Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| agarose | a sugar obtained from agar. |
| aldohexose | a class of sugars, including glucose. |
| aldopentose | a type of sugar. |
| aldose | a class of sugars, containing an aldehyde. |
| arabin | the essential principle of gum arabic. |
| arabinose | a pentose sugar which is a constituent of many plant gums. |
| cycasin | a sugar derivative. |
| cyclamate | any of a number of very sweet substances derived from petrochemicals. |
| deoxyribose | a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. |
| desoxyribose | a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. |
| dextrose | the dextrorotatory (and predominant naturally-occurring) form of glucose. |
| disaccharid | any of a class of sugars, such as maltose, lactose, and sucrose, having two linked monosaccharide units per molecule. |
| disaccharide | any sugar that consists of two monosaccharide residues linked together. |
| dulcose | a saccharine substance derived from various plants. |
| fructose | a hexose sugar which occurs widely in fruit juices, syrups, and honey. |
| fucose | a type of sugar. |
| furanose | a sugar having four carbon atoms and one oxygen. |
| galactose | a sugar obtained by hydrolysis from lactose. |
| glucan | a type of sugar. |
| glucose | a hexose sugar, found eg in ripe fruit. |
| glucosic | of or like glucose. |
| glycose | a hexose sugar, found eg in ripe fruit. |
| heptose | any monosaccharide sugar with seven carbon atoms in its molecule. |
| hexose | a sugar with six carbon atoms to the molecule. |
| ketose | any of a class of monosaccharide sugars which contain a ketone group. |
| lactose | milk sugar. |
| laevulose | the laevorotatory (and predominant naturally occurring) form of fructose. |
| levulose | a form of fructose. |
| maltose | a hard, white crystalline sugar, formed by the action of malt or diastase on starch. |
| mannan | any of a group of polysaccharides composed chiefly of mannose residues, occurring widely in plants. |
| mannose | a sugar obtained by oxidising mannitol. |
| monosaccharide | a simple sugar eg glucose or fructose. |
| nucleoside | a deoxyribose or ribose sugar molecule to which a pruine or pyrimidine base is covalently bound. |
| nucleotide | a nucleoside with a phosphate group attached to the sugar. |
| pentose | a sugar with five carbon atoms. |
| pyranose | a sugar present in pyran. |
| raffinose | a colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet. |
| rhamnose | a sugar found in plants. |
| ribose | a pentose sugar. |
| saccharide | a carbohydrate, a compound of sugar. |
| saccharose | any carbohydrate, esp cane sugar. |
| secalose | a sugar which occurs in green rye and oats. |
| sorbose | a type of sugar. |
| sucrose | a white crystalline disaccharide composed of a glucose and a fructose unit. |
| tetrose | a sugar whose molecules contain four carbon atoms. |
| trehalose | a disaccharide orig obtained from trehala and found in fungi, yeasts, etc. |
| triose | a simple sugar. |
| xylose | a pentose (aldose) which occurs widely in plants, esp as a constituent of xylan. |