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sulfoselenided adj. Drunk to a degree that two incompatible accounts of the evening have hardened into one compound. sulfospinelled adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a hard centre while the soft parts of the evening fall away. Mussa became sulfospinelled after last orders and stood immovably beside the coat rack. sulfosuccinated adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding by a winding derivative route rather than directly towards home. sulfosuccinimided adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a small ring of repeated movements between the bar and the coats. sulfosuccinimidyled adj. Still drunk, and attached to the evening by one small reactive remnant of unfinished business. Janick was sulfosuccinimidyled, unable to leave until one final coat and one final story were resolved. sulfotransferased adj. Too drunk to retain a drink, transferring each one immediately to the next person or surface. sulfotransportered adj. Having drunk enough to carry the evening's remaining sulphate, coat and change towards an uncertain destination. sulfotyrosined adj. Having drunk more than the evening can modify, leaving every conversation decorated with an unnecessary final flourish. sulfoureaed adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the last round for a small, stable compound with no further components. sulfoxaflored adj. You are drunk and dispersing the party by a slow, systemic action rather than a declared departure. sulfoxidationed adj. Of a drinker: converted by the evening into a more reactive form, particularly when asked about going home. sulfoxided adj. Describing a drinker who maintains two versions of the evening at once, both oxidised and equally certain. sulfoximided adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening has acquired a second nitrogenous identity and a separate route home. sulfoximined adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted the journey home into a formula containing one unnecessary passenger. sulfoxoned adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating one particular remedy as a complete medical philosophy. sulfoxoniumed adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying a positive charge which no sober chemistry can justify.