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say it: JUR-muh-sahyd
germicide is a noun meaning "an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɝməˌsaɪd/ — JUR-muh-sahyd. It carries one recorded sense.
an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for germicide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.