Dictionary.com

RDX

a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

QUIZZES

THE OCTOBER WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ IS HERE TO HAUNT YOU

Search your capacious memory for the meaning of October’s words!
Question 1 of 9
Which Word of the Day from this month means, “an irrational dislike; loathing”?
zinger
élan
scunner
TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT
Also called cyclonite, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine.

Origin of RDX

1940–45; R(esearch)D(epartment)(E)x(plosive), referring to such a department in Woolwich, England

Words nearby RDX

RDH, rDNA, r-dropping, RDS, RDT&E, RDX, re, REA, reach, reach for the sky, reaching jib
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

British Dictionary definitions for RDX

RDX

abbreviation for

Research Department Explosive; another name for cycloniteSee cyclonite
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012