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Showing words for SACCADE using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Saccade

cascade, saccade

5 Letter Words for Saccade

cacas, cades, cased, dacca, daces, ecads

4 Letter Words for Saccade

acad, acca, acce, aced, aces, asea, caca, cace, cade, cads, casa, case, ceas, ceca, dace, daes, dase, deas, desc, ecad, esca, sade, scad

3 Letter Words for Saccade

aas, acc, ace, adc, ade, ads, aes, ase, cad, csc, dae, das, dca, dea, dec, des, ead, eas, ecc, eds, esc, esd, saa, sac, sad, scd, sea, sec, sed

Definitions for Saccade

[1] the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
[2] Ophthalmology . the series of small, jerky movements of the eyes when changing focus from one point to another.
[3] the movement of the eye when it makes a sudden change of fixation, as in reading
[4] a sudden check given to a horse

Words nearby Saccade

sac fungus, sac-a-lait, sacajawea, sacaton, sacc, saccade, saccadic, saccate, sacchar-, saccharase, saccharate

Origin of Saccade

1720–30; < French saccade jerk, jolt, orig., movement of a horseman who abruptly pulls the reins, equivalent to Middle French saqu(er ) to pull violently (N dialectal variant of Old French sachier, ultimately derivative of sac sack1, hence presumably with sense “withdraw from a sack”) + -ade -ade1

Other words from Saccade

sac•cad′ ic (-kä′ dĭk ) adj.

Word origin for Saccade

C18: from French: a jerk on the reins of a horse