Words that Rhyme with essential
2 Syllable Words
henschel, hentschel
3 Syllable Words
credential, potential, prudential, sequential, tangential, torrential
4 Syllable Words
confidential, consequential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, quintessential, residential, reverential
5 Syllable Words
experiential, inconsequential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, vice-presidential
Definitions of essential
a. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
a. Hence, really existing; existent.
a. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
a. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
a. Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
a. Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.