Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nitrocellulose

1 sense of nitrocellulose

Sense 1
cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton -- (a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives)
       => cellulose ester -- (any ester of cellulose with an acid)
       => nitrate -- (any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid))