Cadency is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 125 anagrams from letters in cadency (accdeny).
First recorded in 1620-30; cad(ence) + -ency
The first crosslet is charged with an annulet, probably as a mark of cadency.
The Mounteneys further difference their common arms, for cadency, after this manner.
This point will be treated more fully under "Marks of cadency."
The martlet is the appropriate “difference” or mark of cadency for the fourth son.
The rule is also disregarded entirely as regards augmentations and Scottish cadency bordures.
Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots' heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency.
In modern English cadency, the difference of the second son, or house.
I must be content to illustrate these various forms of cadency with a few examples only.
When any charge, ordinary, or mark of cadency surmounts a single object, that object is termed "debruised" by that ordinary.
In England, crests are theoretically subject to marks of cadency and difference.