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Adolesce

Definition: Adolesce

Adolesce

Verb

1. Become adolescent; pass through adolescence; "The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Derivations: Adolesce

Derivations

Words beginning with "adolesce": adolescence, adolescences, adolescent, adolescently, adolescents. (additional references)

Words containing "adolesce": postadolescent, postadolescents, preadolescence, preadolescences, preadolescent, preadolescents, subadolescent, subadolescents. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Adolesce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-o-s"

-1 letter: coleads, elodeas, solaced.

-2 letters: aldose, ceased, clades, closed, coaled, colead, decals, elodea, leased, scaled, sealed, solace.

-3 letters: acold, aedes, alecs, aloes, cades, calos, cased, cease, cedes, clade, clads, clods, close, coals, codas, codes, coeds, colas, colds, coled, coles, daces, dales, deals, decal, decos, deles, dolce, doles, eased, easel, laced, laces, lades, lased, leads, lease, loads, lodes, scald, scale, scold, socle, soled.

-4 letters: aced, aces, ados, alec, alee, ales, aloe, also, cade, cads, calo, case, cede, cees, cels, clad, clod, coal, coda, code, cods, coed, cola, cold, cole, cols, dace, dale, dals, deal, deco, dees, dele, dels, docs, does, dole, dols, dose, ease, eels, elds, else, lace, lacs, lade, lads, lase, lead, leas, lees, load, loca, lode, lose, ocas, odea, odes, olds, olea, oles, sade, sale, scad, seal, seed, seel, sled, sloe, soda, sola, sold, sole.

-5 letters: ace, ado, ads, ale, als, cad, cee, cel, cod, col, cos, dal, dee, del, doc, doe, dol, dos, eds, eel, eld, els, lac, lad, las, lea, led, lee, oca, ode, ods, oes, old, ole, ose, sac, sad, sae, sal, sea, sec, see, sel, sod, sol.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-o-s"
 

+1 letter: coalesced, coleaders, escaloped, opalesced.

 

+2 letters: adolescent, decalogues, decollates, escalloped, lowercased, overscaled.

 

+3 letters: adolescence, adolescents, condensable, convalesced, delocalizes, devocalizes, edulcorates, scleroderma, uncoalesced.

 

+4 letters: accelerandos, acknowledges, adolescences, adolescently, candlepowers, chalcedonies, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, considerable, constellated, decelerators, declensional, decolletages, decomposable, deescalation, delectations, discoverable, endonuclease, housecleaned, kaleidoscope, nucleotidase, peccadilloes, placeholders, resocialized, rhabdocoeles, sclerodermas.

 

+5 letters: breechloaders, candleholders, chalcogenides, comradeliness, considerables, considerately, cordialnesses, coresidential, decarboxylase, decelerations, dechlorinates, deescalations, diencephalons, encyclopedias, endonucleases, kaleidoscopes, nucleotidases, preadolescent, reconsolidate, sclerodermata, subadolescent, valedictories.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Adolesce


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 6F 6C 65 73 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    ---    .-..    .    ...    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 006F 006C 0065 0073 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3570817871856971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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