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Virulent

Definition: Virulent

Virulent

Adjective

1. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite".

2. Infectious; having the ability to cause disease.

3. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "virulent" was first used: 1400. (references)

Etymology: Virulent \Vir"u*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression virulentus, from virus poison: compare to the French expression virulent. See Virus.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Virulent

DomainDefinition

Health

A virus or bacteriophage capable only of lytic growth, as opposed to temperate phages establishing the lysogenic response. (references)

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Synonyms: Virulent

Synonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), acrid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), caustic (adj), deadly (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: avirulent (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Virulent

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Inexpedience

Corrupting; (corrupt; ); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous; (morbific); deadly; (killing); destructive; (destroying); inauspicious.

Insalubrity

Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic.

Malevolence

Malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.

Physical Energy

Rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy; (pungent).

Resentment

Adjective: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross; (irascible); Achillean; sulky; a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious; (discourteous); violent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Virulent

English words defined with "virulent": Antiar, avirulentBikh, blood poisoningdeadlyPathogenesepticaemia, septicemiaUpasvenomous, Virulented, virulently. (references)
Specialty definitions using "virulent": African Swine Fever VirusBacteriophage phi 6, Bacteriophage phi X 174, Bacteriophage T4, Bacteriophage T7, Brucella melitensischallenge test, Cholera, cutaneous anthraxLysogenymalignant pustula, MycobacteriophagesStreptococcus pyogenesT-PhagesZollinger-Ellison's Disease. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Virulent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (virulent), French (fierce, scurrilous, vicious, virulent), German (virulent), Romanian (virulent).

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Modern Usage: Virulent

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges)

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Commercial Usage: Virulent

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Thirst of Annihilation : Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (reference)

  • Virulent Epiphany (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Virulent

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A photomicrograph of a virulent T. pallidum bacterium, ruptured at 6,000 psi. Treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis. It contains one of the smallest prokaryotic genomes consisting of about 1000 kilobase pairs. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Virulent

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Also, some virulent strains of GAS are more likely to cause severe disease than others. (references)

Those who develop diarrhea have ingested an inoculum of virulent organisms sufficiently large to overcome individual defense mechanisms, resulting in symptoms. (references)

N. farcinica frequently is more resistant to antimicrobial agents, including trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) (the drug of choice), and has been shown to be more virulent in an animal model. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

Since the end of the Milosevic regime, these broadcasts have not contained virulent anti-Montenegrin propaganda; nonetheless, the station broadcasts illegally, in violation of Montenegrin law. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

The PRC's virulent reaction to this statement, combined with the DPP's election victory has led to a period of uncertainty as both Taiwan and the PRC reassess their relationship under the changed electoral and political circumstances. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

In August the deputy mayor of the town of Petrinja, a member of the far-right Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), who had made virulent anti-Serb comments during the local election campaign in May, was ordered to leave a meeting of the town council by Minister of Reconstruction Radimir Cacic. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Virulent

"Virulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Virulent" is used about 126 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12628,512

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Virulent

Expressions using "virulent": virulent disease virulent phage virulent tone. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Virulent

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blasphemy recording virulent

25

virulent

11
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Modern Translation: Virulent

Language Translations for "virulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

virulent, i helmët (poison, poisonous, venomous), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, well-built, well-set). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سام (baneful, empyrean, pestilent, poisonous, sublime, toxic, venomous), ‏خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, vulpine, wicked, wily). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

силно отровен, вирулентен, опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, volatile, warm), злъчен (venomous), злостен (malignant, poisonous, spiteful, vicious), злокачествен (cancerous, malign, malignant), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious), болестотворен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

剧' (Virulence). (various references)

   

Czech

  

virulentní, zhoubný (baleful, baneful, deadly, destructive, hurtful, malign, malignant, noisome, pernicious, ruinous, unwholesome), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent), prudce nakažlivý, jedovatý (abrasive, biting, cankered, cankerous, cutting, poisonous, rank, toxic, venomous, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Danish

  

virulente bakteriofager (virulent bacteriophages), virulente bakterier (virulent bacteria). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

virulente bacteriofagen (virulent bacteriophages), virulente bacteriën (virulent bacteria), kwaadaardige bacteriofagen (virulent bacteriophages). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کینه جو (Malignant), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Wrench, Yare), تلخ (Bitter), سم دار (Ungual, Ungulate), زهرگین , بدخیم . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sapekas (full of bitterness, full of gall, venomous). (various references)

   

French

  

virulent (vicious). (various references)

   

German

  

virulente. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μοχθηρόσ (malicious, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious), φαρμακερόσ (venomed, venomous, viperine), φαρμακερός, τοξικόσ (intoxicating, toxic), δηλητηριώδησ (noxious, pestilent, poisonous, toxic, venomous). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ארסי (poisonous, venomous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

heveny (acute, eager, sore). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dapat mematikan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

virulento (poisonous, toxic). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'性 (toxic, toxicity, virulence). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どくせい (toxic, toxicity, virulence). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

악성. (various references)

   

Manx

  

nieunagh (bitter as enemy;snakiness, bitter;snakiness, bleak, bleak of wind, deadly, poisonous, scathing, toxic, venomous, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irulentvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

virulento (mordacious, venomous), violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant), maligno (baleful, carping, ill-disposed, impish, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, pernicious, poisonous), cáustico (caustic, corrosive, mordacious, pepper, pungent, tart). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

virulent, violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, wanton), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

яростный (furious, rabid, raging, rampageous), вирулентный, опасный (breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, dicey, endangering, grave, hazardous, heroic, hot, nasty, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, trappy, unsafe), злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, spleenish, venomous, viperous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

virulentan, zarazan (catching, communicable, contagious, infectious, miasmatic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, zymotic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

virulento (poisonous, toxic, vicious). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, volcanic), giftig (catty, mephitic, poisonous, toxic, venomous, viperous, vitriolic, waspish). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile), kin dolu (venomous), düşmanca (hostile, inhospitably, like an enemy, unfriendly, unkind), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, vital), çabuk ilerleyen. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

отруйний (baneful, deleterious, nocuous, noxious, poison-bearing, poisonous, toxic, toxicant, venomous), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, wicked), заразний (cankerous, contagious, infectious, pestiferous, taking, transmissible, zymotic), злісний (baleful, cammed, cankered, cattish, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, inveterate, malicious, malign, malignant, unholy, venomous, wrathy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

độc địa (sharp), độc có virut; do virut hiểm ác. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Virulent

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

virulentus. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Virulent

Derivations

Words beginning with "virulent": virulently. (additional references)

Words ending with "virulent": avirulent, hypervirulent. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Virulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irulent, verulent, viralent, virulenty, visulent, viulent. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Virulent"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "virulent" (pronounced vi"rulunt)
5-u l u n tambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, fraudulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, opulent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, stimulant, succulent, truculent, turbulent, vigilant, violent.
4-l u n tassailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent.
3-u n tagent, 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, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, 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, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, 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, 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.

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Anagrams: Virulent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: rivulet, venturi.

-2 letters: invert, linter, lunier, lutein, runlet, rutile, triune, uniter, unlive, unveil, virtue.

-3 letters: elint, ervil, inert, inlet, inter, inure, levin, liner, liter, litre, liven, liver, livre, lunet, niter, nitre, relit, riven, rivet, rutin, tiler, trine, tuner, unite, unlet, unlit, untie, until, urine, uteri, utile, vertu, viler, virtu.

-4 letters: etui, evil, lent, lien.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-r-t-u-v"
 

+1 letter: avirulent, vulturine.

 

+2 letters: interfluve, lentivirus, revolution, ventriculi, virulently.

 

+3 letters: countervail, interfluves, intrusively, involucrate, nutritively, revaluating, revaluation, revolutions, subinterval, surveillant, ventricular, ventriculus, ventriloquy, viniculture, voluntaries.

 

+4 letters: countervails, evolutionary, interfluvial, interpluvial, lentiviruses, quadrivalent, reevaluating, reevaluation, revaluations, revictualing, ruminatively, subintervals, surveillants, ultraviolent, universalist, universality, unreflective, valetudinary, vinicultures, volunteering, volunteerism.

 

+5 letters: countervailed, devolutionary, hypervirulent, instructively, intravenously, lucrativeness, outdelivering, overindulgent, overutilizing, overvaluation, prerevolution, proventriculi, pulverization, quadrivalents, recultivating, reevaluations, revictualling, revolutionary, revolutionise, revolutionist, revolutionize, subserviently, ultraviolence, unassertively, universalists, unobtrusively, ventriloquial, ventriloquies, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, ventriloquize, vermiculation, vertiginously, voluntariness, volunteerisms, vulnerability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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