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Definitions: Adolescent |
AdolescentAdjective1. Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems". 2. Being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years". 3. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes". 4. In the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls". Noun1. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adolescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A tree of the size class immediately preceding the merchantable size class. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AdolescentSynonyms: jejune (adj), juvenile (adj), puerile (adj), teen (adj), teenage (adj), teenaged (adj), stripling (n), teenager (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adolescence | Adjective: adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adolescent |
| English words defined with "adolescent": adolesce, Adolescency ♦ bobbysocker, bobbysoxer ♦ calf love, crush ♦ delinquency, dereliction, develop ♦ -escent ♦ fuzz ♦ grow ♦ hobbledehoy ♦ infatuation ♦ puppy love ♦ willful neglect ♦ young buck, young man. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adolescent": Adolescent Behavior, adolescent failures, Adolescent Health Services, Adolescent Medicine, Adolescent Nutrition, Adolescent Psychiatry, Adolescent Psychology, Adolescent, Hospitalized, Adolescent, Institutionalized ♦ Erythema Induratum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adolescent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (adolescent), French (adolescence, adolescent, juvenile, stripling, teenage, teenager), Romanian (adolescent, greenhorn, juvenile, stripling, teen-ager, teens, youngster, youth), Serbo-Croatian (adolescent). |
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Lyrics | In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way in to his hat ("Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)"; performing artist: MANFRED MANN) Maybe now I've conquered all my adolescent fears ("My Next Thirty Years"; performing artist: Tim McGraw) | |
Clever | An adolescent is a person who acts like a baby when he isn't treated like an adult. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rautaciosul adolescent (1968) The Adolescent (1967) | |
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 | Several adolescent women are painting a fence on a summer day. A farmhouse and mountains can be seen in the background of Utah landscape. These young women are part of a larger Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Interviewing an adolescent in Asia and application of the Rorschach test. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Eric Schwab.. |
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Health | The handbook of child and adolescent psychiatry. (references) | |
Others are in independent adolescent treatment facilities. (references) | ||
Kandel, D. B. Stages in adolescent involvement with drugs. (references) | ||
Children | Peru | PROMUDEH's Children's Bureau coordinates child and adolescent related government policies and programs. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Poor adolescent girls and boys sometimes are enticed into performing sexual acts by the promise of food or clothing; sometimes they are forced into unsafe relationships with strangers by the need for money. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Today, the Peace Corps works in the following projects: Youth-at-Risk, which includes adolescent reproductive health, HIV/AIDS education, and the needs of marginalized males; water sanitation, which includes rural waste water solutions and municipal waste water treatment; and environmental education, which helps address low levels of awareness and strengthens environmental nongovernmental organizations. (references) |
Human Rights | Guatemala | In addition to 30 adult remains, 8 adolescent and 2 children's remains were located. (references) |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | The Labor Ministry administers a "National Program for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Adolescent Workers" and cooperates with NGO programs to combat child labor. (references) |
Women | Mauritania | One form of such mistreatment is the forced feeding of adolescent girls (gavage), which is practiced only among the Moors. (references) |
Worker Rights | Peru | Some child and adolescent labor tends to be seasonal. (references) |
Peru | Child and adolescent laborers work long hours in the agricultural sector. (references) | |
Peru | In practice, the Child and Adolescent Code provisions are violated routinely in the informal sector. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have also seen and encouraged a national movement of parents and citizens committed to reversing the very serious and disturbing trends of adolescent drug abuse. |
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| "Adolescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.65% of the time. "Adolescent" is used about 315 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) | 73.65% | 232 | 19,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.35% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Total | 100.00% | 315 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adolescent": Adolescent Behavior ♦ adolescent failures ♦ Adolescent Health Services ♦ Adolescent Medicine ♦ adolescent mountains ♦ Adolescent Nutrition ♦ Adolescent Psychiatry ♦ Adolescent Psychology. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adolescent": adolescent-grown-up. | |
Ending with "adolescent": parent-adolescent, pre-adolescent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adolescent | 1,026 |
adolescent depression | 92 |
adolescent development | 70 |
adolescent girl | 52 |
adolescent psychology | 45 |
adolescent suicide | 44 |
adolescent obesity | 35 |
adolescent nutrition | 34 |
adolescent behavior | 33 |
adolescent parenting | 32 |
adolescent issue | 31 |
adolescent mental health | 31 |
adolescent health | 31 |
adolescent pregnancy | 29 |
adolescent psychiatry | 27 |
adolescent boy | 25 |
adolescent alcohol abuse | 24 |
adolescent health journal | 24 |
adolescent tgp | 23 |
adolescent treatment center | 21 |
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| Language | Translations for "adolescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rinor (juvenescent, youngling, youthful), i ri (fledgeling, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, original, red-hot, rising, stripling, teenager, teener, young, youngling, youthful), djaloshar (boyish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | يافع (juvenile, pubescent), فتى (boy, bugger, lad, scout, sprig, young man, youngish, youngster, youth), مراهق (teenager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | юношески (boyish, junior, juvenile, teenage, youthful), юноша (sapling, stripling, youth), младежки (junior, juvenile, teenage, vernal, young), младеж (juvenile, lad, stripling, young man, youngster, younker), млад (fresh, green, juvenile, new, sucking, unfledged, young, youthful), девойка (damsel, girl, lass, maid, maiden, young lady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '少年 (teen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výrostek (stripling, teenager, youngster), mladistvý (juvenile, teenage, underage, youthful), jinoch (lad), dospívající (teenage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adolescens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | puber, adolescent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | adoleskulo, adoleskulino, adoleskanto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نوجوان (Juvenescent, Juvenile, Younker), جوان (Callan, Fry, Young, Youthful), رشید (High), بالغ (Adult, Full, Major, Marriageable, Mature, Ripe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nuori (juvenile, young), kasvuikäinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adolescent (adolescence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Jugendlicher (adolescence, teenager), heranwachsend, halbwüchsig, Adoleszent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έφηβος (teenager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתב'ר (juvenescent, teenager), בו'ר (adult, mature), ב'יר (adult, mature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kamasz (hobbledehoy, young teenager, youngster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | anak remaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adolescente (hobbledehoy, juvenescent, teenager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '春 (springtime of life, youth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいしゅ" (springtime of life, youth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 청년. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aegidagh, aeg (immature, young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | halvvoksen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adolescentay adolescente (flapper, juvenile, sapling, stripling, teenager). (various references) adolescent (greenhorn, juvenile, stripling, teen-ager, teens, youngster, youth), tânãr (boy, childish, colt, juvenile, kid, lad, male, shaver, stripling, young, youngster, youth, youthful). (various references) юный (juvenile, young, youthful), юношеский (beardless, juvenile, teenage), подростковый (teenage). (various references) adolescent, mladenački, mlad (infant, new, young). (various references) adolescente (bobby soxer, teen, teenage, teenager). (various references) ungt träd (sapling), ungdoms- (juvenile, youthful), ungdom (adolescence, adolscent, juvenescence, juvenility, youngster, youth), ung människa (sapling), tonårs- (teenage), tonåring (teen, teenager), omogen (green, immature, juvenile, unripe, verdant), juvenilt träd, halvvuxen (half grown-up). (various references) yeniyetme, genç (gossoon, green, junior, juvenile, sapling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young, young man, youngish, youngster, youth, youthful), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, laddie, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, sprig, stripling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young man, youngster, youth). (various references) яetginjek (juvenile). (various references) юнацький (junior, juvenile, young, youthful), юнак (adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, yearling, youngling, youngster, younker, youth), юний (juvenile, young, youngling, youthful), молодий (beardless, bread and butter, bridegroom, vernal, young, youngling, youthful, youthly), підлітковий (teen age), підліток (juvenile, minor, teen-ager), дівчина (celibate, colleen, demoiselle, doll, gal, girl, lass, maiden, wench). (various references) trẻ (young, youthful), người thanh niên (youngster), đang tuổi thanh niên. (various references) adolesent, llencyn (lad, stripling), llances (lass, young woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adolescens, ephoeborum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adolescent": adolescently, adolescents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "adolescent": postadolescent, preadolescent, subadolescent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "adolescent": postadolescents, preadolescents, subadolescents. (additional references) | |
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"Adolescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adloescent, adolecent, adolescen, adolescens, adolesent, adolexcent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adolescent" (pronounced a'dule"sunt or a'dōle"sunt) |
| 8 | -d u l e" s u n t | preadolescent. |
| 7 | -u l e" s u n t | convalescent, obsolescent. |
| 5 | -e" s u n t | antidepressant, Crescent, depressant, effervescent, evanescent, fluorescent, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, luminescent, quiescent, suppressant, tumescent. |
| 4 | -s u n t | absent, adjacent, complacent, complaisant, conversant, decent, dispersant, docent, indecent, innocent, lucent, magnificent, nascent, recent, reminiscent, reticent, translucent. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complainant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convenient, convent, convergent, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, luxuriant, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
| 6 | -l e" s u n t | convalescent, obsolescent, preadolescent. |
| 5 | -e" s u n t | antidepressant, Crescent, depressant, effervescent, evanescent, fluorescent, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, luminescent, quiescent, suppressant, tumescent. |
| 4 | -s u n t | absent, adjacent, complacent, complaisant, conversant, decent, dispersant, docent, indecent, innocent, lucent, magnificent, nascent, recent, reminiscent, reticent, translucent. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complainant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convenient, convent, convergent, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, luxuriant, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anecdotes, endosteal. | |
-2 letters: acetones, anecdote, celadons, cleanest, cleansed, closeted, desolate, enclosed, endocast, endostea, lactones, lanceted, notecase, tacnodes. | |
-3 letters: acetone, acetose, acnodes, calends, candles, cantles, castled, celadon, celesta, cenotes, centals, cestode, cetanes, cleaned, cleanse, cleated, coasted, coatees, coldest, coleads, daltons, deacons, decanes, decants, delates, denotes, dentals, descant, descent, docents, donates, elodeas, enacted, encased, enclose, encodes, enlaced, enlaces, enolase, escoted, etalons, lactone, lactose, lancets, lateens, latened, leanest, located, locates, nestled, octanes, oleates, sandlot, scalene, scanted, scented, seconde, slanted, solaced, solated, standee, tacnode, talcose, taloned, tenaces, tolanes. | |
-4 letters: acnode, aldose, aneled, aneles, anodes, anoles, anteed, ascend, ascent, atoned, atones, cadent, cadets, candle, canoed, canoes, canted, cantle, cantos, castle, ceased, cenote, censed, cental, centas, centos, cetane, clades, cleans, cleats, cloned, clones, closed, closet, coaled, coated, coatee, codens, colead, contes, costae, costal, costed, cotans, dalton, dances, deacon, decals, decane, decant, decent, delate, deltas, denote, dental, desalt, docent, donate, donees, eclats, elands, elated, elates, eldest, elects, elodea, enacts, enates, encase, encode, enlace, etalon, ladens, lanced, lances, lancet, lanose, lasted, lateen, latens, leaden, leaned, leased, lensed, lentos, leones, loaned, locate, lodens, naleds, nested, nestle, oceans, octads, octane, octans, oldest, oleate, osteal, salted, santol, sateen, scaled, sealed, seance, seated, secant, second, sedate, select, senate, sendal, seneca, slated, solace, soland, solate, soldan, staled, stance, staned, stelae, stoled, stolen, stoned, talced, talons, teased, teasel, telson, tenace, tensed, tolane, tolans. | |
-5 letters: acned, acnes, acold, acted, aedes, aeons, alecs, aloes, alone, altos, anele, anode, anole, anted, antes, ascot, atone, cades, cadet, calos, caned, canes, canoe, canso, canst, canto, cants, cased, caste, cates, cease, cedes, celts, cense, cento, cents, cesta, cetes, clade, clads, clans, clast, clean, cleat, clods, clone, clons, close, clots, coals, coast, coats, codas, coden, codes, coeds, colas, colds, coled, coles, colts, coned, cones, conte, coset, costa, cotan, coted, cotes, daces, dales, dance, dates, datos, deals, dealt, deans, decal, decos, deets, deles, delta, delts, denes, dense, dents, doats, doest, dolce, doles, dolts, donas, donee, dotal, dotes, eased, easel, eaten, eclat, eland, elans, elate, elect, enact, enate, enols, escot, etnas, laced, laces, laden, lades, lance, lands, lanes, lased, lated, laten, leads, leans, leant, lease, least, leets, lends, lenes, lenos, lense, lento, leone, loads, loans, loden, lodes, lotas, naled, nates, neats, needs, nodal, nodes, noels, nosed, notal, noted, notes, oaten, ocean, octad, octal, octan, olden, onces, onset, salon, saned, santo, sated, scald, scale, scant, scena, scend, scene, scent, scold, scone, sedan, sente, setae, setal, seton, slant, slate, sleet, socle, solan, soled, sonde, stade, stale, stand, stane, stead, steal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: adolescents. | |
+2 letters: adolescently, constellated, deescalation, delectations, nucleotidase. | |
+3 letters: considerately, coresidential, decelerations, dechlorinates, deescalations, nucleotidases, preadolescent, reconsolidate, subadolescent. | |
+4 letters: conceptualised, methodicalness, nonclandestine, occidentalizes, postadolescent, preadolescents, reconsolidated, reconsolidates, rediscountable, subadolescents. | |
+5 letters: acknowledgments, adrenalectomies, coldheartedness, complicatedness, dichloroethanes, electrodynamics, inconsiderately, nonencapsulated, postadolescents. | |
| 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)41 64 6F 6C 65 73 63 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000001 01100100 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d o l e s c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006F 006C 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
| 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)35708178718569718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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