Crossword-Solution: INSECTICIDE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Insecticide | n. | An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “INSECTICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Exterminator's spray | 1 answer |
| phorate | 1 answer |
| organophosphorus | 1 answer |
| naled | 1 answer |
| mirex | 1 answer |
| lindane | 1 answer |
| Waiter's deduction (Part 2) | 1 answer |
| PYRETHRUM-made product | 1 answer |
| DIMETHYL phthalate | 1 answer |
| DERRIS | 1 answer |
| Conclusion to the waiter's reply | 1 answer |
| CHLORDANE | 1 answer |
| CARBARYL | 1 answer |
| ACARICIDE | 1 answer |
| ronnel | 1 answer |
| rotenone | 1 answer |
| GAMMEXANE | 2 answers |
| CARBAMATE | 2 answers |
| piperonyl butoxide | 2 answers |
| dicophane | 2 answers |
| dyflos | 2 answers |
| pyrethrin | 2 answers |
| malathion | 2 answers |
| TEPP | 3 answers |
| tetraethylpyrophosphate | 3 answers |
| thiophos | 3 answers |
| parathion | 3 answers |
| Nicotine | 4 answers |
| GARDEN requisite | 6 answers |
| PLANT pest control method | 13 answers |
| PLANT disease control method | 13 answers |
| GREENHOUSE plant pest/disease control method | 13 answers |
| pesticide | 16 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "INSECTICIDE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEEAMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
14 +1
New Suggestion for "INSECTICIDE"
Related word tools
Sentences with INSECTICIDE (5)
The intermediate host, it had turned out, was a small amphibian that was susceptible to commercial insecticide.
For example, rotenone, an insecticide derived from a tropical root called derris, is as poisonous to humans as organophosphate chemical pesticides.
Mixing foliar feed solutions with a little spreader/sticker, Safer's Soap, or, if bugs are also a problem, with a liquid organic insecticide like Red Arrow (a pyrethrum-rotenone mix), eliminates surface tension and allows the fertilizer to have an effect on brassicas.
She wanted to get out the biggest can of Raid and perform a major insecticide/genocide that would give Miloshevik a companion in the Hague; but being a humane individual such hideous thoughts could only instigate a wry smile or an occasional chuckle.
Tobacco water is certainly a cheap insecticide, and will frequently be found quite as efficacious as those that are more costly and troublesome to apply." A gentleman from Erie, Pa., writes to me that he has used this remedy for years, with complete success.
Quotes with INSECTICIDE (3)
The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator couldn't kill and rats that scrabbled in the walls and mice who left droppings like a cocked snook and roaches that thrived on insecticide, even the illegal kinds.
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1998–2012).