Clues for the word "DESCENT"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 99 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of descent
- n. - The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
- n. - Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
- n. - Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
- n. - Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
- n. - Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
- n. - Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
- n. - That which is descended; descendants; issue.
- n. - A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
- n. - Lowest place; extreme downward place.
- n. - A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Referring Clues
- Lineage
- Rocket maneuver
- A ___ of woodpeckers
- Start of a trip in a bathysphere
- Half of a mountaineering expedition
- Mountain climber's return
- Second half of a mountaineer's trip
- Downward path
- Extraction
- Landing preceder
- Plane maneuver
- Way down
- Ancestry
- Downward course
- Drop
- Fall
- Drop from above
- Downward slope
- Landing element
- Scuba diver's dive
- Mountain climber's return trip
- Spelunker's activity
- Downward move
- Slope
- Climber's return trip
- Genealogist's concern
- Opposite of ascent
- Family tree reveals this sudden visit
- Plane's return
- Fear Factory song that goes down?
- Decline scented make-up
- Comedown (of ancestry?)
- Derivation from an ancestor - going down
- Going down on one's family tree
- Chap getting very little money from his ancestry
- Decline to express different opinion on radio
- Take aroma off line
- Decline to eliminate odour?
- Coming down
- A drop of blood
- See 22
- Pepe Le Pew's problem?
- Downward climb
- Drop of French perfume
- Genealogy featured in 13 10 26
- Decline to remove odour?
- Family tree reveals this down-to-earth approach?
- Start of a scuba dive
- Going down on one's genealogical chart
- Touchdown predecessor
- High-to-low movement
- Trip to the bottom
- Decline
- Downward journey
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 18, 2026
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 12, 2025
- New York Times - February 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 15, 2024
- Family Time - April 15, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2023
- Daily American - December 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 27, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 09, 2023
- And in 69 more crossword puzzles...