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"IRRITANTS" is a plural of: irritant. |
Date "IRRITANTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Drugs that act locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation; those that cause redness due to hyperemia are rubefacients; those that raise blisters are vesicants and those that penetrate sebaceous glands and cause abscesses are pustulants; tear gases and mustard gases are also irritants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: IRRITANTS |
| English words defined with "IRRITANTS": adult respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS ♦ pneumonia ♦ wet lung, white lung. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IRRITANTS": Acetamides ♦ barrier cream, barrier lotion ♦ Dermatitis, Irritant, Dinitrofluorobenzene ♦ non-allergic contact dermatitis, non-allergic dermatitis. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chronic sinusitis may be caused by an allergy to such irritants as dust, ragweed, animal hair, and smoke. (references) | |
Irritants such as chemicals can worsen airborne allergy symptoms and should be avoided as much as possible. (references) | ||
If your allergies inflame your nasal passages, you are more likely to have a strong reaction to all irritants. (references) | ||
Business | This growth was achieved despite several irritants such as component shortages, currency devaluation that kept the average sales value (ASV) of PCs on the higher side, confusion over sales tax policies and an unfriendly union budget. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovenia | Italo-Slovene bilateral relations have improved dramatically since 1993 and are in fine shape and free of significant irritants. (references) |
Canada | It also resolves some long-standing bilateral irritants and liberalizes rules in several areas, including agriculture, services, energy, financial services, investment, and government procurement. (references) | |
Political Economy | Costa Rica | A few irritants arise periodically in the relationship. (references) |
Trade | Czech Rep | Efforts to improve transparency in economic decision-making will improve these potential trade irritants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We have been determined not to be diverted from our central concerns by mere irritants and fanatics. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "IRRITANTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IRRITANTS" is used about 22 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) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
irritants skin | 6 |
irritants | 4 |
bladder irritants | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IRRITANTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | irritantia, lokalirriterende midler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | irritantia remedia, irritantia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | produits irritants. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reizmittel (stimulus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερεθιστικά φάρμακα, ερεθιστικοί παράγοντες. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gas irritanti starnutatori (nasopharyngeal irritants), gas irritanti respiratori (nasopharyngeal irritants), gas irritanti nasali (nasopharyngeal irritants), aggressivi chimici sternutatori (nasopharyngeal irritants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irritantsay produtos irritantes. (various references) productos irritantes. (various references) irriterande (annoying, excruciating, irksome, irritant, irritating, irritative, maddening, nettlesome, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, plaguy, sickening, vexatious, worrisome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "IRRITANTS": counterirritants. (additional references) | |
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"IRRITANTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irians, irratant, irridenta, irritans, irritantcy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "IRRITANTS" (pronounced i"rutunts) |
| 6 | -u t u n t s | incompetents, inhabitants, militants. |
| 5 | -t u n t s | accountants, assistants, combatants, constants, consultants, contestants, decongestants, disinfectants, mutants, noncombatants, patents, pollutants, protestants. |
| 4 | -u n t s | abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, accouterments, achievements, adherents, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agents, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antecedents, antidepressants, antioxidants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, astringents, attachments, attendants, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, celebrants, claimants, clients, coefficients, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constituents, contaminants, continents, contingents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, detergents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, 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, increments, incumbents, independents, indictments, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, investments, involvements, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, migrants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, nonresidents, nutrients, occupants, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, oxidants, pageants, parents, parliaments, participants, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, punishments, readjustments, reagents, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, Regents, regiments, registrants, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, residents, respondents, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rodents, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, 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 "a-i-i-n-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: irritant. | |
-2 letters: titians, transit. | |
-3 letters: artist, instar, isatin, raisin, santir, strain, strait, strati, taints, tanist, titans, titian, trains, traits. | |
-4 letters: airns, airts, antis, arris, astir, intis, naris, rains, ranis, rants, riant, saint, sarin, satin, sirra, sitar, stain, stair, start, stint, stria, tains, taint, tarns, tarsi, tarts, tints, titan, titis, train, trait, trans. | |
-5 letters: ains, airn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tristearin. | |
+2 letters: interstrain, irritations, tristearins. | |
+3 letters: arbitrations, fraternities, infiltrators, interstrains, natriuretics, partitioners, parturitions, registration, reiterations, repartitions, repristinate, transitorily, triturations. | |
+4 letters: administrator, antiaircrafts, antiarthritis, antipruritics, antiterrorism, antiterrorist, contrarieties, disintegrator, interstratify, irrationalist, practitioners, ratiocinators, recreationist, registrations, repatriations, repristinated, repristinates, transcription, transistorise, transistorize, transpiration, trifurcations. | |
+5 letters: administrators, administratrix, antiarthritics, antiperspirant, antiterrorisms, antiterrorists, authoritarians, deteriorations, disintegrators, indoctrinators, interrelations, interrogations, interrogatives, irrationalists, martyrizations, protohistorian, radiostrontium, reattributions, recreationists, regurgitations, reimportations, reintegrations, reorientations, repristinating, repristination, reregistration, reservationist, retransmitting, tergiversating, tergiversation, terrorizations, transcriptions, transistorised, transistorises, transistorized, transistorizes, transitoriness, transmigrating, transmigration, transpirations. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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