10 Letter Words for Excrescent
excrescent
8 Letter Words for Excrescent
crescent, excresce, excretes, exercent, externes
7 Letter Words for Excrescent
centers, centrex, entrees, excrete, extense, externe, externs, recense, retenes, scenter, secrete, sextern, teeners, tenrecs
6 Letter Words for Excrescent
censer, center, cernes, certes, cetene, creese, ctenes, ectene, ensete, enters, entrec, entree, erects, ernest, eterne, excern, exerce, exerts, exsect, exsert, extern, nester, recces, recent, rentee, rentes, resect, reseen, resene, resent, retene, scerne, screen, screet, secern, secret, serene, sexern, streen, strene, teener, teenes, tenrec, tenser, terces, ternes, treens
5 Letter Words for Excrescent
cense, cents, ceres, cerne, certs, ceste, cetes, creen, cresc, crest, crete, csect, csnet, ctene, eeten, enets, enter, entre, erect, ernes, esere, ester, estre, etens, execs, exect, exert, exsec, exter, neese, nerts, neter, netes, nexts, recce, reens, reese, reest, renet, rente, rents, resee, reset, resex, retes, rexen, rexes, scene, scent, scree, secre, sence, senex, sente, sexer, sneer, steen, steer, stere, stern, teene, teens, teers, tenes, tense, terce, terne, terns, terse, treen, trees, tsere, xeres
4 Letter Words for Excrescent
cees, cene, cens, cent, cere, cern, cert, cest, cete, cres, crex, crts, ecce, enes, ense, entr, eres, erne, erns, erse, erst, esne, eten, exec, exes, neer, neet, nese, nest, nete, nets, next, nsec, recs, rect, reen, rees, reet, rent, rest, rete, rets, scet, sect, seen, seer, sene, sent, sere, sert, sext, snee, sten, ster, stre, teen, teer, tees, tene, tens, tern, tree, tres
3 Letter Words for Excrescent
cee, cen, cer, cns, crc, crs, crt, csc, cst, cte, ctn, ctr, cts, ecc, ect, eec, een, eer, enc, ene, ens, ere, ern, ers, ert, esc, ese, esr, est, etc, exc, exr, ext, nee, net, rct, rec, ree, res, rex, rte, scr, sct, sec, see, sen, ser, set, sex, str, tec, tee, ten, ter, tes, tex, trs
Definitions for Excrescent
[1] growing abnormally out of something else; superfluous.
[2] Phonetics . (of a speech sound) inserted or added as a result of articulatory interaction or impetus, as the t- sound in sense (sents) or against (from Middle English ageynes ), without grammatical or historical justification; intrusive; parasitic.
[3] denoting, relating to, or resembling an abnormal outgrowth
[4] uselessly added; not essential; superfluous
[5] denoting or relating to a speech sound or letter inserted into a word without etymological justification, such as the b in nimble
Words nearby Excrescent
excorticate, excrement, excrementitious, excrescence, excrescency, excrescent, excreta, excrete, excretion, excretory, excretory duct
Origin of Excrescent
1600–10; < Latin excrēscent- (stem of excrēscēns ), present participle of excrēscere to grow out. See ex-1, crescent
Other words from Excrescent
ex·cres·cent·ly , adverb
su·per·ex·cres·cent , adjective
su·per·ex·cres·cent·ly , adverb
un·ex·cres·cent , adjective
un·ex·cres·cent·ly , adverb
Word origin for Excrescent
C17: from Latin excrēscēns, from excrēscere, from crēscere to grow
