LANCED

Definition: LANCED

LANCED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Lance

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LANCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: LANCED

English words defined with "LANCED": lance. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The big infrequent drops of rain lanced down and splashed on the road, and as the truck moved along, the drops became smaller and close.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Skin infections typically appear as abscesses on the scalp, face, and neck. They often need to be lanced and drained. (references)
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"LANCED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "LANCED" is used about 17 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)	52.94%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (past tense)	41.18%	7	133,076
Adjective (general or positive)	5.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "LANCED": sun-lanced.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "LANCED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		ist freiberuflich tätig (free lanced). (various references)

Hungarian		lándzsa alakú (hastate). (various references)

Manx		sleeanit (provoked, speared), giarrit (carved, censored, chopped, clipped, condensed, curtailed, disconnected, hewn, intersected, lopped, nicked, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated). (various references)

Pig Latin		ancedlay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "LANCED": balanced, counterbalanced, freelanced, glanced, imbalanced, misbalanced, outbalanced, overbalanced, rebalanced, unbalanced, valanced. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"LANCED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clanced, flanced, lancied, laned, langed, lanned, lence, lensed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: candle.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n"
	-1 letter: acned, caned, clade, clean, dance, decal, eland, laced, laden, lance, naled.
	-2 letters: aced, acne, alec, cade, cane, clad, clan, dace, dale, deal, dean, elan, lace, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend.
	-3 letters: ace, ale, and, ane, cad, can, cel, dal, del, den, eld, end, lac, lad, lea, led, nae.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, al, an, de, ed, el, en, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n"
	+1 letter: calends, canaled, candela, candled, candler, candles, celadon, clanged, clanked, cleaned, decanal, enlaced, glanced, inlaced, unlaced.
	+2 letters: alcidine, balanced, blanched, calcined, calendal, calendar, calender, canalled, canceled, candelas, candlers, canfield, canoodle, celadons, chandler, cleansed, colander, conelrad, crankled, dulcinea, lanceted, launched, manacled, panicled, uncalled, unplaced, unscaled, valanced.
	+3 letters: acidulent, anecdotal, balconied, barnacled, benchland, blackened, cadential, calamined, calendars, calenders, calendric, calendula, canalised, canalized, cancelled, candlelit, candlenut, candlepin, canfields, canoodled, canoodles, canulated, celandine, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, channeled, chlordane, clangored, clarioned, colanders, coleading, colonnade, concealed, conelrads, conflated, congealed, dalliance, danceable, decathlon, decennial, declarant, declaring, declawing, demonical, downscale, dulcineas, enchilada, enclasped, euclidean, euclidian, genocidal, identical, inclasped, indexical, lancewood, landscape, lidocaine, medicinal, nucleated, pinnacled, recleaned, scandaled, slackened, spanceled, tentacled, unclaimed, unclamped, unclasped, uncleaned, uncloaked, unlatched.
	+4 letters: accidental, accidently, acetanilid, adjacently, adolescent, aldermanic, allowanced, anglicised, anglicized, ascendable, ascendible, avalanched, benchlands, calamander, calcimined, calendared, calendered, calenderer, calendulas, candelabra, candlefish, candlenuts, candlepins, candlewick, candlewood, carbuncled, celandines, chalcedony, challenged, chandelier, chandelled, chandelles, channelled, chlordanes, cladoceran, clangoured, colonnaded, colonnades, complained, condonable, confederal, coromandel, cradlesong, credential, crenelated, crenulated, culminated, dalliances, decadently, decathlons, decennials, decisional, declaiming, declarants, declassing, declinable, demoniacal, documental, downscaled, downscales, encapsuled, enchiladas, enucleated, escalading, freelanced, granduncle, imbalanced, incidental, includable, inculcated, inculpated, indelicacy, indelicate, indexicals, indictable, ineducable, inoculated, interlaced, lancewoods, landlocked, landscaped, landscaper, landscapes, lidocaines, medicinals, nonmedical, occidental, peduncular, placidness, precleaned, rebalanced, relaunched, scandalise, scandalize, scandalled, screenland, spancelled, unbalanced, unbleached, uncalcined, uncanceled, unciliated, undeclared, underclass, uneducable, unshackled, vindicable, vulcanised, vulcanized.
	+5 letters: accelerando, accidentals, acetanilide, acetanilids, acknowledge, adolescence, adolescents, anecdotally, anecdotical, ascendantly, backslidden, binucleated, blackhander, calamanders, calendaring, calenderers, calendering, calendrical, calumniated, candelabras, candelabrum, candleberry, candlelight, candlepower, candlestick, candlewicks, candlewoods, cantillated, cardinalate, carillonned, centralised, centralized, chalcedonic, chandeliers, chandelling, chandleries, channelized, chlorinated, cladocerans, clandestine, cleanhanded, commandable, commendable, commendably, conciliated, condemnable, condensable, condimental, conglobated, consolidate, convalesced, cordialness, cordilleran, coromandels, cradlesongs, credentials, crenellated, deadlocking, decennially, deceptional, declamation, declaration, declination, decollating, decollation, decremental, defalcating, defalcation, delectation, deliverance, demonically, denticulate, diencephala, dilatancies, directional, discernable, educational, elucidating, elucidation, endemically, endocardial, endoplasmic, fraudulence, geniculated, granduncles, hedonically, identically, incidentals, inosculated, knucklehead, landscapers, maledicting, malediction, medicinable, medicinally, misbalanced, nematicidal, nematocidal, outbalanced, overcleaned, pedunculate, precanceled, radicalness, radiolucent, recanalized, rechanneled, redactional, reductional, relandscape, scandalised, scandalises, scandalized, scandalizes, scolopendra, screenlands, secondarily, stickhandle, tabernacled, thunderclap, unallocated, uncalcified, uncalloused, uncataloged, unchanneled, unclarified, uncoalesced, unconcealed, undanceable, undecidable, unlocalized, unreclaimed, unscrambled, valediction.
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