Dens in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Dens

You can make 17 words from 'dens' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'dens'
• 3 letters words from 'dens'
• 2 letters words from 'dens'

4 letters words from 'dens'

DENS 5	ENDS 5
NEDS 5	SEND 5
SNED 5

3 letters words from 'dens'

DEN 4	EDS 4
END 4	ENS 3
NED 4	SED 4
SEN 3

2 letters words from 'dens'

DE 3	ED 3
EN 2	ES 2
NE 2

Definitions and meaning of dens

dens

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnz/
• Rhymes: -ɛnz

Noun

dens

1. plural of den

Verb

dens

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of den

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dens (“tooth”). Doublet of dent.

Noun

dens

1. (anatomy) The strong odontoid process of the axis.

Anagrams

• Ends, NDEs, SEND, ends, neds, send, sned

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛns/

Adjective

dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)

1. dense, thick

Derived terms

• densament

Related terms

• condensar
• densitat

Further reading

• “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dens” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cornish

Noun

dens m pl

1. plural of dans (“tooth”)

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.31)

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Danish

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, objective den)

1. its, possessive form of den

See also

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn), Sanskrit दत् (dát) and Old English tōþ (English tooth).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d̪ẽːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d̪ɛns]

Noun

dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension

1. tooth
   • Paraphrase of Proverbs, 30:14 [1]

     prō dentibus gladiōs habent

     They have swords for teeth.

2. (by extension) a spike, prong, or any tooth-like projection
3. (figuratively) envy, ill will

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• dens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dens in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dens in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Norwegian Bokmål

dens (nominative den, oblique den)

1. its, possessive form of den

See also

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.

Adjective

dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)

1. dense

Declension

Related terms

• condensa
• densitate

Source: wiktionary.org

• DEN, to live in a lair.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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