9 Letter Words for Stridency
stridency
8 Letter Words for Stridency
encyrtid, incysted, stycerin, syndetic
7 Letter Words for Stridency
cinders, cindery, cistern, credits, cretins, cystein, cystine, density, destiny, dictery, directs, discern, increst, rescind, sintery, snidery, synetic, tinders, tindery
6 Letter Words for Stridency
cedrin, centry, certis, ciders, cidery, cinder, cinter, cisted, citers, credit, cretin, crined, crines, crinet, cristy, cryste, cysted, cystid, cystin, descry, destin, destry, dicers, diners, direct, direst, dirten, disert, disney, dister, dreint, dreynt, drices, driest, drysne, edicts, encist, encyst, endict, erinys, estrin, incest, inerts, insect, insert, inters, nicest, nicety, niters, nitery, nitred, recits, reisty, resiny, rident, rinsed, scient, scride, scried, scrine, scrite, scryde, scryne, sentry, sidney, sinder, sindry, sinter, sireny, snider, snidey, steric, sterid, sterin, stired, stride, strind, strine, styred, sycite, synced, syndet, syndic, syrtic, teinds, tendry, tinder, tinsey, trends, trendy, triced, trices, triens, trined, trines
5 Letter Words for Stridency
cedis, cedry, ceint, centi, cents, cerin, certs, certy, cesti, cetin, cider, cides, cines, cires, cited, citer, cites, creds, crest, cried, cries, criey, crine, crise, crits, cryst, csnet, cytes, decry, deist, deity, dents, denty, deric, derns, detin, deynt, dicer, dices, dicey, dicts, dicty, diets, diety, diner, dines, dints, dirts, dirty, distn, distr, disty, diter, dites, ditsy, drent, drest, dreys, drice, dries, dsect, dyers, dynes, edict, edits, entry, entsi, entsy, erics, escry, icers, ident, idest, inert, inset, instr, inter, iters, neist, nerds, nerdy, nerts, nesty, nicer, nides, niter, nitry, recit, recti, reins, reist, rends, rents, resid, resin, resit, resty, retin, riced, rices, ricey, riden, rides, rinds, rindy, rines, rinse, risen, rites, rynds, scend, scent, scind, scrin, scrit, sdein, seity, senit, senti, seric, serin, sicer, sider, sient, since, sined, sired, siren, sited, snide, snirt, snite, snyed, steid, stein, stend, steri, stern, stied, stine, stire, strey, strid, styre, syned, syren, teind, tends, terns, ticed, ticer, tices, tides, tiens, tiers, tinds, tined, tines, tinsy, tired, tires, trend, treys, trice, tride, tried, tries, trine, trins, tsine, tydie, tyers, tynde, tyned, tynes, yerds, yetis, yince, yinst, yirds, yites, yrent
4 Letter Words for Stridency
cedi, cens, cent, cern, cert, cest, ceti, cide, cids, cine, cire, cist, cite, cits, city, cred, cres, crin, cris, crit, crts, cyst, cyte, deis, deni, dens, dent, deny, dern, desc, desi, deti, detn, deys, dice, dict, dicy, dier, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dire, dirt, disc, dist, dite, dits, drey, drie, drys, dsri, dyce, dyer, dyes, dyne, edit, eiry, ency, ends, entr, eric, erin, eris, erns, erst, etic, iced, icer, ices, ides, incr, inde, indy, inst, intr, ired, ires, isdn, ised, isnt, iter, itsy, neds, nerd, nest, neti, nets, nice, nide, nids, nied, nies, nist, nits, nsec, nyed, nyes, nyet, recd, recs, rect, reds, rein, reit, rend, rent, reny, rest, retd, rets, rice, ricy, ride, rids, ries, rind, rine, rins, risc, rise, rist, rite, rits, ryen, ryes, rynd, rynt, scet, scry, sctd, scye, scyt, sect, secy, seir, seit, send, sent, sert, sice, side, sidy, sien, sier, sind, sine, sire, site, sned, snit, snye, sted, sten, ster, stey, stid, stie, stir, stre, syce, syed, syen, sync, synd, syne, syre, syrt, teds, tedy, tend, tens, tern, tice, tics, tide, tids, tidy, tied, tien, tier, ties, tinc, tind, tine, tins, tiny, tire, tres, trey, trid, trie, trin, trye, tyde, tyed, tyer, tyes, tyin, tynd, tyne, ycie, yeni, yens, yerd, yern, yest, yeti, yids, yins, yird, yirn, yite
3 Letter Words for Stridency
cdr, cen, cer, cid, cie, cir, cis, cit, cns, crs, crt, cry, csi, cst, cte, ctn, ctr, cts, dec, dei, den, der, des, det, dey, die, din, dir, dis, dit, dry, dsr, dye, dyn, dys, ect, eds, eir, enc, end, ens, erd, ern, ers, ert, esc, esd, esr, est, etc, ety, eyn, eyr, ice, icy, ide, ids, inc, ind, ins, int, ire, irs, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ned, nei, net, nid, nie, nis, nit, nye, nys, rcd, rct, rec, red, rei, res, rid, rie, rin, rit, rnd, rte, rti, rye, scd, sci, scr, sct, sec, sed, sei, sen, ser, set, sey, sic, sie, sin, sir, sit, sny, sri, std, str, sty, sye, syn, syr, tdr, tec, ted, ten, ter, tes, tic, tid, tie, tin, tis, tri, trs, try, tsi, tye, tyr, yds, yed, yen, yer, yes, yet, yid, yin, yis, yrs
Definitions for Stridency
[1] making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
[2] having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.
[3] Linguistics . (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
[4] (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound
[5] urgent, clamorous, or vociferous strident demands
Words related to Stridency
stridentcry, explosion, roar, cacophony, commotion, crash, buzz, turbulence, clamor, blast, bellow, shot, discord, blare, hullabaloo, racket, ring, thud, fanfare, row
Words nearby Stridency
stridentstrictly increasing function, stricture, stricturotomy, stride, stride piano, strident, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife, strigiform
Origin of Stridency
t1650–60; < Latin strīdent- (stem of strīdēns ), present participle of strīdēre to make a harsh noise; see -ent
Other words from Stridency
stri·dence , stri·den·cy , noun
stri·dent·ly , adverb
non·stri·dent , adjective
o·ver·stri·dence , noun
o·ver·stri·den·cy , noun
o·ver·stri·dent , adjective
o·ver·stri·dent·ly , adverb
un·stri·dent , adjective
un·stri·dent·ly , adverb
Word origin for Stridency
tC17: from Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound
Synonyms for Stridency
blast, buzz, cacophony, clamor, commotion, crash, cry, explosion, roar, turbulence, babble, babel, bang, bedlam, bellow, bewailing, blare, boisterousness, boom, caterwauling, clang, clatter, detonation, din, discord, disquiet, disquietude, drumming, eruption, fanfare, fireworks, fracas, fuss, hoo-ha, hubbub, hullabaloo, jangle, lamentation, outcry, pandemonium, peal, racket, ring, row, shot, shouting, squawk, talk, thud, tumult, uproar, yelling, yelp, sonance, uproariousness
