putrefy /pūˈtri-fī/

1. To cause to rot
2. To corrupt

To rot

putrefacient /-fāˈshənt/ adjective

Causing putrefaction

putrefaction /-fakˈshən/ noun

Rotting

putrefacˈtive adjective

putrefīˈable adjective

putrescence /-tresˈəns/ noun

Incipient rottenness

putrescˈent adjective

putrescˈible adjective and noun

putrescˈine /-ēn or -in/ noun

A substance, H₂N(CH₂)₄NH₂, formed during the putrefaction of flesh (also called 1,4-diaminobūˈtane)

puˈtrid adjective

1. Rotten
2. Disgusting
3. Wretchedly bad (informal)

putridˈity or puˈtridness noun

puˈtridly adverb

putrid fever noun (obsolete medicine)

Typhus

• -ster
• ster.
• steradian
• steradians
• stercoraceous
• stercoral
• stercoranism
• stercoranisms
• stercoranist
• stercoranists
• stercorarious
• stercorary
• stercorate
• stercorated
• stercorates
• strangeness number
• strange particles
• strange quark
• strange quarks
• stranger
• strangered
• strangering
• strangers
• strangers' gallery
• strangest