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Definition: Tournament |
TournamentNoun1. A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner. 2. A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tournament" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Tournament \Tour"na*ment\, noun. [from Old English expression turnement, tornement, Old French torneiement, tornoiement, French tournoiement turning or wheeling round. See Tourney.]. (references) |
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Math | An order defined for all pairs of items of a set. For instance, (less than or equal to) is a total order on integers, that is, for any two integers, one of them is less than or equal to the other. (references) |
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A poker tournament is an event at which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.A typical tournament will have an entry fee, with which competitors are given a certain amount of (for lack of a better term) play money in the form of casino chips to play with. Players are required to play every hand. Players play until their supply of chips is exhausted, and the re-buy options, if any, have been exhausted. The last player standing wins.
There are two types of tournaments: open and closed.
Entry fees
The typical tournament will have an entry fee, from which the winners' prizes will be derived. This is not required per se. Closed tournaments are more likely than open tournaments not to have an entry fee, but this is an extremely rare occurrence.
In exchange for the entry fee, the player is given a specific value of ''play money''. For example, an entry fee of $35 will provide a player with $500 in play money. The amount of play money given is typically a significant multiple of the entry fee (in this case, 14:1.) An alternative method is the use of a chip-buy fee in addition to the entry fee. This scenario would be used if the organizers intend for the entry fee portion to cover expenses relating to the event and the chip-buy fee for the prizes.
Some tournaments offer the option of a re-buy. A re-buy allows a player who is low on chips early on in the tournament the option for, at a given price, a boost to his supply of chips or to re-enter the tournament with a fresh supply of chips. There are two types of re-buys: conditional and unconditional. For example, if in the first three rounds of the tournament a player is below his $500 play money, for $15 the player may get increased by another $500 in play money. This is conditional. Between the third and fourth ounds, any player may, for $20, purchase $1,000 in play money. This is unconditional.
This is not always true. In the marquis $10,000 event at the World Series of Poker, a player receives exactly $10,000 in play chips. These are not negotiable; a player in the gutter could not swap his play chips for real money.
Depending on the tournament, the re-buy money will go to either the organizers as a way to defray costs or to the prize pool.
Open tournament
An open tournament is, quite simply, any tournament which is open to any player capable of legally playing and putting up the entry fee. The World Series of Poker is such an example; if you can pony up the $10,000 entry fee, you're in the game.
Closed/Invitational Tournament
A closed or invitational tournament is any tournament to which one must be specifically invited to participate. If, let's say, as a spectacle, Binion's Horseshoe invited all previous winners of the WSOP to play a tournament, this would be a closed tournament since there is a restriction on who may enter.
Format
Depending on the game involved, there may be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured betting.
Structured betting involves fixed denomination wagers and raises. For example, many Texas Hold 'em tourneys use a structured raise componant. For example, in a 50-100 round, after the blinds are played, in the forst two rounds of wagering. one may only bet or raise 50, so the first bet is 50, a raise makes it 100, etc. In the final two rounds of betting, the bet or raise amount would be 100.
Semi-structured betting provides a range of potential wagers for the players. Seven-card stud will typically be of this format. At a 50-100 round, each round's minimum wager is 50, though a player may wager any permitted increment to 100. Raises are required to be equal to or exceed the current raise; thus, a player raising a current wager of 75 may not raise it by 50, but may only raise by 75 or 100.
Unstructured games are typified by No Limit Texas Hold 'em. Though there is a regularity to the blinds, there are essentially no restrictions to the wager size. The two most common words in No Limit are all in, meaning that the player is risking the lesser of his stake or any player who calls his bet on the turn of the cards. (If one player has 15,000 and calls "All In", and a player with 5,000 calls, only 5,000 of the first player's chips are at stake.)
Prizes
Depending on the tournament, most to all the money entered in the form of entry fees, chip-buy fees, or re-buys are placed in a prize pool. This pool will pay out to the top players in the event, as determined by fall-out order, and may vary due to the size of the tournament.
For example, the top ten players are given prizes ranging from 2% to 30% of the prize pool. This means that the ninth-to-last player to lose all his chips will be in 10th place and receive 2% of the pool, the eighth-to-last player will receive (in this case) 3%, etc., until the final player to drop receives 20% and the final survivor of the match receives 30%.
Types of poker
Almost every tournament relies on a form of stud poker or community card poker, with the most common versions consisting seven-card stud, Omaha Hold 'em and Texas Hold 'em.
Places to play
Many casinos with poker rooms offer tournaments. In addition, there may be non-casino venues that offer such games, though with less scrutiny to the games it may be a corrupt game. Online, there are also poker websites that offer tournaments.
Major Tournaments
In the US, the two most significant tournaments are The US Poker Championships, held at the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City every December, and the granddaddy of them all, The World Series of Poker held at Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas.
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Tournament, or Tourney (Fr. tournement, tournoi, Med. Lat. torneamentum, from tourner, to turn), the name popularly given in the middle ages to a species of mock fight, so called owing to the rapid turning of the horses (Skeat). Of the several medieval definitions of the tournament given by Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v. "Tourneamentum "), the best is that of Roger of Hoveden, who described tournaments as "military exercises carried out, not in the spirit of hostility (nullo -interveniente odio), but solely for practice and the display of prowess (pro solo exercitio, atque ostentatione virium)." Men who carry weapons have in all ages played at the game of war in time of peace. But the tournament, properly so called, does not appear in Europe before the 11th century, in spite of those elaborate fictions of Ruexner's Thurnierbuch which detail the tournament laws of Henry the Fowler. More than one chronicler records the violent death, in 1066, of a French baron named Geoffroi de Preulli, who, according to the testimony of his contemporaries, "invented tournaments." In England, at least, the tournament was counted a French fashion, I'i'Iatthew Paris calling it conflict us gallicus.By the 12th century the tournament had grown so popular in England that King Henry II found it necessary to forbid the sport which gathered in one place so many barons and knights in arms. In that age we have the famous description by William FitzStephen of the martial games of the Londoners in Smithfield. He tells how on Sundays in Lent a noble train of young men would take the field well mounted, rushing out of the city with spear and shield to ape the feats of war. Divided into parties, one body would retreat, while another pursued striving to unhorse them. The younger lads, he says, bore javelins disarmed of their steel, by which we may know that the weapon of the elders was the headed lance. William of Newbury tells us how the young knights, balked of their favourite sport by the royal mandate, would pass over sea to win glory in foreign lists Richard I relaxed his father's order, granting licences for tournaments, and Jocelin of Brakelond has a long story of the great company of cavaliers who held a tournament between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds in defiance of the abbot. From that time onward unlicensed tourneying was treated as an offence against the Crown, which exacted heavy fees from all taking part in them even when a licence had been obtained. Often the licence was withheld, as in 1255, when the king's son's grave peril in Gascony is alleged as a reason for forbidding a meeting. In 1299 life and limb were declared to be forfeit in the case of those who should arrange a tourney without the royal licence, and offenders were to be seized with horse and harness. As the tournament became an occasion for pageantry and feasting, new reason was given for restraint: a simple knight might beggar himself over a sport which risked costly horses and carried him far afield. Jousters travelled from land to land, like modern cricketersers on their tours, offering and accepting challenges. Thus Edward I, before coming to the throne, led eighty knights to a tournament on the Continent. Before the jousts at Windsor on St George's Day in 1344 heralds published in France, Scotland, Burgundy, Hainault, Flanders, Brabant and the domains of the emperor the king's offer of safe conduct for competitors. At the weddings of princes and magnates and at the crowning of kings the knights gathered to the joustings, which had become as much a part of such high ceremonies as the banquet and the minstrelsy. The fabled glories of the Round Table were revived by princely hosts, who would assemble a gallant company to keep open house and hold the field againvt all corners, as did Mortimer, the queen's lover, when, on the eve of his fall, he brought all the chivalry of the land to the place where he held his Round Table. About 1292 the "Statute of Arms for Tournaments" laid down, "at the request of the earls and barons and of the knighthood of England," new laws for the game. Swords with points were not to be used, nor pointed daggers, nor club nor mace. None was to raise up a fallen knight but his own appointed squires, clad in his device. The squire who offended was to lose horse and arms and lie three years in gaol. A northern football crowd would understand the rule that forbade those coming to see the tournament to wear harness or arm themselves with weapons. Disputes were to be settled by a court of honour of princes and earls. That such rules were needful had been shown at Rochester in 1251, where the foreign knights were beaten by the English and so roughly handled that they fled to the city for refuge. On their way the strangers were faced by another company of knights who handled them roughly and spoiled them, thrashing them with staves in revenge for the doings at a Brackley tournament. Even as early as the [[13th century]] some of these tournaments were mere pageants of horsemen. For the Jousts of Peace held at Windsor Park in 1278 the sword-blades are of whalebone and parchment, silvered; the helms are of boiled leather and the shields of light timber. But the game could make rough sport. Many a tournament had its tale of killed and wounded in the chronicle books. We read how Roger of Lemburn struck Arnold de Montigny dead with a lance thrust under the helm. The first of the Montagu earls of Salisbury died of hurts taken at a Windsor jousting, and in those same lists at Windsor the earl's grandson Sir William Montagu was killed by his own father. William Longéspee in 1256 was so bruised that he never recovered his strength, and he is among many of whom the like is written. Blunted or "rebated" lance-points came early into use, and by the 14th century the coronall or cronell head was often fitted in place of the point. After 1400 the armourers began to devise harness with defences specially wrought for service in the lists. But the joust lost its chief perils with the invention of the tilt, which, as its name imports, was at first a cloth stretched along the length of the lists. The cloth became a stout barrier of timber, and in the early 16th century the knight ran his course at little risk. Locked up in steel harness, reinforced with the grand-guard and the other jousting pieces, he charged along one side of this barrier, seeing little more through the pierced sight-holes of the helm than the head and shoulders of his adversary. His bridle arm was on the tilt-side, and thus the blunted lance struck at an angle upon the polished plates. Mishaps might befall Henry II of France died from the stroke of Gabriel de Montgomeri, who failed to cast up in time the truncheon of his splintered lance. But the 16th-century tournament was, in the main, a bloodless meeting.
The 15th century had seen the mingling of the tournament and the pageant. Adventurous knights would travel far afield in time of peace to gain worship in conflicts that perilled life and limb, as when the Bastard of Burgundy met the Lord Scales in 1466 in West Smithfield under the fair and costly galleries crowded with English dames. On the first day the two ran courses with sharp spears; on the second day they tourneyed on horseback, sword in hand; on the third day they met on foot with heavy pole-axes. But the great tournament held in the market-place of Bruges, when the jousting of the Knights of the Fleece was part of the pageant of the Golden Tree, the Giant and the Dwarf, may stand as a magnificent example of many such gay gatherings. When Henry VIII of England. was scattering his father's treasure the pageant had become an elaborate masque. For two days after the crowning of the king at Westminster, Henry and his queen viewed from the galleries of a fantastic palace set up beside the tilt-yard a play in which deer were pulled down by greyhounds in a paled park, in which the Lady Diana and the Lady Pallas came forward, embowered in moving castles, to present the champions. Such costly shows fell out of fashion after the death of Henry VIII; and in England the tournament remained, until the end, a martial sport. Sir Henry Lee rode as Queen Elizabeth's champion in the tilt-yard of Whitehall until his years forced him to surrender the gallant office to that earl of Cumberland who wore the Queen's glove pinned to the flap of his hat. But in France the tournament lingered on until it degenerated to the carrousel, which, originally a horseman's game in which cavaliers pelted each other with balls, became an unmartial display when the French king and his courtiers pranced in such array as the wardrobe-master of the court ballets would devise for the lords of md and Africk.
The tournament was, from the first, held to be a sport for men of noble birth, and on the Continent, where nobility was more exactly defined than in England, the lists were jealously closed to all combatants but those of the privileged class. In the German lands, questions as to the purity of the strain of a candidate for admission to a noble chapter are often settled by appeal to the fact that this or that ancestor had taken part in a tournament. Konrad Grunenberg's famous heraldic manuscript shows us the Helmsc/iau that came before the German tournament of the 15th century--the squires carrying each his master's crested helm, and a little scutcheon of arms hanging from it, to the hall where the king of arms stands among the ladies and, wand in hand, judges each blazon. In England several of those few rolls of arms which have come down to us from the middle ages record the shields displayed at certain tournaments.
based largely on an article from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Synonym: TournamentSynonym: tourney (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Contention | Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle. |
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Crosswords: Tournament |
| English words defined with "tournament": aegis, auspices ♦ bye ♦ elimination tournament ♦ final, finish, finishing ♦ joust ♦ medal winner, medalist, medallist ♦ open ♦ pass, protection ♦ qualifier, quarterfinal ♦ round robin ♦ seed, seeded, seeded player, semi, semifinal, semifinalist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tournament": Arcite ♦ Canace, Croquemitaine ♦ Gyneth ♦ I'vanhoe ♦ Kilwinning ♦ LAN party ♦ Magic Rings, MANAGER, BOWLING ALLEY, Martano, Mita. (references) |
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Screenplays | You have got to buck up, man. You cannot drag this negative energy in to the tournament! (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) There's a tradition in tournament play not to talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you. I'm sure going to the state finals is beyond your wildest dreams, so let's just keep it there for awhile (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo) Daniel-San, this not tournament. This for real (The Karate Kid, Part II; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen) My future, my whole tournament career (The Karate Kid, Part II; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tournament (1959) Unreal Tournament 2003 (2002) Tekken Tag Tournament (2000) Unreal Tournament (1999) Royal Tournament 1998 (1998) | |
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 | Blue marlin being brought to gaff as judges of the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament look on. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Happy angler standing next to 629 and 1/2 pound marlin at Hawaiian Billfishing Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Headed out from Point Judith during the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Part of the fleet taking part in the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A proud fisherman with his catch at the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Proud fishermen with their catch at the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Cutting bait for use in the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Estuaries are important areas for commercial and recreational boating activities . This fleet of sportfishing boats is heading out at the start of a fishing tournament. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Soccer tournament. |  | Water skier at Senator Wash during a water skiing tournament. Credit: Lori Cook. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Nobody is going to threaten not to televise the Masters or say it can't be a sanctioned tournament unless they let in women. |
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| "Tournament" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.48% of the time. "Tournament" is used about 1,550 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) | 99.48% | 1,542 | 5,307 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.52% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,550 | N/A |
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Expressions using "tournament": chess tournament ♦ elimination tournament ♦ invitational tournament ♦ open tournament ♦ tournament player ♦ tournament sort ♦ tournament winner. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "tournament": tournament-proper, tournament-winning. | |
Ending with "tournament": pre-tournament. | |
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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 "tournament"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | toernooi. (various references) | |
Albanian | dyluftim (duel, meeting, rencontre, rencounter, tourney), bejleg (tourney). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسابقة (bout, competition, concurrence, contest, play, quiz, quiz programme, race, tourney), مباراة (competition, contest, game, match, meeting, race, test), دورة مباريات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спортни състезания, турнир (carrousel, joust, tilt, tourney). (various references) | |
Chinese | 競技 , "赛 (Contest, Contested, Contesting, games, match). (various references) | |
Czech | turnaj. (various references) | |
Danish | golfturnering (golf tournament). (various references) | |
Dutch | toernooi, steekspel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | turniro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kapping, dystur (game, match). (various references) | |
Finnish | turnaus, turnajaiset (tourney). (various references) | |
French | tournoi (tourney). (various references) | |
German | Turnier (competition, joust, jousting, show, tourney). (various references) | |
Greek | τουρνουά (tourney). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחרות (competition, contest, game, match, rivalry, stakes, strife, tourney), טור יר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lovasjáték, lovagi torna (joust, tourney). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pertandingan (bout, contest, event, game, match). (various references) | |
Italian | torneo (joust, tilt, tourney), giostra (carousel, carrousel, joust, merry go round, roundabout, tourney), competizione (competition, contest, race). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | デ杯 (bathroom, Davis Cup, lavatory, prerecorded announcement, restroom, talk, talk show, talkie, Taurus, tautology, toad, toast, toaster, tochka, toe, toe dance, toe kick, toeshows, together, Togo, toilet, toilet case, toilet paper, toilet powder, toilet soap, toiletry, Tokaji, Tokamak, Tokay, token, tokenism, toll, tollgate, tonal, tonality, tone, tone down, tooth, torch, torch lamp, torch relay, tornado, torus, total, Total Energy System, total fashion, total look, total product, totalizator system, tote bag, totem, totem pole, totemism, tournament pro, toxoplasma, true, try for point, tutti), 大会 (convention, mass meeting, rally), 大会 (convention, mass meeting, rally). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいかい (convention, mass meeting, ocean, rally, withdrawal from a group), トーナメント . (various references) | |
Korean | 경기 대회. (various references) | |
Manx | yl-chloie, tournamint. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ournamenttay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torneio (contest, joust, tilt, tourney). (various references) | |
Romanian | turnir (joust, lists), competiţie sportivã, campionat (championship, sport). (various references) | |
Russian | турнир (tourney). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | turnir (tourney), takmičenje (bout, competition, contention, contest, meet). (various references) | |
Spanish | torneo (championship, tourney). (various references) | |
Swedish | turnering (circuit). (various references) | |
Turkish | turnuva (tourney). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tunir (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | турнір (tourney). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | torneiement. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "tournament": tournaments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tournament": pretournament. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tournament": pretournaments. (additional references) | |
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"Tournament" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: couronnement, ournament, tornament, tornment, Tourama, tourament, tournement, tourniment, tournmament, tournment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tournament" (pronounced tuh"rnumunt) |
| 7 | -r n u m u n t | ornament. |
| 6 | -n u m u n t | accompaniment, tenement. |
| 5 | -u m u n t | argument, armament, adamant, complement, condiment, impediment, implement, detriment, disarmament, element, excrement, experiment, filament, increment, instrument, integument, ligament, orpiment, parliament, predicament, rearmament, regiment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, sentiment, supplement, temperament, testament, vehement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, arraignment, arrangement, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, comportment, concealment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impeachment, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, 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, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, extinguishment, figment, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, segment, settlement, shipment, statement, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ornament, routeman, tautomer, unornate. | |
-3 letters: automen, enamour, entrant, moneran, montane, mounter, neuroma, neutron, nonmeat, noumena, nutmeat, outearn, outrate, remnant, remount, romaunt, tantrum, taunter, tomenta, tonearm, tonneau, torment, unmeant. | |
-4 letters: amount, antrum, atoner, attorn, attune, enamor, manner, manure, marten, matron, matter, mature, mentor, moaner, mutant, mutate, mutter, mutton, natron, natter, nature, neuron, nonart, notate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tournaments. | |
+2 letters: menstruation, ultramontane. | |
+3 letters: argumentation, intermountain, macronutrient, menstruations, pretournament, ultramontanes. | |
+4 letters: argumentations, macronutrients, monounsaturate, neuroanatomist, pretournaments. | |
+5 letters: counterargument, importunateness, instrumentation, intermodulation, monounsaturated, monounsaturates, neuroanatomists, noninstrumental, nonmatriculated, undemonstrative, underestimation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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