Descents is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESCENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DESCENT, the act of descending
• an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling
• a downward slope
• a moral, social, or psychological decline
• the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• the transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.
• a sudden violent attack
• an unexpected visit

Words related to DESCENTS

descent10

Words that contain DESCENTS

incandescents18

How to use DESCENTS in a sentence

• The war was thenceforth continued only by sallies of the Carthaginians from the Sicilian fortresses and their descents on the Italian coasts.
• Then there are breathless descents where the pines fall away.
• Meanwhile Gabinius died of sickness and he gained control of the whole sea in that vicinity, and by making descents upon the land did the inhabitants much harm.
• From the summit an inclined plane of masonry descends the mountain nine hundred feet, broken every one hundred and fifty feet by perpendicular descents.
• It was in these vessels that we made the long journeys from island to island, the migrations and the descents upon other Polynesian peoples in war.
• Heere are many rising hilles, and on their tops and descents many come fields, and delightfull groues.
• The ride was monotonous, over a road which made few ascents or descents, and presented little of variety or interest.
• There are four impressions on different terraces, each rising above the other, corresponding to the four descents of the deity.
• Not only were trading-vessels seized, but descents were made upon the shore, and the inhabitants swept off into slavery.
• It seems almost profanation to compare it with the Hindu teaching regarding the Avataras, or descents of Vishnu.
• The excited dog, unused to such descents, snatched it up and ran off.
• The country which he saw was in most parts level, but occasionally became varied by gentle rises and descents, but with no timber except along the water.
• Often the trail leads over high hills, with long hard steep climbs to be made and sometimes dangerous descents.
• In this interesting relic, then, we have one of the identical boats in which the descents upon the British coast were first made.
• I drew the law of descents, giving equal inheritance to sons and daughters which made a part of the revised code.
• What did he want else? Only a matter of six descents, a little money, and an estate, to render him the equal of St.
• The whole strength of Great Britain, during this campaign, was not exhausted in petty descents upon the coast of France.
• Further to the east they become gradually lower, so that near the White Sea they seldom exceed fifty or one hundred feet, with less precipitous descents.
• Often the pirates combined and made descents upon the coast as in the past.
• In one of these descents it seemed driving straight at the drifting park of balloons in the southeast, and only curved about and cleared them by a sudden recovery of dexterity.
• He made several descents on the coast of this island, burned Maracaibo, Puerto Cabello, Veragua, and other places, and was killed at last by the Indians of Darien.
• Masinissa, with not more than fifty horsemen, disengaged himself from the defile by passing through steep descents of the mountains, which were not known to his pursuers.

Similar words containing SCENT without suffix s and without prefix de

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