| ASCENDABLE | • ascendable adj. Capable of being ascended. • ASCENDABLE adj. capable of being ascended, also ASCENDIBLE. |
| ASCENDANCE | • ascendance n. Ascendancy, superiority; the act of ascending. • ASCENDANCE n. the state of being ascendant, also ASCENDANCY, ASCENDENCE, ASCENDENCY. |
| ASCENDANCY | • ascendancy n. Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant. • ascendancy n. (Historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that… • ascendancy n. (Ecology) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem’s trophic… |
| ASCENDANTS | • ascendants n. Plural of ascendant. • ASCENDANT n. the part of the ecliptic just risen or about to rise above the horizon. |
| ASCENDENCE | • ascendence n. Alternative form of ascendance. • ASCENDENCE n. the state of being ascendent, also ASCENDANCE, ASCENDANCY, ASCENDENCY. |
| ASCENDENCY | • ascendency n. Alternative spelling of ascendancy. • ASCENDENCY n. the state of being ascendent, also ASCENDANCE, ASCENDANCY, ASCENDENCE. |
| ASCENDENTS | • ascendents n. Plural of ascendent. • ASCENDENT n. the part of the ecliptic just risen or about to rise above the horizon, also ASCENDANT. |
| ASCENDEURS | • ascendeurs n. Plural of ascendeur. • ASCENDEUR n. (French) a metal grip that is threaded on a rope as a climbing aid. |
| ASCENDIBLE | • ascendible adj. Capable of being ascended; climbable. • ASCENDIBLE adj. capable of being ascended, also ASCENDABLE. |
| CONDESCEND | • condescend v. (Intransitive) To come down from one’s superior position; to deign (to do something). • condescend v. (Intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone). • condescend v. (Transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward… |
| CRESCENDOS | • crescendos n. Plural of crescendo. • CRESCENDO n. (Italian) a gradual increase in loudness. |
| DESCENDANT | • descendant adj. Descending; going down. • descendant adj. Descending from a biological ancestor. • descendant adj. Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. |
| DESCENDENT | • descendent adj. Alternative spelling of descendant. • descendent n. Misspelling of descendant. • DESCENDENT adj. descending; proceeding from an ancestor or source. |
| DESCENDERS | • descenders n. Plural of descender. • DESCENDER n. the part of the lowercase letters, such as g, p, and q, that extends below the other lowercase letters. |
| DESCENDEUR | • descendeur n. A piece of metal around which a rope is passed in order to slow descent when abseiling. • DESCENDEUR n. a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed, used to control the rate of descent in abseiling. |
| DESCENDING | • descending v. Present participle and gerund of descend. • descending adj. Moving or sloping downwards. • descending adj. (Of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. |
| REASCENDED | • reascended v. Simple past tense and past participle of reascend. • REASCEND v. to ascend again. |
| REDESCENDS | • redescends v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of redescend. • REDESCEND v. to descend again. |
| TRANSCENDS | • transcends v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transcend. • TRANSCEND v. to surpass; to exceed. |
| UNASCENDED | • unascended adj. Not having been ascended. • UNASCENDED adj. not ascended. |