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Definition: Accidental |
AccidentalAdjective1. Associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character". 2. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence". 3. Without intention; especially resulting from heedless action; "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning";"an accidental shooting". Noun1. A notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accidental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In musical notation, an accidental refers to the use of a symbol such as a sharp or flat in the course of a piece, as opposed to in its key signature. This indicates that the note on the staff is altered from the pitch it normally represents. This reverts at the end of the measure.
The term accidental presumably refers to the older sense of the word "accidental" meaning "outside the norm", since the notes affected by them fall outside the scale of the current key.
All accidentals, regardless of the current key, modify their following notes as if they began in the key of C, as follows:
When canceling from a double-sharp to a single sharp, it is acceptable to just write a sharp sign, but better practice to write "natural, sharp" in succession.
- A sharp raises the pitch by one semitone
- A double-sharp raises the pitch by two semitones
- A flat lowers the pitch by one semitone
- A double-flat lowers the pitch by two semitones
- A natural cancels the effect of any previous sharp or flat (including in the key signature). Any note following a natural mark will be part of the key of C major.
Example
The top staff has a key signature is two flats (either B flat major or G minor)
The bottom staff gives the exact same pitches, technically called enharmonic spellings, written in the key of C.
- a B with no sign: thus a B-flat, on key
- a B-natural: the natural sign cancels the implicit flat on the key signature
- a B-double-flat, two semitones below B (enharmonic to A)
- an F-double-sharp, two semitones above F
- an F-natural, canceling the double-sharp
- another F-natural, without the need for a second accidental
- an F-sharp, one semitone above F
- another F-sharp.
Writing Accidentals
When an accidental note is tied across a barline, no additional accidental is needed, as it is implied by holding the note. The next occurrence of that note in the second bar will be in key unless given an accidental of its own.Although a barline implicitly resets all lines and spaces to the last key signature, typically a courtesy accidental will be placed to remind performers in some of the following situations:
The rules for which accidentals to choose may vary according to the type of music: modal, diatonic or chromatic, and also whether the transcriber is aiming for strictness or clarity, for example C flat versus B in the key of D flat. Nonetheless, some general rules for choosing between flat or sharp accidentals include:
- The unaltered note in the bar which follows the altered note
- The same note as the altered note occurs in a different octave but is itself unaltered
- The altered note is tied across a barline, and followed by an unaltered note.
- When descending, use flats.
- When ascending, use sharps.
- Try to use the same kind of accidentals -- sharps or flats -- used by the key signature.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Accidental."
Synonyms: AccidentalSynonyms: adventitious (adj), casual (adj), chance(a) (adj), inadvertent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional. |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
Intention | Adjective: fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Carol Baxter; Paul M. Belous) The timing is what fascinates me: it's too perfect to be accidental. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) The accidental killing of a person, sir. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Accidental Meeting (1994) Her Accidental Hero (1937) Accidental Accidents (1924) Her Accidental Husband (1923) Accidental Wealth (1922) | |
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 | Zenith telescope at the Ukiah Latitude Observatory Wooden frame built around supporting stand Protecting instrument from accidental disturbance Part of international effort to observe small changes in latitude. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Photograph taken 13 October 1937, while he was serving in USS Louisville (CA-28). Ensign Patterson was lost in the accidental sinking of USS Squalus (SS-192) on 23 May 1939. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Contemporary line engraving, after a sketch by Adam Rohe, depicting the ship's destruction in accidental fire on 22 April 1865, above Cairo, Illinois. Credit: NAVY. |  | Watercolor by James Alden, depicting the monitors USS Neosho and Osage running through a break in the Red River dam to pass safely over the rapids, 9 May 1864. This passage took advantage of an accidental break in the dam, which was being built by Army engineers to raise the river level enough to permit passage of all the vessels trapped above. Four gunboats passed through at this time: Lexington (which went first), Neosho (second), Fort Hindman and Osage. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Softball_blur" by Frank Pelligra Commentary: "Accidental art at a college softball game." | "Blurred Phone" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "An accidental picture of a pay-phone at the race track." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Longfellow | Nothing is or can be accidental with God. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Government is every where antecedent to records, and letters seldom come in amongst a people till a long continuation of civil society has, by other more necessary arts, provided for their safety, ease, and plenty: and then they begin to look after the history of their founders, and search into their original, when they have outlived the memory of it: for it is with commonwealths as with particular persons, they are commonly ignorant of their own births and infancies: and if they know any thing of their original, they are beholden for it, to the accidental records that others have kept of it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Another accidental meeting with the Martins was possible, and in her present state, would be dangerous |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Of the remaining 28, no less than 26 have sent in accidental solutions, and therefore fall short of the highest honours |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At another time, an accidental meeting produced a singular effect upon him. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Situation - Laboratory infection by accidental stick of contaminated needle. (references) | |
One important feature of NIHL is that it is preventable in all but certain cases of accidental exposure. (references) | ||
Toxocara canis accomplishes its life cycle in dogs, with humans acquiring the infection as accidental hosts. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Relations between the U.S. and China were severely strained by the tragic accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in May 1999. By the end of 1999, relations began to gradually improve. (references) |
Hong Kong | There has been no major unrest in Hong Kong since China's Cultural Revolution spilled across the border in 1967. The protests in Hong Kong related to the May 1999 accidental bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade were peaceful and orderly. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | The National Guard later claimed that the shooting was accidental. (references) |
Minorities | Liberia | Deaths that appear to be natural or accidental sometimes are rumored to be the work of ritual killers. (references) |
Political Economy | Yugoslavia | Under the agreement, the GSZ was created around Kosovo as a buffer zone to minimize the potential for accidental conflict; Yugoslav and Serbian security forces were excluded from the GSZ. The GSZ unintentionally became a safe haven for armed ethnic-Albanian groups, including the insurgency group known as the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedje (UCPMB). (references) |
Ecuador | Given that Americans significantly propel the commerce of tourism, which is among Ecuador's major sources of revenue, safety inadequacies need to be addressed by the U.S. There is approximately one boat sinking a year that results in the accidental death of an American citizen, highlighting the need for increased U.S. involvement in Ecuadorian safety-regulatory policy and its enforcement. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | This law, which went into effect in July 1995, makes manufacturers liable for compensation for injury, death, or damage to property resulting from the sale of defective products whether or not such defects can be attributed to accidental or willful faulty manufacture. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | This accession to the profits of agriculture in the middle and western portions of our Union is accidental and temporary. |
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| "Accidental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.25% of the time. "Accidental" is used about 742 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.25% | 729 | 9,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 742 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accidental": accidental alarm ♦ accidental bodily injury ♦ Accidental chords ♦ Accidental color ♦ Accidental colors ♦ Accidental Common Vocal ♦ accidental death ♦ accidental earth ♦ accidental error ♦ Accidental Falls ♦ accidental fire ♦ accidental injury ♦ accidental light ♦ Accidental lights ♦ accidental loss ♦ accidental nature ♦ Accidental point ♦ accidental shot ♦ accidental signs ♦ accidental threat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "accidental": non-accidental. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "accidental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aksidenteel. (various references) | |
Albanian | aksidental, i rastësishëm (casual, chanceful, coincidental, desultory, fortuitous, incident, incidental, lucky, odd, random, sporadic), i papritur (abrupt, precipitate, sudden, surprising, unasked, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unlooked for, unrehearsed). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصادفة (accident, by chance, chance, coincidence, fortuitously, fortuity, haphazard, hazard, occurrence), غير مقصود (unconscious, unwilling, unwitting), غير جوهري (extraneous, extrinsic, inessential, unessential), علامة التحويل الموسيقي, عرضي (adventitious, casual, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, incidental, occasional, odd, passing, symptomatic, transverse, venial), عرض صفة غير جوهرية (accident), إتفاقي (chance, flat rate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случайност (accident, chance, contingency, contingent, fortuitousness, fortuity, mischance), случаен хроматичен знак, случаен елемент, случаен (adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), спомагателен (accessary, accessory, adjunct, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, servo-, subsidiary, supporting, tributary), второстепенен (accessary, accessory, by, bye, collateral, inessential, lesser, minor, off, second, secondary, side, subordinate, tributary, two bit), несъществен (incidental, inessential, insubstantial, non essential, pasteboard, trivial, unessential, unsubstantial), нещо несъществено (fringe, inessential), неочакван (emergent, snap, strange, sudden, surprise, surprising, swift, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped-for, unlooked for, unrehearsed, unsought, unsuspected), знак за алтерация, допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, additional, additive, adjunct, complementary, contributory, excess, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, subsidiary, supplementary, tributary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無意 (inadvertent), 偶然 (Adventitious, Casual, Casualness), 偶 (image, mate, pair). (various references) | |
Czech | vedlejší (accessory, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), náhodný (adventitious, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, incidental, passing, random, stray). (various references) | |
Danish | tilfældig (adventitious, chance, random), accidentel. (various references) | |
Dutch | accidenteel, toevallig (adventitious, by accident, by chance, chance, occasional, random), incidenteel (adventitious, chance, incidental, random). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kroma (additional), hazarda (chance, random). (various references) | |
Finnish | tapaturmainen, satunnainen (casual, chance, fortuitous, temporary), sattumanvarainen (fortuitous, haphazard), muu (additional, another, else, other, remaining, rest of, the rest). (various references) | |
French | accidentel. (various references) | |
German | zufällig (accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidental, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic), akzidentell. (various references) | |
Greek | τυχαίος (adventitious, haphazard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקרי (casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, stray), עראי (temporary), אגבי (casual), ארעי (casual, ephemeral, episodic, impermanent, interim, occasional, pro tempore, provisional, temporary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esetleges (adventitious, aleatory, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occurrent, promiscuous). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tilviljunarkenndur (adventitious, chance, random). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebetulan (by accident, by chance, casual, fit, happen to, incidental, ocassional). (various references) | |
Italian | accidentale (adventitious, casual, chance, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, inessential, secondary, unessential). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不慮 (unforeseen). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぐうはつてき (casual, incidental, occasional), ぐうはつ (incidental, sudden outbreak), ふそく (additional clause, additional rules, by-laws, dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, shortage, supplementary provisions, unexpected, unforeseen), ふりょ (captive, prisoner of war, unforeseen), ふき (addition, additional or supplemental note, appendix, butterbur, clumsiness, dying, freedom, independence, lawlessness, liberty, note, returning no more, rising no more, unexpected, unskillfulness, violation of customs), りんじきごう. (various references) | |
Korean | 우연한 (fortuitous, unintentional). (various references) | |
Manx | trooid tuittymys, taghyrtagh (adventitious, casual, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental), lhag-haghyrtagh (misfortunate), drogh-haghyrtagh (misfortunate). (various references) | |
Papiamen | aksidental (adventitious, chance, random). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accidentalay.(various references) | |
Polish | dodatkowy (additional). (various references) | |
Portuguese | acidental (adventitious, bye, casual, chance, contingent, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned). (various references) | |
Romanian | auxiliar (additional, adjuvant, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, subsidiary, supplementary), accidental (accidentally, adventitious, arbitrary, broken, casual, casually, chance, contingent, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, incidental, occasional, precarious, random, stray), accident (accidence, accident, break down, case, catastrophe, contingency, disaster, event, fortuity, happening, misadventure, misfortune, occasionality, slip, wreck), accesoriu (accessary, accessories, accessory, adjunct, adjunctive, adventitious, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, bye, fixture, second, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary), ocazional (casual, casually, circumstantial, fugitive, haphazard, incidental, infrequent, occasional, occasionally), neesenţial (dispensable, inessential, unessential), involuntar (involuntarily, involuntary, undesigned, unwilling, unwittingly, without meaning it), fortuit (fortuitous), eventual (casual, contingent, eventual, eventually, possible, possibly, uncertain), element neesenţial, cazual (casual, fortuitous), întâmplãtor (accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references) | |
Russian | случайный (adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray). (various references) | |
Scottish | tuisleach (causing to stumble). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | akcidencija, slučajnost (coincidence, event, fortuitousness, fortuity, occurrence), slučajan (adventitious, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random, unexpected, unintentional), neočekivan (surprising, unexpected, unlooked for). (various references) | |
Spanish | accidental (catastrophic, haphazard, incidental), fortuito (casual, chance, fortuitous, freak, freakish, haphazard, incidental, random). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfällig (adventitious, casual, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extraordinary, fortuitous, incidental, interim, momentary, occasional, odd, provisional, stopgap, temporary). (various references) | |
Turkish | arizí, tesadüfi (adventitious, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, fortuitous, incidental, passing, random, unarranged), tesadüfen gelen bemol ya da diyez, rastlantı sonucu olan (causeless), kazara olan (inadvertent). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tцtдnleяin (by chance, casual). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випадковість (accident, chance, contingency, eventuality, fortuity, haphazard, lottery), випадковий елемент, випадковий (adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), неістотна риса, неістотний (immaterial, incidental, non essential, slim, unessential, unsubstantial), несподіваний (abrupt, extempore, helter-skelter, occasional, surprising, unexpected, unhoped, unlooked for, unsuspected), побічний (adventitious, collateral, extraneous, incident, indirect, lateral), другорядний (accessary, accessory, less, minor, non essential, off, secondary, subordinate), додатковий (accessary, accessory, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, collateral, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình cờ (accidentally, casual, chance, contingent, en passant, fortuitous, incidental, incidentally, passing), phụ thuộc (ancillary, dependant, dependent, subordinate, tributary), ngẫu nhiên; bất ngờ phụ, không chủ yếu, cái phụ (extra, unessential). (various references) | |
Welsh | damweiniol (adventitious, causal). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | casualis, fortuito, fortuitus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accidental": accidentally, accidentalness, accidentalnesses, accidentals. (additional references) | |
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"Accidental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accidentaly, accidenti, accidential, accidentily, Accodata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accidental" (pronounced a'ksude"ntul or a'ksude"nul) |
| 9 | -k s u d e" n t u l | occidental. |
| 8 | -s u d e" n t u l | coincidental, incidental. |
| 6 | -d e" n t u l | dental, transcendental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | compartmental, continental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, gentle, incremental, supplemental, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, lentil, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, oriental, ornamental, parental, regimental, rental, sentimental, transcontinental, unsentimental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | infantile, Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infertile, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
| 4 | -e" n u l | departmental, fennel, kennel. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: cadential. | |
-2 letters: accident, analcite, calcanei, calcined, canticle, dentalia, laitance. | |
-3 letters: actinal, alcaide, antacid, calcine, calcite, canaled, candela, cicadae, citadel, decanal, deltaic, dialect, edictal, inlaced, lactean, lanated. | |
-4 letters: accent, acedia, acetal, acetic, acetin, adnate, aecial, alated, alcade, alcaic, alined, anlace, atelic, cadent, caecal, cancel, candle, canted, cantic, cantle, catena, catlin, celiac, centai, cental, cicada, cicala. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: accidentals, anecdotical. | |
+2 letters: accidentally, dialectician, unacclimated. | |
+3 letters: anecdotically, coeducational, dialecticians, undialectical. | |
+4 letters: accidentalness, adrenocortical, contradictable, unacclimatized. | |
+5 letters: coeducationally, decalcification. | |
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