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Definition: Fraudulent |
FraudulentAdjective1. Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fraudulent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Fraudulent \Fraud"u*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression fraudulentus, from fraus, fraudis, frand: compare to the French expression fraudulent.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fraud is, roughly, the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage him -- usually, to obtain property or services from him unjustly. [1]Forms of fraud include confidence tricks such as the 419 fraud; false advertising; identity theft; forgery of documents or signatures; the selling of products of spurious use, such as quack medicines; creation of false companies or "long firms"; false insurance claims; and securities frauds such as pump and dump.
See also:
- Accounting scandals
- Creative accounting
- Political corruption
- Nigerian money transfer fraud (419 fraud)
- The National Council Against Health Fraud An American private nonprofit, health agency.
- Ponzi scheme
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fraud."
Synonyms: FraudulentSynonyms: deceitful (adj), fallacious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. |
Falsehood | Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn. |
Improbity | Adjective: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent; knavish; disgraceful; (disreputable); wicked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fraudulent |
| English words defined with "fraudulent": Barratry, bastard, blue sky law, bogus ♦ cheat, collusive, conniving, Covinous, cozenage ♦ deceit, deceitful, defalcation, dishonest, dishonorable, duplicity ♦ Elusory, embezzlement ♦ fake, fallacious, False token, Fraudful, fraudulence, Fraudulency, fraudulently ♦ honest, honorable ♦ impersonate ♦ manipulate, misapplication, misappropriation ♦ peculation, personate, phoney, phony, pose ♦ rig ♦ scam, Subreption, swindle ♦ To count out, To shuffe up ♦ Undesigning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fraudulent": balloon reflector, brown-out ♦ détournement de fonds, data manipulation, DIRECTOR, SECURITIES AND REAL ESTATE ♦ Expedited Removal ♦ Horse ♦ LOST-CHARGE-CARD CLERK ♦ MANAGER, CREDIT AND COLLECTION, mutuel cashier ♦ obtaining a false certificate by fraud ♦ parimutuel cashier, PARIMUTUEL-TICKET CASHIER ♦ Rabble ♦ Scientific Misconduct, Swiss lapis ♦ Varnishing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fraudulent Beggar (1901) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Exercise caution--some of these drugs may have fraudulent claims, and others may actually hurt your child. (references) | |
Business | Additionally, Singapore has a number of programs on IPR and is working to bring down the piracy rate. The government has implemented enforcement measures to curb fraudulent activity on the Internet, such as sale of unlicensed products. (references) | |
The largest market for franchising outside the United States is the European Union (EU); the countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. In the United Kingdom, franchising began slowly in the 1950s and 1960s because it was associated initially with the fraudulent pyramid schemes. (references) | ||
There will be continued pressure from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance to keep drug prices down. This pressure will be countered by the multinational pharmaceutical companies that will attempt to obtain premium prices to prevent parallel trade once Poland enters the EU. Abuses of the reimbursement system will come under greater scrutiny as the Sick Funds attempt to stamp out fraudulent claims. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | There were several documented cases in which individuals or organizations purchased infants or children from their natural parents, created fraudulent paper trails to document the children as orphans, and then earned substantial profits from fees or donations from unwitting adoptive families, including foreign families. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The amended Press Code replaces prison sentences with increased fines as the penalty for fraudulent use of one's name for publishing purposes. (references) |
Marshall Islands | In 1996 the Government sold "investment" passports to approximately 3,000 non-Marshallese to attract foreign investment; however, it halted this practice in 1997, following allegations of abuses and fraudulent passport sales (which conveyed citizenship). (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | They denounced Guevara's electoral victory as fraudulent. (references) |
Guyana | During that time- frame, elections were viewed in Guyana and abroad as fraudulent. (references) | |
Brazil | Trademarks-- The fraudulent use of internationally "famous" marks has been a significant problem in Brazil. (references) | |
Human Rights | Romania | Dombi had been issued a warrant to serve an additional year of a 3-year sentence for fraudulent insurance schemes. (references) |
Tanzania | Mrema was scheduled to be tried in February for three charges of sedition, based on the claim that he presented fraudulent documents to Parliament. (references) | |
Minorities | Kuwait | Purchasing a fraudulent passport allows bidoon to receive a residency permit and other civil documents, to marry, and to work. (references) |
Political Economy | Kuwait | The number of bidoon purchasing fraudulent passports reportedly is on the rise. (references) |
Mauritania | Taya was reelected President with more than 90 percent of the vote in 1997 elections widely regarded as fraudulent. (references) | |
Gabon | Elections for the Presidency and the National Assembly generally have not been free and fair but have varied widely in quality; some suffered chiefly from poor organization, while others were fraudulent. (references) | |
Political Rights | Madagascar | Other parties criticized the elections as poorly organized and fraudulent; a lack of transparency made it difficult to assess reliably the extent of abuses. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | The February 1996 presidential election, in which President Obiang claimed reelection with 98 percent of the vote, was considered openly fraudulent by international observers. (references) | |
Nigeria | All three parties engaged in the local purchase of false ballots and fraudulent tally sheets so that there were vast discrepancies between what observers saw and inflated tallies in some areas. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Fines are not very large, usually around USD 30 or USD 40. These, in and of themselves, do not include fraudulent actions. (references) |
Nigeria | U.S. firms also are advised that fraudulent business practices involving bogus financial documents through non-existent banks are common. (references) | |
China | A recent crackdown on fraudulent VAT rebate application has made rebates completely unavailable in some areas of Guangdong and Fujian provinces. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | These are usually both fraudulent and illegal and could involve situations that potentially violate both Nigerian and U.S. law. (references) |
Nigeria | However, a major development in the past few years is the fraudulent business scams that target foreigners, including a significant number of U.S. citizens. (references) | |
Nigeria | The most common form of Nigerian fraudulent business schemes, the advance fee fraud, popularly known as "419", involves an offer to transfer large sums of money with promises of commissions after up-front payments are made by the potential victim. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | Some were forced to sign fraudulent contracts. (references) |
Russia | The penalty for violating border laws with fraudulent documents was up to 3 years. (references) | |
China | The smuggling rings that trafficked them often restrict their movements, and their travel documents, which are often fraudulent, frequently are confiscated. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, "soaring swine.") |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | An early accommodation of differences will, it is hoped, prevent all such fraudulent and pernicious practices, and place the relations of the two countries on a very amicable and permanent basis. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The honest veteran has nothing to fear from such a scrutiny, while the fraudulent claimant will be detected and the public Treasury relieved to an amount, I have reason to believe, far greater than has heretofore been suspected. |
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| "Fraudulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Fraudulent" is used about 264 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.62% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 264 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fraudulent": breach of trust with fraudulent intent ♦ fraudulent bankruptcy ♦ fraudulent behavior ♦ fraudulent conversion ♦ fraudulent falsification ♦ fraudulent gain ♦ fraudulent misuse of a computer ♦ fraudulent misuse of funds ♦ fraudulent representation ♦ fraudulent scheme. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fraudulent": non-fraudulent. | |
| 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 "fraudulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), hileqar (blackleg, cheat, tricky). (various references) | |
Arabic | محتال (bluff, deceitful, hustler, rogue, trickster), مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мошенически (dishonest, fast, knavish, phoney, phony, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, tricky), подправен (adulterate, adulterine, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), измамлив (deceptive, delusive, delusory, guileful, illusory, unsound). (various references) | |
Chinese | 欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deception, Deceptive, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, Kidding, ripoff, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references) | |
Czech | podvodný (bogus, crooked, deceitful, improper). (various references) | |
Danish | falske franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), uægte franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), tjenesteveksel (accommodation bill, cerf volant, fictitious bill, finance bill, financial bill, financial note, financial paper, fraudulent note, kite, wind bill, windmill), svigagtige franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), svigagtig handling (fraudulent operation), svigagtig fremgangsmaade (fraudulent practices), svigagtig brug af telex (fraudulent telex call), omstoedelse (challenge, challenge of antecedent transactions, challenge to a fraudulent preference), misbrug (abuse, fraudulent practices, infringement of rights of another, violation), bedragerisk hensigt (fraudulent intent). (various references) | |
Dutch | frauduleuze handelingen (fraudulent practices, sham transaction), frauduleus bankroet (fraudulent bankruptcy), frauduleuze handeling (fraudulent act), frauduleuze telex-communicatie (fraudulent telex call), frauduleuze actie (fraudulent operation), valse aangifte (false declaration, fraudulent declaration, incorrect declaration), bedriegelijke bedoeling (fraudulent intent), bedrieglijke aangifte (fraudulent declaration), bedrieglijke bankbreuk (fraudulent bankruptcy), bedrieglijke bedoeling (fraudulent intent), bedrieglijke handelingen (cheating, fraudulent representation, misrepresentation, sham transaction, swindling), dading,aangegaan onder bedrog (fraudulent transaction), nietigheid (vanity), accomodatiewissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), schoorsteenwissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), verduistering van overheidsgelden (fraudulent conversion of public moneys), ruiterwissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), nulliteit (challenge, challenge of antecedent transactions, challenge to a fraudulent preference), malafide franchise-keten (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), complaisance-papier (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill). (various references) | |
Finnish | vilpillinen (deceitful, dishonest, false), petollinen (deceitful, deceptive, delusive, false, treacherous). (various references) | |
French | frauduleux, fourbe, dupeur. (various references) | |
German | betrügerisch (deceitful, deceitfully, fraudulently, surreptitious). (various references) | |
Greek | απατηλόσ (catchy, colorable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusive, elusory, fallacious, hollow, illusive, illusory, specious, tricky), απατηλός (deceitful, deceptive), δόλιοσ (deceitful, dishonest, guileful, lurking, sly, snaky, trappy, treacherous, two faced, underhand, underhanded, wily). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רמאי (cheat, cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, scoundrel, sharper, sneaky, swindler, trickster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fondorlatos (devious, guileful, malicious, shrewd, tainted with fraud), csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster). (various references) | |
Indonesian | curang (deceitful, dishonest), curam (abrupt, deceitful, steep). (various references) | |
Italian | fraudolento. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 欺瞞的 (deceptive). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎま"てき (deceptive). (various references) | |
Korean | 사기 (fraud, lie, morale). (various references) | |
Manx | molteyragh (captivating, deceptive, fallacious, insidious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | falsk (false), svikefull (deceitful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | audulentfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fraudulento (cheating, dishonest). (various references) | |
Romanian | necinstit (crooked, dirty, dishonest, dishonestly, disingenuous, faithless, foul, knavish, knavishly, low down, meretricious, perfidious, raw, rotten, unfair, unfaithful, unlawful). (various references) | |
Russian | мошеннический (dishonest, knavish, rascally). (various references) | |
Scottish | foilleil (deceitful, treacherous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prevarljiv. (various references) | |
Spanish | fraudulento (bogus, dishonest). (various references) | |
Swedish | svekfull (deceitful, deceptive, perfidious, treacherous), bedrägliga, bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusive, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references) | |
Turkish | sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), hileli (dishonest, false, sharp, tortuous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, crooked, cross, deceitful, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, foul, fraud, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster, twister), hilebaz (blackleg, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheat, cheater, deceitful, foul, fraud, gyp, juggler, rook, serpentine, sharper, shuffling, trickster), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шахрайський (pettifogging, picaresque, puckish, rascally, snide), обманний (deceitful), облудний (affected, captious, counterfeit, deceitful, illusive, put on). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mắc tội gian lận; mắc tội lừa lọc có ý gian lận, do lừa lọc; đi lừa được, có ý lừa lọc do gian lận. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fraudulenta, fraudulenti, fraudulentus. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | sthaga-s. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fraudulent": fraudulently, fraudulentness, fraudulentnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Fraudulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fradulent, fraudelent, fraudlent, fraudulant, fraudulen, fraudulend. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fraudulent" (pronounced frô"julunt) |
| 6 | -j u l u n t | vigilant. |
| 5 | -u l u n t | ambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, opulent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, stimulant, succulent, truculent, turbulent, violent, virulent. |
| 4 | -l u n t | assailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, errant, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, frequent, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, solvent, stagnant, statement, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, tumescent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-n-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: dentural, flaunted, flaunter, unartful, undulate, unfurled. | |
-3 letters: dareful, daunter, default, faulted, flaneur, frenula, funeral, futural, launder, lunated, lurdane, natured, neurula, neutral, refutal, rundlet, tearful, trundle, tuneful, unadult, undular, unrated, unruled, untread. | |
-4 letters: antler, ardent, artful, aulder, auteur, dafter, darnel, dartle, dental, earful, eluant, falter, fardel, ferula, feudal, flared, flaunt, fluent, fluted, fluter, furane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-l-n-r-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: fraudulently, unformulated. | |
+4 letters: fraudulentness. | |
+5 letters: desulfurization. | |
| 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. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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