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Definition: Pungent |
PungentAdjective1. Sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell; "tasting the pungent wood sorrel"; "pungent curry"; "a pungent smell of burning sulfur". 2. Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pungent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1747. (references) |
Etymology: Pungent \Pun"gent\, adjective. [Latin expression pungens, -entis, present participle of pungere, punctum, to prick. Compare to Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, noun, Puncheon, Punctilio, Punt, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PungentSynonyms: barbed (adj), biting (adj), mordacious (adj), nipping (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bland (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Condiment | Verb: season, spice, flavor, spice up. (render pungent). |
Feeling | Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. |
Pungency | Verb: be pungent. Adjective: bite the tongue. |
Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory . | |
Vigor | Spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pungent |
| Specialty definitions using "pungent": dicyanogen, Dutch weed ♦ Heart, Horse-mint ♦ Limbourg, Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese ♦ Netherweed ♦ rosin spirit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pungent": Pungence. (references) |
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 | Compact orange pepper plants bear upright, pungent fruit. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by John Stommel.. |  | A cloth saturated with some pungent liquid was whipped across his face. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The pleasant art of caricature--A pungent page of character studies, from the pen of a newcomer / by Miguel Covarrubias. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Feces usually are dark and tubular, have a pungent odor (usually worse than dog or cat feces), and often contain undigested seeds or other food items. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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Dennis Miller | Now women too can experience the blue-grey glow of fluorescent lighting, the warm, pungent stench of burned coffee, the soul-numbing Sisyphean routine of completing a week's work, getting a week's pay, then doing it all over again Monday morning. |
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| "Pungent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pungent" is used about 173 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) | 100% | 173 | 23,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pungent": be pungent ♦ render pungent. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pungent": pungent-smelling, pungent-sweet. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pungent stench | 19 |
pungent | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "pungent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i athët (sour, tart), djegës (acrid, fiery, hot, piquant, poignant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محرق (blazing, burning, focal point, focus, mordant), لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), حريف (acrid, cayenne, hot, nippy, piquant, poignant, sharp), شكس (cross-grained, discordant, fractious, petulant, shrewish, tough, untoward, wayward), شرس (gnarl, grim, ill, ratty, ruthless, sour, surly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), хаплив (acerb, acerbic, acidulous, caustic, mordant, peppery, poignant, scratchy, severe, shrewd, tart), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), лют (angry, biting, fiery, hot, peppery, salt), пикантен (gamy, gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salacious, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty), изразителен (emphatic, expressive, meaningful, nervous, speaking, talking, telling, terse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辣 (hot), 辛辣 (Piquancy, Piquant, Pungency), 嗆 (against wind, choke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, incisive, keen, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, screechy, shrill, strident, sweeping), pichlavý (prickly, thorny), palèivý (blazing, burning, torrid, urgent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skarp stimulus (pungent stimulus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scherpte (acerbity, acrimony, acuity, sharpness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرادویه , نوک تیز (Acute, Picked, Rack, Taper), گوشه دار (Angular, Cant, Piquant, Poignant, Pointy), تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Sharp, Shrill, Trenchant), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), سوزناک (Pathetic, Plaintive), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pistävä (cutting, sarcastic), kirpeä (bitter, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mordant (punch), déchirant, caustique, acerbe, âcre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), stechend (biting, jabbing, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, pricking, prickly, sharp, stinging, twinging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πικάντικοσ (piquant, racy), τσουχτερόσ (crisp, keen, nipping, nippy, piquant, spicy), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מריר (acrid, bitter, tart), עוקצ י (cuspidal, cutting, sarcastic, waspish), "וקר י (barbed, prickly, spiky, spiny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | stimuláló (stimulating, suggestive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pedas (acrid, caustic, hot, poignant, seasoned), sengak (obnoxious, piercing in smell), breng-brengan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nipping, nippy, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, racy, scathing, sharp, stinging), acre (acrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ぴよぴよ鳴く (becoming tense, biting, burning the tongue, hot, racy, smart, sting, tingle, to cheep, to peep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぴりっとくる (biting, hot, racy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 매운 (spicy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kialgoil, geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), garg (acrid, austere, bitter, brusque, harsh, tuneless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ungentpay pungente (bitter, harrowing, penetrating, piquant, salt, smart, stinging), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home, hot, juicy, mordacious, nippy, peppery, poignant, racy, risque, rough, salty, savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), sarcástico (acrid, backhanded, ironic, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, sneering, squint-eyed), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), cáustico (caustic, corrosive, mordacious, pepper, tart, virulent), agudo (acerbic, acute, argute, brazen, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out-and-out, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, poignant, sharp, shrill, smart, treble, trenchant), acre (acerbic, acre, acrid, bitter, mordacious, poignant, sharp, sour, tart, vinegary). (various references) picant (attractive, fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, salt, Savory, savoury, snappy, spicy), pişcãtor, iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, personal, pungently, scathing, scorching), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), înţepãtor (biting, cutting, piquant, prickly, sharp, stinging, strong). (various references) едкий (acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, scalding, scathing, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references) searbh (acrid, bitter, disagreeable, sour), garg (acrid, bitter, fierce, tart, wrathful). (various references) opor (austere, sec, sharp, tart). (various references) punzante (biting, breathtaking, piercing, poignant, pricking, shooting, stinging), picante (biting, gamy, hot, itchy, juicy, naughty, nutty, peppery, piquancy, piquant, pointed, pungency, raciness, racy, salty, spice, spicy), mordaz (acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, blistering, cutting, incisive, mordacious, mordant, nipping, peppery, poignant, pointed, scathing, scorching, searing, sharp), desgarrador (heart rending, piercing), acre (acre, acrid, acute, caustic, gruff, keen, mordant, sharp, sour). (various references) skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), amper (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) sivri (acute, beaked, edged, jagged, nipping, pointed, sharp, sharp pointed, spinose, spinous, spired, spiry), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), keskin kokulu, keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), dokunaklı (acidulous, affective, barbed, biting, eloquent, expressive, incisive, mordant, moving, pathetic, poignant, pointed, scathing, sour, speaking, touching, trenchant), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references) шпичастий, кілкий, гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), пікантний (flavored, flavoured, nippy, nutty, piquant, purple, salty, spicy, zestful), дошкульний (mordacious, nipping, waspish, waspy). (various references) buốt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acer, acris, aspera, asperam, asperas, asperum. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "pungent": pungently. (additional references) | |
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"Pungent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pangent, Panogena, pengen, Pengwern, penigent, Pincent, Pingeot, Ponente, poniente, pugent, pugnent, pundent, punen, punent, pungens, Punget, pungetn, pungeunt, pungment, pungunt, Pynsent, Spungen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pungent" (pronounced pu"njunt) |
| 5 | -n j u n t | astringent, contingent, stringent, tangent. |
| 4 | -j u n t | agent, argent, cogent, convergent, detergent, diligent, divergent, emergent, exigent, indigent, indulgent, insurgent, intelligent, intransigent, negligent, pageant, reagent, Regent, resurgent, sergeant, urgent. |
| 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, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, 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, convalescent, convenient, convent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indignant, indolent, inducement, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, integument, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: punnet, unpent. | |
-2 letters: getup, unpeg, unpen. | |
-3 letters: gent, genu, pent, pung, punt, tune, tung. | |
-4 letters: eng, gen, get, gnu, gun, gut, net, nun, nut, peg, pen, pet, pug, pun, put, teg, ten, tug, tun, tup. | |
-5 letters: en, et, ne, nu, pe, un, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-n-p-t-u" | |
+2 letters: pungently, repugnant. | |
+3 letters: centupling, preuniting, unpregnant, unstepping. | |
+4 letters: enrapturing, outpreening, outspending, repugnantly. | |
+5 letters: blueprinting, interrupting, turpentining, typefounding, unappetizing, unpretending, unstoppering, unsuspecting. | |
| 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: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 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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