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Definitions: Allotment |
AllotmentNoun1. A share set aside for a specific purpose. 2. The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allotment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
Etymology: Allotment \Al*lot"ment\, noun. [Compare to Old French alotement, French allotement.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | In conjunction with commodity support programs, acreage allotments and marketing quotas serve to limit a farm's output or volume marketed. For federal lands grazing, an allotment is an area designated and managed for grazing of livestock. The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service stipulate the number of livestock and time period (season) of use for each allotment under their respective jurisdictions. (references) |
Finance | The amount of a new issue of securities which is assigned(allotted)to a subscriber to that issue by a syndicate, or investment company. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The distribution of batched goods to predetermined stacking locations. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military | The temporary change of assignment of tactical air forces between subordinate commands. The authority to allot is vested in the commander having operational command. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The entry of a designated frequency channel in an agreed plan, adopted by a component conference, for use by one or more administrations for a(terrestrial or space)radiocommunication service in one or more identified countries or geographical areas and under specified conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AllotmentSynonyms: allocation (n), apportioning (n), apportionment (n), parceling (n), parcelling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Noun: apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution; division, deal; repartition, partition; administration. |
Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte. | |
Arrangement | Noun: arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting; Verb: assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Allotment |
| English words defined with "allotment": Allottee, Allottery ♦ Misallotment ♦ short division. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "allotment": Acreage allotment, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, April ♦ Carrying capacity, Christmas bonus, community agistment area, community allotment, County committees ♦ DIRECTOR, SUMMER SESSIONS ♦ EDITOR, TELEGRAPH, editor, wire, entryman ♦ FLIGHT-CREW-TIME CLERK, Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 ♦ issue for non-cash consideration, issue otherwise than for cash ♦ Lines ♦ MEDIA CLERK ♦ No Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1982 ♦ Part, Portion, PROJECT DIRECTOR, project manager ♦ Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936, split-up, stacking allotment, Stags. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "allotment": Allottery. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Allotment Wives (1945) | |
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 | Sunset 35 mles north of Belle Fourche on Porcupine Allotment.Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Sunset 35 miles north of Belle Fourche on the Porcupine Creek Allotment.Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Sunset 35 mles north of Belle Fourche on Porcupine Creek Allotment.Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | South Dakota sunset on Porcupine Creek grazing allotment.Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Sunset 35 miles north of Belle Fourche on Porcupine Creek Allotment.Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Cattle on a grazing allotment parcel near Colockum Creek, Washington.Credit: Unknown. |
 | Farmer with his allotment of cotton seed which he has just bought cooperatively at Roanoke Farms, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Herman Melville | Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A frequent method used by gangs is to follow a car, carjack the vehicle and its occupants and force them to drive to an automated teller machine to withdraw the maximum daily allotment of money. (references) | |
Guangdong dose not receive many foreign loans in the component industry except a $15 to 20 million from the Spanish government in the mid 1990s. Now Guangdong plans to fund its automotive parts and components projects through a number of sources such as such as fees, private sector investments, multilateral lending, and government allotment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Zambia | With an approved investment license, an investor is eligible for up to five expatriate work/resident permits, but in practice, companies have had difficulties in securing their allotment. (references) |
Syria | The current allotment of non-NPF deputies is 83, ensuring a permanent absolute majority for the Ba'ath Party-dominated NPF. Elections for the 250 seats in the People's Council last took place in 1998. (references) | |
Bahrain | Takaful, the only Shari'a-compliant insurance firm in Bahrain, has adopted a "profit-sharing" policy, in which a certain allotment of company funds not used to reimburse claims is redistributed to its customers. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | The federal budget for the year provided for a $26 million (100 million RM) allotment to the Orang Asli community to eradicate poverty, improve education and social welfare, and improve infrastructure of resettlement villages. (references) |
Political Rights | Syria | The Government has allowed independent non-NPF candidates to run for a limited allotment of seats in the 250-member People's Council. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The World Bank granted Ukraine the last tranche of the current financial sector adjustment loan (SAL) at the end of January 2001, after its board has decided to cut the allotment from USD 100 million to USD 60 million following its December mission which found that Ukraine had not implemented the credit agreement in full. (references) |
Worker Rights | Ukraine | However, the law gives unions a say in labor safety and in the allotment of newly built public housing. (references) |
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| "Allotment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Allotment" is used about 263 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.62% | 262 | 18,239 |
| Noun (common) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 263 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "allotment": allotment note ♦ allotment of frequencies ♦ community allotment ♦ Cottage allotment ♦ frequency allotment ♦ stacking allotment. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "allotment": allotment-holders, allotment-holding, allotment-sized. | |
Ending with "allotment": re-allotment. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
military allotment | 32 |
allotment | 25 |
allotment mac | 16 |
allotment form | 7 |
allotment army form | 5 |
allotment form military | 4 |
allotment garden | 4 |
allotment center military | 3 |
navy allotment form | 3 |
act allotment general | 3 |
allotment internal revenue | 3 |
allotment company military | 3 |
allotment army | 2 |
allotment wheat | 2 |
allotment cabin titanic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "allotment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pjesë (block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), ndarje (bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting), caktim (allocation, appointment, assessment, assignation, assignment, constitution, demarcation, nomination, statement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حصة (allocation, class, class period, cut, dividend, lesson, lot, part, percentage, period, portion, proportion, quantum, ration, share, slice, whack), تقسيم (apportionment, division, parceling, parting, partition, section, segmentation, split), توزيع (allocation, apportionment, delivery, dispensation, distribution, divide, division, parceling, part), تخصيص (apportionment, destination, specialization, specification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпределяне (allocation, dispensation, division, sorting, stowage), възлагане (allocation, assignation, assignment), полагаема се част, парче земя (parcel, plot), дял (allocation, concern, contingent, deal, dos, interest, lobe, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 分配地段. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zahrádka (rack, yard), přidìlování (assignment), parcela (parcel, plat, plot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | andel (no par value share, no-par stock, no-par value share, share, share without par value, stacking allotment), allotment, udstykning (agricultural consolidation, consolidation of fragmented holdings, conveyancing, conveyancing of part of atitle, creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation of estates, land consolidation, parcellation, parcelling, parcelling of sites, re-allocation of agricultural land holdings, re-allotment of land, regrouping of lands, reparcelation, reparcelling out of small holdings, splitting up of holdings, subdivision, transfer of ownership), udlodning (stacking allotment), tildeling (allocation, allowance, apportionment, assignment, bonus), repartition (stacking allotment), lageropdeling (stacking allotment), fordeling (allocation, breakdown, dispatching, dissemination, distribution, galaxy, make-up, partition, regulating, shaping, spread, spreading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verkaveling (creation of allotments, division of land, housing development, housing estate, parcelling, subdivision), verdeling (allocation, apportionment, distribution, division, fractionation, hanging, partition, sectorial analysis, segregation, spread), toewijzingsakte (assigning, attribution), toewijzing (allocation, allowance, assigning, assignment, attribution, bonus, stacking allotment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تسهیم , سهم (Arrow, Contribution, Lot, Portion, Proportion, Quota, Ratio, Ration, Scantling, Share, Slice, Whack), جیره (Stipend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varallisuudensiirtotoimi (assigning, attribution), varaaminen (provisioning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lotissement, attribution (allocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zuteilung (allocation, apportionment, assignment, dispensation, handout, proration, ration), zuweisung (allocation, assignation, assignment, binding), anteil (concern, contribution, cut, interest, interesting, no par value share, no-par stock, no-par value share, part, Parthian, piece, portion, proportion, quantity, quota, share, share without par value, stake, stint, stock, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατανομή (allocation, apportionment, attribution, distribution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קצב" (allowance, dole, limit, pension, stipend), "קצא" (allocation, reserving, setting aside), "קצב" (allowance, appropriation, setting aside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiosztás (allocation, distribution, handout, issue), veteményeskert (market garden, seed plot), juttatás (allocation, allowance, assignment, benefit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembagian (distribution, division, sharing), jatah (allocation, entitlement, quota), bagian (division, lot, offshoot, part, place, portion, proportion, section, segment, share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assegnazione (allocation, assignation, assignment, binding, delivery, destination, endowment, entail, entailment, grant, issuance, stacking allotment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 配分 (distribution), 割賦 (hire-purchase, payment in installments, quota), 割"額 (allocation), 割"て (allocation, assignment, quota, rationing), 割" (allocation, assignment, quota, rationing), 割付け (allocation, assignment, distribution, editing, layout), 割付 (allocation, assignment, distribution, editing, layout), 割り振り (assignment, quota, rationing), 割り"て額 (allocation), 割り"て (allocation, assignment, quota, rationing), 割り付け (allocation, assignment, distribution, editing, layout), 宛い (arrangement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かっぷ (hire-purchase, payment in installments, quota), わっぷ (hire-purchase, payment in installments, quota), わりふり (assignment, quota, rationing), わりつけ (allocation, assignment, distribution, editing, layout), わりあてがく (allocation), わりあて (allocation, assignment, quota, rationing), あてがい (arrangement), はいぶ" (distribution, hear, listen to, prose with a poetic haiku flavor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부금. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | garey (arbour, garden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allotmentay atribuição (allocation, ascription, assignment, attribution, placement). (various references) atribuire (affiliation, assigning, assignment, assumption, attribution), alocare (allocation, apportionment, grant), alocaţie (allocation, allowance, appropriation, assignment, benefit, dole, grant, grant-in-aid, gratuity), repartizare (allocation, apportionment, assignation, division, ordering), repartiţie (allocation, distribution, division, repartition), lot de pãmânt, distribuire (admeasurement, administration, apportionment, collocation, dealing out, dispensation, distribution, division, repartition), împroprietãrire (appropriation, assignment), împãrţealã (division, spoil). (various references) участок земли (grounds, lot, parcel, plat, plot), распределение (allocation, aportionment, apportionment, dealing, dispensation, distribution, mappings, spreading, timing), доля (content, cup, dole, fraction, lobe, moiety, portion, quanta, quota, quotum, share, share of). (various references) raspodela (allocation, apportionment, distributing, distribution), dodeljivanje (bestowal, conferment), bašta (garden, parterre). (various references) asignación (allocation, allowance, appropriation, assignation, assignment, assignment of frequencies, bonus, compensation for accidents when on duty or occupational diseases, pocket money, settlement, settling). (various references) lott (fortunes, lot, part, plot, share). (various references) tahsis (allocation, assignment, designation, disposition), paylaştırma (allocation, apportionment, sharing out, split up), pay etme, pay (allocation, apportionment, concern, cut, hand, interest, kickback, margin, moiety, numerator, part, portion, proportion, quanta, quantum, quota, share, shareout, slice, snack, take, toll, whack), kiraya verilen küçük arazi, hisse (holding, interest, kickback, lot, moiety, percent, portion, quantum, quota, share, shareout, slice), bölüştürme (allocation, apportionment, distribution). (various references) розподіл (administration, allocation, assignment, break down, classification, dealing, dispensation, distribution, division, ordering, ordonnance, partition), що відда"ться в оренду, частка (ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), талан (bonzer, fortune, luck), виділення (appropriation, assignment, distillation, emission, emphasis, excretion, exudation, waste), призначення (administration, allocation, appointment, assignation, assignment, election), ділянка (area, field, lot, parcel, piece, township), доля (chance, cup, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, karma, lot, nemesis, portion, predestination). (various references) sự phân phối (delivery, distribution), sự phân công (assignment), sự định phần phần được chia. (various references) rhandir (district, division), cyfran (part, portion, share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accepta, acceptam, acceptamque, acceptas, acceptis, acceptisque, sors. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "allotment": allotments. (additional references) | |
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"Allotment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allement, allotement, allotmenteer, allottment, alotment, alottment, ralliement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "allotment" (pronounced ulÄ"tmunt) |
| 5 | -t m u n t | abatement, adjustment, apartment, appointment, assortment, commitment, compartment, comportment, contentment, department, deportment, disappointment, disenchantment, disinvestment, divestment, enactment, enchantment, enlistment, excitement, incitement, indictment, investment, maltreatment, misstatement, mistreatment, ointment, overstatement, presentment, readjustment, reappointment, recruitment, reenactment, reinstatement, reinvestment, resentment, restatement, statement, treatment, understatement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, appeasement, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, complement, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, deployment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, encampment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inclement, increment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, realignment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resettlement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-m-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: lomenta, mantlet, matelot, omental, telamon, tollman, tollmen, tomenta. | |
-3 letters: etalon, lament, latent, latten, loment, mallet, maltol, mantel, mantle, melton, mental, molten, mottle, notate, omenta, talent, tolane, tonlet. | |
-4 letters: allot, alone, ament, amole, anole, atoll, atone, laten, latte, leant, leman, lemon, lento, llano, lotte, matte, meant, melon, menta, metal, molal, monte, motel, motet, motte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-m-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: allotments. | |
+4 letters: forestallment, metallization, monometallist. | |
+5 letters: forestallments, malcontentedly, metallizations, monometallists, multipotential, noninstallment. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 6F 74 6D 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. --- - -- . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l o t m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 006F 0074 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878818679718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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