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Definitions: INCRESCENT |
INCRESCENTAdjective1. Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side. 2. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. |
Etymology: Increscent \In*cres"cent\, adjective. [Latin expression increscens, -entis, present participle of increscere. See Increase.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "INCRESCENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që rritet (growing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzrùstající (increasing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυξάνων (growing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | növekvõ (ascendant, Crescent, growing, issuant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | increscentay imposto sobre valorização. (various references) нарастающий. (various references) rastući. (various references) increscente. (various references) наростаючий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"INCRESCENT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incescent, incressent, nigrescent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "INCRESCENT" (pronounced 'In*cres"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Efflorescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Excrescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, indecent, indehiscent, Ineffervescent, Interjacent, Interlucent, Intumescent, iridescent, Jacent, Juvenescent, Lactescent, Latescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent, Petrescent, Phosphorescent, Photoluminescent, Precent, Producent, Pubescent, Putrescent, Rancescent, recent, Recrudescent, Reducent, Rejuvenescent, Relucent, renascent, Revalescent, Reviviscent, Rigescent, Rubescent, Rufescent, Self-complacent, Semitranslucent, senescent, Spinescent, Spinulescent, Spumescent, subjacent, Subnascent, Subtranslucent, suffrutescent, Sugescent, Supercrescent, superjacent, Tabescent, Toppescent, Traducent, Tralucent, translucent, tumescent, Turgescent, Undecent, Violascent, Violescent, Virescent, Viridescent, Vitrescent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: incenters. | |
-2 letters: centners, crescent, enticers, incenter, intenser, internes, nescient, secretin. | |
-3 letters: centers, centner, centres, centric, cerites, cistern, cretics, cretins, eccrine, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, incense, intense, interne, interns, recites, rennets, retines, science, sincere, tenners, tennies, tenrecs, tierces, tinners, trienes. | |
-4 letters: censer, center, centre, cercis, cerise, cerite, certes, citers, cretic, cretin, enters, entice, entire, erects, estrin, incest, inerts, inners, insect, insert, intern, inters, nereis, nester, nicest, nieces, niters, nitres, recces, recent, recite, renest, renins, rennet, rentes, resect, resent, resite, reties, retine, scenic, screen, secern, secret, seiner, sennet, sennit, serein, serine, sinner, sinter, steric, tenner, tennis, tenrec, tenser, terces, ternes, tierce, tinner, treens, trices, triene, triens, trines. | |
-5 letters: cense, cents, cerci, ceres, ceric, cesti, cetes, cines, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, enter, erect, ernes, ester, inert, inner, inset, inter, neist, nenes, nerts, nicer, niece, nines, niter, nites, nitre, recce, recti, reest, reins, renin, rente, rents, reset, resin, retie, rices, rinse, risen, rites, scene, scent, scree, seine, sente, senti, serin, since, siree, siren, sneer, steer, stein, stere, stern, teens, tense, terce, terne, terns, terse, tiers, tines, tires, treen, trees, trice, tries, trine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: nonelectrics, trenchancies. | |
+3 letters: confectioners, conventiclers, encirclements, incorrectness, interconnects, reconceptions, reconnections, selenocentric. | |
+4 letters: cyberneticians, deconsecrating, deconsecration, disconcertment, nonelectronics, preconceptions, reconcilements, reconsecrating, reconsecration, translucencies. | |
+5 letters: concelebrations, concentricities, confectionaries, confectioneries, counterinstance, deconsecrations, disconcertments, econometricians, incorrectnesses, neuroscientific, reconsecrations, transcendencies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 43 52 45 53 43 45 4E 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .-. . ... -.-. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N C R E S C E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0043 0052 0045 0053 0043 0045 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43483752395337394854 |
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