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Definitions: Salient |
SalientAdjective1. Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child". 2. (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees. 3. (heraldry) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward). Noun1. (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "salient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Salient \Sa"li*ent\, adjective. [Latin expression saliens, -entis, present participle of salire to leap; compare to French saillant. See Sally, noun v. i..]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military | Longer section of line that protrudes to the front, often held by a specific unit. (references) |
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Synonyms: SalientSynonyms: outstanding (adj), prominent (adj), salient(ip) (adj), spectacular (adj), striking (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: re-entrant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Right angle; (perpendicular) a; obliquity; angle of x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle. |
Convexity | Salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated; (expanded). |
Importance | Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. |
Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful. | |
Manifestation | Adjective: manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced. |
Sharpness | Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Salient |
| English words defined with "salient": anxiety disorder, Arris ♦ battle of Ypres ♦ Face of a bastion, Flanks of a frontier, Fleche ♦ Guerite ♦ Indented line ♦ melodrama ♦ Ravelin, Redan ♦ Saliant, salience, saliency, salient angle, Salient polygon, Salient polyhedron, Saliently, second battle of Ypres, strikingness ♦ Triquetrous ♦ Ypres. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "salient": Beasts ♦ phonic motor ♦ salient features of a project, salient pole, salient pole alternator, salient pole generator, salient pole synchronous induction motor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "salient": salacious, salience. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | With Czecho-Slovakia: The frontier of August 3, 1914, between Germany and Austria from its junction with the old administrative boundary separating Bohemia and the province of Upper Austria to the point north of the salient of the old province of Austrian Silesia situated at about 8 kilometres east of Neustadt. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Issues pertaining to adherence, cost of treatment, independence, and prepregnancy management become salient during adolescence and young adulthood. (references) | |
Larger studies are needed to separate the genetic from the environmental contribution and to identify the most salient milieu influences (life events, family functioning, etc.). (references) | ||
Economic History | New Zealand | The most salient examples are the financial and telecommunications sectors; however, the effort has been broad-based. (references) |
Political Economy | Taiwan | One of the DPP's most salient policy differences with the KMT has been the issue of Taiwan independence. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Salient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.21% of the time. "Salient" is used about 235 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) | 90.21% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.79% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 235 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Salient 3 Communications, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "salient": salient angle ♦ salient features of a project ♦ salient points ♦ salient pole ♦ salient pole alternator ♦ salient pole generator ♦ salient pole synchronous induction motor ♦ salient polygon ♦ salient polyhedron. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "salient": Counter-salient, non-salient. | |
| 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 |
salient | 24 |
salient sampo | 4 |
salient system | 3 |
salient ypres | 3 |
network salient | 3 |
design salient | 3 |
partner salient | 2 |
corporation salient | 2 |
designs.com salient | 2 |
define salient | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "salient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i spikatur (bold, clean-cut, clear-cut, conspicuous, pointed, prominent, protruding, protrusive), i kërcyer (galloping, protruding, protrusive, protuberant), i dukshëm (apparent, appreciable, conspicuous, discernible, distinct, evidence, evident, in evidence, manifest, marked, memorable, mere, naked, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, outward, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, pointed, prominent, rank, self-explanatory, sensible, sheer, simple, speaking, substantial, telling, thorough-paced, transparent, unconcealed, unqualified, visible), i dalë (knobby, outstanding, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant), dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, shoot, vent). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملحوظ (marked, noteworthy, remarkable), نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, knob, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), ناتئ (beetle, bunchy, cantilever, eminent, outstanding, projecting, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant), قافز, زاوية بارزة (peak), بارز (beetle, conspicuous, distinct, distinguished, duel, eminent, featured, fence, great, in the first flight, lofty, memorable, monumental, noble, notable, noticeable, outstanding, pointed, profile, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protruding, protuberant, remarkable, signal, striking, uncommon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скачащ (saltatory), клин (chock, cleat, cotter bolt, gusset, key, lock, loco, nib, panel, peg, quoin, wedge), очебиен (conspicuous, flagrant, gross, outstanding, pronounced, remarkable, transparent), забележителен (eminent, extraordinary, incredible, memorable, notable, noteworthy, proud, remarkable, signal, some, thumping, unco, unique, unusual, wonderful), бликащ (exuberant, gushing, streaming), изпъкващ, изпъкнал ъгъл, изпъкнал (bossy, bulging, bunchy, convex, eminent, goggle, outstanding, projecting, projective, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, swelling), издатина (burr, horn, hump, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, set off, shelf, swell, tuber), издаден (bold, outstanding, pendent, prognathous, projecting, projective, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, swelling, swollen). (various references) | |
Chinese | 明显 (Apparent, manifest, marked, markedly, Obvious, open-and-shut, self-explanatory). (various references) | |
Czech | vypuklý, charakteristický (characteristic, typical). (various references) | |
Dutch | knik (break, buckle, buckling, crease, defect, fraction, kink, knuckle, salient point). (various references) | |
French | saillie (salience, Sally), saillant, angle saillant. (various references) | |
German | hervorstehend (overhanging, projected, protruding, protuberant), hervorstechend (outstanding, striking). (various references) | |
Greek | προέχων, προεξέχων (prominent, protruding, protrusive), προεξοχή (boss, bulge, catch, extrusion, hob, indention, jag, jute, knob, projection, prominence, prominency, protrusion, ramus, salience, saliency, stop, wiper), εκπηδών, εξέχων τομέασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוב"ק (bold, distinct, pronounced, rank, signal), מבלט (projection, protuberance), שלוח" (branch, branch line, extension, line extension), בולט (noticeable, outstanding, prominent, protruding, protrusive, signal, staring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiugró (beetling, eminence, jutty, nose, out of alignment, projecting, protrusive, protuberant, salience), kiugrás (corner, drop, jet, jut, projection, protrusion, salience, snag, toe). (various references) | |
Italian | saliente (important, main). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 主要諸元 (salient points). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅようしょ'" (salient points). (various references) | |
Korean | 돌출하". (various references) | |
Manx | rhue, gobbagh (beaked, lipped, lipped as jug, nibbed; hawfinch, prominent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alientsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saliente (beetle, beetling, goggle, outstanding balance, promiscuity, protruding, protuberant, tumid). (various references) | |
Romanian | tipic (exemplary, ordinary, paradigmatically, representative, typical, typically), remarcabil (considerable, conspicuous, distinguished, eminent, notable, notably, noteworthy, observable, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, remarkably, uncommon, unusual), propriu (adequate, appropriate, fitting, inherent, intrinsic, own, peculiar, personal, proper, resident, suitable), proeminent (beetle, clean-cut, exceptional, pre eminent, prominent, protuberant, remarkable), izbitor (arresting, conspicuous, effective, singular, staring, striking), frapant (conspicuousness, striking, surprising). (various references) | |
Russian | рельефный (raised, repousse, sculptured), выступающий (obtrusive, outstanding, prominent, protrusive, superincumbent), выступ (bench, brow, bulge, claw, cog, eminence, flange, horn, jut, knob, ledge, lug, nib, offset, overhang, perch, prominency, promontory, protrusion, salience, shelf, stud, tongue, torus, tuber), выдающийся (brilliant, distinguished, drop-dead, egregious, eminent, foremost, high-profile, man of distinction, man of mark, man of note, notable, noted, outstanding, pre-eminencent, pre-eminent, prognathous, prominent, protruding, remarkable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klin (chock, cleat, cotter, gore, peg, sprocket, stud, tenon, toggle, wedge), istaknuti deo, istaknut (featured, great, outstanding, posted, preeminent, prominent, well-marked), glavni (arch, basic, capital, cardinal, chief, general, head, key, leading, magistral, main, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, trunk). (various references) | |
Spanish | saliente (cleat, excrescent, jut, kern, ledge, outgoing, projecting, projection, prominent, protruding, protrusion, protrusive, proud, retiring, Scarcement, setoff, shelf, tenon, tongue, tread bar, tyre tread). (various references) | |
Swedish | utskjutande (jutting, outstanding, projecting), framträdande (appearance, appearing, emergence, emersion, exposure, looms, outstanding, prominent, recital, to the fore). (various references) | |
Turkish | sıçrayan (bouncing, jumping, saltatory, splashy, vaulter), istihkâm dış açısı, göze çarpan (arresting, bold, broad, conspicuous, crying, demonstrative, noticeable, ostensible, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, sharp, signal, staring, visible), fışkıran (gushing, gushy), dikkat çekici (arresting, conspicuous, egregious, eye-catching, marked, remarkable, signal, spectacular, striking, well-marked), dış (ecto-, exo-, exterior, external, extrinsic, foreign, offshore, out, outer, outside, outward, superficial, without), belirgin (blazing, clear, clear-cut, distinct, distinctive, evident, explicit, manifest, marked, prominent, pronounced, sharp cut, thick, upfront), atlayan (vaulter), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, intense, showy, striking, stunning), çıkıntılı (denticulated, obtrusive, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, ribbed). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ilginз (bold, dazzling). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рель"ф (lay, relief), що стриба" (jumpy, vaulting), виступ (address, appearance, corbel, gibbosity, jut, ledge, nib, offset, overhang, projection, promontory, protrusion, salience, shoulder, snag, spine, teat, ward), випуклий (bulbous), помітний (appreciable, apprehensible, conspicuous, distinguishable, in evidence, marked, notable, noticeable, observable, perceivable, prominent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l"i ra nổi bật, hay nhảy phun ra, góc nhô ra, dễ thấy (conspicuous, conspicuously, distinct). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "salient": saliently, salients. (additional references) | |
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"Salient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alient, saalian, Sabinet, Sailana, sailen, sailient, Saladene, saleen, saleing, salent, salien, saliens, saliento, salients, Saliheen, saliner, salint, sallent, Sallinen, Salupeto, salvent, Salween, satient, scalien, selient, slaient, slient, soilent, Solamente, Solimena, solyent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "salient" (pronounced sā"lēunt or sā"lyunt) |
| 5 | -l ē u n t | defoliant. |
| 4 | -ē u n t | affiant, ambient, deviant, disobedient, expedient, incipient, ingredient, invariant, lenient, luxuriant, miscreant, nutrient, obedient, percipient, prescient, prurient, radiant, recipient, subservient, variant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, 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, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, 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, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, 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, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, 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, repellent, 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, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, 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, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
| 5 | -l y u n t | brilliant, ebullient, resilient, valiant. |
| 4 | -y u n t | convenient, inconvenient, poignant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, 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, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, 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, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, 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, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, 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, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, 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, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, 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, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, 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, surfactant, 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, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elastin, entails, nailset, saltine, slainte, tenails. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aliens, alines, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, instal, latens, lianes, listen, saline, saltie, silane, silent, stelai, tenail, tenias, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane. | |
-2 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alist, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas, inlet, inset, islet, istle, lanes, laten, leans, leant, least, lenis, liane, liens, lines, lints, litas, nails, nates, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, senti, setal, slain, slant, slate, snail, stain, stale, stane, steal, stein, stela, stile, taels, tails, tains, tales, teals, telia, tenia, tesla, tiles, tinea, tines. | |
-3 letters: ails, ains, aits, ales, alit, alts, anes, anil, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, elan, etas, etna, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lean, leas, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, lien, lies, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, nail, neat, nest, nets, nils, nite, nits, sail, sain, sale, salt, sane, sate, sati, seal, seat, sent, seta, sial, silt, sine, site, slat, slit, snit, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tans, teal, teas, tela, tels, tens, ties, tile, tils, tine, tins. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, els, ens, eta, ins, its, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lin, lis, lit, nae, net, nil, nit, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, tel, ten, tie, til, tin, tis. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, an, as, at, el, en, es, et, in, is, it, la, li, na, ne, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ailments, alienist, aliments, alunites, elastins, elations, entrails, gelatins, genitals, inflates, insolate, instable, insulate, lankiest, latrines, litanies, manliest, melanist, nailsets, panelist, pantiles, plainest, ratlines, retinals, salients, saltines, smaltine, stealing, toenails, trenails, ventails. | |
+2 letters: alginates, alienates, alienists, allanites, analcites, analities, anelastic, anglesite, anilities, antipoles, antisleep, athelings, auntliest, aventails, bailments, bivalents, canticles, cisternal, clarinets, coastline, datelines, delations, desalting, disentail, dismantle, elaterins, enamelist, entailers, essential, filaments, flatlines, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, gnarliest, hailstone, inelastic, inflaters, insolated, insolates, installed, installer, insulated, insulates, integrals, interlaps, interlays, internals, intervals, jangliest, laitances, laminates, landsleit, larcenist, latencies, latinizes, legations, libelants, ligaments, melanists, melanites, mentalism, mentalist, mislearnt, nearliest, orientals, palatines, panelists, penalties, pieplants, quantiles, reinstall, relations, reslating, retinulas, saintlier, saintlike, saliently, saltiness, sapiently, sciential, sectional, semitonal, serotinal, slangiest, slantwise, smaltines, snarliest, stainable, stainless, stealings, sterilant, sylvanite, tailbones, taintless, talkiness, tangibles, tangliest, tantalise, tapelines, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, tenailles, tensional, terminals, tidelands, tinplates, tramlines, traplines, treenails, triangles, triplanes, waistline. | |
+3 letters: actionless, alienators, alignments, alinements, allethrins, almandites, aluminates, analeptics, analgetics, andalusite, anglesites, anthelices, anthelions, anthelixes, anticlines, antielites, antilogies, antinovels, antisexual, assoilment, bairnliest, banalities, blatancies, cantilenas, centesimal, centralise, centralism, centralist, chatelains, chelations, cleanliest, clientages, coastlines, cobaltines, culminates, dealations, deflations, defoliants, delineates, dentaliums, desalinate, desolating, desolation, disentails, disenthral, dismantled, dismantles, displanted, earthlings, eglantines, elevations, eliminates, emulations, enamelists, enthalpies, epilations, escalating, escalation, essentials, evangelist, faultiness, fellations, finalities, flatliners, flauntiest, fulminates, galantines, gelatinous, generalist, glutamines, granulites, hailstones, hesitantly, implanters, inculcates, inculpates, inoculates, inosculate, insatiable, installers, instalment, insufflate, interclass, interlaces, interlards, interplays, intervales, intestinal, investable, italianise, kaolinites, lacustrine, lanosities, larcenists, latinities, lemniscate, leviathans, libellants, lineaments, lineations, linecaster, linoleates, listenable, manifestly, melanistic, melatonins, mentalisms, mentalists, mesnalties, metalising, militances, misplanted, mistakenly, nasalities, natalities, natrolites, naturalise, nautiluses, neoplastic, neorealist, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, nodalities, nonelastic, obeisantly, paltriness, penalities, penultimas, plaintexts, planetoids, plastering, plasticene, plasticine, platinizes, pleonastic, pliantness, pollinates, potentials, rationales, reflations, reimplants, reinflates, reinstalls, reptilians, resaluting, retailings, saintliest, salinities, sectionals, semantical, senatorial, sensualist, sensuality, sentential, septennial, sequential, signalment, slathering, spangliest, starveling, sterilants, strandline, streamline, sylvanites, tailenders, tailplanes, tantalised, tantalises, tantalites, tantalizes, tasselling, teaselling, technicals, thylacines, tonalities, triennials, univalents, unmanliest, unsteadily, unsuitable, valentines, venalities, ventilates, vigilantes, waistlines, waterlines, womanliest. | |
+4 letters: abolishment, abstinently, accidentals, acetanilids, actinolites, ailanthuses, alabastrine, alienations, alightments, allantoides, allegations, alterations, andalusites, animalities, annihilates, anthologies, antielitism, antielitist, antileprosy, antileptons, antimissile, antiplagues, antirealism, antirealist, antislavery, arrestingly, assoilments, atonalities, beastliness, bisectional, calisthenic, calumniates, candlestick, cantilevers, cantillates, captionless, carnalities, carnallites, cartelising, centennials, centralised, centralises, centralisms, centralists, centralizes, chatelaines, chlorinates, citronellas, clandestine, clarinetist, colemanites, conciliates, consolidate, credentials, crystalline, curtainless, delaminates, delegations, delineators, depilations, derailments, desalinated, desalinates, desalinator, desolations, detasseling, devotionals, dilatancies, dilettantes, disablement, disentailed, disentangle, disenthrall, disenthrals, disrelation, earthliness, eliminators, elongations, eluviations, entailments, equivalents, escalations, essentially, eternalizes, ethicalness, etiolations, evaluations, evangelists, everlasting, exaltations, exhalations, existential, extensional, externalise, externalism, exultancies, exultations, festinately, filamentous, fluorinates, gadolinites, gallantries, gelatinizes, genealogist, generalists, genialities, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, habiliments, healthiness, heavenliest, heulandites, hinterlands, illuminates, impalements, inabilities, incalescent, incessantly, incidentals, inessential, inestimable, inestimably, infibulates, infiltrates, inflatables, initializes, initialness, injectables, inosculated, inosculates, insatiately, inscrutable, insensately, insertional, installment, instalments, insufflated, insufflates, intangibles, intensional, intercensal, intercostal, interisland, interlayers, interleaves, internalise, interplants, interpleads, intersexual, invalidates, invigilates, italianates, italianised, italianises, italianizes, kinetoplast, lacerations, laminitises, langoustine, lanthanides, lastingness, laureations, lecithinase, legislating, legislation, lemniscates, levigations, levitations, liberations, licentiates, lieutenants, ligamentous, lightplanes, linealities, linearities, linecasters, linecasting, literalness, literations, lithophanes, malignities, manipulates, martingales, maternalism, mediastinal, mentalistic, mentalities, metanalysis, militancies, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, molestation, nationalise, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, neorealists, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralizes, normalities, novaculites, nucleations, obnubilates, obstinately, orientalism, orientalist, oversalting, painfullest, palatinates, palletising, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, peculations, pedestaling, pentaploids, personalist, personality, petulancies, plaistering, planarities, planimeters, plasterings, plasticenes, plasticines, pleinairist, potentillas, pratincoles, rationalise, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, reinstalled, relaxations, relegations, relocations, residential, revelations, saintliness, salinometer, saltinesses, scintillate, seasonality, sectionally, seminatural, semitonally, sempiternal, sensational, sensualists, sentimental, shinplaster, signalments, sillimanite, speculating, speculation, splattering, stainlesses, stainlessly, stalemating, starvelings, stateliness, steelmaking, stenohaline, stickhandle, strandlines, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, subinterval, subterminal, surveillant, sustainable, sustainedly, talkinesses, tantalizers, tarnishable, telecasting, tenaciously, testimonial, theologians, thiopentals, timberlands, tolerations, tourmalines, trailerings, trampolines, tranquilest, transalpine, transiently, translative, trigeminals, typicalness, ulcerations, unclarities, unessential, ungainliest, uninsulated, unrealistic, unrealities, valiantness, ventilators, vinblastine, voluntaries, vulcanisate, wealthiness, windlestraw. | |
| 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)53 61 6C 69 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)01010011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a l i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006C 0069 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)53677875718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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