Unscramble

c 3 o 1 m 3 p 3 o 1 s 1 t 1

7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer

verb convert to compost

originFrom Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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