These are the meanings of the letters VENTRICUMBENT when you unscramble them.
- Increment (n.)
An amplification without strict climax,
- Increment (n.)
Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement.
- Increment (n.)
The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
- Increment (n.)
The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.
- Incumbent (a.)
Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
- Incumbent (a.)
Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
- Incumbent (a.)
Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
- Incumbent (a.)
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
- Incumbent (n.)
A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
- Interment (v. t.)
The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
- Inurement (n.)
Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.
- Nutriment (n.)
That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
- Nutriment (n.)
That which promotes development or growth.
- Recumbent (a.)
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.