| -escent | |
| —suffix forming adjectives | |
| beginning to be, do, show, etc: convalescent; luminescent | |
| [via Old French from Latin -ēscent-, stem of present participial suffix of -ēscere, ending of inceptive verbs] | |
| -escence | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |