Quiescent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.
You can make 279 anagrams from letters in quiescent (ceeinqstu).
1600-10; Latin quiēscent- (stem of quiēscēns, present participle of quiēscere), equivalent to qui-, base meaning “rest, quiet” + -ēsc- inchoative suffix + -ent- Examples for quiescent
It befitted the day, a day outwardly so quiescent, yet in which so much was going on. This fluid runs out while the ejaculatory muscles are quiescent. The sea was blue now, quiescent, waveless; there was only the eternal roll. Egypt is no longer the quiescent subordinate partner it once was. The Garden City seems to be in a quiescent state at present. Maybe deep in our brains, a few bacteria are nestled near some quiescent virus and a touch of fetal DNA? Here we saw what Rome was in action, whatever she might be when quiescent. The disease is overcome, quiescent; the wound is healed over. It was quiescent, and new to him,—like nothing he had seen,—and he clung to it. What an awakening from this quiescent state was hers this day!
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