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"STIMULANTS" is a plural of: stimulant. |
Date "STIMULANTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Medicine | Any drug or agent which causes stimulation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: STIMULANTS |
| English words defined with "STIMULANTS": Contrastimulant ♦ Stimulism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STIMULANTS": drug influence recognition training ♦ Endocrine disruptor ♦ LAMBER ♦ mood-altering drug ♦ Parasympathomimetics, psychotropic drug ♦ Stimulants of Great Men, Succinimides ♦ Trickle-down effect. (references) |
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Minna Antrim | Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | No stimulants and votes for the bitches. |
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Health | Stimulants cause rhythmic muscle contractions in the intestines. (references) | |
Studies of the effects of various stimulants in adolescents and adults. (references) | ||
However, MPH is the most studied and the most often used of the stimulants. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | In India, both domestic and international companies can view unsatisfied demand and relatively higher gas price as stimulants for CBM exploration and development. (references) |
New Zealand | Other critics from the business community have lamented that the current economic malaise is also due to a general lack of support for R&D, innovation and U.S.- style, business-government-education consortia arrangements and cooperative strategies which have been proven stimulants for enterprise and wealth generation. (references) | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Quick fixes and artificial stimulants repeatedly applied over decades are what brought us the inflationary disorders that we've now paid such a heavy price to cure. |
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| "STIMULANTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STIMULANTS" is used about 53 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% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "STIMULANTS": Appetite Stimulants ♦ Central Nervous System Stimulants ♦ Ganglionic Stimulants ♦ Stimulants (Historical). Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "STIMULANTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stimulantia, analeptika (analeptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | synthetische stimulantia (synthetic stimulants), stimulantia van het centrale zenuwstelsel (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), wekaminen (cerebral stimulants), psychostimulantia (psycho stimulants), irritans (irritant, skin stimulants), genotmiddelen (natural stimulants), genotmiddel (natural stimulants), epispasticum (skin stimulants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nautintoaineet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | drogues stimulantes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Anregungsmittel (stimulant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνθετικά διεγερτικά (synthetic stimulants), φυσικά διεγερτικά (natural stimulants), εγκεφαλικά διεγερτικά (cerebral stimulants), διεγερτικά του κεντρικού νευρικού συστήματος (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), ψυχοδιεγερτικά (psycho stimulants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stimolanti sintetici (synthetic stimulants), stimolanti naturali (natural stimulants), stimolanti del sistema nervoso centrale (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), stimolanti cutanei (skin stimulants), stimolanti (cerebral stimulants), rivulsivi (skin stimulants), psicostimolanti (psycho stimulants), eccitanti del sistemo nervoso centrale (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imulantsstay psicoestimulantes (psycho stimulants), estimulantes sintéticos (synthetic stimulants), estimulantes naturais (natural stimulants), estimulantes do sistema nervoso central (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), estimulantes cerebrais (cerebral stimulants). (various references) psicoestimulante (psycho stimulants), excitantes del sistema nervioso central (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), estimulantes sinteticos (synthetic stimulants), estimulantes naturales (natural stimulants), estimulantes del sistema nervioso central (central stimulants, stimulants of the central nervous system), estimulantes cutáneos (skin stimulants), estimulantes cerebrales (cerebral stimulants). (various references) stimulantia (upper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"STIMULANTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: simulant, stimualnts. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STIMULANTS" (pronounced sti"myulunts) |
| 7 | -y u l u n t s | succulents. |
| 6 | -u l u n t s | equivalents. |
| 5 | -l u n t s | assailants, coolants, inhalants, propellants, sealants, talents. |
| 4 | -u n t s | abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, accountants, 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, assessments, assignments, assistants, astringents, 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, contingents, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, decongestants, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, detergents, 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, 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, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, 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, pageants, parents, parliaments, participants, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, proponents, protestants, 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, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, serpents, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, students, subcontinents, supergiants, superintendents, supplements, 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. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lutanists, simulants, stimulant. | |
-2 letters: antismut, lutanist, simulant, stunsail, tsunamis. | |
-3 letters: alumins, autisms, instals, insults, issuant, lattins, lutists, manitus, mattins, muslins, mutants, santims, statism, sultans, sustain, tanists, tissual, tsunami, ultimas. | |
-4 letters: alumin, alumni, animus, autism, instal, insult, lattin, limans, linums, litmus, lumina, lutist, maists, manitu, mantis, matins, mattin, miauls, missal, muslin, mutant, saints, salmis, satins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: stimulations, ultimateness. | |
+3 letters: instrumentals, multitaskings, noctambulists, sansculottism. | |
+4 letters: antiritualisms, documentalists, restimulations, sansculottisms, simultaneities, ultimatenesses. | |
+5 letters: fundamentalists, instrumentalism, instrumentalist, metalinguistics, misutilizations, poststimulation, semitranslucent, ultramodernists, ultramontanisms, utilitarianisms. | |
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