hotbed

hotbed has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
• n.. A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
• n.. a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
• n.. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"