empyreuma

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: em=py=reu=ma

CIDE DICTIONARY

empyreuma, n. [NL., from Gr. a live coal covered with ashes, fr. to set on fire, fr. : cf. F. empyreume. See Empyreal.].

 The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

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empyreuma

Fetor

N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.