Formol
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A ten-percent aqueous solution of formaldehyde used as a tissue preservative or disinfectant.
“The laboratory stored the biopsy samples in formol before conducting the histological analysis.”
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for·mol
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Wordle
Ends in the unusual suffix OL and contains FORM, a very common word chunk, at its start
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Worth 11 points, low individual tile values but the word is valid and useful in specialist play
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