-escent

Usage

• senescent

  A senescent person is becoming old and showing the effects of getting older.

• convalescent

  A convalescent person spends time resting to gain health and strength after a serious illness or operation.

• effervescent

  An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.

• iridescent

  An iridescent object has many bright colors that change in different types of light.

• evanescent

  Something that is evanescent lasts for only a short time before disappearing from sight or memory.

• obsolescent

  If something is obsolescent, it is slowly becoming no longer needed because something newer or more effective has been invented.

• tumescent

  Something that is tumescent, such as bodily tissue, is swelling or becoming swollen.

• adolescent

  relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

• coalescent

  growing together, fusing

• fluorescent

  emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source

• incandescent

  emitting light as a result of being heated

• luminescent

  emitting light not caused by heat

• opalescent

  having a play of lustrous rainbow colors

• phosphorescent

  emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous

• prepubescent

  (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty

• pubescent

  (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature

• putrescent

  becoming putrid