Definitions for estrogen

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estrogen es·tro·gen

Spelling: [es-truh-juh n]

IPA: /ˈɛs trə dʒən/

Estrogen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in estrogen (eegnorst).

Definitions for estrogen

noun

1. any of several major female sex hormones produced primarily by the ovarian follicles of female mammals, capable of inducing estrus, developing and maintaining secondary female sex characteristics, and preparing the uterus for the reception of a fertilized egg: used, especially in synthetic form, as a component of oral contraceptives, in certain cancer treatments, and in other therapies.

Origin of estrogen

First recorded in 1925-30; estr(us) + -o- + -gen

Examples for estrogen

One gal chuckled to me about the nosebleed this shot of estrogen would give even some Grumpy Old Men in her own party.

All 10 girls were in every single day, so there was a lot of estrogen.

With a record number of women—184—running for House and Senate seats this year, Capitol Hill got an injection of estrogen.

Manning would likely be prescribed some form of estrogen that would be taken orally, through injection, or by a skin patch.

In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.

Orange Is the New Black returns to Netflix with a wildly addictive potion of darkness, estrogen, and one-liners.

There was even a weird sexual vibe to the Hillary campaign, driven, as it was, by all that estrogen.

Passion could easily be retitled Mad Women, with its sleazy ad biz setting and estrogen overload.

It has an enormous dose of estrogen in it, leading to many voluptuous prisoners in New York state prisons.

Young people are on estrogen Avenue and Testosterone Boulevard.