| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| putrefaction | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, rot, rotting |
| (noun) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | Synonyms: rot |
| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| putrefiable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| putridity | (noun) the state of being putrid | - |
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| putridness | (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, rottenness |
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