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Definition: Resemblance |
ResemblanceNoun1. Similarity in appearance or external or superficial details. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resemblance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Resemblance \Re*sem"blance\ (-blans), noun. [Compare to the French expression ressemblance. See Resemble.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ResemblanceSynonyms: image, representation, semblance, similarity, similitude. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Copy | Image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait; (representation); resemblance. |
Dissimilarity | Verb: be unlike; Adjective: vary; (differ); bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo. |
Similarity | Verb: be similar; Adjective: look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate; favor, span. |
Parallel; simile; type; (metaphor); image; (representation); photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance. | |
Noun: similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement; analogy, analogicalness; correspondence, homoiousia, parity. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There is a ruggedly handsome resemblance. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You were always accompanied by a handsome young man, about 16, bearing a striking resemblance to Tyler Peterson (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) Don't put yourself down like that! You have a striking resemblance to a eunuch but (Cannonball Run II; writing credit: Harvey Miller; Hal Needham) Yes, I can see the resemblance. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg) Well, that explains the resemblance. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Close Resemblance (1917) Passing Resemblance (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 19th Century lithograph, purporting to represent CSS Florida (1862-1864). This image bears no real resemblance to that ship: Florida had two smokestacks, not one as shown here; a battery that included pivot guns, not an exclusively broadside armament; and a bark rig, not that of a ship; among other differences from the vessel seen in this print. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Germaine De Stael | Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. |
Ronald Reagan | Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Let us therefore consider a master of a family with all these subordinate relations of wife, children, servants, and slaves, united under the domestic rule of a family; which, what resemblance soever it may have in its order, offices, and number too, with a little common-wealth, yet is very far from it, both in its constitution, power and end: or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, absolute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain, by what has been said before, that the master of the family has a very distinct and differently limited power, both as to time and extent, over those several persons that are in it; for excepting the slave (and the family is as much a family, and his power as paterfamilias as great, whether there be any slaves in his family or no) he has no legislative power of life and death over any of them, and none too but what a mistress of a family may have as well as he. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It appears to me a most perfect resemblance in every feature |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Further resemblance of Paris with the sea. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The name Ascaris lumbricoides reflects the resemblance of this intestinal roundworm to the common earthworm known as Lumbricus. (references) | |
The detection of cell death genes in higher organisms, based on their resemblance to genes in worms, has been key to understanding cell death in mammals. (references) | ||
Economic History | France | Therefore, marketing products and services in France can bear some resemblance to marketing them in the United States. (references) |
St. Kitts and Nevis | Columbus also discovered Nevis on his second voyage, reportedly calling it Nevis because of its resemblance to a snowcapped mountain (in Spanish, nuestra senora de las nieves or our lady of the snows). (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Ynigo Ortis de Retez, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. |
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| "Resemblance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Resemblance" is used about 701 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) | 99.86% | 700 | 9,536 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 701 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "resemblance". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Dumali | N/A | Biblical | Resemblance |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "resemblance": be resemblance to ♦ bear a resemblance to ♦ bear a strong resemblance to ♦ bear no resemblance to ♦ bear resemblance ♦ bear resemblance to ♦ bear some resemblance to ♦ close resemblance ♦ distant resemblance ♦ faithful resemblance ♦ family resemblance ♦ have resemblance to ♦ mutual resemblance ♦ remote resemblance ♦ speaking resemblance ♦ striking resemblance. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
resemblance | 19 |
striking resemblance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "resemblance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngjasim (likeness, saneness, semblance, similarity, similitude), ngjashmëri (analogy, correspondence, identity, image, kinship, likeness, parallel, parallelism, propinquity, sameness, similarity, similitude), gjasim (affinity, identity, likeness, sameness, similarity). (various references) | |
Arabic | تشابه (bear, correspondence, like, likeness, look alike, parity, propinquity, resemble, similarity), صورة (configuration, effigy, feature, form, gestalt, idol, image, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, print, representation, reproduction, shot, tableau, take), شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, feature, imagine, like, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сходство (affinity, agreement, analogy, comparison, congeniality, congruence, convergence, likeness, sameness, similarity), прилика (affinity, conformity, kindred, kinship, likeness, parallelism, parity, propinquity, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Chinese | 相似 (like, similar, similarity, to resemble). (various references) | |
Czech | podobnost (analogy, image, similarity, similitude), podoba (form, guise, image, likeness, semblance, shape). (various references) | |
Danish | lighed (similarity). (various references) | |
Dutch | overeenkomst (accord, accordance, agreement, analogy, concurrence, similarity). (various references) | |
Esperanto | simileco (similarity). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقایسه (Analogy, Collation, Comparison), همانندی (Analogy, Likelihoood, Likeness), همشکلی , تشابه (Correspondence, Similarity, Simile, Symmetry), شباهت (Analog, Analogue, Analogy, Equality, Likeness, Propinquity, Proportion, Semblance). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhtäläisyys (similarity), samanlaisuus (similarity). (various references) | |
French | ressemblance. (various references) | |
German | ähnlichkeit (affinity, closeness, conformity, likeness, parallelism, similarity, similitude), Ähnlichkeit (similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Greek | ομοιότησ (likeness, semblance, similarity, similitude), ομοιότητα (closeness, likeness, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ת"מות (assimilation), "שתוות (equalization, similarity), "שוא" (analogy, comparison, contrast, equalization), "מיון (correspondence, fancy, fantasy, imagination, like, likeness, semblance, similarity), "מוי (comparison, imagery, like, likeness, simile, similitude, simulation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasonlatosság (analogy, uniformity), hasonlóság (analogy, conformity, likeness, parallelism, semblance, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Icelandic | líking (similarity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kemiripan (similarity). (various references) | |
Italian | rassomiglianza (likeness), somiglianza (analogy, likeness, similarity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酷似 (resemble), 相似点 (point of likeness, similarity), 相似 (analogy, similarity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうじて" (point of likeness, similarity), そうじ (analogy, Buddhist priest, cleaning, farewell address, similarity, sweeping, temple with a resident priest), "くじ (bulletin, carved characters, carving characters, farewell address, kana, kanji made in Japan, national affairs, native script, notice, resemble, the seal of state). (various references) | |
Korean | 사. (various references) | |
Manx | tuarystal (appearance, likeness, model, picture, portrayal, shape, similitude, simulacrum), caslid (uniformity). (various references) | |
Norwegian | likhet (equality, likeness, similarity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esemblanceray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | similaridade (comparison, kinship, propinquity, similarity), semelhança (affinity, community, likeness, parity, portrait, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Romanian | similitudine (propinquity, semblance, similarity, similitude), portret (icon, likeness, picture, portrait, portraiture), egalitate (conformity, draw, equality, identity, par, parity, regularity, sameness, similarity, tie, uniformity), conformitate (agreeableness, agreement, compliance, concordance, conformability, conformity, correspondence, propriety), asemãnare (approach, comparison, congeniality, image, kindred, likeness, parallel, parallelism, propinquity, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude), afinitate (affinity, analogy, congeniality, similarity), aer (air, appearance, aroma, aspect, atmosphere, breath, carriage). (various references) | |
Russian | сходство (affinities, affinity, alikeness, analogy, congeniality, kinship, sameness, semblance, similarities, similarity, similitude, simulitude). (various references) | |
Scottish | samhladh (likeness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sličnost (kinship, likeness, semblance, similarity, similitude, uniformity). (various references) | |
Spanish | parecido (akin, alike, equal, lifelike, like, likeness, similar, similarity, such). (various references) | |
Swedish | likhet (affinity, conformity, equality, identity, kindred, kinship, likeness, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Thai | ความคล้ายคลึง. (various references) | |
Turkish | benzerlik (affinity, analogy, approach, community, comparison, conformity, congeniality, identity, kinship, likeness, mimicry, parallel, parallelism, parity, propinquity, sameness, similar, similarity, similitude). (various references) | |
Turkmen | meсzeю (resemblance 1, similar), meсzeзlik (likeness, resemblance 2, similarity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схожість (affinity, analogy, appetency, comparison, likeness, propinquity, sameness, similarity, similitude), зображення (depiction, description, effigy, icon, ikon, image, impersonation, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefiguration, presentment, reflex, representation, simulacrum, video), подібність (analogy, comparison, kinship, likeness, similarity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự giống nhau (propinquity, similarity). (various references) | |
Welsh | tebygrwydd (affinity, likeness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | instar, similitudine, similitudinem, similitudines, similitudini, similitudinis, similitudo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Zechariah Chapter 5, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipa ti estin kai eipen touto to metron to ekporeuomenon kai eipen auth h adikia autwn en pash th gh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dixi quidnam est et ait haec est amphora egrediens et dixit haec est oculus eorum in universa terra |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y saide, What is it? And he saith, This is an amfer, or a vessel that sum men clepen a tankard, goynge out. And he saide, This is the eeye of hem in eche lond. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land. |
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| Language | Zechariah Chapter 5, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ug ako miingon: Unsa ba kini? Ug siya miingon: Kini mao ang usa ka epha nga nagapanaw. Labut pa siya miingon: Kini mao ang ilang dagway sa tibook nga yuta. |
| Chinese | 我 說 、 這 是 " 麼 呢 ． 他 說 、 這 出 來 的 是 量 器 。 他 又 說 、 這 是 惡 人 在 遍 地 的 形 狀 ． |
| Croatian | Ja ga upitah: " to je to?" On reèe: "To se pojavljuje efa." I nastavi: "To je opæa pokvarenost na zemlji." |
| Danish | Jeg spurgte: "Hvad er det?" Og han svarede: "Det er Efaen, som kommer." Og han vedblev: "Det er deres Brøde i hele Landet." |
| Dutch | En ik zeide: Wat is dat? En Hij zeide: Dit is een efa, die voortkomt. Verder zeide Hij: Dit is het oog over henlieden in het ganse land. |
| Finnish | Minä sanoin: "Mikä se sitten on?" Ja hän vastasi: "Tämä on eefa-mitta, joka lähtee liikkeelle". Ja hän sanoi: "Tämän näköisiä ne ovat koko maan päällä"; |
| French | Je répondis: Qu`est-ce? Et il dit: C`est l`épha qui sort. Il ajouta: C`est leur iniquité dans tout le pays. |
| German | Und ich sprach: Was ist's? Er aber sprach: Ein Epha geht heraus, und sprach: Das ist ihre Gestalt im ganzen Lande. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen mande l': -Kisa l' ye? Li reponn mwen: -Se yon panyen. Se peche moun yo ap fè nan tout peyi a ki ladan l'. |
| Hungarian | És mondám: Micsoda ez? Õ pedig mondá: Az, a mi kijön, mérõedény. És mondá: Ilyen a formájok az egész földön. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Apa itu?" tanyaku. Jawabnya, "Sebuah keranjang. Itulah lambang dosa dari seluruh negeri ini." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kataku: Apakah ini? Maka sahutnya: Barang yang keluar sekarang, ia itu sebuah efa, dan lagi katanya: Inilah perbuatan mereka yang jahat dalam segenap negeri itu. |
| Italian | E io: «Che cosa è quella?». Mi rispose: «E' un'efa che avanza». Poi soggiunse: «Questa è la loro corruzione in tutta la terra». |
| Maori | Ano ra ko ahau, He aha koia? A ka ki mai ia, Ko te epa tenei e puta nei. I ki mai ano ia, Ko to ratou ahua tenei i te whenua katoa: |
| Norwegian | Jeg spurte: Hvad er det? Han svarte: Det er en efa som kommer frem der. Og han sa: Således skal det se ut med dem* i hele landet. # <* folket.> |
| Portuguese | Eu perguntei: Que é isto? Respondeu ele: Isto é uma efa que sai. E disse mais: Esta é a iniqüidade em toda a terra. |
| Rumanian | Eu am rqspuns: ,,Ce este aceasta?`` Wi el a zis: ,,Iese efa.`` Wi a adqugat: ,,Aceasta este nelegiuirea lor kn toatq yara.`` |
| Russian | лПЗ"Б ЦЕ С УЛБЪБМ: ЮФП ЬФП? пО ПФЧЕЮБМ: ЬФП ЧЩИП"ЙФ ЕЖБ, Й УЛБЪБМ: ЬФП П'ТБЪ ЙИ П ЧУЕК ЪЕНМЕ. |
| Spanish | Pregunté: --¿Qué es eso? Y él dijo: --Lo que aparece es una caja de efa. --Dijo además--: Ésta es la iniquidad de ellos en toda la tierra. |
| Swedish | Och jag fragade: "Vad är det?" Han svarade: "Det är en sädesskäppa som kommer fram." Ytterligare sade han: "Så är det beställt med dem i hela landet." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resemblance": resemblances. (additional references) | |
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"Resemblance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rememblance, resemblence, ressemblance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resemblance" (pronounced ruze"mbluns or rēze"mbluns) |
| 7 | -e" m b l u n s | semblance. |
| 4 | -l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, balance, benevolence, condolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, imbalance, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, parlance, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, silence, surveillance, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
| 7 | -e" m b l u n s | semblance. |
| 4 | -l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, balance, benevolence, condolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, imbalance, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, parlance, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, silence, surveillance, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-l-m-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: screenable. | |
-2 letters: cameleers, enamelers, semblance. | |
-3 letters: bescreen, cameleer, clambers, cleaners, cleanser, embraces, enablers, enameler, ensemble, menacers, reclames, recleans, resemble, scramble. | |
-4 letters: absence, almners, ambeers, amblers, amerces, baleens, basemen, becalms, bemeans, benames, berseem, besmear, blamers, cambers, careens, caserne, cereals, clamber, cleaner, cleanse, crambes, crenels, embrace, enabler, enables, enamels, enlaces, lambers, lancers, leaners, marbles, marcels, meaners. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-l-m-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: resemblances. | |
+5 letters: comparablenesses. | |
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