Inside was an attractive, vaguely layered semifluid.

When the cloudy, viscous semifluid on the watch glass began to move itself he knew he was on 'the right track.

Mr. Jayasinghe put the ghee, a semifluid clarified butter, into the pot for the rice.

Tolu balsam is a yellow-brown semifluid or near solid material with an aromatic vanilla-like odor and taste.

Marie was back with the semiliquid she called coffee.

"Or semiliquid, changing back and forth from gas to liquid.

The warm semiliquid did not seem to taste as it always had, but even flatter, less appetizing.

The temperature slithered down toward freezing, but the mixture of mud and thawing snow remained semiliquid.

Roane sucked at the semiliquid avidly, for she discovered that her hunger had awakened.

"Another scuttle has just run through a puddle of excretal matter, semiliquid, which contains intestinal parasites and bacteria."

It had loomed, gigantic, over the area, moving on myriad legs of semiliquid, which solidified, elephantine, then liquefied again as the creature drifted forward.

It was a tasteless semiliquid, but he knew that it would strengthen and revive him, and he devoured it to the last drop.

Out came a wand, one of several the drow carried, and it spewed a gob of greenish semiliquid at the very tip of Hephaestus's twitching tail.

His body massed less than three kilograms, and most of that was in brain and ancillary support organs, all floating in a gelatinous semiliquid within a wormlike, almost mushy body designed to cushion the vital organs against high acceleration.

Despite meticulous sealing and sterilization procedures, the place seemed to be faintly coated with a thin organic residue, the dark semiliquid of pure CHON that could be theoretically recombined to form anything from the most delicate of blancmanges to Romulan chili, though in practice the results were frequently less than inspired.

Duffy felt the tremendous pressure of the semifluid hydrogen that filled the ship crushing down on him.

Aside from things like silver biochemical poisons to a metabolism in that semifluid state?

He skated easily along a semifluid layer of fat between the peritoneum and the interior muscle wall.

"McAllan," Gold said as the spinning wall of semifluid fire grew large on the main viewer, "tell them the cavalry's coming."

Inside that spherical force field was an atmosphere of incredibly dense, superhot, semifluid liquid-metal hydrogen laced with trace metals.

As permafrost is a barrier to roots and water, the active layer (seasonally thawed material) above it may become a saturated, semifluid material in spring.

Cutting through the excised calcium deposition reveals semifluid calcium suspensioin in albumin encapsulated by fibrous tissue.

Or rather, what the dot represented . . . one of those legendary, semifluid globes that served as "ships" for mighty, cryptic hydrogen breathers.

Nourishment, assimilated through the red trumpet-like appendages on one of the great flexible limbs, was always semifluid and in many aspects wholly unlike the food of existing animals.

The ubiquitous distribution of smooth plains in topographically low regions supports the hypothesis that these materials were deposited in a fluid or semifluid state as basin ejecta or volcanic flows.

He reached for her, but hesitated to touch that semiliquid form.

His throat was plugged with semiliquid fat rising from deep within himself.

These molecules remain in a semiliquid state, providing lubrication.

It no longer looked truly gaseous in nature, but more like a mass of steaming, semiliquid slush.

During earthquakes the soil becomes a semiliquid soup that no longer supports the weight of the buildings above.

A rag served for a strainer; a chipped cup received the semiliquid grease.

As she hurried past the window on semiliquid legs, she saw his tall figure vanish through the door into the back room.

These groups, and most genera in this family, have liquid or semiliquid pollen masses on which the larvae develop.

Gel, also called techno-gel, is a semiliquid polyurethane.

A few cruised in patrol patterns behind opaque swells of dense, semiliquid gases.

A semiliquid mess of red and white and gray began to flow into the carpet beneath the back of his head.

She strained to see through the souplike, semiliquid atmosphere that had flooded the corridors of the Orion.

A thin crust of frozen gases over a planet-wide ocean of semiliquid substance."

More bad news and Porter might have collapsed into a semiliquid puddle on Feeble's dusty floor.

It had been damp, sticky...coated with some sort of viscous semiliquid compound.

Gradually, during the 18th century, the semiliquid porridge stiffened into plum pudding and moved from the beginning to the end of the holiday meal.

Jelly-ice was slang for the substance known in technical circles as semiliquid full-spectrum crystal quartz.

In Brachycera, the labellum is especially prominent and used for sponging liquid or semiliquid food.

The stuff was semiliquid, a thick gelatine that squelched and undulated alarmingly as Greg immersed himself.

Artificial-intelligence investigation is based on advanced solid-state physics, whereas the humble human brain is a viable, semiliquid system!

Their home world's air is a thick, semiliquid soup laden with tiny, airborne food particles which are absorbed and excreted by specialized areas of the skin.

Some of the element distributions were skewed, but in our opinion, the Kh@fflict were carnivores who guzzled their food in a liquid or semiliquid form."

A screen showed the great Zang ship-floating just ninety kilometers away, quivering as the grim, sooty wind brushed its semiliquid flanks.

Lapping is a mode of feeding in which liquid or semiliquid food adhering to a protrusible organ, or "tongue", is transferred from substrate to mouth.

Pharmacobezoars (or medication bezoars) are mostly tablets or semiliquid masses of drugs, normally found following overdose of sustained-release medications.

This property allows the gold to be applied in semi-liquid form over all or part of the object.

Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and soil.

Below that is a layer of thick, semi-liquid rock called the mantle.

Indeed, the Tophetic weather has reduced us all to a semi-liquid state.

Bill found himself swimming around inside a liquid blob, or perhaps semi-liquid.

Semi-liquid mud from a recent rain created several speed bumps across the strip.

They feed on the semi-liquid membrane of the jelly-bladder plants.

Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more grains used to prepare various foods.

The gallbladder is supposed to store bile in a natural, semi-liquid form at all times.

There was a semi-liquid crashing and an impact.

His semi-liquid form remains stable at relatively high and low temperatures, provided that the temperature change is gradual.

As she hurried past the window on semi-liquid legs, she saw his tall figure vanish through the door into the back room.

She packed its edges with more semi-liquid insulation.

The protuberances are feathered due to their preferences for semi-liquid organic matter.

The access hatch, which was designed to admit semi-liquid cement, was just over three feet in diameter.

She wore a semi-crystalline, semi-liquid body imbued with constabular blue and gold.

The third affects the Earth's thin solid crust surrounding its semi-liquid interior (with various modifications).

India and all the earth's continents and plates float on a sea of hot, semi-liquid rock.

There was about six inches of semi-liquid mud, below which the density of the soil increased sharply.

Shimotsukare, together with its distinct flavor, scent and semi-liquid appearance is well received by some locals but not all.

These molecules remain in a semi-liquid state, providing lubrication regardless of pressure against the ice exerted by any object.

The lithosphere plates float on the semi-liquid aesthenosphere below.

Their name is derived from the fact that in their semi-liquid state they are malleable, or have the property of plasticity.

Semi-liquid polenta (sometimes served with tomato sauce or puree)