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pest


pest - noun

  • a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
  • any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  • a persistently annoying person
  • any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

    • pest - thesaurus

    blighter   cuss   gadfly   pesterer   pestilence   pestis   plague  

    Scrabble score for pest

    p is 3 e is 1 s is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 6

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