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Definitions: Demulcent |
DemulcentAdjective1. Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin. Noun1. A medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Botanical | A soothing substance to reduce irritation. Abrus, Adansonia, Argemone, Bambusa, Cardiospermum, Ceiba, Clitoria, Corchorus, Gossypium, Hibiscus, Musa, Ocimum, Pistia, Portulaca, Raphanus, Saccharum, Sesamum, Sida. (references) |
Health | Soothing; bland; allaying the irritation of inflamed or abraded surfaces. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DemulcentSynonyms: emollient (adj), salving (adj), softening (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moderation | Unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac. |
Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative. | |
Remedy | Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Demulcent |
| English words defined with "demulcent": Barley water ♦ jellyleaf ♦ Obtundent ♦ Queensland hemp ♦ Sida rhombifolia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "demulcent": Ajonjoli ♦ Hierba de puerco ♦ SACHARUM OFFICINALE. (references) |
| 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. |
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demulcent | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "demulcent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dhembjeqetësues, qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, bland, calming, comforting, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملطف (lenitive, moderator, palliative, soothing), مسكن (abode, anodyne, apartment, assuasive, easing, habitation, home, house, lenitive, lodging, palliative, quarters, relieving, residence, sedative, soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | успокояващ (calming, composing, easeful, emollient, reposeful, soothing), смекчаващ (extenuatory, lenitive, mitigatory, solvent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | demulcentia (demulcents), lindrende (palliative, soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | demulcens (demulcents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | enrobants entéro-protecteurs (demulcents), adoucissant, émollient. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Demulcentia (demulcents), Demulcens (demulcents), lindernd (allaying, alleviating, lenitive, palliating, palliative, soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαλακτικόσ (emollient), μαλακτικά φάρμακα (demulcents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyulladáscsökkentõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | demulcente (soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emulcentday demulcente (demulcents). (various references) успокаивающий (anodyne, assuasive, balmy, calming, composing, lenitive, sedative, soothing), смягчающий (emollient, extenuatory, mitigatory, relaxing, soothing). (various references) blagotvoran (beneficent, beneficial, gracious, kindly, sanatory). (various references) demulcente (demulcents). (various references) uppmjukande medel (emollient). (various references) yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, corrective, depressant, low profile, nervine, pacificatory, palliative, paregoric, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), teskin edici (calming, placatory, soothing, tranquillizing). (various references) заспокійливий засіб (calmative, depressant, nepenthes, obtundent, opiate, quieter, sedative), заспокійливий (assuasive, balsamic, calmative, comfortable, composing, conciliative, conciliatory, easeful, lenitive, nepenthean, obtundent, pacificatory, placatory, propitiatory, reposeful, restful, sedative), болезаспокійливий (analgesic, anetic, anodyne, antalgic, paregoric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "demulcent": demulcents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: unmelted. | |
-2 letters: clement, mulcted. | |
-3 letters: cement, centum, culmed, decent, dement, dulcet, eluent, eluted, lucent, lunted, melted, teledu, unmeet. | |
-4 letters: centu, clued, culet, deuce, dunce, educe, educt, elect, elude, elute, emend, endue, etude, lumen, lunet, luted, meted, mulct, muled, muted, neume, tuned, uncle, undee, unled, unlet, unmet. | |
-5 letters: cede, celt, cent, cete, clue, cued, culm, cult. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-l-m-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: demulcents. | |
+2 letters: uncompleted. | |
+3 letters: documentable. | |
+4 letters: countermelody, mononucleated. | |
+5 letters: counterclaimed, mononucleotide, multinucleated, uncontemplated. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m u l c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 0075 006C 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387179877869718086 |
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