Pills Combined oral contraceptive pills were nicknamed "the pill" in the 1960s A pill was originally defined as a small, round, solid pharmaceutical oral dosage form of medication. The word's etymology reflects the historical concepts of grinding the ingredients with a mortar and pestle and rolling the resultant paste or dough into lumps to be dried. Today, in its strict sense, the word pill still refers specifically to<unk>  (including caplets) rather than capsules (which were invented much later), but because a simple hypernym is needed to intuitively cover all such oral dosage forms, the broad sense of the word pill is also widely used and includes both<unk>  and capsules — colloquially, any solid oral form of medication falls into the "pill" category (see pill § Usage notes). An early example of pills came from Ancient Rome. They were made of the zinc carbonates hydrozincite and smithsonite. The pills were used for sore eyes, and were found aboard a Roman ship Relitto del Pozzino which wrecked in 140 BC. However, these<unk>  were meant to be pressed on the eyes, not swallowed. Caplets Variations on a common<unk> design, which can be distinguished by both colour and shape A caplet is a smooth, coated, oval-shaped medicinal<unk> in the general shape of a capsule. Many caplets have an indentation running down the middle so they may be split in half more easily. Since their inception, capsules have been viewed by consumers as the most efficient method of taking medication. For this reason, producers of drugs such as OTC analgesics wanting to emphasize the strength of their product developed the "caplet", a portmanteau of capsule-shaped<unk>  in order to tie this positive association to more efficiently-produced<unk> pills, as well as being an easier-to-swallow shape than the usual disk-shaped<unk>  Olanzapine<unk>  Orally disintegrating<unk>  (ODT) An orally disintegrating<unk> or orodispersible<unk> (ODT), is a drug dosage form available for a limited range of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medications Film coated<unk>  (FCT) A film coated<unk> is a drug dosage form available for a limited range of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medications. The used films protect the drug substance against denaturation by stomach acid and/or support a delayed (modified) release of the drug substance ("retard effect"). Such<unk>  should not be damaged or broken.
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Litter 
Juice
Snake
Snuff 
Stye
Wettable powder
Powder