incipient

incipient has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
• a.. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"