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Definition: Fecal |
FecalAdjective1. Foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FecalSynonyms: faecal (adj), feculent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fecal |
| English words defined with "fecal": continence, Costiveness, cow pie ♦ defecation, dog do, dog turd, doggy do, droppings, dung ♦ hepatitis A ♦ infectious hepatitis ♦ large intestine, laxation ♦ muck ♦ Serolin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fecal": cole slaw, Coliform index, Coliform Organism ♦ Hepatovirus ♦ Orlistat ♦ Poloxalene, Proteus vulgaris ♦ Rhabdiasoidea ♦ stercoral ♦ Zero tolerance. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fecal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (faecal), Romanian (excremental), Spanish (faecal). |
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 | Evaluation of fecal smear technique. Top - good, Middle - too thin, Bottom - too thick. Credit: CDC. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Oyster and clam beds are closed in some portions of estuaries due to high levels fecal coliform bacteria, an indicator of sewage pollution. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Technician Carolyn Johnson uses monoclonal antibodies to confirm E. coli O157:H7 presence in cattle fecal samples. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | More than 6.5 million Americans have fecal incontinence. (references) | |
Abnormalities of the pelvic floor can lead to fecal incontinence. (references) | ||
You can adjust what and how you eat to help manage fecal incontinence. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fecal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fecal" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fecal": fecal canister ♦ Fecal Fat Test ♦ fecal impaction ♦ Fecal Incontinence ♦ fecal matter ♦ Fecal Occult Blood Test ♦ fecal occult test ♦ Fecal odor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fecal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 粪便 (Faecal). (various references) | |
Danish | fækulom (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), fækaloma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), fækalom (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), fækale streptokokker (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), fækalanalyse (fecal test), stercoral tumor (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), stercoral svulst (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), palpable faecesmasser (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), incontinentia alvi (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), Boas'fæces-si (Boas fecal sieve). (various references) | |
Dutch | fecesonderzoek (fecal test), faecale streptococcen (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), stercoroom (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), stercoroma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), scatoom (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), scatoma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), coproom (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), coproma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), anale incontinentie (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence). (various references) | |
Finnish | fekalooma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), fekalografia (fecal test), fekaalistreptokokki (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), fekaalinen streptokokki (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), fekaali streptokokki (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), ulostepahka (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), ulosteenpidätyskyvyttömyys (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), skybalum (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), skatooma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), koprooma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), incontinentia alvi (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence). (various references) | |
French | fécal. (various references) | |
German | fäkal (faecal). (various references) | |
Greek | κόσκινο κοπράνων Boas (Boas fecal sieve), κόπρωμα (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), κοπρανώδης όγκος (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), κοπρανόγραμμα (fecal test), στρεπτόκοκκοι των κοπράνων (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), πρωκτική ακράτεια (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), ακράτεια κοπράνων (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence). (various references) | |
Italian | fecale (faecal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 宿便 (coprostasis, fecal stasis, feces contained long in the intestines). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅくべ" (coprostasis, fecal stasis, feces contained long in the intestines). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecalfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fecaloma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), tumor fecal (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), tumor estercoráceo (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), estercoroma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), depurador fecal de Boas (Boas fecal sieve), coproma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome). (various references) | |
Russian | фекальный (faecal, stercoraceous, stercoral, stercorarious, stercorous). (various references) | |
Spanish | fecaloma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), fecalograma (fecal test), tumor fecal (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), tumor estercoráceo (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), tamiz fecal de Boas (Boas fecal sieve), incontinencia fecal (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), incontinencia anal (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), estreptococos fecales (faecal streptococci, fecal streptococci), estercoroma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome), coproma (coproma, fecal tumor, fecaloma, stercoral tumor, stercoral tumour, stercoroma, stercorome). (various references) | |
Swedish | fekal (faecal), avförings- (faecal). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับอุจจาระ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tortulu (crusted, feculent, ground, sedimentary, turbid), dışkı ile ilgili, atıl (inactive, inert, unemployed, unproductive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fecal" (pronounced fē"kul) |
| 4 | -ē" k u l | meikle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-l" | |
-1 letter: alec, alef, cafe, calf, clef, face, feal, flea, lace, leaf. | |
-2 letters: ace, ale, cel, elf, lac, lea. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, ef, el, fa, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-l" | |
+1 letter: facile, faecal, falces, fecial, fecula. | |
+2 letters: cageful, careful, faculae, falcate, fecials, feculae, felucca, flacked, icefall, malefic. | |
+3 letters: alfresco, boldface, cagefuls, calflike, califate, canfield, conflate, deifical, epifocal, faceable, faceless, facelift, facetely, facilely, falcated, falconer, falconet, fascicle, feluccas, fireclay, flackery, flamenco, focalise, focalize, fullface, furculae, graceful, icefalls, paleface, peaceful, sclaffed, sclaffer. | |
+4 letters: afflicted, affluence, affluency, afterclap, backfield, blackface, boldfaced, boldfaces, calcified, calcifies, calcifuge, califates, canfields, carefully, chanceful, changeful, clarified, clarifier, clarifies, coalfield, coalified, coalifies, conferral, conflated, conflates, decalcify, defalcate, effectual, facecloth, facelifts, faceplate, facsimile, faculties, falconers, falconets, falconine, fallacies, fascicled, fascicles, fascicule, fireclays, fireplace, flagrance, flamencos, flashcube, fluctuate, focalised, focalises, focalized, focalizes, focusable, fortalice, freelance, fullfaces, gerfalcon, halfpence, laticifer, lightface, palefaces, parfleche, sclaffers, teacupful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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