Definitions for aperients

aperients a·per·i·ent

Spelling: [uh-peer-ee-uh nt]
IPA: /əˈpɪər i ənt/

Aperients is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 858 anagrams from letters in aperients (aeeinprst).

Definitions for aperients

noun

  1. a medicine or food that acts as a mild laxative.

adjective

  1. having a mild purgative or laxative effect.

Origin of aperients

1620-30; Latin aperient- (stem of aperiēns opening, present participle of aperīre to open), equivalent to aperi- (apparently ap-, variant of ab- ab- + -eri-) + -ent-

Examples for aperients

Ammonio-chloride of iron is tonic, emmenagogue, and aperient.

Do you presume to judge of Inglish's aperient, who have swallowed but one?

The aperient should be given at least 24 hours before the time of operation.

This will, in the majority of cases, enable her to do without an aperient.

After male-fern capsules it is quite unnecessary to give any aperient.

Brown bread and oatmeal porridge have also an aperient effect.

Take every morning aperient doses of milk of sulphur, then a small teaspoonful of confection of black pepper every day.

Butter is wholesome in youth and old age, anti-poisonous, and aperient.

A fixed oil is obtained from the seeds by expression, which has long been employed as an aperient in the West Indies.

Dispensatory: Described as a cathartic with roots tonic and aperient.

Word Value for aperients
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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