Sconce

Definitions: Sconce

Sconce

Noun

1. A candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall.

2. A forbidding stronghold.

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

Date "sconce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Mining

Slang in 1811

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

Synonym: Sconce

Defense

Hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum; (refuge); keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls.

Intellect

Pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story.

Penalty

Verb: fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat; estreat, forfeit.

Summit

Architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature; tympanum; ceiling; (covering).

Crosswords: Sconce

Don't you know I'll smite you in the sconce with this truncheon? (The Golf Specialist; writing credit: David Belasco; Waldemar Young)

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Eldridge R. Fenimore Johnson house (Moorestown, N.J.) Two-light metal electric wall sconce. Perspective sketch.Credit: Library of Congress.

Entrance with etched glass door at left, sconce, and open window, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Beginning with "sconce": sconce-torches.

Albanian

strehë (asylum, awning, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, pad, peak, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, shade, shed, shelter), mbajtëse qiriu, kolibe (hovel, hut, kennel), kasolle (bothy, cabin, cot, hut, shack, shanty, shelter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حاملة المصباح الجدارية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стенен свещник, убежище (asylum, citadel, harborage, harbourage, haunt, haven, port, protection, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, sheet anchor, shelter), халба бира (pint of beer), теме (corona, crown, pate, pericranium, poll, vertex), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, topknot), окоп (ditch, entrenchment, trench), закритие, аплик, подслон (harborage, harbour, harbourage, housing, inn, nest, protection, refuge, rest, roof, shelter). (various references)

Czech

víceramenný svícen, nástìnný podstavec pod lampu, lebka (cranium, skull), dùvtip (perspicacity, quickness, wit), úkryt (cache, cover, covert, hideaway, hiding, hiding place, lurking place, rest, shelter), šikovnost (dexterity, finesse, ingeniousness). (various references)

Finnish

seinävalaisin (bracket lamp, wall light), lampetti (bracket candlestick). (various references)

French

girandole. (various references)

German

Wandleuchter (sconces, wall bracket). (various references)

Greek 

κηροστάτησ τοίχου, προφυλάσσω (protect, screen, shelter), απλίκα, οχύρωμα (bulwark, entrenchment, fastness, fortification, rampart, vallasion). (various references)

Hungarian

gyertyatartó (candelabra, candelabrum, candle holder, candlestick). (various references)

Italian

candeliere (candelabra, candelabrum a branched candlestick or lamp with several lights, candlestick, handhold stanchion, rail stanchion, stanchion). (various references)

Pig Latin

oncescay

Portuguese

palmatória (candle jar, fervency), ocultar (Bury, cache, conceal, couch, cover, hide, hugger mugger, occult, screen, secrete, smother), multar (amerce, fine, mule), fortificar (embattled, fortify, invigorate, secure, strengthen, wall), candeeiro, cachola (addle-pate, coconut, nob, noddy, nut, patella, twopenny), bugia (bougie, candle, candlestick), baluarte (bastion, bulwark, fortify, paraphernalia, rampart, redoubt, stronghold, supporter), arandela, anteparo (bulkhead, louver, rail, screen, shade, shield, shroud), abrigo (anchor, bunker, cover, covert, coverture, harbor, harborage, harbour, harbourage, haven, home, hostel, housing, nest, refuge, retreat, roof, screen, shelter). (various references)

Romanian

tranşee (approaches, chase, cut, cutting, entrenchment, Fosse, gully, sap, trench), proteja (aid, defend, glaze, protect, screen, secure, shelter, support), pricepere (ability, capability, cleverness, competence, fitness, gumption, ingenuousness, knack, know how, management, qualification, savvy, skill, understanding), penaliza (fine, penalize), dovleac (chump, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, pumpkin), colibã (booth, hovel, humpy, hut, hutch, Lodge, shack, shanty), cascã (head-phones, helmet), candelabru de perete, adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support), întãriturã (patch). (various references)

Russian 

сообразительность (acumen, acuteness, cleverness, quickness, sagacity), канделябр (candelabrum, chandelier), голова или череп, подсвечник (candelabrum, candlestick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zidni svećnjak, zaštitni rov. (various references)

Spanish

palmatoria (candle holder, candle jar, candlestick), fortín (Fort, outpost, pillbox), candelabro de pared. (various references)

Swedish

ljushållare (candle holder), lampett. (various references)

Thai

เชิงเทียนที่วางอยู่บนกำแพงหรือกระจกอื่น ๆ, ป้อมเล็กๆ. (various references)

Turkish

sofra kurallarına uymayana bira vermemek, saksı (bean, chump, crock, flowerpot, jardiniere, noodle, pot), toprak siper, kelle (bean, chump, head, nob, pate, poll), kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy), duvarda şamdan desteği, cezalandırmak (castigate, chastise, cop it, correct, crime, discipline, dish out, give smb. gyp, penalize, plague, punish, scourge, slate, smirk), ceza (correction, criminal, fine, forfeit, imposition, infliction, pain, penal, penalty, punishment, punitive, recompense, retribution), baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, top), aplik. (various references)

Ukranian 

укріпляти (consolidate, firm, fortify, tighten), свічник (candelabrum, stick), штрафувати (assess, estreat, mulct, penalize), штраф (doomage, fine, forfeit, mulct, penalization, penalty), шанець, бра (bracket). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chân đèn, bình phong (screen), đế nến chân đèn có móc treo v� o tường. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sconce": sconced, sconces. (additional references)

Words ending with "sconce": ensconce. (additional references)

Words containing "sconce": disconcert, disconcerted, disconcerting, disconcertingly, disconcertment, disconcertments, disconcerts, ensconced, ensconces, misconceive, misconceived, misconceiver, misconceivers, misconceives, misconceiving, misconception, misconceptions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sconce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conce, escence, esconce, Saconnex, scence, Sciaco, scinc, scince, scinde, scnse, Scolnick, sconey, sconge, sconk, Scoonie, scucca, skance, sonce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cones, cosec, onces, scone, secco.

-2 letters: cone, cons, eons, noes, nose, once, ones, sone.

-3 letters: con, cos, ens, eon, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sec, sen, son.

-4 letters: en, es, ne, no, oe, on, os, so.

+1 letter: conches, concise, sconced, sconces.

+2 letters: cocaines, cockneys, coenacts, concaves, conceals, concedes, conceits, concents, concepts, concerns, concerts, conchies, conciser, conduces, confects, connects, convects, cornices, cosecant, croceins, cyclones, ensconce.

+3 letters: accentors, accession, arccosine, cancerous, chaconnes, cicerones, cocineras, cockiness, cocounsel, coercions, cogencies, coincides, colicines, commences, conceders, conceives, conceptus, concertos, concisely, concisest, conclaves, concludes, concourse, concretes, concussed, concusses, conducers, conscribe, convinces, coprinces, corncakes, corniches, cornicles, cosecants, crescendo, croceines, economics, ensconced, ensconces, occidents, scutcheon, tectonics, zecchinos.

+4 letters: accessions, accretions, anorectics, arccosines, bioscience, cacodemons, calcinoses, cancellous, chalcogens, chloracnes, choiceness, chronicles, coagencies, coalescent, coalescing, cocainizes, cochineals, cockneyish, cockneyism, cocounsels, coenocytes, cofinances, coherences, commencers, concealers, conceivers, concenters, concession, concessive, concierges, concluders, conclusive, concocters, concourses, concretism, concretist, concubines, concussive, condescend, confiscate, conicities, connecters, connectors, conscience, conscribed, conscribes, consecrate, consociate, consonance, conspectus, contactees, convalesce, convectors, convincers, corncrakes, cornetcies, cosmogenic, covalences, crescendos, crooknecks, cryogenics, decoctions, disconcert, disconnect, encroaches, endoscopic, ensconcing, escutcheon, geoscience, iconoscope, innocences, misconnect, neoclassic, niccolites, nonascetic, nonscience, nonsuccess, nucleonics, occasioned, occurrents, picosecond, reconciles, reconnects, recontacts, reconvicts, scutcheons, suboceanic, succession, synecdoche, uncoalesce, unconcerns.

+5 letters: accessional, accessioned, accompanies, accordances, actinomyces, adolescence, archdeacons, bescorching, biosciences, cacophonies, cancerously, carcinogens, cenospecies, chancellors, chatoyances, checkpoints, choanocytes, chroniclers, cinchonines, cladocerans, clonicities, coalescence, cockinesses, cockneyfies, cockneyisms, cocounseled, coelacanths, coexistence, cognizances, cognoscente, cognoscenti, cognoscible, coherencies, coinsurance, colchicines, collections, colonelcies, compactness, competences, compliances, concavities, conceptions, conceptuses, concertinas, concertinos, concertizes, concessions, conciliates, conciseness, concrescent, concretions, concretisms, concretists, concretizes, concurrents, condescends, condolences, conductress, confections, conferences, confidences, confiscable, confiscated, confiscates, confluences, congruences, conjectures, connections, connectives, connivances, consciences, consciouses, conscripted, consecrated, consecrates, consecrator, consecution, consecutive, consequence, conservancy, consistence, consistency, consociated, consociates, consonances, conspecific, constancies, constricted, constructed, continences, contumacies, convalesced, convalesces, convections, conversance, conversancy, conveyances, coparceners, cornerbacks, corpulences, corrections, correctness, cosmetician, cotransduce, counteracts, covalencies, covariances, cowpunchers, crescendoed, crescendoes, cyclodienes, cycloserine, deconstruct, decrescendo, desiccation, disconcerts, disconnects, discordance, egocentrics, electronics, encomiastic, encroachers, escutcheons, exsiccation, florescence, geosciences, iconicities, iconoscopes, inconscient, innocencies, insouciance, leucocidins, mesocyclone, microclines, microinches, microsecond, misconceive, misconnects, monocracies, neocortices, nonascetics, nonconcerns, nonsciences, nonspecific, occupancies, occurrences, omniscience, opalescence, picoseconds, postconcert, preconcerts, psychogenic, reaccession, recommences, reconceives, reconcilers, reconstruct, reconvinces, successions, synecdoches, synecdochic, technocrats, uncoalesced, uncoalesces, zootechnics.

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