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tetraiodophenolphthaleined adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every small social exchange into a solemn test of colour and purity. Winrey got tetraiodophenolphthaleined and inspected the lemonade as though it were evidence. tetraiodopyrroled adj. Drunk to the extent of treating a crystallised substance like iodoform as a suitable remedy for Tuesday. tetraiodothyronined adj. Drunk on the strength of a thyroid hormone, with the grand physiological confidence of someone ordering toast. Elizabel was tetraiodothyronined and discussed thyroxine while buttering bread. tetraironned adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying four atoms of iron as though they might steady the walk home. tetraisopalmitated adj. Drunk by the third round, and furnished with four isopalmitate groups where a bus fare would have sufficed. tetraisopropoxided adj. Drunk by closing time, and bearing four isopropoxide groups into the otherwise simple matter of going home. tetraisopropyled adj. Still drunk, and distributed among four isopropyl groups with admirable composure but no prospect of a taxi. tetrakaed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a Malagasy warbler from a small bird that has come to hear the singing. tetrakaidecagonned adj. Sufficiently drunk to count fourteen sides, fourteen angles, and still miss the edge of the pavement. tetrakaidecahedronned adj. Having drunk enough to acquire fourteen faces, all of them pointed towards the kebab shop. tetrakaidekahedronned adj. Drunk in a way that gives every conversation fourteen faces, all leading back to the same kebab. Dianelly became tetrakaidekahedronned and offered fourteen angles on the question of chips. tetraketided adj. You have drunk enough to carry four ketide groups into an argument about whose turn it is to wash up. tetraketoned adj. You are drunk and presenting four carbonyl groups where the conversation called only for an apology. tetrakionioned adj. Of a drinker: standing beneath four separate markers, with no roof over the crossing and no idea where home is. tetrakis hexahedronned adj. Of a drinker who has acquired twenty-four triangular faces, thirty-six edges, and a firm attachment to one cube-shaped table. tetrakis legomenonned adj. Describing a drinker who has said the same word exactly four times, thereby making it literature.