| APERIENT | • aperient adj. Having a gentle laxative effect. • aperient n. A laxative, either in the form of a medicine or a food such as asparagus or hops, which has the effect… • APERIENT n. a laxative. |
| DORMIENT | • dormient adj. Obsolete form of dormant. • DORMIENT adj. (archaic) sleeping, dormant. |
| ESURIENT | • esurient adj. (Formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. • esurient n. One who is greedy or hungry. • ESURIENT adj. hungry, greedy. |
| GRADIENT | • gradient n. A slope or incline. • gradient n. A rate of inclination or declination of a slope. • gradient n. (Calculus, of a function) The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent… |
| HAURIENT | • haurient adj. Alternative spelling of hauriant. • HAURIENT adj. in heraldry, with head up, as rising to the surface to breathe, also HAURIANT. |
| HIRRIENT | • hirrient adj. (Phonology) Having a strongly trilled sound, like that of a cat purring. • HIRRIENT n. a roughly trilled sound. |
| INSCIENT | • inscient adj. Lacking knowledge; ignorant. • inscient adj. Having inward knowledge or insight. • INSCIENT adj. (archaic) having little or no knowledge. |
| NESCIENT | • nescient n. An ignorant person. • nescient n. One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable)… • nescient adj. Ignorant, unlearned. |
| NUTRIENT | • nutrient n. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue. • nutrient adj. Providing nourishment. • NUTRIENT n. a nourishing substance. |
| OBEDIENT | • obedient adj. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority. • obedient n. One who obeys. • OBEDIENT adj. obeying or willing to obey. |
| PRURIENT | • prurient adj. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful. • prurient adj. Arousing or appealing to sexual desire. • prurient adj. Curious, especially inappropriately so. |
| QUOTIENT | • quotient n. (Arithmetic) The number resulting from the division of one number by another. • quotient n. (Arithmetic) The integer part of the result of such division. • quotient n. (Mathematics) By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined… |
| REORIENT | • reorient v. (Transitive, intransitive) To orient again; to make or become oriented after dislocation or disorientation. • reorient adj. (Obsolete) Arising again. • REORIENT v. to acquaint oneself again. |
| SENTIENT | • sentient adj. Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling. • sentient adj. Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties. • sentient adj. (Loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence. |
| SERVIENT | • servient adj. (Obsolete, law) subordinate. • SERVIENT adj. subordinate. |