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Definition: Detachment |
DetachmentNoun1. Avoiding emotional involvement. 2. The act of releasing from an attachment or connection. 3. The state of being insulated. 4. A small unit of troops of special composition. 5. Coming apart. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "detachment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Aerospace | A particular state of isolation in which man is separated or detached from his accustomed behavioral environment by inordinate physical and psychological distances. This condition may compromise his performance. (references) |
Geography | The removal from a soil mass of transportable fragments of soil material by an eroding agent, usually falling raindrops, running water, or wind. Through detachment, soil particles or aggregates are made ready for transport. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Separation of streamlines within the boundary layer from the wall forming the boundary. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:decollement. (references) |
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Synonyms: DetachmentSynonyms: breakup (n), disengagement (n), insularism (n), insularity (n), insulation (n), separation (n), withdrawal (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
Disjunction | Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, |
Part | Noun: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Detachment |
| English words defined with "detachment": Corporal's guard, Covering party ♦ Disappendency, dispassion, dispassionateness ♦ flanker ♦ Inlying picket ♦ patrol, philosophic, philosophical, picket, press gang, provost guard ♦ rearguard ♦ secondment, Sprain fracture, Strategic position ♦ Unavoidable hemorrhage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "detachment": decollement, Diabetic Retinopathy, Dullard ♦ Retinal Necrosis Syndrome, Acute ♦ Scleral Buckling, Silicone Oils ♦ Vitrectomy, Vitreous Detachment ♦ Wind erosion. (references) |
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Screenplays | We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) | |
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 | U.S. Army, Ashburn General Hospital, McKinney, TX. : Nurses, Officers and detachment at dedication exercises. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Fourth of July celebration, 1918, with detachment and visiting French officers. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Captain Forrest P. Sherman, ship's Commanding Officer, inspects her Marine detachment. Taken at San Diego, California, in June 1942. Credit: NAVY. |  | Arrives at ACORN Training Detachment, Port Hueneme, California, with a wardrobe and no place to stow it, 15 October 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Indian riflemen take over Iranian refinery, Iran. A detachment of Indian riflemen march into the world's largest oil refinery on island of Aradian, at the head of the Persian Gulf, after the short, brief battle with the Iranian forces defending it / Acme. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Finnish ski patrol looking for enemy detachment on the Petsamo front, in northern Finland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | District of Columbia. Detachment of Company K, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, by guns of Fort Stevens. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Petersburg, Va. Detachment of 3d Indiana Cavalry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cavalry detachment, throwing horses, M.M.A., Orchard Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Indian troops in East Africa. A detachment from one of the Punjab regiments take up their position for the guard of honour for the march past the captured Italians from Amba Alagi area. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j. |
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St. John of the Cross | Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol balls |
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Health | A retinal detachment is a medical emergency. (references) | |
Injuries to the eye or head can also cause retinal detachment. (references) | ||
Infection in the eyes may cause swelling or detachment of the retina. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Congo | The commander of the police detachment reportedly was arrested and detained for questioning following the incident. (references) |
Ghana | Military authorities stated that the 64th Infantry Regiment, since it contains a detachment of police officers, has the authority to investigate civil cases and arrest suspects. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Chile | In September a land seizure in Loncali was ended by the intervention of a large detachment of armed Carabineros. (references) |
Political Economy | Yugoslavia | The Federal Government also controls a small police detachment for security of federal buildings and officials. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | At a recent date an attack was made on a post of the enemy near Niagara by a detachment of the regular and other forces under the command of Major-General Van Rensselaer, of the militia of the State of New York. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | During the last summer a detachment of the Army has been usefully and successfully called to perform their appropriate duties. |
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| "Detachment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.75% of the time. "Detachment" is used about 478 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 (singular) | 98.75% | 472 | 12,530 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.25% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 478 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "detachment": detachment of the chorioidea 2.detached choroid ♦ detachment of the retina ♦ retinal detachment ♦ retinal detachment 2.ablatio retinae ♦ Vitreous Detachment. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "detachment": self-detachment. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "detachment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afdeling (compartment, department, branch, pigeonhole, section, speciality). (various references) | |
Albanian | detashment, veçim (disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divorce, insularity, insulation, isolation, retirement, seclusion, segregation, separation, withdrawal), shkëputje (abruption, avulsion, disengagement, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, parting, secession, separation), pavarësi (independence, independency, self sufficiency, sovereignty), ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting), mënjanim (avoidance, demission, elimination, retirement, stand off, swerve). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتيبة (battalion, division, draft, phalanx, troop), موضوعية (impartiality, objectivity, topicality), لا تحيز (candor, candour, evenness), تقشر (flake, peel), سرية في الجيش (brigade, company), إنفصال (disconnection, disengagement, dissociation, disunion, disunity, division, divorce, estrangement, insularity, schism, scission, secession, separation, split), إنعزال (insulation, isolation, secession, segregation, solitude), إرسال كتيبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самостоятелност (autarchy, independence, independency, self sufficiency, self-dependence), чета (peruse, read), част (concern, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), група кораби, отряд (party), откъсване (avulsion, breakaway, intercept, interception, tearing off, tweak), откъснатост (isolation), отделяне (breakaway, disconnection, disconnexion, disengagement, disseverance, divorcement, emanation, emission, evolution, excretion, exudation, generation, isolation, partition, release, scission, secession, secretion, separation, severance), отделение (compartment, department, section, squad), обособеност (apartness), безпристрастие (equity, fairness, indifference), поделение (division, element, outfit, ramification, section, unit), изолация (insulation, isolation, jacket, lagging, seclusion, segregation, separation), изпращане на военни части. (various references) | |
Chinese | 独立小分队. (various references) | |
Czech | detašovaný oddíl, odstup (aloofness, distance, interval, stand off), odlouèení (disseverance, estrangement, secernent, seclusion, separation), oddìlení (clinic, compartment, department, desk, disjunction, division, section, segregation, separation, unit), objektivnost (objectiveness, objectivity, open mindedness), indiferentnost. (various references) | |
Danish | afdeling (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole). (various references) | |
Dutch | team (team), detachement, afdeling (compartment, department, pigeonhole, section, speciality). (various references) | |
Esperanto | taĉmento. (various references) | |
Farsi | کناره گیری (Demission, Renunciation, Resignation, Retreat), قسمت (Arm, Canto, Chapter, Compartment, Department, Division, Dole, Flat, Grist, Internode, Leg, Lot, Parcel, Party, Percentage, Piece, Plank, Portion, Proportion, Rasher, Ratio, Sect, Section, Segment, Share, Slice), تفکیک (Denotation, Segregate, Segregation, Severance), جداسازی (Segregate, Severance), دسته (A, Administration, Army, Batch, Covey, Hand, Handle, Helm, Hilt, Horde, Host, Ilk, Parcel, Party, School, Sect, Section, Set, Shaft, Sheaf, Shog, Skein, Squad, Stack, Stem, Stud, Team, Usurer). (various references) | |
Finnish | osasto (compartment, department), erillisosasto. (various references) | |
French | détachement (department, detail), séparation (demixing). (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfdieling (section). (various references) | |
German | Abteilung (department, compartment, branch, division, section, office, partition), ablösung (relief, removal). (various references) | |
Greek | απόσπασμα (excerpt, quotation), απόσπαση (extortion, extraction, secondment), αποκόλληση (ablation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תלישות, תלישה (plucking, pulling out, tearing pff), פלוגה (company, platoon, squadron, troop), פלגה (company, group), אוביקטיביות (imparttiality, objectivity), הפרדות (separation), הנתקות (disengagement, dissociation, severance, sundering), בדלות (allofness, separation), נתיקה (disconnection, severance), נתוק (breaking off, cutting off, disconnection, disruption, dissociation, insularity, separation, severance, snap). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leválás (scaling, stripping), elkülönülés (seclusion), osztag (detail, platoon, plt, squad, team), elválás (divorce, parting), függetlenség (independence, separateness), különítmény (commando, picket, task-force), lekapcsolás, elfogulatlanság (candor, candour, impartiality), leválasztás (scaling), tárgyilagosság (objectivity), objektivitás, pártatlanság (impartiality, neutrality), szétkapcsolás (decoupling), szétválás (pulling apart, pulling asunder), szenvtelenség (dispassion), leszerelés (disarmament, discharge, disassembly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | detasemen. (various references) | |
Italian | distacco (separation), brigata (brigade, company, party). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 分離 (separation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶんり (context, crisis, isolation, literature and science, reasoning, segregation, separation), ぶんけんたい, ぶんけん (books, decentralization of authority, detail, literature), どくりつはん, はけんたい (contingent), ちょうぜん (transcendence), ちょうだつ (transcendency). (various references) | |
Korean | 분리 (disjunction, Segregating, segregation, Separating, separative). (various references) | |
Manx | possan (bevy, bunch, clique, colony, covey, ensemble, flock, formation of troops, gaggle, group, grouping, levy, party, posse, pride of lions, squad, swarm), neuhuim (disinterest). (various references) | |
Norwegian | løsgjøring. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etachmentday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | destacamento (attachment, mobilization, separation), separação (separation, clearance, segregation). (various references) | |
Romanian | detaşare (detaching, disconnection), detaşament (group, party, team), desprindere, desfacere (cancellation, decomposition, disentanglement, dissolution, looseness, sale, unbinding), separare (cleavage, disjunction, dissociation, division, isolation, parting, partition, segregation, separation, severance), misiune (delegation, errand, goal, message, mission), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, disregard, equanimity, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern). (various references) | |
Russian | разъединение (disconnection, disseverance), отслойка, отделение;отряд, отделение (compartment), непредубежденность (open mindedness), беспристрастность (impartiality). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otuđenost (alienation), odvajanje (dissociation, secession, segmentation, segregate, segregation, separation, sequester), odred (unit), bataljon (battalion). (various references) | |
Spanish | separación (separation, isolation, parting, partition). (various references) | |
Swedish | avskiljande (abstraction, segregation, separation, severance), avskildhet (privacy, purdah, retirement, seclusion). (various references) | |
Thai | การแยกออก (isolation, separation), การวางเฉย. (various references) | |
Turkish | tarafsızlık (candor, candour, equilibrium, equitableness, equity, evenness, fair play, fairness, impartiality, indifference, neutralism, neutrality, non committal, objectiveness, objectivity, openness), kıta (battalion, canto, continent, continental, corps, quatrain, stanza, stave, strophe, verse), ayırma (abstraction, appropriation, assortment, combout, cull, dissociation, distinction, division, estrangement, fractionation, insularity, isolation, partition, reduction, resolution, screening, segregation, segregative, seperation, sequestration, severance, sunder, sunderance, throw out, turn off), önyargısız olma. (various references) | |
Turkmen | otrяad. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | роз'єднання (abruption, disarticulation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion), відірваність, віділення, відокремлення (amputation, disseverance, segregate, separation, severance), безсторонність (candor, candour, equity, impartiality, impersonality, neutrality). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng sống tách rời sự vô tư, sự tháo rời, sự tách ra (divorce, sunderance), sự gỡ ra. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praesidi, praesidia, praesidiaque, praesidiis, praesidio, praesidioque, praesidium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "detachment": detachments. (additional references) | |
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"Detachment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detacchment, detachement, detahment, detatchment, Deteachment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "detachment" (pronounced duta"khmunt or dēta"khmunt) |
| 8 | -u t a" kh m u n t | attachment. |
| 5 | -kh m u n t | impeachment, encroachment, enrichment, entrenchment, parchment, retrenchment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
| 7 | -t a" kh m u n t | attachment. |
| 5 | -kh m u n t | impeachment, encroachment, enrichment, entrenchment, parchment, retrenchment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-m-n-t-t" | |
-2 letters: anthemed. | |
-3 letters: cementa, chanted, chatted, cheated, dentate, enacted, etchant, headmen, machete, manchet, matched, menaced, methane, tetched, thecate. | |
-4 letters: achene, anteed, anthem, attend, cadent, canted, catted, cement, cetane, decane, decant, decent, demean, dement, detach, detect, detent, etched, ethane, hanted, hatted, heated, hented, hetman, manche, matted, meated, menace, metate, netted, tandem, teamed, teated, teched, tenace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: detachments. | |
+4 letters: disenchantment. | |
+5 letters: disenchantments. | |
| 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. | |
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