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Definition: CYNANCHE |
CYNANCHENoun1. Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CYNANCHE |
| English words defined with "CYNANCHE": sore throat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CYNANCHE": Quinsy. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "CYNANCHE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | angina faucium (angina, quinsy, sore throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cynanche (angina, quinsy, sore throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | cynanche, angine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Cynanche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυνάγχη (angina, quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cinanche, angina soffocante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ynanchecay angina (angina, angina pectoris, quinsy). (various references) cinanquia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "CYNANCHE" (pronounced 'Cy*nan"che'): leveche, Psyche, Recche. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n-n-y" | |
-2 letters: chance, chancy. | |
-3 letters: cache, canny, hance, henna, hyena, nance, nancy, yecch. | |
-4 letters: ache, achy, acne, cane, ceca, chay, cyan, each, haen, yeah, yean, yech. | |
-5 letters: ace, ane, any, aye, can, cay, hae, hay, hen, hey, nae, nah, nan, nay, yah, yea, yeh, yen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n-n-y" | |
+2 letters: catchpenny, trenchancy. | |
+5 letters: cyclohexanone. | |
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