INOSCULATE

Definition: INOSCULATE

INOSCULATE

Intransitive verb

1. To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

2. To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

Transitive verb

1. To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

2. To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Inosculate \In*os"cu*late\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Inosculated; Inosculating.]. (references)

Convolution

Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross).

Crossing

Twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat.

Junction

Inosculate; entwine, intwine; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.

Crosswords: INOSCULATE

Albanian

bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld), bashkohem (affiliate, aggregate, band together, coalesce, hook, interflow, join, league, link up, merge, mix, rejoin, reunite, stick together, unite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفمم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съединявам (aggregate, band, butt, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, interlock, join, join up, knee, knit, link, marry, mate, piece, piece together, rejoin, splice, tag, tie, tie in, unite), сраствам (agglutinate, concrete), преплитам (entwine, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, inweave, lock, twine, weave). (various references)

Hungarian

összeilleszt (to fit in). (various references)

Pig Latin

inosculateay.(various references)

Portuguese

unir (join, unite), ligar (bind, connect, join, tie, plug in, tie up, turn on), juntar (accumulate, add, adjoin, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, attach, brace, bulk, cohere, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, fund, gather, get-together, halve, heap, herd, huddle, inclose, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, put together, rake, reunite, run-on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, unite, weld). (various references)

Romanian

se uni (ally, associate, band together, coalesce, combine, commingle, conjoin, conjugate, connect, join, join hands, unite, weld), se angrena (engage, tooth), se anastomoza, fi strâns legat. (various references)

Russian 

соединять (conjoin, connect), переплетать (bind, interlace). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stapati se, spajati se (conjugate, merge), prožimati se. (various references)

Spanish

unir por anastomosis. (various references)

Thai

เชื่อมต่อโดยรูปเปิด. (various references)

Turkish

katmak (add, adjoin, affiliate, ally, annex, append, include, incorporate, integrate, interpolate, join, load, mingle, mix, number, put in, run in, superadd, tack, tinge, weave), birleştirmek (aggregate, ally, amalgamate, assemble, associate, colligate, combine, compound, confederate, congregate, conjoin, connect, consolidate, consubstantiate, couple, dovetail, federate, fuze, incorporate, integrate, interconnect, interlink, join, joint, knit together, knit up, link up, match, mediatize, patch up, piece, piece together, pool, put to, put together, reunite, stick together, tack, tag, unify, unite, wed to), birleşmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, join, knit, knit up, link, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite, weld). (various references)

Ukrainian

зростатися (accrete, coalesce, grow together, solder), з'єднувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, glue, interlock, joint, knit, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "INOSCULATE": inosculated, inosculates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"INOSCULATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: innocculate, inocculate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: inoculates.

-1 letter: coastline, consulate, inoculate, sectional, suctional, tenacious.

-2 letters: aconites, alnicoes, alunites, auctions, canoeist, cautions, coaliest, counties, cutlines, elations, elutions, insolate, insulate, lacteous, lactones, lacunose, lections, linecuts, linocuts, locustae, lunacies, lunatics, noctules, osculant, osculate, outlines, societal, sonicate, sultanic, telsonic, toenails, tunicles, unsocial.

-3 letters: acetins, acetous, acinose, acinous, aconite, actions, alnicos, aloetic, alunite, anisole, atonics, atonies.

+1 letter: glauconites, inosculated, inosculates, novaculites, nucleations, peculations, speculation, tenaciously, ulcerations.

+2 letters: antinucleons, consultative, countervails, crenulations, cupellations, discountable, ejaculations, elucidations, emasculation, enucleations, equinoctials, exculpations, nucleotidase, postulancies, reinoculates, reluctations, speculations, vesiculation.

+3 letters: communalities, conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptualist, conglutinates, conjugalities, consequential, consultancies, counterclaims, documentalist, elucubrations, emasculations, encapsulation, gesticulation, inoperculates, liquefactions, nucleotidases, reticulations, vesiculations.

+4 letters: anticonvulsive, binocularities, conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, conceptualizes, connubialities, constabularies, contextualizes, countabilities, counterrallies, denticulations, documentalists, educationalist, emulsification, encapsulations, gesticulations, insurrectional, nonjusticiable, nonspeculative, pertinaciously, recalculations, recirculations, rediscountable, reduplications, reinoculations, relubrications, republications, resurrectional, secularization, semifunctional, subcontinental, ultraprecision, ultraviolences, unconsolidated, vermiculations.