Rancid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RANCID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• rank in taste or smell
• (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale
• highly unpleasant; repugnant
• (of butter, bacon, etc) stale and having an offensive smell
• Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
• (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
• smelling of fermentation or staleness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having an unpleasant odor or taste

Words related to RANCID

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Words that contain RANCID

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How to use RANCID in a sentence

• The Boy divided the cold beans, got out biscuits, and poured the tea, while silence and a strong smell of ancient fish and rancid seal pervaded the little tent.
• This, on the continent, is sometimes used as a substitute for olive-oil in cooking, but is very apt to turn rancid.
• To choose salt butter, plunge a knife into it, and if, when drawn out, the blade smells rancid or unpleasant, the butter is bad.
• It is half liquid, transparent without smell, and so pure that it may be kept above a year without becoming rancid.
• An animal odor and a stench of rancid oil pervaded the place.
• There was a smell of decaying rubbish and the rancid oil used in cooking.
• That is terrible too, because that is culture which has turned rancid.
• Maclay thought it of sufficient interest to record that on one occasion a trifle was served which had been made with rancid cream.
• To the sharp aroma of tobacco were joined the stale and rancid odors peculiar to fifth-rate eating-houses.
• You might as well try to live on rancid butter and nothing else.
• From the ceiling downward hung the thick, stale cloud of smoke from many strong pipes and the rancid poison of air discharged from many lungs had become a stench in the nostrils.
• Then he coughed as the bitter, rancid smoke burned at his throat.
• Yellow, dirty, cadaverous, red-eyed, he smells rancid, and was, perhaps, nurtured on paraffin.
• The river had quit flowing, and with the first warmth of spring the pools became rancid and stagnant.
• The combination is distinctly good when the ingredients are fresh, but if the butter happens to be rancid the less said of it the better.
• Every man washed his saddle blankets, as the long continuous ride had made them rancid with sweat.
• Poor, tainted, or rancid butter should not be used as food in any form.
• Good butter is pale yellow, uniform throughout the whole mass, and free from rancid taste or odor.
• My appetite now also returned, but unfortunately nothing was to be had but some bad mutton-broth and an omelette made with rancid oil.
• If defeat befell them, then the butter and other produce were rancid or stale.
• The fatty matter is of the consistence of tallow, white, of a mild agreeable taste, and not apt to turn rancid by keeping.
• For domestic purposes it is esteemed, and it does not become rancid so quickly as other oils.
• But such oil would ill suit the palate of a Maroqueen, accustomed to drink by the pint and the quart the rancid product of his country.
• It consisted of a soup of salted water, seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.

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