Definitions for dioxins

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dioxins di·ox·in

Spelling: [dahy-ok-sin]

IPA: /daɪˈɒk sɪn/

Dioxins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in dioxins (diinosx).

Definitions for dioxins

noun

1. a general name for a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons, C 12 H 4 Cl 4 O 2 , typically used to refer to one isomer, TCDD, a by-product of pesticide manufacture: a toxic compound that is carcinogenic and teratogenic in certain animals.

Origin of dioxins

First recorded in 1965-70; di-¹ + ox- + -in²

Examples for dioxins

“dioxin” is the dirtiest of dirty words and this designation, like the chemical itself, does not degrade.

Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin during the campaign, most likely by allies of Moscow.

Unfortunately, the waste oil had a dioxin concentration 2,000 times higher than that in Agent Orange.

It is the connection of triclosan to dioxin that has appropriately raised the hackles of so many.