diethylstilboestrol

Questions about diethylstilboestrol

What does diethylstilboestrol mean?

diethylstilboestrol means "a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry".

How many syllables are in diethylstilboestrol?

diethylstilboestrol has 6 syllables and divides as di-e-thyl-stil-boe-strol under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diethylstilboestrol?

Close synonyms include diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol, DES. 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 diethylstilboestrol a common word?

diethylstilboestrol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.