Definitions for penetrant

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penetrant pen·e·trant

Spelling: [pen-i-truh nt]

IPA: /ˈpɛn ɪ trənt/

Penetrant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in penetrant (aeennprtt).

Definitions for penetrant

noun

1. a person or thing that penetrates.
2. a compound that penetrates the skin, as a lotion or cream.
3. a substance that lowers the surface tension of water; wetting agent.
4. Zoology. a large nematocyst discharging a barbed thread that penetrates the body of the prey and injects a toxic fluid.

adjective

1. penetrating.

Origin of penetrant

1535-45; Latin penetrant- (stem of penetrāns), present participle of penetrāre to penetrate; see -ant

Examples for penetrant

Sharp shoe-calks afford a means of infliction of penetrant wounds which may occasion open joint and infectious arthritis.

With Mr. Tassers penetrant and suspicious gaze on him, he decided that it would be wise to avoid all seeming interest in Myron.

Then he raised his eyes from the water and swept the sky in a penetrant gaze.

"What he doesn't sell he buys," he cried in his nervous, penetrant tones.

The dew lay heavy on the laurel leaves of the thickets, and the breeze was perfumed with the penetrant fragrance of many blossoms.

But this comparison is not satisfactory, because there is a penetrant metallic quality in the twang, impossible to describe.