Definitions for mephitic

mephitic me·phit·ic

Spelling: [muh-fit-ik]
IPA: /məˈfɪt ɪk/

Mephitic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in mephitic (cehiimpt).

Definitions for mephitic

adjective

  1. offensive to the smell.
  2. noxious; pestilential; poisonous.

Origin of mephitic

From the Late Latin word mephīticus, dating back to 1615-25. See mephitis, -ic

Examples for mephitic

The insect braves with impunity the strongest odours and mephitic miasmas.

The air was full of a deafening roar, hysterical shouts, and mephitic curses.

Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him.

First one and then another endeavoured to ascend, but with a strength unequal to the task, they fell back into the mephitic abyss.

The warm, sluggish air lay about him, mephitic in its touch.

But the heat and mephitic vapors of his native isle revenged him.

Its mephitic influence in society is too palpable to be overlooked.

Was the embryo ripe, that the womb had become its mephitic prison?

He was brought from a nasty jail, where mephitic filth was supreme, to this place where brutal men are supreme in their cruelty.

My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable.

Word Value for mephitic
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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