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2,610 words match “CENT”

ERUBESCENT a.
Red, or reddish; blushing. Johnson.
EVANESCENT a. 2 definitions
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.
EVANESCENTLY adv.
; imperceptibly. Chalmers.
EXCANDESCENT a.
White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.
EXCENTRAL a.
Out of the center.
EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL a. 2 definitions
Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
EXCENTRICITY n.
. (Math.) Same as Eccentricity.
EXCRESCENT a.
in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
EXCRESCENTIAL a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.
EXERCENT a.
Practicing; professional. [Obs.] "Every exercent advocate." Ayliffe.
FERVESCENT a.
Growing hot.
FLAVESCENT a.
Turning yellow; yellowish.
FLORESCENT a.
Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
FLUORESCENT a.
Having the property of fluorescence.
FREMESCENT a.
Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.
FRUTESCENT a.
Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
GANGRENESCENT a.
Tending to mortification or gangrene.
GEOCENTRIC; GEOCENTRICAL a. 2 definitions
Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.
GEOCENTRICALLY adv.
In a geocentric manner.
GLAUCESCENT a.
Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.
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