quiescent verb
Grammar (now rare )
noun
A verb in which a quiescent letter occurs as a radical letter.
Origin
Late 18th century.
- book pocket
- lady's slipper
- lady's smock
- lady's thimble
- lady's thistle
- lady's thumb
- lady's tresses
- Lady Superior
- lady's waist
- lady's wind
- lady's woman
- Ladytide
- lady wit
- Lae
- Laennec's cirrhosis
- Laetoli
- Laetolil
- Laetrile
- laevo-
- laevorotation
- laevorotatory
- laevulose
- La Farge, John
- La Fayette
- Lafayette, Marquis de