Definitions for penicillin

penicillin pen·i·cil·lin

Spelling: [pen-uh-sil-in]
IPA: /ˌpɛn əˈsɪl ɪn/

Penicillin is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in penicillin (ceiiillnnp).

Definitions for penicillin

noun

  1. any of several antibiotics of low toxicity, produced naturally by molds of the genus Penicillium and also semisynthetically, having a bactericidal action on many susceptible Gram-positive or Gram-negative cocci and bacilli, some also being effective against certain spirochetes.

Origin of penicillin

First recorded in 1925-30; penicill(ium) + -in2

Examples for penicillin

So far, he'd been lucky with penicillin, but each time he used it with grave doubts of its action on the Mars-adapted patients.

The teenage schoolgirl died from an allergic reaction to penicillin last June during the botched operation.

The pursuit of animal enhancement arose from studies made at the dawn of the penicillin era.

And in no time, penicillin was in mass production, saving untold thousands of lives.

The effect of penicillin and certain sulfa drugs on the intracellular bacteroids of the cockroach.

It strikes me that medical research is haunted by the memory of penicillin, and the other antibiotics that immediately followed.

Bags of fertilizer can be put on display, as can vials of penicillin, and jars of herbicide.

Unfortunately, penicillin Envy can make it difficult to achieve those lesser innovations.

He liked to quote a psychiatrist who described MDMA as “penicillin for the soul.”

It had words for electron, penicillin and calculus, for he found them in his own mind.

Word Value for penicillin
Scrable

14

Words with friends

20

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