Cant

Definition: Cant

Cant

Adjective

1. Having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress".

Noun

1. Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition.

2. A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force.

3. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo".

4. Insincere talk about religion or morals.

5. Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees.

Verb

1. Heel over.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Cant \Cant\, noun. [Old French., edge, angle, prof. from Latin canthus the iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Greek the corner of the eye, the felly of a wheel; compare to Welsh cant the stake or tire of a wheel. Compare to Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Language

Literature

Slang in 1811

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cant

Falsehood

Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.

Cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive.

Impiety

Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws.

Impulse

Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.

Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp).

Neologism

Jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.

Nomenclature

Term, expression, noun;byword; convertible terms; technical term; cant.

Obliquity

Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa.

Reasoning,

Sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion".

Crosswords: Cant

Manx (auction, cant, sale), Romanian (edge, edging), Welsh (circle, hundred, one hundred, rim, ring, tyre).

I just cant have any social life right now. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

There are two things I cant stand in this world (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Your boys are going down DannyI cant stop it anymore (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Newman, you cant let the dream die (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Sleep? I cant go to sleep (They; writing credit: Brendan Hood)

Said I cant live (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Crazzzyyy i just cant sleep ((You Drive Me) Crazy - Stop Remix; performing artist: Britney Spears)

And I still cant get enough (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David)

Cause you cant get her off of your mind (Love will turn; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Y'all bitches cant catch me and you won't (Shake Ya Ass; performing artist: Mystikal)

I CANT GET NO (SATISFACTION)  (performing artist: Rolling Stones )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Birds Fly, Why Cant I (reference)

• Cant Help It: Feeling Good about the Way You're Made (reference)

• Cant You Sleep Little Bear (reference)

• Churchgoers' Chuckles: True Tales-You Cant Make This Stuff Up [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• If You Cant Stand the Smoke Get Out of the Kitchen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cant Stop Us Now: Linval Thompson (reference)

• Why cant i (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Andrew Cant. / Engraved by S. Freeman. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was called (r)Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder . In cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder could have given odds to an English miss

Every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cant": cant dog ♦ cant file ♦ Cant frames ♦ cant hook ♦ cant of the track ♦ cant over ♦ Cant timbers ♦ professional cant ♦ thieves' cant ♦ tumbler cant. Additional references.

Albanian

zhargon (argot, jargon, lingo, slang, underworld language), trim (baresark, berserk, berserker, brave, courageous, dare devil, daring, Dauntless, Doughty, fearless, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), shtalkë, rrëzohem (descend, fall, pitch, sink, slump, tumble), përmbytem, përkulem (bend, bend over, bow, bow down, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, hook, incurve, lean, sag, stoop), hipokrizi (double dealing, duplicity, hypocrisy, puppetry), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), gjuhë e veçantë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, like, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), ‏نفاق (dissemblance, double dealing, duplicity, hypocrisy, insincerity, machiavellian, oiliness, pharisaism, priggishism, smoothness), ‏نافق (be a hypocrite, dissemble), ‏لغة خاصة ب, ‏الحركة المفاجئة, ‏الزاوية الخارجية, ‏إنحراف (aberration, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), ‏إنشاد الشحاذين, ‏رياء (duplicity, hypocrisy, insincerity, pharisaism). (various references)

Bulgarian 

таен език, говоря напевно (chime), говоря на жаргон (jargon, jargonize, slang), откос (bank, bevel, case shot, slope, swath, swathe, windrow), обръщам (bring about, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), наклонявам (depress, dip, incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tip), наклонено положение (tilt), жаргон (argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, speech), лицемеря (dissemble, dissimulate, humbug), лицемерие (duplicity, falsity, hypocrisy, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, sanctimony), провлачен говор, полегатост (incline, obliquity, pitch, slant, slope, versant), имащ жаргонен характер, издялан труп на дърво. (various references)

Chinese 

伪善言辞. (various references)

Czech

fráze (cliché, phrase, phrases, platitude), žargon (jargon, lingo, parlance, vernacular). (various references)

Danish

tromleside (cant of tumbler, side, side of a tumbler), skinneoverhøjde, overhøjde (banking, camber, superelevation, superelevation rate), jargon (argot, jargon), firkanttrae. (various references)

Dutch

vlak van een tuimelaar (cant of tumbler, side, side of a tumbler), vlak (even, exactly, flat, level, sharp, smooth), verkanting (banking, cant of the track, superelevation, superelevation of the outer rail, superelevation of the track, superelevation rate), rail hellingshoek, kantelen (overthrow, turn, turn over, upset), helling (acclivity, hillside, slope), gedeeltelijk of geheel gekantrechte stam. (various references)

Farsi 

مناجات کردن (Chortle, Intone), مناجات (Chant), ناگهان چرخانیدن یاچرخیدن , گوشه دار (Angular, Piquant, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent), وارونه کردن (Convert, Reverse, Turnout, Turnover, Turquoise), زبان ویژه (Idiom, Lingo), زبان دزدهاوکولی ها, طرزصحبت , صحبت کردن (Speak), خبرچینی کردن , اوازخواندن (Sing), باناله سخن گفتن . (various references)

Finnish

ratakiskon kaltevuus, ratakiskon kallistus, pelkka (balk, baulk). (various references)

French

clichés, pan d'un tourteau (cant of tumbler), argot, argot de métier, bille de bois équarrie, dévers (cant of the track), devers, jargon, équarri, pan (cant of tumbler), surface oblique, parler avec affectation, parler avec hypocrisie, paroles creuses, paroles hypocrites, pente, retourner d'un coup sec, se déverser, oblique. (various references)

German

kippen (overturn, plummet, tilt, tilt over, tip, tip over, tip up, tipping, to cant, to topple, topple, toss back, toss off). (various references)

Greek 

υποκρισίεσ, ψευδολογίεσ (lying), ψευτοευσέβεια, ψευτοκλαίω, τετραγωνισμένον κορμοτεμάχιον, αργκό (argot, slang), επικλινήσ επιφάνεια, χυδαία γλώσσα, argot (argot), υποκρισία (hypocrisy), κλίση σιδηρογραμμών, υπερύψωση (banking, camber, raising, superelevation, superelevation rate), πτερύγιο (blade, fin, flap, flipper, pinion, vane), πλευρά (aspect, flank, pleura, side), μάγκικα, γέρνω (bend, careen, dip, lean, sag, slant, slope, tilt), κλίνω (careen, conjugate, decline, hang up, heel, incline, inflect, lean, list, shelve, slant, slope, tend, tilt, tip, trend, verge), κλίση (acclivity, aptitude, bend, bent, bias, careen, conjugation, flair, flexion, gradient, inclination, inflection, inflexion, leaning, list, penchant, pitch, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tilt, tipping), κλίση επιφάνειασ, υποκρίνομαι (counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, simulate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשפע (slant, splay, trim), שפוע (bank, bevel, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rake, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip), התחסדות (hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness), צביעות (duplicity, hypocrisy). (various references)

Hungarian

ferdeség (leaning, obliquity, skew, skewness, slant, twist, wryness). (various references)

Indonesian

miring (askew, aslant, awry, bias, careen, crazy, oblique, slanting, sloping, wry), lereng (declivity), kata bohong, bahasa khas. (various references)

Italian

curvarsi (bend, bow, crook, curve, stoop, warp), sopraelevazione (banking, cant of the track, superelevation, superelevation of the outer rail, superelevation of the track, superelevation rate, upstand, upturn), prisma (prism), parlare in gergo, lato di un tamburo (cant of tumbler, side, side of a tumbler), lato (aspect, page, side, wide), ipocrisia (humbug, hypocrisy, sanctimony), inclinazione delle rotaie, inclinazione (addiction, aptitude, assessment, bend, bent, bias, dip, disposition, fancy, gradient, hang, inclination, lean, liking, penchant, pitch, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, stoop, taste, tendency, tilt, tip), inclinarsi (lean, nod, sag, slant, tilt), gergo (jargon, lingo, slang), argot (argot), angolo esterno. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隠語 (humbug, jargon, secret language). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いんご (humbug, jargon, rhyme in a Chinese poem, secret language). (various references)

Korean 

캔트. (various references)

Manx

scoidey (lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, slope), corneil veayllit, cant (auction, sale), beeal-chraueeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin

antcay.(various references)

Portuguese

chanfrar (bevel, chamfer, dent, groove, jag, nick, notch, rabbet, scarf, splay), hipócrita (canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-faced, two-tongued), declive (abruptness, acclivity, climbdown, declination, declivity, declivous, descent, downhill, hang, hillside, incline, lay, ramp, side, slant, slanting, slide, slope, sloping, tilt, weathering), empurrão (jab, jerk, jostle, poke, push, shove, thrust, yank), empurrar (crowd, hustle, impel, jerk, jog, jostle, jounce, poke, pole, push, shove, thrust, to push, yank), escala (gage, gamut, gauge, key, ladder, measure, scale, stopover), esquina (angle, bight, coign, coin, corner, elbow, quoin, street corner), face inclinada, falar em jargão, falquejamento, batente (anvil, backstop, batch, door-post, flap, fold, jamb, knocker, leaf, mallet, stanchion, stop), gíria (argot, jargon, patois, slang), sobreelevação (banking, superelevation, superelevation rate), hipocrisia (canting, grundyism, hypocrisy, sanctimony), inclinar (deflect, droop, fall, incline, prepossess, recline, slanting, slope, tilt, tip), jargão (jargon, slang), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), oscilação (change-over, chop, fluctuation, oscillator, swing, swinging, teeter, variation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wave, waver, wobble), recorte (cutting, dide view, indent, indention, jag, jagg, profile, silhouette, snip, snippet), relativo à gíria, robusto (able-bodied, hale, hefty, lusty, masculine, nervy, randy, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), rodear (begird, circle, circumvent, detour, embay, embosom, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, go around, inclose, lock in, mob, outflank, outfox, rim, ring, ring up, shut in, surround, wreathe), ser hipócrita, fingimento (affectation, disguise, disguising, make-believe, mockery, pose, pretence, pretense, simulation). (various references)

Romanian

sclifosealã (freaks, tricks, whims), înclinare (batter, bent, bias, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt), fãţãrnicie (dissimulation, hypocrisy, left-handedness, make believe), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), ipocrit (canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe), ipocrizie (double dealing, duplicity, fake, humbug, hypocrisy, left-handedness, pietism, unction), jargon (gibberish, jargon, lingo, patter, slang), limbaj specific, împunsãturã (butt, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prick, prod, stick, stitch, tack, thrust), prefãcãtorie (acting, disguise, dissimulation, double dealing, feint, felinity, hypocrisy, make believe, pretence, sham, simulacrum, simulation), vorbi în jargon (jargon), se întoarce (be back, come again, come back, front, go back, re-enter, retrace, return, round, swing, turn), se milogi, se purta ipocrit, se rãsturna (capsize, overturn, tumble, turn), se tângui (lament), teşi (bevel, dull), ton plângãreţ (plaintive accent, whimper), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust). (various references)

Russian 

жаргон (argot, жарг., jargon, lingo, ritual talk, slang). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rub (border, brim, brink, edge, hem, lip, rand, selvage, selvedge, shoulder, verge), nagnuti (bank, heel, incline, lean, slant, slope, tilt, tip), nagib (bank, bevel, bias, camber, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering), ivica (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, flange, fringe, limb, lip, marge, margin, pallet, rand, rim, verge). (various references)

Spanish

jerga (argot, jargon, jive, lingo, patter, pig latin, slang). (various references)

Swedish

tjuvspråk, hyckleri (dissimulation, hypocrisy, insincerity, sham). (various references)

Turkish

meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), argolu konuşmak, dilenmek (ask for alms, beg, bum, mump, panhandle), eğim (bevel, declination, dip, elevation, fall, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, my better half, obliquity, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), gerçek anlamı dışında kullanılan sözler, argo (argot, gobbledygook, lingo, patter, slang, slangy, vernacular, vulgarity), ikiyüzlülük etmek, yatay kesit (horizontal section), meyil vermek, riyakârlık (humbug, hypocrisy), samimiyetsizlik (disingenuousness, doubleness, insincerity), yan yatırmak (careen), yapmacıklı konuşmak, yapmacıklık (artificiality, insincerity, mannerism, preciosity, sophistication, stiltedness), ikiyüzlülük (ambidexterity, dissimulation, double dealing, duplicity, hypocrisy, insincerity). (various references)

Ukrainian

лицемірство (disguise, dissemblance, double dealing, hypocrisy, jesuitism, pharisaism, puppetry, self-righteousness), вживати жаргон, обтесана колода, обмовляти (asperse, calumniate, denigrate), нахилятися (bend, bow, decline, droop, duck, lean, nod, slant, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахиляти (droop, incline, lean, slant, slope, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахил (bend, bent, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), зводити наклеп (bespatter, calumniate, cast aspersions, defame, denigrate, libel, malign, slander), плаксивий тон, жаргон (argot, jargon, slang), говорити плаксивим тоном, лицемірний (canting, double dealing, double-tongued, histrionic, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuit, left handed, self-righteous, specious), лицемірити (be a hypocrite, dissemble), лицемір (canter, hypocrite, jesuit, pharisee), бути святенником, брус (girder), продаж з аукціону (canting), перевертатися (overset, overturn, tip, turn over), перевертати (invert, overcast, overset, overturn, reverse, tip, turn over, upturn), жаргонний (slangy), кут (angle, corner), ставити під кутом, удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), скошуватися, скошувати (bevel, splay), святенницький (churchy, goody goody, hypocritical, prudish, sanctified, sanctimonious), святенництво (pietism, sanctimony), сміливий (amazonian, audacious, courageous, daring, game, gamy, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky, venturesome), розмовляти співучим голосом, відхилення від прямої, штовхан (dig, jab, jolt, yerk), ганити (censure, decry), кривитися, кривити (wry), косяк (cantilever, cheek, gibbet, shoal), косо зрізаний край, картати (castigate, chide, objurgate, pitch on, scold), канючити, кантувати, стусан (dab, dig, kick, prod, spurn, thrust, wakener, wap), таємна мова. (various references)

cantus. (various references)

canter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cant": cantabile, cantala, cantalas, cantaloup, cantaloupe, cantaloupes, cantaloups, cantankerous, cantankerously, cantankerousness, cantankerousnesses, cantata, cantatas, cantatrice, cantatrices, cantatrici, cantdog, cantdogs, canted, canteen, canteens, canter, cantered, cantering, canters, canthal, cantharides, cantharidin, cantharidins, cantharis, canthaxanthin, canthaxanthins, canthi, canthus, cantic, canticle, canticles, cantilena, cantilenas, cantilever, cantilevered, cantilevering, cantilevers, cantillate, cantillated, cantillates, cantillating, cantillation, cantillations, cantina, cantinas. (additional references)

Words ending with "cant": antidesiccant, applicant, communicant, coruscant, cosecant, decant, descant, desiccant, detoxicant, discant, exsecant, fabricant, incant, indicant, insignificant, intoxicant, lubricant, mendicant, nonintoxicant, nonsignificant, peccant, recant, scant, secant, significant, supplicant, toxicant, urticant, vacant, vesicant. (additional references)

Words containing "cant": acanthi, acanthocephalan, acanthocephalans, acanthus, acanthuses, antidesiccants, applicants, coelacanth, coelacanths, communicants, cosecants, decantation, decantations, decanted, decanter, decanters, decanting, decants, descanted, descanting, descants, desiccants, detoxicants, discanted, discanting, discants, exsecants, fabricants, incantation, incantational, incantations, incantatory, incanted, incanting, incants, indicants, insignificantly, intoxicants, lubricants, lycanthrope, lycanthropes, lycanthropic, lycanthropies, lycanthropy, mendicants, mercantile, mercantilism, mercantilisms, mercantilist, mercantilistic, mercantilists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acant, caan, caat, cact, caft, caint, Cait, calt, canat, canb, cand, canet, Canh, cani, canit, canity, cann, cannt, cano, canot, canp, Canta, canti, cantt, cantu, Cantv, Canty, cantz, Canu, cany, Capnut, capt, carnt, catna, catt, Caunt, caut, ccunt, ce, centa, centi, centy, ciant, cinct, cint, cinty, cnc, cnst, cnt, comnt, conti, covnt, cownt, crant, cunit, cutn, Cynth, eant, ecant, iant, kanat, knact, nact, ocant, rcant, sant, yant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: act, ant, can, cat, tan.

-2 letters: an, at, na, ta.

+1 letter: actin, antic, canst, canto, cants, canty, chant, cotan, enact, natch, octan, scant.

+2 letters: accent, acetin, acting, actins, action, antick, antics, ascent, atonic, cadent, caftan, cannot, canted, canter, canthi, cantic, cantle, canton, cantor, cantos, cantus, captan, carnet, carton, catena, cation, catkin, catlin, catnap, catnip, centai, cental, centas, centra, cetane, chants, chanty, chaunt, contra, cotans, craton, decant, enacts, enatic, incant, intact, lancet, mantic, nastic, nautch, nectar, octane, octans, octant, recant, sancta, scants, scanty, secant, snatch, stance, stanch, tannic, tanrec, tenace, tincal, toucan, trance, tunica, untack, vacant.