Definitions for homicides

homicides hom·i·cide

Spelling: [hom-uh-sahyd, hoh-muh-]
IPA: /ˈhɒm əˌsaɪd, ˈhoʊ mə-/

Homicides is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in homicides (cdehiimos).

Definitions for homicides

noun

  1. the killing of one human being by another.
  2. a person who kills another; murderer.

Origin of homicides

1325-75; Middle English Middle French Latin homicīdium a killing, homicīda killer, equivalent to homi- (combining form of homō man) + -cīdium, -cīda -cide

Examples for homicides

Indeed, some of the rewards have topped hundreds of thousands when the crime involves a homicide.

homicide forms 91% of the criminality of this group of offenders.

How would an upright woman answer a man whom she had just saved from homicide?

And, most importantly, homicide was at an historic low, meaning more lives were being saved.

They died for simply going to work that morning, killed by religious fanatics, homicide victims all.

You think the interest of the love-business will detract from the interest of the homicide's fate?

I knew a planter in Negros Island who was charged with homicide.

"You seem to assume that this is a homicide case," I mentioned.

Even the coroner determined that the cause of death was "homicide."

Garner was pronounced dead an hour later, and the city coroner ruled his death a homicide.

Word Value for homicides
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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