Definition of rancid

"rancid" in the adjective sense

1. rancid

used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition

"rancid butter"

"rancid bacon"

2. sour, rancid

smelling of fermentation or staleness

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Quotations for rancid

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

rancid in Scrabble®

The word rancid is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters rancid:

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rancid in Words With Friends™

The word rancid is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters rancid:

RANCID
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Words within the letters of rancid

2 letter words in rancid (6 words)

3 letter words in rancid (10 words)

4 letter words in rancid (8 words)

5 letter words in rancid (9 words)

6 letter words in rancid (1 word)

rancid + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence rancid

Words with rancid in them (1 word)

Words that end with rancid (1 word)

Word Growth involving rancid

Shorter words in rancid

id

an ran

Longer words containing rancid

rancider

rancidest

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rancidified

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rancidities

rancidity

rancidly

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