descent




descent - noun

  • a movement downward
  • properties attributable to your ancestry
  • the act of changing your location in a downward direction
  • the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  • a downward slope or bend
  • the descendants of one individual

    • descent - thesaurus

    ancestry   blood   bloodline   declension   declination   decline   declivity   downslope   extraction   fall   filiation   line   lineage   origin   parentage   pedigree   stemma   stock  


    View spelling list sc words and learn about the word descent in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 20. Soft c: ce, ci, cy.

    Scrabble score for descent

    d is 2 e is 1 s is 1 c is 3 e is 1 n is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 10

    generated at 17:34:43 on 13-08-24

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