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"DETERGENTS" is a plural of: detergent. |
| Domain | Definition |
Personal Care & Hotels | Washing preparations based on surface-active agents; used for washing clothes and kitchen utensils. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Purifying or cleansing agents, usually salts of long-chain aliphatic bases or acids, that exert cleansing (oil-dissolving) and antimicrobial effects through a surface action that depends on possessing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Screenplays | I've seen detergents that leave a better film than this. (The Muppet Movie; writing credit: Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl) Some get high on airplane glue detergents fancy gimmicks. (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier) | |
Lyrics | Being wiped out by detergents. (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Chemist Harold Griffin extracts an enzyme from a bacterium found in shipworms that is a powerful new stain remover for laundry detergents. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
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Health | Most general purpose disinfectants and household detergents are effective. (references) | |
The skin around the vagina can also be sensitive to perfumed soaps, detergents, and fabric softeners. (references) | ||
At mealtime, it is squeezed out of the gallbladder into the bile ducts to reach the intestine and mix with the fat in our food. The bile acids dissolve the fat into the watery contents of the intestine, much like detergents that dissolve grease from a frying pan. After the fat is dissolved, it is digested by enzymes from the pancreas and the lining of the intestine. (references) | ||
Business | The products that spent the most for advertising were shampoo, laundry detergents, soft drinks, soap, beer, motorbikes and toothpaste. (references) | |
Waste oils from automotive, industrial and other sources contain additives that may include rust inhibitors, detergents or alkaline compounds that constitute 5% to 25% of their formulation. (references) | ||
Petrochema was established in 1949. Petrochema is a petrochemical company producing industrial oils and additives, detergents based on linear alkylbenzene sulphonates and sulphates of etoxyalcohols. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kenya | Other areas of concentration include plastics, detergents, petroleum products, cement and soft drinks. (references) |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Industry: Types--Plastic products, food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch, and detergents. (references) | |
Pakistan | Food Processing and Consumer Products - Major segments include sugar, tea, aerated water, edible fats, dairy products, concentrates, juices, tobacco, detergents, and personal care products. (references) | |
Political Economy | Yemen | Other exports include fish, livestock, coffee, and detergents. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | E.O. 259 bans imports of soap and detergents containing less than 60 percent coconut-based surface active agents of Philippine origin, thereby requiring local sourcing by soap and detergent manufacturers. (references) | |
Trade | Portugal | There may be special requirements for some products such as pharmaceuticals, detergents, tobacco, fertilizers, alcoholic beverages and foodstuffs containing preservatives and colorings. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DETERGENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.03% of the time. "DETERGENTS" is used about 152 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) | 98.03% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.97% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DETERGENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | detergentia, detergent (detergent), detergenser, overfladeaktive stoffer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | detergentia, detergenten, wasmiddelen, reinigingsmiddelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | détergents, préparations pour lessives. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Detergentien, zubereitete Waschmittel, Tenside, Surfactants, Reinigungsmittel (bleach, cleaning agent, cleanser, cleansing agent, detergent), oberflächenaktive Stoffe, Netzmittel (surface active agent, wetting agent), kapillaraktive Stoffe, grenzflächenaktive Substanzen, Benetzungsmittel (spreader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρασκευάσματα για πλύσιμο(αλισίβες), αντισηπτικά (antiseptics), απορρυπαντικά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | detergenti, sostanze tensioattive, sostanze capillaroattive, preparazioni per liscivie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サボタージ" (checksum, daylight savings time, saboteur, samarium, Samuel, somersault turn, sum, summarize, summary, summer, summer house, summer resort, summer school, summer stock, summer wear, summer wool, summit, support, supporter, underground publishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サポニン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etergentsday detergentes, preparado para lixívias,detergentes preparações líquidas,pulverulentas ou pastosas que têm por base produtos tensoactivos,empregados em usos domésticos ou industriais. (various references) detergentes, preparaciones para lavar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"DETERGENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dentergens, deterents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DETERGENTS" (pronounced duter"junts) |
| 6 | -er" j u n t s | insurgents. |
| 5 | -j u n t s | agents, astringents, contingents, indigents, pageants, reagents, Regents, sergeants. |
| 4 | -u n t s | abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, accountants, accouterments, achievements, adherents, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antecedents, antidepressants, antioxidants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, assistants, attachments, attendants, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, celebrants, claimants, clients, coefficients, combatants, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constants, constituents, consultants, contaminants, contestants, continents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, decongestants, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, disinfectants, dispersants, displacements, dissidents, divestments, docents, documents, elements, elephants, embarrassments, emigrants, emplacements, employments, enactments, encampments, encroachments, endorsements, endowments, enforcements, engagements, enhancements, enjoyments, enlargements, enrollments, entanglements, entertainments, enticements, entitlements, entrants, environments, equipments, equivalents, escarpments, establishments, experiments, exponents, figments, filaments, fluorescents, formants, fragments, frequents, garments, giants, governments, grandparents, hydrants, immigrants, impairments, impeachments, impediments, implements, impoundments, improvements, incidents, incitements, incompetents, increments, incumbents, independents, indictments, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, investments, involvements, irritants, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, migrants, militants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, mutants, noncombatants, nonresidents, nutrients, occupants, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, oxidants, parents, parliaments, participants, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, protestants, punishments, readjustments, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, regiments, registrants, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, residents, respondents, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rodents, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, serpents, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, stimulants, students, subcontinents, succulents, supergiants, superintendents, supplements, talents, temperaments, tenants, tenements, torrents, tournaments, transients, treatments, tyrants, undercurrents, undergarments, underpayments, vagrants, variants, warrants. |
| 3 | -n t s | accents, accounts, affronts, amounts, ants, appoints, aunts, ballpoints, blueprints, blunts, brents, cents, chants, checkpoints, circumvents, comments, complaints, compliments, confidants, confronts, consents, constraints, contents, counts, croissants, dachshunds, debutantes, dents, descents, disappoints, discontents, discounts, dissents, eggplants, events, ferments, fingerprints, flaunts, flints, fonts, footprints, forints, fronts, grants, grunts, haunts, hints, hunts, implants, imprints, intents, invents, jaunts, joints, laments, malcontents, mints, misrepresents, mounts, paints, pants, percents, pinpoints, pints, plants, points, portents, presidents, prevents, prints, punts, quints, recounts, rents, represents, reprints, resents, restaurants, restraints, saints, scents, splints, sprints, standpoints, stints, storefronts, stunts, sweatpants, taints, taunts, tents, tints, torments, transplants, underpants, vents, viewpoints, wants, waterfronts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: detergent, tenderest. | |
-2 letters: detentes, deterges, detester, genettes, gettered, greenest, renested, resented, retested, tentered. | |
-3 letters: degrees, detente, detents, deterge, egested, entered, entrees, genders, genette, gerents, getters, greened, greeted, needers, netters, reested, regents, reneged, reneges, retenes, sneered, steered, teeners, teeters, tenders, tenters. | |
-4 letters: degree, denser, desert, detent, deters, detest, edgers, egrets, enders, enters, entree, eterne, gender. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: strengthened. | |
+3 letters: redintegrates. | |
+4 letters: defenestrating, reinvestigated, restrengthened. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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