embalmment

1. 1.

   preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals

   Broaderpreservation

   Narrowermummification

Other forms of embalmment

plural

embalmments·

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 embalmment

What does embalmment mean?

embalmment means "preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals".

How many syllables are in embalmment?

embalmment has 3 syllables: em-balm-ment. The stress falls on "em".

Is embalmment a common word?

embalmment 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.