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Definition: Night Soil |
Night SoilNoun1. Human excreta used as fertilizer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | A mixture of human urine and excrement or faeces. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Human excrement collected for fertilizing the soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Night Soil |
| English words defined with "night soil": Poudrette. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "night soil": wet ashpit. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "night soil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | natrenovation, menneskegoedning, latrin (cesspool, latrine, pail closet). (various references) | |
Dutch | sekreetmest, faecaliën (cesspool, dung, faecal matter, faeces, feces, human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces, pail closet), biologisch afval (cesspool, pail closet), beer (abutment, bear, boar). (various references) | |
Finnish | makkilanta (cesspool, pail closet), käymälälanta (cesspool, pail closet). (various references) | |
French | vidange, matières de vidange, engrais humain, engrais fécal. (various references) | |
German | Fäkalien (faeces, feces), Abtrittsdünger, Abortdünger. (various references) | |
Greek | απόβλητα ούρα-κόπρανα (cesspool, pail closet). (various references) | |
Italian | spurgo (air release, bleeding, cleansing, drain, flushing device, rinsing equipment, runout, venting, washout), materia di spurgo (cesspool, pail closet), escrementi umani (cesspool, pail closet), deiezioni umane (human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces), concime ottenuto con feci umane. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肥やし (dung, fertiliser, manure), 肥 (dung, fertiliser, manure), 人糞 , 汚穢 , 屎尿 (excreta, human waste, raw sewage), 下肥 (manure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おわい, おあい, しにょう (excreta, human waste, raw sewage), しも"え (manure), "やし (dung, fertiliser, manure), "え (dung, fertiliser, manure, voice), じ"ぷ". (various references) | |
Manx | kecklys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightnay oilsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dejectos de fossa. (various references) | |
Spanish | vaciaduras, excrementos humanos (cesspool, human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces, pail closet), abono de cloaca. (various references) | |
Swedish | latrin (latrine), avträdesgödsel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Night Soil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nightsoil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hoisting, lithoing. | |
-2 letters: hilting, histing, hoising, hosting, insight, listing, longish, siloing, silting, soiling, tholing, tiglons, tilings, toiling. | |
-3 letters: glints, holing, holist, hosing, ingots, instil, isling, lights, lithos, losing, nights, nihils, oiling, sigloi, siting, slight, soling, stingo, things, thiols, thongs, tiglon, tigons, tiling, toling, tonish, tonsil. | |
-4 letters: ghost, gilts, glint, glost, hilts, hints, hoist, holts. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: shoplifting. | |
+3 letters: locksmithing, silhouetting, spotlighting, theologising. | |
+4 letters: astonishingly, clotheslining, fortnightlies, hospitalising, hospitalizing, lichenologist, locksmithings, lockstitching, ornithologies, ornithologist. | |
+5 letters: antilogarithms, antiphlogistic, electrofishing, lichenologists, ornithologists, psycholinguist, whistleblowing. | |
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