Definitions for Mephitis

Mephitis me·phi·tis

Spelling: [muh-fahy-tis]
IPA: /məˈfaɪ tɪs/

Mephitis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in Mephitis (ehiimpst).

Definitions for Mephitis

noun

  1. (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
  2. any noisome or poisonous stench.

Origin of Mephitis

1700-10; Latin mephītis, mefītis; compare Oscan Mefit(eí) the goddess of such exhalations

Examples for Mephitis

"mephitis," I gasped, and instantly put several feet more between us.

Yet mephitis has the air of seeming rather to like, than to seek to avoid, mankind.

Because the odor is quite like mephitis it is considered a so-called anti-spasmodic.

Tortoises were very common, and the mephitis left frequent traces of his existence.

The biggest one of the mephitis family lives in Texas, and that empire is not disposed to boast itself withal on that account.

A skunk, (mephitis Americana,) which was killed in the afternoon, made a supper for one of the messes.

mephitis, me-fī′tis, n. a poisonous exhalation from the ground or from decaying substances—also Mephī′tism.

Soon a woman ka-wate (mephitis) came along with a vase and a gourd for water.

mephitis is, however, purely American wherever he comes from.

Its dentition is like that of mephitis save for the loss of an upper premolar.

Word Value for Mephitis
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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