words about smell

mandy A.
gross and pleasant smells
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  1. reek
    give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.
  2. fetor
    a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  3. stink
    smell badly and offensively
  4. stench
    a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  5. odor
    any property detected by the sense of smell
  6. feces
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  7. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  8. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  9. mephitic
    of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
  10. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  11. effluvium
    a foul-smelling outflow or vapor
  12. sewer
    a conduit that carries away waste water or surface water
  13. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  14. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  15. sewage
    waste matter carried away in drains
Created on Tue Jun 21 14:04:59 EDT 2011 (updated Wed Mar 05 08:21:53 EST 2014)

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