The board was fully supportive, Mr. McDevitt said, even when Mr. Wheeler needed to buy a gallon of cow’s blood and a supply of luminol, a blood-detection chemical.
Source: wiktionary
Luminol
//ˈljuːmɪnɒl//
Synonyms for "luminol"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
1 entriesderived
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
10 translations across 10 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 魯米諾 /鲁米诺 noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Finnish
1 entries- luminoli noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
French
1 entries- luminol noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
German
1 entries- Luminol noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Italian
1 entries- luminol noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Japanese
1 entries- ルミノール noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Korean
1 entries- 루미놀 noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Russian
1 entries- люминол noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Spanish
1 entries- luminol noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Turkish
1 entries- luminol noun (chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Luminoling of material can establish unequivocally that no blood is present.
Source: wiktionary
For two nights Patterson, Frosch, and Nabors Luminoled the house, checking and re-checking the evidence they found.
Source: wiktionary
Perhaps the auto warrant had gone through and the vehicle was being raked and combed and vacuumed and luminoled in some forensic garage.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.