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Definitions: Embarrassment |
EmbarrassmentNoun1. The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public. 2. The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments". 3. Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals". 4. Extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "embarrassment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Etymology: Embarrassment \Em*bar"rass*ment\, noun. [French expression embarrassement.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EmbarrassmentSynonyms: nimiety (n), overplus (n), plethora (n), superfluity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disembarrassment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity; (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement, complexity; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil; (convolution); crooked path; involvement. |
Hindrance | Noun: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism; infarct; interruption, interception, interclusion; hindrance, impedition; retardment, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation; coarctation, stricture, restriction; restraint; inhibition; blockade; (closure). |
Uncertainty | Hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity; (fear); vacillation; diaporesis, indetermination. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're an embarrassment to Nature! (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) This is an embarrassment. A disgrace. (UHF; writing credit: 'Weird Al' Yankovic; Jay Levey) Satan has become an embarrassment to our progressive views. (Exorcist II: The Heretic; writing credit: William Goodhart) | |
Lyrics | One day, this embarrassment will fade behind me ("Too Little Too Late"; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) We stood there lost in our embarrassment ("Same Old Lang Syne"; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imagine My Embarrassment (1928) The Embarrassment of Riches (1918) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Embarrassment, both men staring at one another, room destroyed.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Throat; tonsils; vocal chords; clearing; attention-getting; stalling; embarrassed; embarrassment. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He spoke with difficulty, and answered with embarrassment, but from head to foot his whole person denied the charge. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Muley fidgeted in embarrassment. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The embarrassment can be so powerful that people buy diapers instead of seeking treatment. (references) | |
Sometimes these problems are caused by embarrassment or frustration associated with epilepsy. (references) | ||
Several strategies can be used to help patients overcome the stigma and feelings of embarrassment. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | Families often hide family members with disabilities to avoid social stigma or embarrassment. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | The Government censored the second part of the program before it was broadcast, allegedly because the first part had caused some embarrassment to the military hierarchy and the Government. (references) |
Human Rights | Bolivia | The military justice system generally is susceptible to senior-level influence and corruption and avoids making rulings that would cause embarrassment to the military. (references) |
Travel | Vietnam | You should be careful not to cause your Vietnamese contact embarrassment in front of superiors, peers, or subordinates. (references) |
Women | Armenia | Embarrassment and concerns for family honor make the problem particularly sensitive and difficult to quantify; women's groups and health professionals also declined to offer specific figures. (references) |
Malaysia | The number of cases reported to the Labor Department in 2000 was 61, more than double the 29 cases reported in 1999. However, the Human Resources Ministry acknowledged in 2000 that shame and embarrassment of the victim often prevent women from reporting sexual harassment. (references) | |
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Anthony Quinn | Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In Mexico a sanguinary struggle is now carried on, which has caused some embarrassment to our commerce, but both parties profess the most friendly disposition toward us. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | The natural mode of relief from this embarrassment is to appropriate the surplus in the Treasury to great national objects for which a clear warrant can be found in the Constitution. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Nor is it a small additional embarrassment that we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the mode, manner, and means of reconstruction. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | With respect to the financial condition of the country, I shall not attempt an extended history of the embarrassment and prostration which we have suffered during the past three years. |
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| "Embarrassment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Embarrassment" is used about 1,312 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) | 99.92% | 1,311 | 6,049 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,312 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "embarrassment": Inductive embarrassment ♦ portent of embarrassment. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
embarrassment | 28 |
embarrassment quote | 2 |
embarrassment without | 2 |
embarrassment public spanking | 2 |
embarrassment sexual | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "embarrassment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | benardheid (abashment, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zor (coercion, compulsion, constraint, difficulty, tension, uneasiness), vështirësi (difficulty, hardness, hitch, hurdle, knot, quandary, rub, scrape), turbullim (abashment, dimness, discomposure, disturbance, haziness, muddiness, obscuration, opacity, perturbation), telendisje (discredit, trouble), telash (difficulty, hassle, load, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry), siklet (anxiety, discomfort, lather, torment), ngatërrim (bewilderment, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, implication, involution, jumble, mess, mingle-mangle, mixing, mixture, muddiness, muss), çoroditje (anility, confusion, corruption, dissipation, perversion, perversity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشاكل مالية, حيرة (bewilderment, confusion, discomfiture, disconcertion, dismay, distraction, hesitance, hesitancy, indecision, irresolution, maze, mystification, nonplus, perplexedly, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, tangle), عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), إرتباك (awkwardness, bewilderment, confusion, constraint, disruption, distraction, foolishness, involvement, morass, mystification, nonplus, perplexity, pink, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self consciousness, shame, shyness, spot, tangle, uneasiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смущение (abashment, alarm, bewilderment, confusion, discomposure, disorder, disturbance, intimidation, muddle, perplexity, perturbation, ruffle, uneasiness, upset), объркване (abashment, addlement, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfiture, dislocation, embroilment, entanglement, fuddle, involution, maze, stir, tizzy, tumble), неудобно положение (discomfort, jam, tight corner), затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 窘态, 困窘 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozpaky (confusion, dilemma, discomfort, nonplus, non-plus, plunge, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self consciousness), rozpaèitost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | penarie (abashment, perplexity), knelpunt (abashment, bottleneck, perplexity, traffic bottleneck), hinder (abashment, nuisance, perplexity, trouble), benardheid (abashment, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | embaraso (abashment, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | trupulleiki (abashment, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pula (abashment, crisis, fix, mess, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pula, shortage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | embarras. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verlegenheit (abashment, awkwardness, disconcertedness, nonplus, perplexity, quandary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμηχανία (bewilderment, constraint, mystification, perplexity, pickle, puzzlement, scrape, stew, suspense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבוכ" (bewilderment, fix, malaise, maze, mazeiness, perplexity, puzzlement, quandary, tizzy, tumult, turmoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feszengés, zavar (abashment, annoy, awkwardness, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confusion, difficulties, discomfiture, discomposure, disorder, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, fermentation, harass, hitch, interfere, jam, mess-up, nonplus, perplexity, perturbation, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self-consciousness, shuffling, snarl, to discommode, to disturb, to fluster, to get into sy's hair, to get under one's skin, to incommode, to inconvenience, to put to it), szégyenkezés (self-abasement, shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebingungan (bewilderment, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imbarazzo (abashment, awkwardness, confusion, constraint, disconcertedness, nonplus, obstacle, pause, quandary, uneasiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 恥 (shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はじ (grasp, grip, hold, shame), とうわく (bewilderment, confusion, perplexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 당황 (dither). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, care, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disrupt, disruption, distract, distraction, disturb, embarrass, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, nuisance, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forlegenhet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | embarrassmentay estorvo (abashment, check, cloggyness, deterrent, encumbrance, hamper, liability, nuisance, obstacle, obstruction, perplexity, preventions, trammels, withholdment), empecilho (hamper, trammels), embaraçosamente, embaraço (abashment, awkwardness, catch, cloggyness, complication, constrained, corner, difficulty, encumbrance, fix, hobble, hole, impel, mat, mess, mind-breaker, nonplus, obstacle, perplexity, pinch, quandary, rub, trouble), perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disconcert, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, impairment, interference, perturbation, ruffle, to disturb, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, wash). (various references) strâmtorare, stingherealã (abashment, trouble), jenã financiarã, jenã (abashment, awkwardness, bashfulness, discomfort, hindrance, reserve, shyness, squirm, timidity, uncomfortableness, uneasiness, want), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), bucluc (adversity, affliction, bother, calamity, coil, cross, disgrace, jam, quagmire, scrape, tribulation, trouble, upset), belea (adversity, affliction, bother, jam, mess, mishap, nuisance, pest, scrape, tribulation, trouble). (various references) затруднение (crux, cumber, difficulty, knot, perplexity, quandary, rub, scrape, tickler). (various references) zbunjenost (abashment, bewilderment, blankness, confusion, constraint, discomfiture, perplexity, puzzlement, quandary), zabuna (blunder, confusion, error, mix up), stid (shame). (various references) turbación (tumult). (various references) förlägenhet (abashment, bashfulness, confusion, constraint, shyness, timidity). (various references) ความขวยเขิน. (various references) utanma (being ashamed, blush, confusion, shame), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), parasızlık (being without money, indigence, pennilessness, poverty), şaşkınlık (amazement, astonishment, being surprised, bewilderment, blankness, confusion, consternation, daze, discomfiture, fuddle, gape, maze, muddle, nonplus, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, surprise, wonder, wonderment). (various references) утруднення (ado, crux, cumber, discomfort, obstruction, perplexity, pressure, puzzle, trouble), вагання (boggle, demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, oscillation, poise, waver, wavering), нерішучість (backwardness, doubtfulness, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly shally, weakness), заплутаність (anfractuosity, complexity, complicacy, complication, embroilment, entanglement, intricacy, involution, perplexity, plexus), збентеження (abashment, agitation, amazement, bewilderment, blunder, confusion, dismay, distraction, nonplus, puzzlement, tumult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aporia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "embarrassment": embarrassments. (additional references) | |
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"Embarrassment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embarasment, embarassment, embaressment, embarrasement, embarrasment, embarrassement, em-barrassment, embarresment, embarressment, embarrisment, embarrrassment, emberassment, emberrasment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "embarrassment" (pronounced embe"rusmunt) |
| 5 | -s m u n t | advancement, announcement, assessment, basement, bemusement, commencement, debasement, disbursement, displacement, emplacement, endorsement, enforcement, enhancement, enticement, harassment, impressment, inducement, outplacement, placement, pronouncement, reassessment, reimbursement, reinforcement, replacement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, battlement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endowment, engagement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, 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, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, 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 | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, 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, 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, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, 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. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-m-m-n-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: rearmaments. | |
-3 letters: abasements, rearmament, stammerers. | |
-4 letters: abasement, aberrants, absenters, amassment, armaments, arsenates, banterers, barrenest, basements, embarrass, entamebas, membranes, ratsbanes, remasters, serenatas, stammerer, steersman, streamers. | |
-5 letters: aberrant, absenter, ammeters, amreetas, antbears, armament, armrests, arsenate, assenter, asserter, banterer, bareness, basement, besmears, brassart, earnests, emanates, entameba, manatees, masseter, membrane, messmate, metamers, narrates, rareness, ratsbane, reassert, rebaters, remaster, sarmenta, sarments, sarsenet, seamster, serenata, serrates, smartens, smearers, stammers, steamers, stemmers, streamer, tameness, terranes, terrases. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-m-m-n-r-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: embarrassments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 62 61 72 72 61 73 73 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100010 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m b a r r a s s m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0062 0061 0072 0072 0061 0073 0073 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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