acerbic, vitriolic, abrasive, vituperative, barbed, bilious, sarcastic, acidic, invective, incendiary, corrosive, snarky, intemperate, mordant, waspish, snide, nasty, sardonic, venomous, acrid, sulfurous, witty, scabrous, fiery, poisonous, pungent, jocular, profane, bombastic, spiteful, combustible, stingingly, wry, tactless, accusatory, scathing, shrill, ribald, vulgar, crass, recriminatory, vapid, impolitic, noxious, catty, strident, odiferous, scornful, lacerating, pithy, droll, combustive, prickly, histrionic, vile, quippy, unsparing, politically incorrect, cantankerous, uproarious, brusque, derisive, humorous, gibes, trenchant, splenetic, bitchy, combative, satirical, glib, unamusing, undiplomatic, irritating, sneering, condemnatory, waggish, grating, irreverent, brusk, graceless, satiric, blackly, unquotable, ineloquent, blunt, pugnacious, snarly, hateful, verbose, confrontational, harsh, unfunny, snappish, unenlightening, humorless, polemical, saccharine, petulant, unaffecting, bitter, salty, sulfuric, potash, alkali, alkalies, soda, lye, caustics, electrolyte, solvent, antiseptic, bleach, disinfectant, absorbent, ammonia, cyanide, detergent, fertilizer, alcohol, chlorine, antiseptics, acidulous, biting, flippant, incisive, astringent, deprecating, forthright, ironical

lye

., aback, ambrose bierce, ambrose gwinett bierce, bierce, bite, burn, calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustically, caustic lime, caustic soda, cauterant, cauterisation, cauterise, cauterization, cauterize, cautery, cellulose xanthate, hydrated lime, lime, lime hydrate, lunar caustic, pungency, slaked lime, sls, sodium hydroxide, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl sulphate, stannic chloride, viscose, vitriolically, zinger

chemical compound, compound

acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, corrosive, destructive, erosive, sulfurous, sulphurous, unpleasant, venomous, virulent, vitriolic