| putrefaction |
a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor decomposition: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action corruption: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
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| putrefactive |
causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction
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| putrefy |
become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"
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| putrescence |
in a state of progressive putrefaction the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
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| putrescine |
a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter
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