bloodhound

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: blood=hound

CIDE DICTIONARY

bloodhound, n. 

 A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bloodhound, n.
1 a large hound of a breed used in tracking and having a very keen sense of smell.
2 this breed.

ROGET THESAURUS

bloodhound

Odor

N odor, smell, odorament, scent, effluvium, emanation, exhalation, fume, essence, trail, nidor, redolence, sense of smell, scent, act of smelling, olfaction, olfactories, fragrance, odorant, bloodhound, hound, spoor, odorous, odoriferous, smelling, reeking, foul-smelling, strong- scented, redolent, graveolent, nidorous, pungent, putrid, foul, olfactory, quick-scented.