descent

descent is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
2. noun. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
3. noun. Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
4. noun. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
5. noun. Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
6. noun. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
7. noun. That which is descended; descendants; issue.
8. noun. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
9. noun. Lowest place; extreme downward place.
10. noun. A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
11. noun. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
12. noun. properties attributable to your ancestry

    "he comes from good origins"

    Synonyms: extraction, origin

13. noun. a movement downward
14. noun. the descendants of one individual

    "his entire lineage has been warriors"

    Synonyms: ancestry, blood, bloodline, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock

15. noun. a downward slope or bend

    Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall

16. noun. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

    Synonyms: filiation, lineage

Synonyms

extraction, origin, ancestry, blood, bloodline, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall, filiation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in descent:

scented

Common word forms

descents

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for DESCENT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.