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2,610 words match “CENT”

ADOLESCENT a. 2 definitions
childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.
ALBESCENT a.
Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
ALKALESCENT a.
Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.
ANTHROPOCENTRIC a.
Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.
ANTIPUTREFACTIVE; ANTIPUTRESCENT a.
Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
APLACENTAL a.
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
APLACENTATA n.
Mammals which have no placenta.
ARBORESCENT a.
endritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.
ASCENT n. 4 definitions
The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton.
BARYCENTRIC a.
Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
BENEFICENT n.
ng good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.
BENEFICENTIAL a.
Relating to beneficence.
BENEFICENTLY adv.
In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
BICENTENARY a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.
BICENTENNIAL a. 3 definitions
Consisting of two hundred years.
BICRESCENTIC a.
Having the form of a double crescent.
BUCENTAUR n. 2 definitions
A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
CANDESCENT a.
Glowing; luminous; incandescent.
CANESCENT a.
Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
CAULESCENT a.
Having a leafy stem.
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