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Definition: -MENT

-MENT

1. A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -MENT

Etymologies containing "-MENT": EggementOddment. (references)

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Anagrams: -MENT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-n-t"

-1 letter: men, met, net, ten.

-2 letters: em, en, et, me, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-n-t"
 

+1 letter: ament, meant, menta, monte, unmet.

 

+2 letters: aments, anthem, batmen, cement, centum, dement, emetin, enmity, entomb, etamin, etymon, foment, hetman, inmate, intime, lament, loment, magnet, mantel, mantes, mantle, marten, melton, mental, mentor, mentum, meting, minted, minter, minuet, minute, mitten, molten, moment, montes, mutine, nutmeg, omenta, pitmen, potmen, remint, stamen, tamein, tandem, taxmen, tegmen, tinmen, titmen, toneme, unmeet, untame.

 

+3 letters: ailment, aliment, ambient, amenity, amentia, amnesty, amniote, animate, anthems, anytime, augment, automen, batsmen, benempt, bitumen, boatmen, cementa, cements, centime, centimo, centrum, centums, clement, comment, contemn, dements, demeton, demount, dustmen, element, emanate, emetine, emetins, eminent, emoting, emotion, emptins, endmost, enemata, entombs, etamine, etamins, etymons, ferment, figment, fitment, foments, footmen, garment, gateman, gatemen, hematin, hetmans, hutment, inmates, interim, intimae, iteming, lambent, laments, liftmen, lomenta, loments, magenta, magnate, magneto, magnets, manatee, manchet, mandate, mannite, manteau, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, margent, martens, matinee, meanest, meatman, meatmen, mediant, meeting, megaton, melting, meltons, memento, menthol, mention, mentors, mestino, methane, metonym, metopon, metring, minaret, mindset, minster, mintage, minters, mintier, minuets, minuted, minuter, minutes, missent, mistend, mistune, mitogen, mittens, moisten, momenta, momento, moments, monster, montage, montane, montero, moonlet, moonset, mordent, mounted, mounter, munster, mutagen, mutined, mutines, nametag, nematic, nimiety, nonmeat, numbest, nutmeat, nutmegs, nymphet, oddment, omental, omentum, onetime, payment, pigment, pimento, pinetum, postmen, putamen, raiment, ramenta, remints, remnant, remount, sarment, segment, sentimo, smarten, smitten, stamens, stemson, sternum, tameins, tandems, taximen, teaming, teeming, tegmina, tegumen, telamon, teleman, telemen, temping, terming, termini, theming, thymine, tollmen, tomenta, tonearm, tonemes, tonemic, tongmen, torment, turfmen, umpteen, unkempt, unmated, unmeant, unmiter, unmitre, untamed, varment.

 

+4 letters: abetment, abutment, agminate, ailments, aliments, ambients, amentias, ammonite, amnestic, amniotes, amounted, anathema, animated, animater, animates, anteroom, anthemed, anthemia, antimale, antimere, argentum, argument, armament, atheneum, augments, averment, bailment, basement, bitumens, boatsmen, bodement, bunkmate, casement, cemented, cementer, cementum, centimes, centimos, centrism, centrums, cerement, coinmate, comments, contemns, contempt, damndest, demented, dementia, demetons, demonist, demoting, demotion, demounts, diamante, diriment, document, dominate, dormient, downtime, dutchmen, dynamite, earthman, earthmen, easement, elements, emanated, emanates, emanator, emendate, emergent, emetines, emigrant, emitting, emotions, emptings, emptying, enigmata, enmities, enormity, entameba, entoderm, entombed, erumpent, etamines, exanthem, feminist, feminity, ferments, figments, filament, fitments, fomented, fomenter, fragment, fromenty, frumenty, furmenty, garments, geminate, gemstone, gunmetal, haematin, helminth, hematein, hematine, hematins, hometown, hotelman, hotelmen, humanest, huntsmen, hutments, ilmenite, immanent, imminent, impotent, impudent, intercom, interims, intermit, intermix, intimate, intombed, judgment, lamented, lamenter, laminate, ligament, limnetic, limonite, liniment, lodgment, lomentum, longtime, magentas, magnates, magnetic, magneton, magnetos, manatees, manchets, mandated, mandates, mangiest, manifest, manliest, mannites, manteaus, manteaux, mantelet, mantises, mantlets, margents, marinate, martinet, maternal, matinees, matiness, meantime, mediants, meetings, meetness, megatons, melanist, melanite, melinite, meltdown, mementos, menstrua, mentally, menthene, menthols, mentions, mentored, merchant, meriting, mesnalty, mesotron, mestinos, metaling, metazoan, metazoon, metering, methadon, methanes, methanol, methinks, metonyms, metonymy, metopons, minarets, minciest, mindsets, mingiest, minister, minsters, minstrel, mintages, mintiest, minutely, minutest, minutiae, misagent, misatone, miseaten, misenter, misentry, misevent, misinter, misspent, mistaken, mistends, mistuned, mistunes, mitering, mitogens, moistens, moltenly, momently, momentos, momentum, monazite, monetary, monetise, monetize, monitive, monocyte, monotone, monotype, monstera, monsters, montaged, montages, montanes, monteith, monteros, monument, mooniest, moonlets, moonsets, mordents, motioned, motioner, motormen, mounters, movement, mudstone, muenster, muniment, munsters, mutagens, muteness, mutineer, mutinied, mutinies, mylonite, nametags, nematode, nepotism, neumatic, nimblest, nizamate, nominate, nonempty, nonmetal, nonmetro, noontime, numerate, nutmeats, nymphets, oddments, ointment, omentums, onstream, ornament, orpiment, parament, pavement, payments, pediment, pentomic, permeant, piedmont, pigments, pimentos, pimiento, pitchmen, pivotmen, pointmen, ptomaine, raftsmen, raiments, ramentum, regiment, remanent, remating, reminted, remnants, remotion, remounts, retiming, routeman, routemen, rudiment, ruminate, sarmenta, sarments, seamount, sediment, segments, semantic, semitone, sentimos, shipment, smaltine, smartens, smelting, smoothen, snowmelt, steaming, stemming, stemsons, sternums, stickmen, stillmen, stockmen, stuntmen, talesman, talesmen, tallymen, tameness, tamponed, tegmenta, tegminal, tegument, tegumina, tempting, tenement, tenesmic, tenesmus, tenotomy, terminal, terminus, theonomy, theremin, thermion, thiamine, thymines, timeline, timeworn, tokenism, tomentum, tonearms, torments, townhome, townsmen, trackmen, trainmen, tramline, trashmen, trimness, trombone, truckmen, tumpline, tyramine, umangite, umbonate, umteenth, undreamt, unmatted, unmeetly, unmelted, unmiters, unmitred, unmitres, unmolten, untimely, varments, vehement, vestment, vitamine, watchmen, waterman, watermen, weldment, yachtmen, zonetime.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -MENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 004D 0045 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

1547394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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