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Definition: Turbulent |
TurbulentAdjective1. Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood". 2. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turbulent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Turbulent \Tur"bu*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression turbulentus, from turba disorder, tumult: compare to the French expression turbulent. See Turbid.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TurbulentSynonyms: churning (adj), disruptive (adj), riotous (adj), roiled (adj), roiling (adj), roily (adj), troubled (adj), tumultuous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous. |
Violence | Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Through Turbulent Waters (1915) | |
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 | The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere ... Credit: NASA. |  | Here is a Hubble telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of star birth called N159, which is ... Credit: NASA. |
 | This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant ... Credit: NASA. |  | Turbulent gust front clouds. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | General view, looking north, showing the "sea side" of the structure. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1984. (Reproduction Number: HAER, CAL,38-SANFRA,140-4) An international icon of American engineering genius, the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 and remains one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. The main span of 4,200 feet crosses the turbulent waters at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Chief engineer Joseph B. Stern started the construction project in 1933. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Henry Ii | Who will free me from this turbulent priest? |
Robert Burns | I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Nor let any one say, that mischief can arise from hence, as often as it shall please a busy head, or turbulent spirit, to desire the alteration of the government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Business | The Kenya economy continues to experience turbulent times in the face of slow growth, power and water shortages and inadequate economic and political reforms being implemented. (references) | |
Even during turbulent financial periods in recent years, demand for luxury homes with prices ranging from USD 250,000 to USD 3.5 million, was more robust compared to that for smaller and cheaper houses. (references) | ||
It is clear that the ability to react rapidly, and to contribute to international efforts to secure and promote peace in turbulent areas, is an increasingly important goal for Norwegian defense planners. (references) | ||
Economic History | Guyana | Guyanese politics, nevertheless, occasionally has been turbulent. (references) |
Afghanistan | Afghanistan, often called the crossroads of Central Asia, has had a turbulent history. (references) | |
Haiti | This turbulent political past has seriously hurt the country's economy and the business climate. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In Africa and Asia we are witnessing the turbulent unfolding of new nations and continents. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | For more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this evening. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The new relationship between Egypt and Israel stands as an example of peaceful cooperation in an increasingly fragmented and turbulent region. |
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| "Turbulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.04% of the time. "Turbulent" is used about 521 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.04% | 516 | 11,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 521 | N/A |
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Expressions using "turbulent": turbulent air ♦ turbulent boundary layer ♦ turbulent cloud ♦ turbulent diffusion model ♦ turbulent eddy ♦ turbulent flow ♦ turbulent flux. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "turbulent": turbulent-like. | |
Ending with "turbulent": non-turbulent. | |
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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 "turbulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turbullues (disquieting, incendiary, perturber, perturbing, seditious), i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, vague, woozy), i trazuar (agog, boisterous, distempered, disturbed, flurried, haywire, lumpy, mixed, on edge, rough, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbid, vexed), i stuhishëm (blusterous, blustery, brash, dirty, gusty, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thundery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متمرد (disobedient, disorderly, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resistant), مشاغب (disorderly, pettifogger, riotous, rowdy-dowdy, seditious, tumultuous), هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, uproarious), عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, vehement, violent, volcanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развълнуван (aflutter, agitated, astir, choppy, overwrought, perturbed, streaked, thrilled, touched, upset), размирен (disorderly, mutinous, riotous, rumbustious, troublous), турбулентен, шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious), вихров (vortical), бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, vehement, violent, weed, wild), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), поривист (gusty, impetuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 动荡 (turbulence), 洶湧 (violently surge up), 不穩定氣流 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | turbulentní, rozbouřený (angry, boisterous, heavy), nezkrotný (indomitable, tameless, uncontrollable), neukáznìný (disorderly, indisciplined, insubordinate, obstreperous, undisciplined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | turbulensmønster (turbulent blanket, vortex structure), turbulens (swirl, swirling, turbulence, turbulent flow), turbulent blanding (turbulent mixing), turbulent felt (turbulent field), turbulent overfladestrømning (turbulent film), turbulent stroem (eddy flow, turbulent flow), turbulent stroemning (eddy flux, eddying flow, turbulent flow, turbulent flux), ved turbulent stroemning forstaar man en instationaer, tilfaeldig vaeskebevaegelse, hvor hastighederne varierer omkring en middelvaerdi og stroemningen er hvirvelagtig (by turbulent flow is meant an unsteady, random motion of fluids in which the velocities fluctuate about a mean and the flows are in the form of turbulences), urolig lysbue (turbulent arc), blad-tårninterferens (turbulent tower blade interferences), oevre kritiske hastighed (upper critical velocity at which flow changes abruptly from laminar to turbulent), matematisk model for spredning af forurenende stoffer (atmospheric dispersion model, diffusion model, dispersion model, mathematical model representing the distribution of pollutants, turbulent diffusion model), hvirvelstroemning (eddy flux, eddying flow, turbulent flux), hvirvelmønster (turbulent blanket, vortex structure), hvirvel (burble, button, control lever, eddy, eddy-current, handle, key, swirl, turbulent eddy, vortex), spredningsmodel (atmospheric dispersion model, diffusion model, dispersion model, mathematical model representing the distribution of pollutants, turbulent diffusion model). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | turbulentie (turbulence, turbulent flow), turbulent veld (turbulent field), turbulente flux (eddy flux, eddying flow, turbulent flux), turbulente stroming (eddy flow, turbulent flow), turbulentiepatroon (turbulent blanket, vortex structure), turbulentiestructuur (turbulent blanket, vortex structure), turbulente menging (turbulent mixing), verspreidingsmodel (atmospheric dispersion model, diffusion model, dispersion model, mathematical model representing the distribution of pollutants, turbulent diffusion model), wiskundig model inzake de verspreiding van verontreinigende stoffen (atmospheric dispersion model, diffusion model, dispersion model, mathematical model representing the distribution of pollutants, turbulent diffusion model), wervel (vertebra), blad-toren interferentie door opstuwing vóór de toren. (turbulent tower blade interferences), wervelbeweging (turbulent flow), wervelende film (turbulent film), stootvorming in de vorm van kortstondig verminderen van de belasting (turbulent tower blade interferences), onrustige boog (turbulent arc), onder turbulentie verstaat men een steeds veranderende onregelmatige vloeistofbeweging met om een gemiddelde schommelende snelheden en stromingen in wervekvorm (by turbulent flow is meant an unsteady, random motion of fluids in which the velocities fluctuate about a mean and the flows are in the form of turbulences), bovenste kritische snelheid (upper critical velocity at which flow changes abruptly from laminar to turbulent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یاغی (Brigand, Lawbreaker, Malcontent, Mutinous, Outlaw, Rebel, Unruly), متلاطم (Heavy, Lumpy, Unruly), گردنکش (Disobedient, Refractory, Unyielding), سرکش (Disobedient, Indomitable, Inelastic, Insubordinate, Irrepressible, Malcontent, Malignant, Naughty, Random, Rebel, Rebellious, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Restive, Rowdy, Undaunted, Unruly, Unyielding, Wanton), اشفته (Berserk, Disheveled, Messy, Phrenetic, Upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | myrskyävä (storm-tossed, stormy), melskeinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | turbulent, agité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | turbulent (tempestuous, tumultuous), stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, impetuous, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuous, tumultuously, turbulently, uproarious, vehemently, wild), aufrührerisch (disorderly, inflammatory, insubordinate, insurgent, malcontent, mutinous, rabble-rousing, rebellious, riotous, seditionous, seditionously, seditious, wanton), aufgewühlt (agitated, boisterous, broken, churning, in a turmoil, pent up, tempestuous, troubled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλοτάραχοσ (rowdish), φουρτουνιασμένοσ, ταραχώδησ (boisterous, obstreperous, rampageous, riotous, troublous, tumultuous, uproarious), οχλαγωγικόσ (riotous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מערבולי, פרוע (chaotic, disorderly, rampant, rank, riotous, tumultuous, unruly, wild), סער (agitated, excited, stormy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zajongó (boisterous, clamorous, obstreperous, rambunctious, robustic, robustious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | turbolento (boisterous, noisy, rowdy, stormy), tumultuoso (rowdy, unruly, uproarious), agitato (agitated, fussy, haywire, hectic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, overwrought, restive, restless, troubled, upset, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 物'がしい (boisterous, noisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ものさわがしい (boisterous, noisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사나운 (Ferocious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meereiltagh (anarchic, anarchical, anarchist, disorderly, irregular, lawless, turbulent person, ungovernable, ungovernable as country), freaynagh (billowy, foaming, overflowing, raging, roaring, surging), boiraneagh (bothersome, brawling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urbulenttay turbulento (bacchic, disorderly, fractious, higgledy-piggledy, inordinate, knockabout, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, randy, riotous, rowdy, rumbustious, stormy, tempestuous, termagant, unquiet), tumultuoso (blustering, riotous, tumultuous, uproarious), indisciplinado (insubordinate, rambunctious, recalcitrant, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, unschooled), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, immoderate, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, tumultuous, untidy), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, viatic), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references) turbulent (boisterous, disorderly, noisy, obstreperous, Randy, riotous, unschooled). (various references) бурный (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, frenetic, gusty, heavy, hectic, rambunctious, rude, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, vulcanic). (various references) turbulentan, uskomešan (tumultuary). (various references) turbulento (disorderly, mutinous, obstreperous, restless, squally, stirring, troubled, troublous, unruly, wild). (various references) orolig (alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fussy, restless, uneasy, unsettled, worried, yeasty). (various references) türbülanslı, kavgacı (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, disputatious, fighter, litigious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, scrappy, spoiling for a fight, warlike, wrangler), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, bouncing, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuary, tumultuous), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, ugly, wild), çalkantılı (tempestuous). (various references) турбулентний, бурхливий (blusterous, gusty, headlong, raging, stormy, tempestuous, volcanic, wanton, wild, windy), буйний (blusterous, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, raving, riotous, rip roaring, roistering). (various references) náo động ngỗ nghịch, hỗn loạn (chaotic, lawless, topsyturvy, troublous). (various references) terfysgaidd (boisterous, riotous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tumultuosa, tumultuosos, turbulentus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turbulent": turbulently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "turbulent": nonturbulent. (additional references) | |
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"Turbulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: turbelent, turblent, turbulant, turbulet, turulent. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turbulent" (pronounced ter"byulunt) |
| 6 | -y u l u n t | opulent, stimulant, succulent, truculent. |
| 5 | -u l u n t | ambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, fraudulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, vigilant, violent, virulent. |
| 4 | -l u n t | assailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent. |
| 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, 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, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, errant, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, frequent, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, 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, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, solvent, stagnant, statement, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, tumescent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-n-r-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: blunter. | |
-3 letters: brunet, bunter, burnet, butler, butter, nutlet, nutter, runlet, tubule, turtle, unbelt, untrue. | |
-4 letters: blent, bluer, bluet, blunt, blurt, brent, brunt, brute, buret, burnt, butle, butte, butut, lunet, rebut, ruble, tuber, tuner, unlet, utter. | |
-5 letters: belt, bent, blet, blue, blur, bren, brut, bunt, burl, burn, bute, butt, lent, lube, lune, lunt, lure, lute. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-n-r-t-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: turbulently, unutterable, unutterably. | |
+3 letters: nonturbulent. | |
+5 letters: antitubercular, unattributable. | |
| 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: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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