe act, process, or result of substantifying.
- exosubstanceAny substance that is active outside of the cell that produced it
- mucosubstanceglycosaminoglycan
- multisubstanceRelating to multiple substances (typically of addiction or abuse)
- nanosubstanceAny nanoengineered substance, or any substance in the form of nanoparticles
- nonsubstanceThat which is not a substance.
- substancehoodThe quality of being a substance.
- substancelessDevoid of substance; insubstantial.
- substancenessThe property of being a substance.
- substantiousSubstantial.