Words that rhyme with increscent

  • acquiescent
    adj 1: willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority" [syn: acquiescent, biddable]
  • adolescent
    adj 1: relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems" 2: being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged] 3: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile] 4: in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls" n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
  • antidepressant
    n 1: any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects [syn: antidepressant, antidepressant drug]
  • candescent
    adj 1: glowing from great heat
  • coalescent
    adj 1: growing together, fusing; "coalescent tradititions"; "coalescent bones" [syn: coalescent, coalescing]
  • convalescent
    adj 1: returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed" [syn: convalescent, recovering] n 1: a person who is recovering from illness
  • crescent
    adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate] n 1: any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
  • depressant
    adj 1: capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent [ant: stimulative] n 1: a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative, sedative drug, depressant, downer]
  • effervescent
    adj 1: used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water" [syn: sparkling, effervescent] [ant: noneffervescent, still] 2: (of a liquid) giving off bubbles [ant: noneffervescent] 3: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly]
  • evanescent
    adj 1: tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
  • excrescent
    adj 1: forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
  • fluorescent
    adj 1: emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source 2: brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light; "fluorescent colors" n 1: a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp [syn: fluorescent, fluorescent fixture]
  • incandescent
    adj 1: emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb" [syn: incandescent, candent] 2: characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance"
  • incessant
    adj 1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]
  • iridescent
    adj 1: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent" [syn: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot] 2: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent]
  • luminescent
    adj 1: emitting light not caused by heat
  • obsolescent
    adj 1: becoming obsolete
  • quiescent
    adj 1: not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation" 2: marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town" 3: being quiet or still or inactive 4: (pathology) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
  • senescent
    adj 1: growing old [syn: aging, ageing, senescent]
  • suppressant
    n 1: a drug that suppresses appetite [syn: suppressant, appetite suppressant]
  • albescent
    adj 1: becoming or shading into white
  • liquescent
    adj 1: becoming liquid [syn: liquescent, melting]
  • pearlescent
    adj 1: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent]
  • turgescent
  • bessent
  • acescent
  • decrescent
  • lactescent
  • marcescent
  • nigrescent
  • viridescent