Word Meaning

Meaning of "soap" and the crossword clue

- Afternoon show
- Bathroom essential
- bathroom fixture
- Cleaning agent
- Cleansing agent
- Hotel bar
- Hygiene aid
- Kind of opera you get in a bar?
- Lather
- TV serial, ... opera
- Washing aid
- Washing bar
- A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
- To rub or wash over with soap.
- To flatter; to wheedle.