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"DENTURES" is a plural of: denture. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An appliance used as an artificial or prosthetic replacement for missing teeth and adjacent tissues. It does not include crowns, dental abutments, nor artificial teeth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DENTURES |
| English words defined with "DENTURES": dental technician, denturist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DENTURES": Chromium Alloys, CONTOUR WIRE SPECIALIST, DENTURE ♦ DENTAL CERAMIST ASSISTANT, Dental Debonding, Dental Restoration Wear, Denture Design, denture finisher, Denture Identification Marking, DENTURE WAXER, DENTURE-MODEL MAKER, Denturists ♦ FINISHER, DENTURE, finisher-polisher ♦ immediate denture ♦ MANAGER, DENTAL LABORATORY ♦ odontolith ♦ PEDIATRIC DENTIST, pedodontis, porcelain finisher, porcelain waxer ♦ TOOTH CLERK ♦ Vitallium ♦ waxer. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Japanese wooden dentures. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Good diabetic control, no smoking, and removing and cleaning dentures daily can help prevent thrush. (references) | |
Smoking and wearing dentures (especially when they are worn constantly) can also lead to fungal infection. (references) | ||
The gum becomes uneven, and dentures may not fit well. People with diabetes often have sore gums from dentures. (references) | ||
Business | Such patients have significant oral problems and treatment needs, including denture-related conditions of the mouth and unstable or unretentive lower dentures. (references) | |
At present, 13% of the population is over 65 years old. This is estimated to rise to 22% of the population by 2010. As stated above, there is a trend toward increased retention of teeth by older people, unlike previous generations, in which the incidence of edentulousness (the absence of natural teeth), and thus, the use of dentures, was higher. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joan Rivers | I was glad I got out when I got out. I don't care if you're a big, disgusting fat pig, that your father made out with you, get over it and get a life and get some dentures and get a job. |
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| "DENTURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.66% of the time. "DENTURES" is used about 58 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 (plural) | 89.66% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DENTURES": set of dentures. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DENTURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | protezë dhëmbesh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أسنان إصطناعية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зъби (ivories, teeth), изкуствени челюсти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | umìlý chrup (set of false teeth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | total protese (full set of dentures), akrylprotese (resin dentures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | volledige prothese (full set of dentures), prothese van kunsthars (resin dentures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dentiers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zahnersatz, künstliche Gebisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μασέλες (false teeth), οδοντοστοιχίες. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mûfogsor (set of false teeth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dentiera in resina (resin dentures), dentiera completa (full set of dentures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enturesday prótese total (full set of dentures), prótese dentária total (full set of dentures), placa dentária acrílico (resin dentures). (various references) ряд зубов, зубной протез (denture). (various references) proteza (braces, prosthesis). (various references) dentadura postiza (denture, plate, set of false teeth). (various references) tandprotes (dental plate), löständer. (various references) takma dişler (choppers, false teeth, prosthodontics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DENTURES": indentures. (additional references) | |
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"DENTURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daturas, dennure, dentory, dentured, depture, deturs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DENTURES" (pronounced de"nkherz) |
| 6 | d e" n kh er z | indentures. |
| 5 | -e" n kh er z | adventures, benchers, debentures, misadventures, quenchers, ventures. |
| 4 | -n kh er z | crunchers, launchers, pinchers, ranchers. |
| 3 | -kh er z | architectures, bleachers, butchers, captures, caricatures, catchers, conjectures, creatures, cultures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, features, fixtures, forfeitures, fractures, futures, gestures, infrastructures, junctures, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, miniatures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pictures, pitchers, poachers, postures, preachers, punctures, researchers, restructures, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, switchers, teachers, temperatures, textures, tinctures, tortures, vouchers, vultures, watchers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sederunt, underset, unrested. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: denture, endures, ensured, neuters, retuned, retunes, tenders, tenured, tenures, tureens, undrest. | |
-2 letters: denser, desert, deters, duster, enders, endues, endure, ensued, ensure, enters, enured, enures, etudes, nested, nester, neuter, nudest, nursed, renest, rented, rentes, resend, resent, rested, retune, retuse, reused, rudest, rusted, sender, sunder, tender, tensed, tenser, tenues, tenure, ternes, treens, trends, tuners. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: denatures, deuterons, durnedest, encrusted, entrusted, sauntered, sederunts, undereats, underlets, undersets. | |
+2 letters: adventures, debentures, indentures, interfused, interludes, negritudes, neuritides, thunderers, tremendous, ultradense, uncorseted, underrates, understate, understeer, undertakes, undertaxes, undertones, unescorted, unforested, unreadiest, unrestored, unsteadier, unstressed. | |
+3 letters: adventurers, adventuress, countersued, delustering, documenters, groundsheet, headhunters, laundrettes, menstruated, neutralised, superintend, tenpounders, underreacts, understated, understates, understeers, undertakers, underwrites, unharvested, unseparated, unstoppered, untraversed. | |
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