semifluid
Between solid, liquid
Semifluid describes a substance between solid and liquid—thick enough to hold some shape but soft enough to flow slowly.
Honey, pudding, and toothpaste are semifluid.
The word appears in technical and scientific contexts: The semifluid contents of the cell.
As a noun, it names such a substance: The mixture had become a semifluid.
Cooked egg-milk mixture
- porridgeBoiled grain dish
- pureeSmoothly blended food
- batterUncooked cake mixture
- chowderThick creamy seafood soup
smoothie · mousse · polenta · gruel · compote · bisque · gravy · sauce
Thick wet gunk
- sludgeSemi-solid waste material
- muckFilthy wet dirt
- gooViscous sticky matter
- gunkViscous unpleasant substance
seepage · exudate · discharge · oozing · dribble · weep · secrete · percolate
custard
Cooked egg-milk mixture
chowder · smoothie · mousse · polenta · gruel · compote · bisque · gravy · sauce · cream
slime
Thick wet gunk
gunk · seepage · exudate · discharge · oozing · dribble · weep · secrete · percolate · leakage
syrupy
Excessively sweet or sentimental
treacly · mucilaginous · tacky · sticky · pasty · smeary · clammy · thick · sluggish · honey
gelatin
Collagen-derived thickening protein
jello · collagen · alginate · gel · gummy · wobbly · quivering · jiggly · bouncy · chewy
- Semi- wordssemicircle, semifinal, semicolon, semiconductor, semitruck
- gelatinousgel, gelatin, jelly, Jell-O, aspic