Growth

Definition: Growth

Growth

Noun

1. The process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children".

2. A progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture".

3. A process of becoming larger or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population".

4. Vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass".

5. The gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece".

6. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).

7. Something grown or growing; "a growth of hair".

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

Date "growth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Medicine

Mining

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

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

Synonyms: Growth

Continuance in action

Chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.

Convexity

Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca.

Expansion

Noun: expansion; increase; of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.

Germination, growth, upgrowth; accretion; budding, gemmation.

Increase

Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Production

Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Vegetable

Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

Crosswords: Growth

I'd like beef without any bovine growth hormones (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz)

I believe that the growth in my head-this head-this one right here (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg)

See, Charles, that's why they call it personal growth. A month ago, old Smokey here would've reared up, you probably would've called your lawyer (The Edge; writing credit: David Mamet)

They found a growth in his leg. (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne)

Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski)

Saskatoon: Land and Growth Control (1974)

Sapporo: Planned Growth (1974)

Düsseldorf: Balanced Urban Growth (1974)

Growth (1973)

Barriers to Growth (1972)

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

References

• Australian Growth Properties Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aquila Growth Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Gartmore Growth Opportunities Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• General Growth Properties Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• F&C Income Growth Investment Trust P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Morningstar Mutual Fund Report: AAL Capital Growth A [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Thomson Financial Mutual Fund Report : AALGX: AAL Capital Growth Class A Fund [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth, 7th Edition (reference)

• Every Business is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year (reference)

• Politics of Arlington, Texas: An Era of Continuity and Growth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Economic Growth Center (reference)

• Forbes Aggressive Growth Investor (reference)

• Growth Fund Guide (reference)

• Growth Management Reporter (reference)

• Growth Strategies (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pioneer Living Series - Growth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Growth Lines-1 Infant (reference)

• Growth Lines-2 Toddler (reference)

• Meditations for Personal Growth (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Classic Pooh - Growth Chart (reference)

• Growth Chart - Whirligig (reference)

• Pooh Measure Me Growth Chart (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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This is an x-ray image of a chest. Both sides of the lungs are visible with a growth on the left side of the lung, which could possibly be lung cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This illustration with and without text, explains how a normal cell becomes a cancer cell. An oncogene in a normal cell appears to regulate and influence cell growth and division. When a cancer causing agent affects a cell's DNA and the oncogene is activated, a cancer cell develops. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist).

Photomicrograph of Corynebacterium diphtheriae magnified 1200x, after growth of Pai medium for 18 �" 24 hours. Credit: CDC.

A urine specimen is observed 24 - 48hrs in a lab for the presence of any bacterial growth. Even without symptoms, the presence of at least 100,000 colonies of any single type of bacterium per/ml of urine, usually shows evidence of infection. Credit: CDC.

The Hubble telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by ... Credit: NASA.

Controlled burn to enhance following year's growth of marsh vegetation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Horned pondweed - Zannichellia palustrus - growth usually peaks in June and begins covering the beaches. Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) provides food and habitat for a wide variety of biota, but has been in serious decline for the last several decades. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries.

The reef surrounding Mona Island contains old growth stands of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta. This photograph shows an Elkhorn coral damaged by the ship grounding and, later, by the removal of the ship from the reef. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A wired fragment of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta. Restoration experts predict that wire used in the restoration effort will be overgrown by new coral growth within a few years time. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

From him the world is peopled with his descendants, who are all born infants, weak and helpless, without knowledge or understanding: but to supply the defects of this imperfect state, till the improvement of growth and age hath removed them, Adam and Eve, and after them all parents were, by the law of nature, under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them. (Second Treatise of Government)

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth.

No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Tumor growth factors. (references)

Abnormal tissue growth. (references)

Monitor growth and development. (references)

Business

Another area of future growth is IP telephony. (references)

The food industry is a high growth sector in China. (references)

Ten-percent growth is expected for the next two years. (references)

Children

Nicaragua

UNICEF also noted significant growth in prostitution among children between the ages of 12 and 16 in towns where taxi drivers were said to serve as middlemen. (references)

Yemen

The UNDP estimates that 30 percent of children are malnourished; a 1997 demographic study by the Government put this figure at 50 percent, and indicated that half of all children under 5 years of age exhibit stunted growth. (references)

Korea

A nutrition survey carried out by UNICEF and the WFP in the aftermath of flood disasters found that 16 percent of children under 7 years of age suffered from acute malnutrition and that 62 percent suffered from stunted growth. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

The Constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and the freedom not to believe; however, the Government seeks to restrict religious practice to government-sanctioned organizations and registered places of worship and to control the growth and scope of the activity of religious groups. (references)

China

Membership in religions is growing rapidly; however, while the Government generally does not seek to suppress this growth outright, it tries to control and regulate religious groups to prevent the rise of groups or sources of authority outside the control of the Government and the Communist Party. (references)

Uzbekistan

Both Wahhabism and the IMU stem from the growth of independent Islam that the Government has sought to suppress since the early 1990's. Based on the court record, the distinction is that the Government considers the Wahhabists to be extremists and potential terrorists and those suspected of involvement in the bombings to be active terrorists. (references)

Discrimination

Vietnam

This prohibition is less restrictive than in past years because of the growth in private sector job opportunities. (references)

Bhutan

At the time, the Government claimed that it was concerned about the rapid population growth of and political agitation by the ethnic Nepalese. (references)

Economic History

Iceland

GNP growth rate: 4.2%. (references)

Human Rights

India

In addition the NHRC is directed to contribute to the establishment, growth, and functioning of human rights NGO's. (references)

Honduras

Violent crime continued to fuel the growth of private--often unlicensed--guard services, and of volunteer groups that patrolled their neighborhoods or municipalities to deter crime. (references)

Colombia

The guerrillas released her on November 29 with a message to the governor that the FARC was concerned over the growth of paramilitary forces and about the need for more social spending. (references)

Minorities

China

Han control of the region's political and economic institutions also has been a factor in the growth of tension. (references)

Poland

Public concern persisted regarding the growth of groups perceived to be sects and the influence of nonmainstream religious groups. (references)

Political Economy

Barbados

Both favor private sector-led growth. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

This strong growth trend is expected to be reflected in 2001 statistics. (references)

Romania

Dynamic performances in 1993-94 encouraged further growth of the industry. (references)

Azerbaijan

This approach requires support for sustainable economic growth and human development. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Crime continues to be a profitable growth industry in Ghana, especially in the metropolitan areas of Accra, Tema and Kumasi. (references)

Worker Rights

Swaziland

Recent growth in industrial production has necessitated more government action on safety issues. (references)

Poland

It is not clear whether this increase is due to a growth in the number of women trafficked or to greater activity by the authorities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "growth": abrupt growth change ♦ accessory growth substances ♦ annual growth ring ♦ autocrine growth factor ♦ average growth ♦ averaged growth chronology ♦ cancerous growth ♦ check the growth of ♦ constant growth ♦ critical grain growth ♦ cut growth ♦ demographic growth ♦ direction of growth ♦ economic growth ♦ Endothelial Growth Factors ♦ Epidermal Growth Factor ♦ epidermal growth factor receptor ♦ epitaxial growth ♦ epitaxial growth step ♦ epitaxial growth technique ♦ Exponential growth ♦ export growth ♦ Fetal Growth Retardation ♦ Fibroblast Growth Factor ♦ forked growth ♦ full growth ♦ GDP growth ♦ GNP growth ♦ GNP per capita growth ♦ Growth and Embryonic Development ♦ growth band ♦ Growth by apposition ♦ growth class ♦ Growth Cones ♦ Growth Disorders ♦ growth factor ♦ growth factor binder ♦ growth factors ♦ growth hormone ♦ growth industry ♦ Growth Inhibitors ♦ growth medium ♦ growth of hair ♦ growth per cent ♦ growth percent ♦ Growth Plate ♦ growth rate ♦ growth regulator ♦ growth ring ♦ growth stock ♦ growth substance ♦ Growth Substances ♦ hair growth ♦ Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors ♦ hematopoietic growth factors ♦ Hepatocyte Growth Factor ♦ human growth hormone ♦ in full growth ♦ Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 ♦ Insulin-Like Growth Factor I ♦ Insulin-Like Growth Factor II ♦ Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 2 ♦ keratinocyte growth factor ♦ malignant growth ♦ microbial biomass growth rate ♦ money supply growth M1 ♦ mushroom growth ♦ natural growth hormone ♦ Nerve Growth Factor ♦ Nerve Growth Factors ♦ net growth ♦ old growth ♦ Plant Growth Regulators ♦ Platelet-Derived Growth Factor ♦ population growth ♦ rank growth ♦ rapid growth ♦ rate of growth ♦ second growth ♦ sluggish economic growth ♦ Smart Growth America ♦ stunted growth ♦ sustain growth ♦ transforming growth factor alpha ♦ Transforming Growth Factor beta ♦ Transforming Growth Factors ♦ vascular endothelial growth factor ♦ yearly growth ♦ young growth ♦ zero growth. Additional references.

Beginning with "growth": growth-arrested, growth-based, growth-boosting, growth-by-acquisition, growth-control, growth-controlling, growth-deficiency, growth-enabling, Growth-Factor-Binding, growth-first, growth-flake, growth-forms, growth-goaded, growth-hungry, growth-industry, growth-layers, growth-leader, growth-limiting, growth-motivated, growth-obsessed, growth-onset diabetes, growth-orientated, growth-oriented, growth-points, growth-promoted, growth-promoters, growth-promoting, growth-rate, growth-regions, growth-regulating, growth-regulatory, growth-ring, growth-room, growth-seeking, growth-share, growth-steps, growth-stunting, growth-to, growth-type.

Ending with "growth": anti-growth, ex-growth, high-growth, old-growth.

Containing "growth": economic-growth-based, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 6.

Albanian

zhvillim (development, elaboration, evolution, make, making, nurse, occurrence, operation, progress, prosecution, treatment), tumor (neoplasm, tumor, tumour), shtim (accession, accretion, addition, augment, augmentation, build up, enhancement, extension, gain, inclusion, increase, increment, insertion, intensification, interest, multiplication, proliferation, rise), rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), bimë (plant, vegetable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في حالة نمو, ‏نمو (accretion, development, evolution, expansion, gathering, increase, outgrowth, prosperity, sprouting, upgrowth), ‏نماء (accession, improvement, outgrowth, propagation, prosperity, sprouting), ‏ورم (bulge, bump, lump, neoplasm, node, swell, swelling, tumefaction, tumid, tumor, tumour), ‏توسع (dilation, expansion, extending, widening), ‏تطور (blossom, break through, breakthrough, development, evolution, shape, work out), ‏خراج (abscess, furuncle, gathering), ‏إنتاج (child, composition, flow, fructification, make, manufacture, output, procreation, produce, product, reproduction), ‏إزدهار (boom, flower, health, prosperity, swell), ‏برعم (bloom, blossom, bud, burgeon, button, flower, gemma, germinate, in bud, in the bud, leaf, shoot, sprout). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стрък (blade, shoot, stem, stick), ръст (height, inches, size, stature), рожба (birth, child, issue, pet, product), растеж (increase, upgrowth, vegetation), развитие (course, development, evolution, germination, making, movement, process, progress, run, upgrowth), отглеждане (culture, fosterage, nurture, upbringing), новообразувание (neoplasm), нарастване (access, augmentation, enlargement, increase, increment, rise, upgrowth), продукт (artefact, artifact, child, increase, outgrowth, product, production), прираст (accession, accretion, increase, increment), израстък (appendage, appendix, excrescence, intumescence, knot, knurl, nub, outgrowth, process, shoot, sucker, verruca). (various references)

Chinese 

發育 (development), 發展 (development, to develop, to expand, to grow), 成长. (various references)

Czech

vzrùst (accumulation, aggrandizement, increase, rise, stature), vzestup (advancement, bulge, rise, upswing), rozvoj (advancement, development, expansion), rùst (accretion, grow, grow up, increase, plant, spindle, upgrowth, vegetate), porost (overgrowth, undergrowth), přírùstek (acquisition, addition, gain, improvement, increase, increment), nárùst (upsurge), nádor (lump, polypus, tuber, tubercle, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Danish

vækst (accession, accretion). (various references)

Dutch

groei (accession, accretion), wasdom, ontwikkeling (accession, accretion, development, evolution, instruction, output), aangroei (accession, accretion, increase). (various references)

Esperanto

vegeto, vegetado, kresko, kreskado. (various references)

Faeroese

gróður, grøði, vøkstur (accession, accretion), akurskrit (accession, accretion). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشرفت (Accession, Advance, Beat, Development, Headway, Improvement, Lift, Progress, Progression, Promotion, Rise), چیززاءد, نمود (Appearance, Aspect, Phenomenon), نتیجه (Affect, Consequence, Effect, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Sequel, Success, Upshot), گوشت زیادی (Outgrwth), حاصل (Harvest, Heir, Outcome, Outgrwth, Perquisite, Product, Result, Resultant, Resume, Upshot, Yield), تومور (Tumor), ترقی (Ascent, Boost, Development, Increase, Increment, Jump, Lift, Pickup, Procession, Progress, Promotion, Rise), افزایش 2 (Access, Accession, Accretion, Addendum, Addition, Gain, Increment, Intensification, Summation), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage, Vestige), روش (Course, Demarche, Form, How, Manner, March, Method, Procedure, Rate, Rut, Style, System, Vein), رشد (Adolescence, Increase, Pickup). (various references)

Finnish

kasvu (increase). (various references)

French

croissance (growing), accroissement, pousse (green shoot), expansion, développement. (various references)

Frisian

groei (accession, accretion), oanwaaks (accession, accretion). (various references)

German

wachstum (accretion, adolescence, development), wuchs (accession, accretion, build, grew, stature), entwicklung (construction, deployment, developing, development, display, evaluation, evolution, expansion, formation, generation, germination, movement, processing, production, progression, trend), zuwachs (accession, accretion, accretion of discount, accrual, increase, increment), zunahme (accession, accretion, bulge, crescendo, enlargement, gain, increase, increment, rise, upsurge). (various references)

Greek 

ανάπτυξη (deployment, development, evolvent), αύξηση (accrual, accruement, aggrandizement, augmentation, increase, increment, raise, rise, upswing). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�'שו�' (boom, flourishing, heyday, proliferation, prosperity, success, well being), �'�"יל�" (accretion, increase), �'�"ול (augmentation, big, breed, breeding, development, grand, great, high, increment, large, mighty, raising, step up, upbringing, whopping), צמיח�" (elevation, sprouting, uplifting). (various references)

Hungarian

növekedés (accession, accretion, augmentation, gain, growing, heightening, increase, increment, rise, upgrowth, vegetating), növés (increment, stature), gyarapodás (accession, accretion, gain, increment, new accession). (various references)

Icelandic

vöxtur (accession, accretion). (various references)

Indonesian

pertumbuhan (accretion). (various references)

Italian

sviluppo (accretion, development, expansion, making, process, progress), evoluzione (development, evolution), crescita (expansion, grew, growing, increase, rise, rising), crescimento (accession, accretion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨張 (expansion, increase, swelling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そ� ち (breeding), ぼうちょう (attendance, auditing, counterespionage, counterintelligence, expansion, hearing, increase, listening, protection against the tide, swelling), のび (burning off the fields, excess, postponement, spread, stretching, surplus), できもの (abscess, boil, pimple, rash, tumour, ulcer), でけもの (abscess, boil, pimple, rash, tumour, ulcer), せいいく (breeding, development, raising), せいちょう (adult bird, attention, clear, government office, grow to adulthood, head oarsman, increment, legitimate dynasty, listening quietly, medicine for internal disorders, serene, sexual characteristics, style, tone, traditional tune, tune up), かせい (assistance, backing, caustic, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, false, falsetto, force of flames, great poet, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny), かいく (evolution, ocean sector), はついく (development), はったつ (ability in any line, convenient transportation, development, running in all directions), はって�" (development). (various references)

Korean 

성장 (growing). (various references)

Manx

bishaghey (accession, accession of funds, accrue, develop, development, expand, expansion, increase, multiplication, multiply, prosper, thrive, wax, wax as moon), aase (apophysis, culture, develop, evolve, forwardness, grow, tumour, wax). (various references)

Norwegian

vekst (increase), svulst (abscess, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Papiamen

kresementu (accession, accretion), kresemento (accession, accretion). (various references)

Pig Latin

owthgray.(various references)

Portuguese

crescimento (accretion, development, germination, growing, increase, increment, outgrowth, spread, upgrowth). (various references)

Romanian

vegetaţie (vegetation), tumoare (swelling, tumor, tumour, Wen), spor (abundance, addition, advancement, benefit, gain, germ, headway, increase, increment, progress, spore, use), ridicare (adjournment, ascension, elevation, erection, heave, heft, hoist, lift, raise, raising, removal, rise, rising, round up, shrug, uplift, upturning), recoltã (gathering, harvest, yield), provenienţã (derivation, provenance), progres (advance, advancement, career, development, furtherance, headway, March, progress, rise), produs (child, commodity, manufacture, offspring, outcome, produce, product, result), producţie (manufacture, output, outturn, produce, yield), origine (ancestry, beginning, birth, blood, cause, commencement, derivation, descent, emanation, etymology, extraction, fountain-head, genesis, origin, origination, parent, parentage, provenance, rise, root, root stock, source, spring, strain), dezvoltare (amplification, development, enlargement, evolution, germination, involution, process, progress, promotion, rise, upsurge), culturã (breeding, civility, crop, cultivation, culture, education, growing, letter, rearing), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, heft, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge), cocoloş (ball, clod, clot, grume, Pat, pellet). (various references)

Russian 

увеличение (accretion, aggrandizement, aggrandizements, agumentation, amplification, augmentation, enlargement, gain, increase, magnification, multiplication, rise), рост (development, height, increase, rise, stature, upgrowth), развитие (cultivation, development, elaboration, evolution, germination), новообразование (morbid growth, neoplasm, new growth), прирост (accretion, accretions, augmentation, increment), поросль (underwood). (various references)

Scottish

cinneas (crop, growing thing, increase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razvoj (consecution, deployment, development, evolvent, making, uprising), rast (height, inches), prirast (accrual), izraslina (excrescence, knob, knot, lump, node, nodule, wen), izraštaj (excrescent, outgrowth, process, protuberance, tuber, tubercle). (various references)

Spanish

aumento (accession, accretion, augmentation, build up, expansion, extension, gain, hike, improvement, increase, increment, magnification, putting on, raise, rise, upbeat, upturn), incremento (accession, accretion, augmentation, increase, increment), expansión (expansion), desarrollo (developing, development, envelopment, expansion, investigation, rise, success), crecimiento (cultivation, evolution, flooding, growing, increase, inflation, upgrowth). (various references)

Swedish

växt (development, herb, plant, tumor, tumour, vegetable), utvidgning (aggrandizement, amplification, dilation, distention, enlargement, expansion, extension, flare), tillväxt (accretion, development, increase, increment, recession). (various references)

Turkish

geliştirme (build up, development, improving, progress, refinement), gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, development, expansion, flourish, formative, growing, headway, improvement, inflorescence, pickup, progress, strides), ur (excrescence, fibroid, neoplasm, tuberosity, tumor, tumour, vegetation, Wen), sürgün (banishment, bud, deportation, deportee, exile, expatriation, expellee, ostracism, outgrowth, outlaw, outlawry, proscription, relegation, shoot, spine, spray, sprout, tiller, transport, transportation, twig), filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, rod, shoot, spine, spray, sprig, sprout, tendril, tiller), büyüme (accretion, accrual, augmentation, development, enlargement, expansion, growing, increase, juvenescence), büyümüş şey, ürün (child, crop, end product, fruit, graduate, harvest, offspring, produce, product, progeny, result, turnoff, yield). (various references)

Turkmen 

цsью (development). (various references)

Ukrainian

ріст (growing, plant, shoot, upgrowth), розвиток (amplification, cultivation, development, enlargement, evolution, progress), вирощування (growing, nurture), приріст (access, accession, accretion, augmentation, increase, increment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụ mùa m� ng cái đang sinh trưởng, u (tumor, tumour), sự tăng lên (access, augmentation, enlargement, rising), sự phát triển sự tăng tiến, sự lớn mạnh, sự khuếch trương sự sinh trưởng sự tr�"ng trọt. (various references)

Welsh

tyfiant, prifiant, cynnydd (increase, progress). (various references)

accretio, auctum, auctus, auctusque, augmentum, autus, frutex, incrementa, incrementum, materia, materiem, orti, ortu, ortum, ortus, ortusque, statura. (various references)

fradatha, fraxshne, fraxshni, uruthem, varedathem, vaxshaêca, vaxshathemca. (various references)

acreue. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "growth": growthier, growthiest, growthiness, growthinesses, growths, growthy. (additional references)

Words ending with "growth": antigrowth, ingrowth, intergrowth, nongrowth, outgrowth, overgrowth, regrowth, supergrowth, undergrowth, upgrowth. (additional references)

Words containing "growth": ingrowths, intergrowths, outgrowths, overgrowths, regrowths, supergrowths, undergrowths, upgrowths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Growth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crowth, Gowt, grath, grewt, groth, Grothe, grouth, groweth, growh, growt, Gruthu, rowth. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rowth, throw, whort, worth, wroth.

-2 letters: grot, grow, thro, trow, wort.

-3 letters: gor, got, hog, hot, how, ort, rho, rot, row, tho, tog, tor, tow, two, who, wog, wot.

-4 letters: go, ho, oh, or, ow, to, wo.

+1 letter: growths, growthy, warthog, wrought.

+2 letters: ingrowth, regrowth, throwing, upgrowth, warthogs, worthing.

+3 letters: downright, growthier, ingrowths, nongrowth, outgrowth, regrowths, rewrought, upgrowths.

+4 letters: antigrowth, brightwork, ghostwrite, ghostwrote, growthiest, outgrowths, outwrought, overgrowth, overweight, throughway, upthrowing.

+5 letters: brightworks, downrightly, ghostwriter, ghostwrites, growthiness, handwrought, intergrowth, misthrowing, outthrowing, outwhirling, overgrowths, overweights, overwrought, supergrowth, throughways, undergrowth.