Definitions for typhoids

typhoids ty·phoid

Spelling: [tahy-foid]
IPA: /ˈtaɪ fɔɪd/

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

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in typhoids (dhiopsty).

Definitions for typhoids

noun

  1. Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  2. Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.

adjective

  1. resembling typhus; typhous.
  2. typhoidal.
  3. resembling typhus; typhous.
  4. typhoidal.

Origin of typhoids

First recorded in 1790-1800; typh(us) + -oid

Examples for typhoids

Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

He said there was almost, or in fact, no smallpox, and there was comparatively no typhoid.

The doctor pronounced it typhoid and he was with us for nine weeks.

Imagine clicking on the TV and catching a show called Cooking with typhoid Mary.

typhoid and malarial cases, sent in from the lines, were also here in abundance.

I was passing on my way to see a poor labourer with typhoid.

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.

And did not he die of typhoid within two weeks of committing that foolishness?

Cholera and typhoid were rampant and overseers used pick handles to physically force miners into the shafts.

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

typhoid and malarial cases, sent in from the lines, were also here in abundance.

He said there was almost, or in fact, no smallpox, and there was comparatively no typhoid.

Cholera and typhoid were rampant and overseers used pick handles to physically force miners into the shafts.

The doctor pronounced it typhoid and he was with us for nine weeks.

I was passing on my way to see a poor labourer with typhoid.

When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.

And did not he die of typhoid within two weeks of committing that foolishness?

Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

Imagine clicking on the TV and catching a show called Cooking with typhoid Mary.

Word Value for typhoids
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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