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Definition: Potent |
PotentAdjective1. Having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments". 2. Having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons". 3. Having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea". 4. (of a male) able to copulate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "potent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: PotentSynonyms: cogent (adj), powerful (adj), strong (adj), virile (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: impotent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Energy | Potent; (powerful); radioactive. |
Strength | Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Potent |
| English words defined with "potent": Acapulco gold, alpha-tocopheral, angiotensin II, atorvastatin ♦ blowfish, botulin, botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin ♦ Counter potent, crack ♦ DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol ♦ Forcible entry and detainer ♦ globefish ♦ hyoscyamine ♦ Inflential ♦ kokoi venom ♦ liothyronine, Lipitor ♦ Mexican green ♦ naloxone, Narcan ♦ Overpotent ♦ potency, Potentiate, Potentness, Pre-, prostaglandin, puffer ♦ sea squab, stilbestrol, stilboestrol, strong ♦ t, testosterone ♦ Weak. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "potent": Despot ♦ Multipotent ♦ Omnipotent ♦ Plenipotent, Podesta, Possible, Potency, Potentate, Potestative, Prepotent, Puissant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Potent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (potent, virile), German (high-powered, potent, potently, powerful). |
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Screenplays | I'm even more potent now! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) No matter how potent your weapons are, you'll be defeated because Infra-Man is invincible against them! (Jung-Gwok chiu-yan; writing credit: Chakrapani) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A purple striped jellyfish -- Pelagia panopyra - possesses very potent stingers. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
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Lucretius | So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. |
Walt Whitman | The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Convention of November 29, 1906, regarding the unification of pharmacopoeial formulae for potent drugs. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | And here I speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent part. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Researchers have found that beta-amyloid is a potent complement activator. (references) | |
LSD was discovered in 1938 and is one of the most potent mood-changing chemicals. (references) | ||
With the use of more potent varieties of marijuana, even simple tasks can be difficult. (references) | ||
Business | All this adds up to potent opportunities for foreign environmental firms. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | In addition, numerous South African nongovernmental organizations have emerged as a potent force in the public policy debate on the environment. (references) |
South Africa | The Zulus, nonetheless, remained a potent force, defeating the British in the historic battle of Isandhlwana before themselves being finally conquered in 1879. (references) | |
Ireland | Nationalism was and is a potent populist force in Irish politics. (references) | |
Political Economy | Turkey | But, as the party of Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it remains a potent political force in Turkish politics. (references) |
Portugal | As a result, the Portuguese have a strong sense of national identity and regional fragmentation is not a potent political issue here. (references) | |
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Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | But after all, the most animating encouragement and potent appeal for freedom will be its own history--its trials and its triumphs. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | I look hopefully to the continuance of our protective system and to the consequent development of manufacturing and mining enterprises in the States hitherto wholly given to agriculture as a potent influence in the perfect unification of our people. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Removing the burden of expense and jealousy, which must always accrue from a keen rivalry, is one of the most effective methods of diminishing that unreasonable hysteria and misunderstanding which are the most potent means of fomenting war. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The potent new threat from an advancing Soviet Union, against the background of regional instability of which it can take advantage, requires that we reinforce our ability to defend our regional friends and to protect the flow of oil. |
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| "Potent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potent" is used about 770 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) | 100% | 770 | 8,931 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "potent": Counter potent ♦ Cross potent ♦ potent cross. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "potent": pre-potent, still-potent. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "potent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | potent (virile), viril, i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), i efektshëm (effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, streamlined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحل (bull, male, virile), فعال (active, businesslike, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, energetic, forceful, forcible, functional, living, operative, reliable, trenchant, valid, virtuous), مفحم (cogent, confuting, convincing, decisive), قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), قحل (aridness), قدير (capable, competent, mighty, qualified), واسع السلطة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | убедителен (convincing, demonstrative, eloquent, evidential, fair-spoken, forcible, persuasive, seductive, solid, suasive, telling, vigorous, weighty), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), влиятелен (influential, weighty), могъщ (mighty, powerful), ефикасен (active, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, helpful, operative, sovereign), авторитетен (authoritative, magisterial, magistral, weighty), потентен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 霸" (high-handed, overbearing, rule by force, strong), 有力 (Potency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | potentní, přesvìdèivý (absolute, clear-cut, cogent, conclusive, convincing, forceful, persuasive, sound, unanswerable), pádný (cogent, compelling, convincing, damning, hefty, pointed, satisfactory, strong, valid, weighty), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), mocný (forceful, formidable, mighty, potential, powerful, strong, virtuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرزور (Keen, Strong, Vigorous), نیرومند (Frank, Hale, Main, Mighty, Nervy, Prolific, Rugged, Stout, Strong, Valiant, Vigorous), قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Hefty, Intense, Irresistible, Lusty, Mighty, Overtone, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Valid, Vigorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | voimallinen (forceful, mighty, powerful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puissant (powerful), viril, fort, efficace, convaincant, actif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stark (a lot, able, bad, badly, bright, brightly, broad, considerable, forceful, great, greatly, grossly, hard, hearty, heavily, heavy, high-powered, intense, keen, keenly, large, loud, marked, mighty, potently, powerful, profound, profuse, profusely, racily, racy, really well, robust, severe, severely, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, substantial, thick, tough, vehement, very, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ικανόσ (able, able bodied, apt, capable, competent, efficient, fit, shifty, skilful, sufficient), ισχυρόσ (forceful, hefty, influential, mighty, powerful, puissant, strong, sturdy), δραστικόσ (drastic, efficacious), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, possible, powerful, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, vigorous, virile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חזק (cast iron, firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, mighty, powerful, stiff, strong, tough), בעל כח 'ברא (virile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hathatós (drastic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forcible, powerful, smart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kuat (dashing, mighty, powerful, sturdy), ampuh (effective, endowed with magical power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | potente (big, cogent, effective, massive, mighty, powerful), validissimo, forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有力 (influence, prominence), 強い (mighty, powerful, strong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つよい (mighty, powerful, strong), ゆうりょく (courage, influence, prominence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 한 (influential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | niartal (cogent, forcible, powerful, strong, strong bodied), lajer (able-bodied, cogent, forcible, forte, hard, heady, heavy, high-power, high-powered, lusty, powerful, pronounced, rich, sound, stark, stout, strong, vigorous, vigorous as plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otentpay potente (keen, mighty, powerful), poderoso (masterful, mighty, overpowering, powerful, puissant, sovereign), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, pithy, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strenuous, strong, trenchant, two-fisted, vibrant, vigorous, virile), convincente (closing, cogent, conclusive, convincing, demonstrative, forceful, forcible, persuasive, silver, straitlaced, stringent, tenable, two-fisted, valid, weighty). (various references) puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), viguros (bouncing, chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hot stuff, humming, intense, lusty, nervous, pithy, red blooded, robust, rude, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, thriving, tough, vigorous, vigorously), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), convingãtor (cogent, conclusive, convincing, forcible, persuasive, silver-tongued, stringent, strong), ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzily, dizzy, giddy, intoxicating, sensuous, staggering, stunning, vertiginous). (various references) сильный (bad, big, brawny, closely-coupled, exquisite, forceful, forcible, hard, intense, iron, keen, lively, lusty, marrowy, muscular, pithy, powerful, racy, rugged, strenuous, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, two-fisted, upstanding, vehement, vigorous, violent). (various references) potentan, moćan (mighty, potential, powerful). (various references) potente (liable, powerful). (various references) stark (able bodied, able-bodied, emphatic, forcible, hot, intense, keen, loud, lusty, poignant, powerful, sharp, sinewy, strong, substantial, tough, vigorous, violent), kraftig (big, bouncing, crash, forcible, Hale, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, high-powered, intense, lusty, meaty, powerful, rich, robust, robustious, round, sinewy, spanking, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, thick-set, vigorous, violent, virtuous). (various references) potansiyele sahip, nüfuzlu (ascendant, ascendent, dominant, important, influential, of weight, powerful, weighty), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), inandırıcı (cogent, colorable, conclusive, convincing, credible, demonstrative, evidential, evidentiary, likely, persuasive, vivid), iktidarlı, ikna edici (cogent, convincing, persuasive, suasive), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, powerful, sovereign, swinging, telling, trenchant), cinsel gücü yüksek. (various references) сильнодіючий (drastic, energetic, energetical), сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, powerful, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), вагомий (grave, ponderable, valid, weighty), могутний. (various references) có quyền thế, có lực lượng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | potentia, repollens. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "potent": potentate, potentates, potential, potentialities, potentiality, potentially, potentials, potentiate, potentiated, potentiates, potentiating, potentiation, potentiations, potentiator, potentiators, potentilla, potentillas, potentiometer, potentiometers, potentiometric, potently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "potent": idempotent, impotent, nilpotent, omnipotent, overpotent, plenipotent, pluripotent, prepotent, subpotent, totipotent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "potent": equipotential, idempotents, impotently, impotents, multipotential, omnipotently, omnipotents, plenipotentiaries, plenipotentiary, prepotently. (additional references) | |
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"Potent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opent, pitent, pocheen, Polten, Ponente, Ponten, potant, poten, Potenz, potest, Potesti, potheen, potient, potin, potist, Poton, poxen, Pozemni, Proment, protent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "potent" (pronounced pō"tunt) |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, adjutant, assistant, blatant, combatant, competent, concomitant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, exorbitant, expectant, extant, exultant, hesitant, important, impotent, inadvertent, incompetent, inconsistent, inhabitant, insistent, instant, intermittent, irritant, latent, militant, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, omnipotent, patent, penitent, persistent, pollutant, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, 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, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, 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, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, 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, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: netop, petto. | |
-2 letters: nett, nope, note, open, pent, peon, poet, pone, tent, tone, tope, tote. | |
-3 letters: eon, net, not, one, ope, opt, pen, pet, pot, ten, tet, toe, ton, top, tot. | |
-4 letters: en, et, ne, no, oe, on, op, pe, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: portent, potteen. | |
+2 letters: contempt, entrepot, impotent, nepotist, outspent, patentor, petition, portents, postteen, potently, potstone, potteens, topstone, unpotted. | |
+3 letters: competent, contempts, entoproct, entrepots, impotents, leptotene, nepotists, nilpotent, panettone, panettoni, patentors, petitions, pointiest, potentate, potential, pothunter, potstones, pottering, prepotent, protonate, repotting, stenotype, stenotypy, sternpost, subpotent, tiptoeing, topstones, unspotted. | |
+4 letters: antilepton, antipoetic, constipate, countertop, deportment, deputation, entoprocts, idempotent, impotently, interpoint, intertroop, introspect, leptotenes, nepotistic, nonseptate, omnipotent, outpainted, outpatient, outpointed, overpotent, panettones, pentathlon, pentatonic, pentstemon, petitioned, petitioner, pinspotter, poinsettia, portamenti, portamento, portentous, potentates, potentials, potentiate, potentilla, pothunters, precontact, protectant, protecting, protection, protestant, protesting, protonated, protonates, repetition, replotting, reputation, respotting, spottiness, stenotopic, stenotyped, stenotypes, sternposts, temptation, thiopental, topnotcher, totipotent. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- - . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508186718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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