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Definition: Excitement |
ExcitementNoun1. The feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed". 2. The state of being excited; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled". 3. Something that excites; "he looked forward to the excitements of the day". 4. Disturbance usually in protest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "excitement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Excitement \Ex*cite"ment\n. [Compare to Old French excitement, escitement.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ExcitementSynonyms: agitation (n), excitation (n), exhilaration (n), hullabaloo (n), turmoil (n), upheaval (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport. |
Passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony. | |
Excitation | Noun: excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment; entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure. |
Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes. | |
Feeling | Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement. |
Resentment | Excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Excitement |
| Specialty definitions using "excitement": Affective Disorders, Psychotic, Affrighted ♦ blow your wad ♦ humane slaughter, Hypnotics and Sedatives ♦ Incoherent, Invite ♦ Katerfelto ♦ Noumenon ♦ pasando, Path ♦ quails ♦ Religion ♦ Schizophrenia, Catatonic, Sedatives, Nonbarbiturate ♦ The Berries, Theater ♦ Wild. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "excitement": Fleshment. (references) |
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Screenplays | I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey who's conclusion is uncertain (Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself (Dirty Harry; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink) Don't let the excitement spoil your grammar, Eddy (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting) Adventure, excitement a Jedi craves not these things (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Don't you think I've had enough excitement for one evening, without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me (The Mummy; writing credit: Nina Wilcox Putnam; Richard Schayer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Taste of Excitement (1969) The Lady Craved Excitement (1950) Ladies Crave Excitement (1935) Girls Demand Excitement (1931) Cured in the Excitement (1927) | |
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 | The excitement of a marlin breaking the water captured. Credit: Fisheries. |  | John Bull in a State of Excitement. / [Robert Seymour]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | There's great excitement down in Washington these days. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hulda clasped her hands. Oh, she cried, in wild excitement, it's his control - his Injun control! He's - he's goin' to have spirit messages. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Water please!--Newark's newly-elected mayor, Hugh J. Addonizio, wipes brow after excitement of victory and talk to supporters here kast [ie,last] night at his campaign headquarters. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Inflation. Street excitement in London during England's famous "South Sea Bubble" of the early 18th century. Center is John Blunt, originator of the "Bubble," surrounded by citizens eagerly bent on getting-rich-quick stocks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Li'l Abner. The peculiar little child who has given his name as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Douglas Fairbanks wanted some excitement. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Man speaking "all right" with excitement; alright. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The excitement increased every moment |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His eyes were shining with excitement. |
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Health | Those triggers include stress and excitement. (references) | |
Another, often found in children, is emotional stress or excitement, often from a birthday or vacation, for example. (references) | ||
Tranquilizers can help control anxiety and lithium may be prescribed to combat pathological excitement and severe mood swings. (references) | ||
Business | Now that he finally has the chance to buy a car that is something more than a means of taking him from A to B he can get over the excitement. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | Austria is on the frontier of the changing European landscape and offers U.S. companies the excitement and opportunity of a growing market with direct access to East Europe and the future of EU expansion. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning -- which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought." Hurrah (therefore) for the noumenon! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Messages were said to be interchanged and tokens to be passing, which usually denote a state of restless among them, and the character of the agitators pointed to the sources of excitement. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Unprovoked injuries are often inflicted and even the peculiar felicity of our situation might with some be a cause for excitement and aggression. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | Fellow-citizens, we have reached the close of a political contest marked by the excitement which usually attends the contests between great political parties whose members espouse and advocate with earnest faith their respective creeds. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For the preschool years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | When I looked down at the enormous United States Post Office building I could just see the excitement on the faces of the bureaucrats--knowing they would soon be managing our national health care system! |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | My fellow Americans, every time I prepare for the State of the Union, I approach it with hope and expectation and excitement for our nation. |
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| "Excitement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Excitement" is used about 2,592 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) | 99.96% | 2,591 | 3,520 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,592 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "excitement": be in a state of excitement ♦ fever of excitement ♦ sexual excitement ♦ state of excitement ♦ with excitement. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "excitement": excitement-value. | |
Ending with "excitement": over-excitement. | |
| 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 "excitement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | opwinding (agitation). (various references) | |
Albanian | eksitim (ferment, frenzy, twitter), zemërim (anger, bitterness, chafe, conniption, Dander, dudgeon, effervescence, effervescency, exasperation, huff, impatience, indignation, ire, Paddy, paddywhack, passion, petulance, rage, rasp, spite, wax, wrath), ngacmim (banter, bothering, chaff, dig, excitation, harassment, impulse, irritation, jesting, molestation, nagging, provocation, raillery, rally, rub, teasing). (various references) | |
Arabic | ثورة (revolution), هياج (commotion, eruption, excitation, flop, flutter, roughness, ruction, shindy), تهيج (agitation, go red, irritation), إنفعال (delirium, dither, effervescence, emotion, flurry, furor, impression, passivity, poignancy, redness, temper, thrill, tizzy), إثارة (aggravation, agitation, excitation, instigation, irritation, provocation, splash, stir, stirring, thrilling, trepidation), شىء مثير (irritation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силни усещания, разчувствуване, възбуждане (agitation, excitation, stimulation), възбуда (agitation, animation, boiling, emotion, fume, inflammation, inquietude, jag, lather, stir), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset). (various references) | |
Chinese | 兴奋 (Effervesce, Effervesced, Effervescing, Exaltation, Excitatory, Exhilarate, Exhilarated, Exhilarating, heady, mind-blowing, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, tingle). (various references) | |
Czech | vzruch, vzrušení (arousal, buzz, emotion, flutter, kick, racket, state, thrill, upset), rozruch (agitation, backwash, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, hullabaloo, kick up, stir), rozechvìní (quiver, thrill, twitter), rozèilení (anger, exasperation, flurry, getting the nerves). (various references) | |
Danish | ophidselse (agitation, insensibility, senselessness). (various references) | |
Dutch | opwinding (agitation, excitation, flame). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ekscito (excitation), ekscititeco, ekscitiĝo, eksciteco, agito (agitation, commotion, disturbance, flutter, turmoil). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sinnisrørsla (affection, emotion, excitation). (various references) | |
Farsi | تهییج (Fry, Incitement), شور (Briny, Craze, Emotion, Rapture, Rut, Saline, Salty, Sensation). (various references) | |
Finnish | mieltenkuohu (agitation), kiihtymys (agitation), jännitys (strain, suspense, tension), häly (commotion, stir). (various references) | |
French | excitation (excitation). (various references) | |
German | erregung (agitation, arousal, attracting, causing, creating, excitation, ferment, fever, generation, inflammation, infuriation, provocation, rage, raising, stimulation, thrill, throb, turbulence, uproar), aufregung (agitation, commotion, discomposure, dither, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, inflammation, pother, stir). (various references) | |
Greek | έξαψη (dither, flush, fluster, petulance, rampage, spurt, tizzy, twitter), διέγερση (excitation, stimulation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"יטות (ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, gusto, passion), תסיס" (agitation, effervescence, ferment, fermentation, fizz, turbulence, zymosis), "תל"בות (eagerness, elan, enthusiasm, fervor, gusto, incandescence, inspiration, verve, zeal, zest), "תפעמות, "תפעלות (admiration), "תפרצות (blaze, burst, eruption, fit, outbreak, outburst, revolt, spurt, storm, surge), "תר'שות (emotion, flurry, flutter, stir), "פעמות, 'רי" (stimulation), רתיחות, רתיח" (agitation, boil, boiling, ebullience, rage, simmer), ר'וש (agitation, emotion), סער" (assault, flurry, gale, gust, storm, tempest), רעשות (agitation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | izgatottság (chafing, commotion, discomposure, flurry, flutter, fret, jumpiness, perturbation, ruffle, throes), izgalom (ado, affect, agitation, bang, combustion, dither, excitation, fermentation, flurry, fluster, flutter, fume, furor, furore, perturbation, shake-up, stew, stir, tension, thrill, throes, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity, turmoil), izgalmi állapot (irritation, over-excitement). (various references) | |
Indonesian | recok (noise), kerecokan (fuss), kegembiraan (excuberance, exhilaration, gaiety, gladness, happiness, joy, mirth, rhapsody). (various references) | |
Italian | eccitazione (arousal, discomposure, excitation, fluster, stimulation, tizzy, uproar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 刺激 (encouragement, impetus, incentive, irritation, motivation, stimulus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し'き (drama in verse, encouragement, historical drama, impetus, incentive, irritation, motivation, stimulus), どうよう (agitation, children's song, commotion, disturbance, equal to, identical, like, nursery rhyme, oscillation, pitching, rolling, same, shaking, trembling, unrest), か"どう (being deeply moved emotionally, deep emotion, disinheritance, impression, shortcut, side road), "うふ" (agitation, arousal, intimation, powdered rouge, public indignation, stimulation, way of speaking, young and inexperienced person). (various references) | |
Korean | 흥분 (Excitation, exciting). (various references) | |
Manx | musthaa (bustle, carry on, display, flap, fluster, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult), greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up). (various references) | |
Norwegian | spenning, opphisselse. (various references) | |
Papiamen | agitashon (agitation, flutter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | excitementay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | excitação (commotion, excitation, fidget, fire, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fuss, gale, passion, rampage, rave, raving, state, stew, stimulus, thrill, transport, uproar, warmth). (various references) | |
Romanian | excitare (kindling, provocation), emoţie (agitation, emotion, feeling, flush, flutter, heart-beat, sensation, thrill, tremor, turn), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, feeling, flap, flurry, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), surescitare, surescitaţie, senzaţie (boom, feeling, page-one, perception, sensation, splash, stir), impresie puternicã, fierbinţealã (Ardor, ardour, fervour, fever, fire, fluster, heat, hot-bloodedness, warmth), clocot (agitation, ebullition, Eddy, whirl), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), înfrigurare (feverishness). (various references) | |
Russian | возбуждение (ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, excitation, exhilaration, ferment, fermentation, field, flurry, fluster, fume, incitement, irritation, kick, thrill, twitter), волнение (agitation, commotion, disturbance, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, fermentation, flutter, gurgitation, heartbeat, heave, perturbation, stew, stirring, throb, tizzies, tizzy, turbulence, unrest). (various references) | |
Scottish | gaile. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzbuđenje (affection, arousal, excitation, fluster, furor, furore, taking, thrill). (various references) | |
Spanish | excitación (agitation, arousal, excitation, exciting, inciting, stimulation, titillation), agitación (agitation, convulsion, discomposure, ferment, flurry, fussiness, restiveness, state, stir, twitter, welter). (various references) | |
Swedish | upphetsning (arousal, delirium, fever, incitement, inflammation). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyarma (caution, excitation, premonition, stimulation, warning), uyarılma, telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, exuberance, exuberancy, furor, furore, glow, gush, rave, rhapsody, spring tide, temperament, yeast). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tolgunyюyk (agitation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спонукання (abetment, motivation, prompting, push), збудження (agitation, animation, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, excitation, exciting, flush, intoxication, kindling, stimulation, taking, twitter, vivacity, wallop). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng bị kích thích, tình trạng bị kích động sự nhộn nhịp, sự sôi nổi (ardency, ardour, effervescence, effervescency, feverishness, keenness, vehemence, vehemency), sự náo động (ferment, fermentation, flurry, fluster, riot, tumultuousness, turmoil), sự kích thích (excitation, stimulation), sự kích động (galvanization). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyffro (motion, stir). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | orgasmos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commotio, commotione, commotionem, commotionis, tumorem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "excitement": excitements. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "excitement": hyperexcitement. (additional references) | |
Words containing "excitement": hyperexcitements. (additional references) | |
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"Excitement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excitment, exitement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "excitement" (pronounced iksī"tmunt) |
| 7 | -s ī" t m u n t | incitement. |
| 6 | -ī" t m u n t | indictment. |
| 5 | -t m u n t | allotment, apartment, appointment, abatement, adjustment, assortment, commitment, compartment, comportment, contentment, department, deportment, disappointment, disenchantment, disinvestment, divestment, enactment, enchantment, enlistment, investment, maltreatment, misstatement, mistreatment, ointment, overstatement, presentment, readjustment, reappointment, recruitment, reenactment, reinstatement, reinvestment, resentment, restatement, statement, treatment, understatement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, appeasement, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, complement, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, deployment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, encampment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, inclement, increment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, realignment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resettlement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, 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 "c-e-e-e-i-m-n-t-t-x" | |
-1 letter: cementite. | |
-3 letters: centime, emetine, extinct. | |
-4 letters: cement, emetic, emetin, entice, excite, extent, icemen, mitten, tentie, titmen. | |
-5 letters: cimex, emcee, exine, mince, niece, tenet, tinct, xenic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-m-n-t-t-x" | |
+1 letter: excitements. | |
+5 letters: excrementitious, hyperexcitement. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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