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duc

lead

Related forms: duc · duct · 69 words in this dictionary

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69 words

To take someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.

ab+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

A tube or channel for carrying something, especially air, liquid, or cables.

duct

Shared component: duc · lead

To take away an amount or part from a total.

de+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

To formally admit someone to a position or an organization, often with a special ceremony.

in+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

To make something smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, or price.

re+duce

Shared component: duc · lead

(of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire.

duct+ile

Shared component: duct · lead

A person who directs the performance of an orchestra or choir.

con+duct+or

Shared component: duct · lead

The process of introducing someone to a new job, skill, or organization

in+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

pro+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

To teach someone, especially in a school or college, or to be taught in this way.

e+duc+ate

Shared component: duc · lead

Something that is made or grown to be sold or used.

pro+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

A long, high bridge, typically with a series of arches, that carries a road or railway across a valley or other low ground.

via+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

a structure like a bridge, used for carrying a waterway or pipe across a valley or other gap.

aque+duct

Shared component: duct · lead

making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible; favorable.

con+duc+ive

Shared component: duc · lead

Relating to a logical process where a specific conclusion is necessarily reached from general principles or premises.

de+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

The process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this.

e+duc+ation

Shared component: duc · lead

the act or process of making something smaller or less in size, amount, degree, or price

re+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

The act of persuading someone to do something, especially something wrong or unwise, by making it seem attractive.

se+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

Tempting and attractive; enticing.

se+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

able to be taken away from an amount or sum.

de+duct+ible

Shared component: duct · lead

The process of making or growing something, especially in large quantities.

pro+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

The act of bringing something into use or existence for the first time.

intro+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

the act or process of producing babies, young animals, or plants

re+production

Shared component: duct · lead

Relating to or characteristic of a duke or duchy.

duc+al

Shared component: duc · lead

Brought about or caused.

in+duc+ed

Shared component: duc · lead

A person or thing that induces something, especially a substance that causes a biological process to begin.

in+duc+er

Shared component: duc · lead

made smaller or less in amount, degree, or size

re+duc+ed

Shared component: duc · lead

A device or substance used to reduce the size, amount, or intensity of something, such as a pipe fitting or a chemical agent.

re+duc+er

Shared component: duc · lead

A person who entices someone into sexual activity, especially by means of persuasion or temptation.

se+duc+er

Shared component: duc · lead

Past tense and past participle of abduct: to take someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.

ab+duct+ed

Shared component: duct · lead

A person who takes someone away illegally by force or deception; a kidnapper.

ab+duct+or

Shared component: duct · lead

a muscle that moves a part of the body toward the midline of the body or toward another part.

ad+duct+or

Shared component: duct · lead

A system of ducts or pipes used for air conditioning, ventilation, or heating.

duct+work

Shared component: duct · lead

Made, manufactured, or created something

pro+duc+ed

Shared component: duc · lead

A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.

pro+duc+er

Shared component: duc · lead

Making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

re+duc+ing

Shared component: duc · lead

The act of taking someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnapping.

ab+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

The movement of a limb or other part toward the midline of the body or toward another part.

ad+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

Able to be deduced or logically inferred from something known or assumed.

de+duc+ible

Shared component: duc · lead

The process of using known facts to form a conclusion or decide something logically.

de+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

The ability of a material, especially a metal, to be drawn out into a thin wire or hammered thin without breaking.

duct+il+ity

Shared component: duct · lead

Teaching or instructing someone, especially in a school or college, to develop their knowledge, skills, or character.

e+duc+ating

Shared component: duc · lead

Relating to or using a method of reasoning in which general principles are derived from specific observations or instances.

in+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

The present participle or gerund of the verb 'produce', meaning to make or manufacture something from components or raw materials.

pro+duc+ing

Shared component: duc · lead

able to be simplified or made less complex

re+duc+ible

Shared component: duc · lead

Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as oversimplifying or distorting the complexity.

re+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

(of a person or organization) organizing and carrying out an activity or operation.

con+duct+ing

Shared component: duct · lead

The process by which heat or electricity passes through a substance.

con+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

Having the property of conducting something, especially heat or electricity.

con+duct+ive

Shared component: duct · lead

something that is offered to persuade someone to do something

in+duce+ment

Shared component: duc · lead

the property of an electric circuit or component that causes an electromotive force to be generated by a change in the current flowing through it.

in+duct+ance

Shared component: duct · lead

To make something exist or happen for the first time in a place or situation.

intro+duce+ed

Shared component: duc · lead

a person or thing that reproduces something, especially a device for playing back recorded sound or video.

re+produce+er

Shared component: duc · lead

A woman who seduces someone, especially one who uses her sexual attractiveness to lead them astray.

seduct+ress

Shared component: duct · lead

a device that converts variations in a physical quantity, such as pressure or brightness, into an electrical signal, or vice versa.

trans+duc+er

Shared component: duc · lead

in a way that cannot be made smaller, simpler, or less in degree or amount

ir+reduc+ibly

Shared component: duc · lead

in a manner that tempts or entices someone, often in a sexual or appealing way.

seduct+ive+ly

Shared component: duct · lead

serving as an introduction to a subject or topic; basic or preliminary.

intro+duct+ory

Shared component: duct · lead

in a way that achieves a significant amount or result

product+ive+ly

Shared component: duct · lead

The practice of analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.

reduction+ism

Shared component: duct · lead

to bring something, such as a law, a species, or a practice, back into use or existence after a period when it was not used

re+intro+duce+d

Shared component: duc · lead

The process by which genetic material, a signal, or energy is transferred from one cell, system, or form to another.

trans+duct+ion

Shared component: duct · lead

The quality or state of being able to be deducted, especially from taxable income.

deduct+ibility

Shared component: duct · lead

explaining or describing a complex phenomenon by analyzing its simplest, most basic physical parts, often ignoring other factors.

re+duct+ionistic

Shared component: duct · lead

Causing or creating stress, anxiety, or tension.

stress+in+duc+ing

Shared component: duc · lead

Having the effect of lessening or alleviating stress.

stress+re+duc+ing

Shared component: duc · lead