pest

pest is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
2. noun. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
3. noun. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

   "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"

   "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"

4. noun. a persistently annoying person

   Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer

5. noun. any epidemic disease with a high death rate

   Synonyms: pestilence, plague

6. noun. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

   Synonyms: pestilence, pestis, plague

Synonyms

blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer, pestilence, plague, pestis

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pest:

pets, sept, spet, step

Common word forms

pests, pester, pestful

Words from these letters

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