Definitions for foetid

foetid foet·id

Spelling: [fet-id, fee-tid]
IPA: /ˈfɛt ɪd, ˈfi tɪd/

Foetid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in foetid (defiot).

Definitions for foetid

adjective

  1. fetid.
  2. having an offensive odor; stinking.

Origin of foetid

1590-1600; Latin fētidus, equivalent to fēt- (stem of fētēre to stink) + -idus -id4

Examples for foetid

Orifice of coxal gland situated just behind that of the foetid gland.

The high society that could welcome its foetid pages was already ripe for the horrors of the Revolution.

The sulphurated hydrogen gas was called hepatic air by former chemists, or foetid air from sulphur, by Mr Scheele.

foetid glands: glandular structures from which a foul smelling liquid may be ejected.

Smell not so foetid as in type; s. yellowish and mottled inside.

It is like coming out of a foetid cave into the evening sunshine.

A damp, foetid smell, suggestive of the rottenness of decay, assailed my nostrils and made me sneeze.

Their clothes and their letters reek with the foetid secretion of the musk deer.

If we fail, then death is preferable to life in this foetid pit, chained up and treated like dogs.

Also the stench was so dreadful that we must bind linen about our nostrils to strain the foetid air.

Word Value for foetid
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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