See also: Anhydride English English Wikipedia has an article on:anhydrideWikipedia Etymology From an- + hydride. Pronunciation Audio (US):(file) Noun anhydride (plural anhydrides) (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides. Derived terms acetic anhydrideacyl anhydridebase anhydridecarbon anhydridecarbonic anhydridedianhydrideglycidehaloanhydrideheteroanhydridehomoanhydridemaleic anhydridemalonic anhydridemannidemellitic anhydrideoxalic anhydridephthalic anhydridepolyanhydridepolyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydridesuccinic anhydridesulfinic anhydridesulfonic anhydridesulphinic anhydridesulphonic anhydridethioanhydride Translations Compound formally derived from another by loss of water molecule Afrikaans: anhidried Catalan: anhídrid m Chinese: Cantonese: 酐 (gon1) Mandarin: 酐 (zh) (gān) Esperanto: anhidrido Finnish: anhydridi (fi) French: anhydride (fr) m German: Anhydrid n Greek: ανυδρίτης (el) m (anydrítis) Irish: ainhidríd f Italian: anidride (it) f Japanese: 無水物 (むすいぶつ, musuibutsu) Kazakh: қақ қышқыл (qaq qyşqyl), ангидрид (añidrid) Malay: kontang (ms) Polish: bezwodnik (pl) m Portuguese: anidrido m Romanian: anhidridă (ro) f Russian: ангидрид (ru) m (angidrid) Spanish: anhídrido m Ukrainian: ангідри́д (uk) m (anhidrýd) Anagrams hydraenid French Pronunciation Audio:(file) Noun anhydride m (plural anhydrides) (chemistry) anhydride Further reading “anhydride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.