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Definition: RENITENCY |
RENITENCYNoun1. The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Counteraction | Noun: counteraction, opposition; contrariety; antagonism, polarity; clashing; Verb: collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction; (recoil); counterblast; neutralization; (compensation); vis inertiae; check; (hindrance). |
Elasticity | Noun: elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. |
Hardness | Noun: hardness. Adjective: rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity. |
Resistance | Noun: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation; oppugnancy; opposition; renitence, renitency; reluctation, recalcitration; kicking; Verb: |
Unwillingness | Noun: unwillingness; Adjective: indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference; backwardness; Adjective: slowness; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility; (obstinacy). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: RENITENCY |
| English words defined with "RENITENCY": Renitence. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RENITENCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | مقاومة (fight, impedance, opposition, refractoriness, reluctance, resistance, stamina, stand, strength). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enitencyray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: incenter. | |
-2 letters: centner, enteric, enticer, interne. | |
-3 letters: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, intern, nicety, ninety, nitery, recent, recite, rennet, retine, tenner, tenrec, tierce, tinner, triene. | |
-4 letters: citer, enter, entry, erect, eyrie, inert, inner, inter, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, recti, renin, rente, retie, teeny, terce, terne, tinny, treen, trice, trine, yente, yince. | |
-5 letters: cent, cere. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: pertinency. | |
+2 letters: bicentenary, interagency. | |
+3 letters: impertinency, inadvertency, incoherently, noncelebrity. | |
+4 letters: confectionery, cybernetician, incrementally, indeterminacy, intermittency, quincentenary, reminiscently. | |
+5 letters: cyberneticians, nitroglycerine, synchroneities. | |
| 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)52 45 4E 49 54 45 4E 43 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -. .. - . -. -.-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01001110 01001001 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E N I T E N C Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 004E 0049 0054 0045 004E 0043 0059 |
| 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)523948435439483759 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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