bactericide

Other forms of bactericide

plural

bactericides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bactericide

What does bactericide mean?

bactericide means "any chemical agent that destroys bacteria". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bactericide?

bactericide has 4 syllables: bac-te-ri-cide. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for bactericide?

Close synonyms include bacteriacide, antibacterial, antibacterial drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bactericide a common word?

bactericide is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.