Acrid

  

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Acrid

Definitions: Acrid

Acrid

Adjective

1. Strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning rubber".

2. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "acrid" was first used: 1712. (references)

Etymology: Acrid \Ac"rid\, adjective. [Latin expression acer sharp; probably assimilated in form to acid. See Eager.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acrid

Synonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), caustic (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), virulent (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Acrid

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bitterness

Adjective: bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic.

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Unsavoriness

Adjective: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Acrid

English words defined with "acrid": acerb, acerbic, acid, Acrid poison, acridity, Anemonic, Anemonin, Asbolinbaneberry, Barbados nuts, Bear's-foot, bitter, blistering, bloodroot, Bombardier beetle, briony, bryonyCantharidin, caustic, Chelerythrine, chloric acid, Clove nutmeg, cohosh, Conine, Croton oildogbane, DyspepsyEccoriate, euphorbiumgum eurphorbiumherb Christopher, HydropiperintenseLobelia inflataManchineel, Monesin, Mordicant, MudarPoison gland, Polygalic, pungency, pungentredrootSanguinaria canadensis, Savine, Smallage, Smartweed, Solanine, Subacrid, sulfurous, sulphuroustetterwort, To brace sharp, To sharp up, To the bitter endvenomous, Veratrine, virulent, vitriolicWater celery, Waterwort, Wolf's-milk. (references)
Specialty definitions using "acrid": MONTRICHARDIA ARBORESCENSPeracetic AcidSardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter. (references)
Etymologies containing "acrid": Acerb, Antacrid. (references)

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Use in Literature: Acrid

TitleAuthorQuote

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.

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Usage Frequency: Acrid

"Acrid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acrid" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%11929,501

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Acrid

Expression using "acrid": Acrid poison. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "acrid": acrid-smelling, acrid-tasting.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acrid

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Modern Translations: Acrid

Language Translations for "acrid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i hidhur (acid, acidulated, acrimonious, bitter, distressing, salt, sardonic), i hidhët (bitter, dry), djegës (fiery, hot, piquant, poignant, pungent). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مر (bitter, embittered, go along, go by, go over, go past, pass, pass by), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏قارص (acid, acrimonious, biting, cutting, mordacious, sharp), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏حريف (cayenne, hot, nippy, piquant, poignant, pungent, sharp), ‏جارح (cutting, injurious, offensive, painful, predatory, wounding). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), остър (acid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), ожесточен (bitter, keen, stiff, warm), жлъчен (adust, atrabilious, biliary, envenomed, poisonous), парлив (burning, hot, peppery, sharp, stinging). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

agut (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

尖酸 (Acrimony). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ostrý (abrupt, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), kousavý (acerbic, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, snappy, tart, vitriolic, waspish), štiplavý (piquant, poignant, waspish). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, cut, cutting, gassy, harsh, lurid, piquant, sharp). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wrang (acerbic, acid, astringent, constringent, harsh, sour, tart), snibbig (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), snerpend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), schril (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp, shrill), scherp (abrasive, accurate, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, cutting, exactly, harsh, lurid, nutty, precise, sharp, sour, tart), schel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, alarm, bell, harsh, lurid, sharp, shrill, sour, tart), guur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, lurid, sharp), fel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bile, intense, intensive, lurid, sharp), doordringend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, harsh, lurid, sharp, sour, tart), bits (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), býtend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hvassur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گس (Astringent), تندخو (Fierce), سوزاننده (Torrid), زننده (Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), دبش . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

terävä (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, keen, lurid, peaky, sharp, tart). (various references)

   

French

  

âcre (acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), bitsich (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), bekjelûkerich (acerbic, acid, astringent, constringent, harsh, tart). (various references)

   

German

  

scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, gassy, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, piquant, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, rough, savage, scabrous, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στυφόσ (sour, tart), δριμύσ (acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מריר (bitter, pungent, tart). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, edgy, fine, hilly, keen, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, tapering), fanyar (acerbic, acid, acrimonious, austere, crusty, dry, frumpish, harsh, sour, tart), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

skrækur (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), skerandi (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), skarpur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), leiftandi (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), hvellur (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), hrjúfur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), beittur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), beiskur (acerbic, acid, harsh, sour, tart). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tajam (acrimonious, acute, brisk, edgy, incisive, keen, nippy, poignant), sengit (acrimonious, keen, violent), pedas (caustic, hot, poignant, pungent, seasoned), bermulut bisa. (various references)

   

Italian

  

aspro (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, foxy, gruff, harsh, hoarse, lurid, rough, rugged, scathing, sharp, smart, sour, stark, tart, uncharitable), acre (harsh, pungent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sharroo (acid, acidific, acrimonious, bitter, cutting, embittered, sardonic, sour, tart, vitriolic), geyre (abrupt, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), garg (austere, bitter, brusque, harsh, pungent, tuneless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acriday

   

Polish

  

ostry (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, severe, sharp, strict). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

acre (acerbic, acre, bitter, harsh, mordacious, poignant, pungent, sharp, sour, tart, vinegary), acerbo (acerbic, acetous, green, harsh, poignant, sour, tart, vinegary), sarcástico (backhanded, ironical, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, sneering, squint eyed), punjente, picante (acerbic, biting, home affairs, hot, jujitsu, mordacious, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, Savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), mordaz (bitter, clear-sighted, doubletree, incisor, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), irritante (annoying, gratis, irritant, irritate, irritating, irritative, provocative, provoking). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), usturãtor (biting, burning, cutting, mordant, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, shrewd, smart, smarting, stinging), sarcastic (biting, caustic, caustically, cynical, lashing, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, satiric, severe, sharp, sneering, tart, taunting), neplãcut (annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), muşcãtor (acid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, peppery, sarcastic, snappish), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, personal, pungent, pungently, scathing, scorching). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

острый (acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), едкий (acerb, acerbic, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scalding, scathing, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

searbh (bitter, disagreeable, pungent, sour), geur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, lurid, sharp, sharp pointed, shrewd; acrid), garg (bitter, fierce, pungent, tart, wrathful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oštar (acidulous, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), jedak (acidulous, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, scathing, sharp, sour, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agudo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, high, lurid, penetrating, piping, poignant, quick, quick-witted, raging, ready, searing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shrill), agrio (acetous, acid, acidic, bitter, citrous, citrus, harsh, jaundiced, lurid, sour, tart), afilado (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, grinding, hone, keen, lurid, setting, sharp, sharp-edged, sharpening, sharply-edged, whetting), acre (acre, acute, caustic, gruff, harsh, keen, mordant, pungent, sharp, sour), cáustico (acrimonious, biting, caustic, caustic substance, mordacious, scathing, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

srapu (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp, sharpen). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

-kali (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, hot, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), bitter (acerbic, acrimonious, acute, bitter, jaundiced, severe, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

matúlis (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), matálas (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

acı (ache, acidulous, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), sert (adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), keskin (acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), buruk (acetous, acid, sec, sour, subacid, tart). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

уїдливий (acid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, carping, cattish, caustic, epigrammatic, exceptive, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), ущипливий (acid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, caustic, cutting, nipping, pointed, stinging, tart), їдкий (acid, acrimonious, caustic, corrosive, nipping, poignant, scalding, scathing), різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), гострий (abrupt, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hăng (impetuous), cay sè chua cay. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llymsur, chwerw (acrimonious, bitter, severe, sharp). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

yeh (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Acrid

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

acer, acris, acerbus, austerus, Capsicum annuum, Capsicum frutescens. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Acrid

Derivations

Words beginning with "acrid": acrider, acridest, acridine, acridines, acridities, acridity, acridly, acridness, acridnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "acrid": subacrid. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Acrid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acard, accr, accred, Acfis, achid, acic, acido, acii, acir, acrew, acri, Acrida, acride, acried, acril, acru, actid, acured, Afridi, Akarit, Akkid, Alrad, Arcad, arcic, Arclid, aridi, aridy, aridz, arrid, ascarid, atrid, Azrad, azrid, caraid, cardi, carida, Caridi, crid, Ecroyd, Macraild. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Acrid"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "acrid" (pronounced a"krud)
4-k r u dsacred.
3-r u danhydride, arid, florid, hatred, horrid, hundred, hybrid, kindred, lurid, putrid, torrid.

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Anagrams: Acrid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caird, daric.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-r"

-1 letter: acid, arid, cadi, caid, card, raid.

-2 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid.

-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, id.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-r"
 

+1 letter: acarid, bardic, cairds, cardia, caried, chadri, darics, rancid.

 

+2 letters: acarids, acaroid, acrider, acridly, arcadia, ascarid, baldric, bawdric, cairned, carabid, carbide, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, carding, carotid, carried, catbird, chaired, cordial, corrida, daturic, deciare, decrial, dharmic, diarchy, discard, drastic, dryadic, faradic, iracund, parodic, peracid, picador, quadric, radical, radicel, radices, radicle, sarcoid, sidecar, triacid, triadic, triclad.

 

+3 letters: acaridan, accredit, aciduria, acquired, acridest, acridine, acridity, adscript, arachnid, arcadian, arcadias, arcading, archived, articled, ascarids, ascribed, auricled, baldrick, baldrics, bawdrics, bedchair, birdcage, birdcall, braconid, caldaria, calibred, cancroid, candider, carabids, carangid, carbides, cardiacs, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cardioid, carditic, carditis, carotids, caryatid, catbirds, ceratoid, chadarim, characid, charquid, chedarim, citrated, cityward, coadmire, coracoid, cordials, cordwain, corridas, cradling, crannied, deciares, decigram, decrials, diapiric, diarchic, dicentra, dicrotal, dictator, diffract, dioramic, discards, disgrace, distract, drachmai, draconic, dramatic, dyarchic, faradaic, filmcard, fricando, grimaced, hadronic, heraldic, hydracid, hyracoid, idocrase, inarched, ironclad, lacertid, medicare, peracids, picadors, picrated, pilchard, podagric, quadrics, racemoid, rachides, radiance, radiancy, radicals, radicand, radicate, radicels, radicles, rancidly, raticide, readdict, riddance, sarcoids, sardonic, sidecars, sporadic, subacrid, tetracid, tetradic, timecard, tornadic, tracheid, triacids, triadics, tribadic, triclads.

 

+4 letters: abdicator, acaricide, acaridans, according, accordion, accredits, acidifier, acidurias, acierated, acridines, acridness, adscripts, androecia, aperiodic, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archaised, archaized, archfiend, ardencies, ascarides, astricted, backfired, bacteroid, baldricks, barricade, barricado, bedchairs, birdcages, birdcalls, blackbird, braconids, bratticed, brickyard, brocading, cabdriver, cadaveric, caldarium, calendric, calipered, calorized, cancroids, caprioled, carangids, carbamide, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, cardioids, carinated, carnified, cartridge, caryatids, cashiered, cedarbird, chagrined, chancroid, characids, charioted, chipboard, chivareed, chivaried, choroidal, chromatid, chrysalid, circadian, clarified, clarioned, clipboard, cnidarian, coadmired, coadmires, cochaired, coracoids, coralloid, cordially, cordwains, coriander, corrading, corydalis, cowardice, crusading, cuadrilla, cuirassed, curarized, curtailed, curtained, dackering, decaliter, decigrams, declaimer, declaring, dedicator, diachrony, diacritic, diaeretic, diametric, diarchies, diarrheic, dicentras, dichondra, dichromat, dictators, dicumarol, diffracts, digastric, digraphic, disaccord, discarded, discarder, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, distracts, doctrinal, draconian, dramatics, dropsical, druidical, dyarchies, dyscrasia, epicardia, eradicate, fiduciary, filmcards, friedcake, garlicked, goliardic, graecized, hindrance, holandric, hydracids, hydraulic, hyperacid, hyracoids, idocrases, increased, indicator, infarcted, infracted, ironclads, judiciary, juridical, kickboard, lacertids, larvicide, manicured, matricide, medicares, midrashic, miracidia, mistraced, mydriatic, myocardia, ordinance, paramedic, parricide, patricide, pediatric, picadores, picofarad, pilchards, podiatric, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, quadratic, racemized, radiances, radically, radicands, radicated, radicates, radicchio, radicular, rancidity, raticides, readdicts, recarried, reclaimed, redacting, redaction, regicidal, rhachides, rhapsodic, riddances, rudbeckia, scarified, scraiched, scraighed, sidetrack, tetracids, timecards, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducing, urticated, varicosed, veridical, viricidal, virucidal, yardstick.

 

+5 letters: abdicators, abstricted, acaricidal, acaricides, accordions, accredited, achondrite, acidifiers, acidimeter, acidimetry, acridities, acrylamide, adrenergic, aldermanic, androecium, androgenic, antidromic, arabicized, arachnoids, archfiends, backslider, bacterized, bacteroids, barricaded, barricades, bifurcated, blackbirds, brachiated, brachiopod, brainchild, breadstick, brecciated, brickyards, cabdrivers, cadaverine, caddisworm, calibrated, callipered, carbamides, carbonized, carburised, carburized, carcinoids, cardinally, cardiogram, cardiology, carditides, carditises, carotenoid, carotinoid, cartelised, cartelized, cartridges, caryatides, cauterized, cavaliered, cedarbirds, centigrade, chagrinned, chairmaned, chancroids, chandelier, charladies, chipboards, chromatids, chrysalids, cicatrized, circulated, clavichord, clipboards, clostridia, cnidarians, coadjutrix, coadmiring, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordiality, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, cowardices, crassitude, crawfished, credential, creditable, creditably, crepitated, criminated, crispbread, cuadrillas, cypripedia, deaconries, decaliters, decametric, decemviral, decenaries, declaimers, decorating, decoration, decorative, decreasing, dedicators, dedicatory, dekametric, democratic, depreciate, deracinate, desiccator, detracting, detraction, detractive, diachronic, diacritics, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichondras, dichromate, dichromats, dicoumarin, dicoumarol, dictionary, dicumarols, diffracted, disaccords, discarders, discarding, discarnate, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, disclaimer, discordant, discourage, discrepant, disgracers, disgracing, dispatcher, distracted, divaricate, dormancies, duplicator, dyscrasias, elucidator, enchiridia, endarchies, endocardia, epicardial, epicardium, eradicable, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, escadrille, excoriated, extricated, fabricated, factorized, federacies, fireplaced, forecaddie, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fratricide, fricandeau, fricandoes, fricasseed, friedcakes, germicidal, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, handicraft, headachier, herbicidal, hindrances, hydraulics, icosahedra, ideogramic, imbricated, immoderacy, imprecated, incarnated, incendiary, incurvated, indicators, indicatory, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, irradiance, judicatory, judicature, kickboards, larvicidal, larvicides, lubricated, madreporic, mandarinic, matricidal, matricides, microfarad, microwaved, micturated, miracidial, miracidium, miscarried, mischarged, miscreated, mordancies, mydriatics, myocardial, myocardium, narcotized, noncardiac, nudibranch, obduracies, orchardist, ordinances, ostracised, ostracized, paediatric, paradisaic, paradisiac, paramedics, parodistic, parricidal, parricides, patricidal, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, pericardia, periodical, picarooned, picofarads, placarding, predacious, predicable, predicated, predicates, premedical, proclaimed, prosodical, quadratics, quadriceps, rachitides, radiancies, radicalise, radicalism, radicalize, radicating, radicchios, radiogenic, radiologic, radiolytic, rancidness, reacceding, reaccredit, reacquired, readdicted, redactions, rededicate, refinanced, repacified, replicated, rubricated, rudbeckias, rusticated, saccharide, sacrificed, scorpaenid, scrimmaged, semisacred, sidetracks, sporicidal, switchyard, syndicator, taxidermic, tracksides, trafficked, trochoidal, undramatic, verdancies, vindicator, wildcatter, yardsticks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Acrid


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

41 63 72 69 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    .-.    ..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01100011 01110010 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#114 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0072 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3569847570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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