pesticide
Meanings
Plural: pesticides
Noun
- a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
- Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
Origin / Etymology
From pest + -i- + -cide.
Scrabble Score: 14
pesticide is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpesticide is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pesticide is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
pesticide is a valid Words With Friends word