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Showing words for RECESSIVE using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Recessive

ecrevisse, recessive

8 Letter Words for Recessive

receives, screeves, scrieves, services, severies

7 Letter Words for Recessive

cerevis, cerises, creeses, cresive, ivresse, receive, revisee, revises, screeve, scrieve, scrives, service, veeries

6 Letter Words for Recessive

cerise, cesser, creese, crevis, crises, eceses, ecesis, essive, everse, recess, reeves, reises, reives, resees, revies, revise, rieves, screes, screve, scries, scrive, series, serves, severe, severs, sevier, sevres, siever, sieves, sivers, verses

5 Letter Words for Recessive

ceres, cesse, cires, cives, cress, cries, crise, criss, eerie, erics, erses, esere, essee, evese, icers, isere, reese, reeve, reice, reive, resee, revie, rices, rieve, rises, rives, scree, secre, seers, seirs, seise, seres, seric, serve, sever, sicer, sices, sieve, sires, siver, veers, verse, vices, viers, vises

4 Letter Words for Recessive

cees, cere, cess, cire, cive, civs, cres, cris, eire, eres, eric, erie, eris, erse, eses, esse, ever, eves, icer, ices, ieee, ires, recs, rees, reve, revs, rice, ries, risc, rise, rive, scsi, secs, seer, sees, seir, seis, sere, sers, serv, sese, seve, sice, sics, sier, sire, sirs, sise, sris, svce, veer, vees, veri, vers, vese, vice, vier, vies, vise, viss

3 Letter Words for Recessive

cee, cer, cie, cir, cis, civ, crs, csi, eec, eer, eir, ere, ers, esc, ese, esr, ess, eve, ice, ire, irs, ise, ive, rec, ree, rei, res, rev, rie, riv, sci, scr, sec, see, sei, ser, sic, sie, sir, sis, sri, sse, svc, vcr, vee, vei, ver, vic, vie, vis, vss

Definitions for Recessive

[1] tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
[2] Genetics . of or relating to a recessive.
[3] Phonetics . (of an accent) showing a tendency to recede from the end toward the beginning of a word.
[4] that one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same cell or organism.
[5] the trait or character determined by such an allele. Compare dominant(def 6) .
[6] tending to recede or go back; receding
[7] genetics (of a gene) capable of producing its characteristic phenotype in the organism only when its allele is identical (of a character) controlled by such a gene Compare dominant (def. 4)
[8] linguistics (of stress) tending to be placed on or near the initial syllable of a polysyllabic word
[9] genetics a recessive gene or character an organism having such a gene or character

Words related to Recessive

receding, dormant, inactive, latent, suspended, regressive

Words nearby Recessive

recessional, recessional moraine, recessionary, recessionista, recessionproof, recessive, recessive character, recessive gene, recessive inheritance, recessive trait, rechabite

Origin of Recessive

1665–75; < Latin recess(us ) (see recess) + -ive

Other words from Recessive

re·ces·sive·ly , adverb
re·ces·sive·ness , noun
non·re·ces·sive , adjective
un·re·ces·sive , adjective
un·re·ces·sive·ly , adverb

Synonyms for Recessive

receding, relapsing, dormant, inactive, latent, regressive, suspended