Crossword-Solution: SMELL 5 letters, 217 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Smell	n.	To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
Smell	n.	To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
Smell	n.	To give heed to.
Smell	v. i.	To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
Smell	v. i.	To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
Smell	v. i.	To exercise the sense of smell.
Smell	v. i.	To exercise sagacity.
Smell	v. t.	The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
Smell	v. t.	The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SMELL	anagram	MELLS, MLLES

We have 217 clues for the answer “SMELL”

Clue	Answers
" . . . would ___ as sweet"	1 answer
"I ___ a rat"	1 answer
"If you ___ what The Rock is cooking!" (old W.W.E. catchphrase)	1 answer
"Oooh, that ___" Skynyrd	1 answer
"Stop and ___ the roses"	1 answer
"Tell me what you think of this scent"	1 answer
"The Sweet ___ of Success," 1957 film	1 answer
A common sense	1 answer
A lot of taste	1 answer
Appear corrupt	1 answer
Appear suspicious	1 answer
Bloodhound's sense	1 answer
Bloodhounds follow it	1 answer
Canine's keen sense	1 answer
Catch a whiff	1 answer
Detect a fragrance	1 answer
Detect an odor	1 answer
Detect with a sniff	1 answer
Detect with one's nose	1 answer
Detect, as a rat?	1 answer
Detect, as an aroma	1 answer
Distinctive new-car feature	1 answer
Dog's acute sense	1 answer
Dog's good sense	1 answer
Dog's keen sense	1 answer
Doggie's acute sense	1 answer
Enjoy a rose	1 answer
Fido's good sense	1 answer
Fish market presence	1 answer
Fish market's pickup?	1 answer
Follow your nose	1 answer
Food pickup?	1 answer
Fresh bread attribute	1 answer
Gag odor?	1 answer
Get a noseful of	1 answer
Give off an odor	1 answer
Hamper property	1 answer
Hound's long suit	1 answer
Incense-sensing sense	1 answer
Inhale an odor.	1 answer
It may be picked up in a gym	1 answer
It may be picked up in a trash heap	1 answer
It might be in a laundry pile	1 answer
It might make the nose wrinkle	1 answer
Limburger property	1 answer
Locker room phenomenon	1 answer
New car attraction	1 answer
Nosy thing to do?	1 answer
Not seem aboveboard	1 answer
Olfactology subject	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SMELL (5)

Farr less abhorrd then these Vex’d _Scylla_ bathing in the Sea that parts _Calabria_ from the hoarce _Trinacrian_ shore: Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call’d In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur’d with the smell of infant blood, to dance With _Lapland_ Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir charms.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Mole and His Mother A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!” In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?” The young Mole said, “It is a pebble.” His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.” The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country, where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow; rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks’ flight.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

And the smell—good God! Like burnt meat! I was hurt across the back by the fall of the horse, and there I had to lie until I felt better.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with SMELL (3)

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

William Shakespeare

I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses... the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life... to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.

Lisa Kleypas Again the Magic

Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuc…

Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 250 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).