Denture

Definition: Denture

Denture

Noun

1. A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth.

Date "denture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Etymology: Denture \Den"ture\, noun. [Latin expression dens, dentis, tooth: compare to the French expression denture, Old French denteure.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Comprising a vulcanised rubber, artificial plastic or metal plate to which the false teeth are fitted. Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	An artificial substitute for missing natural teeth and adjacent tissue. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Denture

Synonyms: dental plate (n), plate (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Denture Cleaners & Fixatives: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Denture Cleaners and Fixatives (reference) The World Market for Oral or Dental Hygiene Preparations and Denture Fixative Pastes and Powders: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A raspberry seed under God's denture : the wisdom and wit of William McKinley Beahm, missionary, preacher, educator (reference) Bill Q. Denture Wearer Lets the Secrets Out! (reference) Complete Denture and Overdenture Prosthetics (reference) Essentials of complete denture prosthodontics (reference) Principles and Practices of Complete Dentures: Creating the Mental Image of a Denture (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Denture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Denture" is used about 4 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Expressions using "denture": complete denture ♦ Denture Bases ♦ Denture Cleansers ♦ Denture Design ♦ denture foundation ♦ Denture Identification Marking ♦ Denture Liners ♦ Denture Precision Attachment ♦ Denture Rebasing ♦ Denture Repair ♦ Denture Retention ♦ existing denture ♦ immediate denture ♦ lower denture ♦ maxillary denture ♦ upper denture. Additional references.

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Language		Translations for "denture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مجموعة أسنان, ‏طقم أسنان (plate, set of teeth). (various references)

Chinese		假牙. (various references)

Czech		chrup (teeth). (various references)

Danish		tandprotese, kunstigt tandsaet. (various references)

Dutch		kunstgebit. (various references)

Farsi		یکدست دندان مصنوعی , دندان مصنوعی گذاری . (various references)

Finnish		tekohampaat, hampaisto (teeth), hammasproteesi. (various references)

French		dentier (dentale plate). (various references)

German		kuenstliches Gebiss, künstliches Gebiss. (various references)

Greek		οδοντοστοιχία (set of teeth). (various references)

Hebrew		מש� ן, שן תותבת (cog), ש� ן. (various references)

Hungarian		protézis (false teeth, prosthesis). (various references)

Indonesian		gigi palsu. (various references)

Italian		dentiera (false teeth, gear-rack, latch jaw, lock, rack, rackbar, ratchet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		入歯 (false tooth), 入れ歯 (false tooth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いれば (false tooth). (various references)

Korean		틀이. (various references)

Manx		far-eeacklyn. (various references)

Norwegian		gebiss. (various references)

Pig Latin		entureday

Portuguese		dentadura (cogging, set of teeth, teeth, tooth, toothing). (various references)

Romanian		danturã (teeth), protezã (brace, plates, prosthesis). (various references)

Russian		зубной протез (dentures). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zubna proteza (set of false teeth). (various references)

Spanish		dentadura (set of teeth, teeth). (various references)

Swedish		bettskena (biteguard, dental prosthesis, mouthguard, night guard, peridontal splint, resin base, splint, splint denture, splint(occlusal splint)). (various references)

Turkish		dişler dizisi, takma diş (artificial teeth, chopper, dental plate, pivot tooth, plate, prosthodontics), protez damak. (various references)

Ukranian		ряд зубів, виріз, зубний протез. (various references)

Vietnamese		h� m răng h� m răng giả, bộ răng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "denture": dentures. (additional references)
	Words ending with "denture": indenture. (additional references)
	Words containing "denture": indentured, indentures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Denture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: centure, Daintree, dendre, Dendur, dennure, Denotra, dentary, dentory, Dentune, dentured, denure, depture, Diendere, Duntree, identure, tenture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "denture" (pronounced de"nkher)
5	d e" n kh er	indenture.
4	-e" n kh er	adventure, bencher, Clencher, debenture, misadventure, quencher, trencher, venture.
3	-n kh er	clincher, cruncher, launcher, licensure, Pincher, rancher.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: retuned, tenured.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: endure, enured, neuter, rented, retune, tender, tenure, tureen, turned.
	-2 letters: deter, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, nuder, rente, terne, treed, treen, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, undee, under.
	-3 letters: deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, dree, duet, dune, dunt, dure, durn, erne, need, nerd, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rent, rete, rude, rued, rune, runt.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: denature, dentures, deuteron, neutered, retinued, returned, reunited, sederunt, underate, undereat, underlet, underset, unrented, unrested, ventured.
	+2 letters: adventure, burthened, chuntered, countered, debenture, decurrent, denatured, denatures, deuterons, durnedest, encrusted, entrusted, indenture, interlude, negritude, numerated, outearned, preunited, recounted, remounted, renatured, sauntered, sederunts, thundered, thunderer, tourneyed, unaltered, uncreated, undereats, underlets, underrate, undersets, undertake, undertone, underwent, unearthed, unmerited, unmitered, unrelated, untenured, untreated.
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