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feculent
adjective
[ ˈfɛkjʊl(ə)nt ]
• of or containing dirt, sediment, or waste matter.
• "their feet were forever slipping on feculent bog"
Origin:
late 15th century: from French féculent or Latin faeculentus, from faex, faec- ‘dregs’.