pendent
/ˈpɛnd(ə)nt
/adjective
1Hanging down or overhanging: pendent catkins...
- Community Support for older people under the 2005 scheme - Personal telephone alarm with pendent panic button.
- Assistance if now available locally to any group or individual making an application for the pendent alarm.
- Personal telephone alarm with pendent panic button applications must be in by May 17th.
Synonyms
hanging, suspended, supported from above, dangling, pendulous, drooping, droopy, flaccid, swinging, swaying, trailing, flowing, falling, tumbling
rare pendant, pensile
2Remaining undecided; pending: the use of jurisdiction to decide pendent claims...
- Additionally, they assert jurisdiction for their common-law tort claims under principles of pendent and ancillary jurisdiction.
Derivatives
pendency
/ noun ...- One of the reasons for pendency is lack of adequate staff.
- And it is in effect and will remain in effect for the pendency of the case.
- We do not anticipate making further comments during the pendency of the judicial process.
Rhymes
- wilder
- Wilder, Billy
- Wilder, Gene
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- wilderness
- Wilderness Road
- Wilderness, the
- Wilder, Thornton
- sausage
- sausage dog
- sausage meat
- sausage roll
- sausage sizzle
- sausage tree
- Sausalito
- sausie
- Saussure, Ferdinand de
- Sauternes
- sautoir
- sauté
- sauve qui peut
- Sauveterrian
- Sauvignon
- Sauvignon Blanc
- sav