The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BORAX which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2008.
Detergent ingredient crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BORAX | 43 % | 5 |
| LYE | 29 % | 3 |
| ENZYME | 14 % | 6 |
| ALKALI | 14 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Detergent ingredient
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- surfactant
- alkali
- borax
- lye
- enzyme
- aerosol
- soap
- dirt
- abluent
- abstergent
- amole
- builder
Crossword Answer definitions
BORAX noun- A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
- The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
- (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result BORAX
- "Twenty-Mule Team" stuff
- Cleansing agent
- Cleansing powder
- Laundry detergent powder
- Water softener
- Mineral used to soften water
- White powder used in cleaning products
- Cleaning compound
- Compound in some soaps
- Common cleanser
More clues leading to the result LYE
- Bite
- Caustic cleaner
- Caustic substance
- Potent unclogger
- Soapmaker's solution
- Sodium hydroxide
- Strong alkali
- Caustic soda
- Drano, essentially
- Potassium hydroxide
More clues leading to the result ENZYME
- Digestive-tract substance
- Digestive protein
- Papaya protein
- Biochemical catalyst
- Breakdown cause?
- Digestive aid
- Digestion catalyst
- Chemical catalyst
- Digestive chemical
- Complex protein