Culprit

What do we mean by culprit?

One charged with an offense or crime. noun

One guilty of a fault or crime. noun

A person arraigned for a crime or offense. noun

A criminal; a malefactor; an offender. noun

One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge. noun

One guilty of a fault; a criminal. noun

The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime. noun

Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing noun

The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.

A prisoner accused but not yet tried.

Words that are spelled similarly to culprit:
culprit.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word culprit:
culprits, oakley, murderer, conan, clues, motive, thief, suspect, stole, victim, killer, innocent, jail, inspector, detective, revenge, murder, theft, crime, raja, guilty, behind, revealed, kill, stolen, thrown, mystery, meanwhile, murdered, prove, caught, punishment, identified, strange, suspected, truth, allegedly, tries, executed, serial, arrested, false, crimes, none, convicted, incident, wants, everyone, gets, police, investigation, decide, suicide.

Adjectives that are often used to describe culprit:
real, main, chief, major, likely, true, only, primary, principal, common, prime, actual, sole, possible, unhappy, biggest, obvious, unknown, alleged, poor, worst, unfortunate, wretched, guilty, usual, greatest, probable, potential, frequent, key, miserable, ultimate, unlucky, fair, male, fellow, luckless, noted, youthful, wrong, suspected, latest, notorious, underlying, hardened, repentant, supposed, offending, apparent, jest, presumed, hidden, unwitting, dietary, vilest, innocent, mysterious, lone, illustrious, elder, unlikely, absent, bigger, favorite, responsible, frightened.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective culprit:
artery, food, lesion, drug, lesions, state, time, organism, escape, air, shoemaker, midshipman, insect, avail, stenoses, sentence, son, child, wrath, arteries, mother, nation, mercy, vessel, shake, hand, work, pay, pause, family, theory, face, fall, ghost, punishment, fowl, rest, victim, boy, spirit, mind, subject, feeling.

Words that sound like culprit:
culprit, culprits, colorate, culbert, cuprite, coalpit, cabrit, colpro, cuprate, kilbride, culbreath, caprate, collarette, collaborate, cooperate, colbert, co-operate, colorist, calbert, caprid, caller-out, caproate, cooperite, cultrate, cuproid, corporate, collette, culpa, cullet, kaputt, kellett, colorant, kashrut, cabret, kulpa, kelper, colourist, colpa, clairette, colourant, colporrhagia, colporrhaphy, cullera, kelpwort, calpers, colored, coloured, gilbert, capri, coloring, calibrate, collate, collegiate, caput, capote, collet, cool it, colate, colorize, collett, capit, culturist, colet, colorise, culpeper, cupric, keelboat, colourize, kapot, gilbreth, color in, colpitts, guilbert, gilbride, colite, gilberte, coloury, cull out, kopit, calotte, colpo, coolwart, calaite, calyptrate, capite, choleroid, coalport, colewort, colorbreed, colpo-, copperish, culpae, culrage, cup-rose, cupri, cupri-, sculpsit, carrot, carat, gulpers.