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BED ROCK

Definition: BED ROCK

BED ROCK

1. The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: BED ROCK

Domain	Definitions
Environment	Consolidated rock below loose superficial material such as soil, glacial drift, or alluvium. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Any solid rock exposed at the surface of the earth or overlain by unconsolidated material. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BED ROCK

English words defined with "BED ROCK": bed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BED ROCK": aquiclude, autointrusion ♦ Bed Load, bedded rock, Bed-rock ♦ competent bed ♦ downdip, drift scratch ♦ glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation ♦ interstitial ice ♦ roca, rock waste ♦ salt dome, Schulz's theory, subsurface ice. (references)

Modern Translations: BED ROCK

Language		Translations for "BED ROCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		soubassement (bedrock), socle rocheux (bedrock), roche de lit (bedrock), roche de fond (bedrock), assise rocheuse (bedrock, bed-rock). (various references)

Pig Latin		edbay ockray

Spanish		basamento (base, basement, basing, bedrock, bench, bottom, mounting, optic pedestal, pedestal, podium, podium block, siege, substrate, substratum). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BED ROCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: bedrock.
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r"
	-1 letter: corked, docker, redock, rocked.
	-2 letters: bored, brock, broke, coder, coked, cored, credo, decor, dreck, ocker, orbed, robed.
	-3 letters: beck, bock, bode, bore, bred, cero, code, coed, coke, cord, core, cork, deck, deco, dock, doer, dore, dork, drek, kerb, kore, reck, redo, robe, rock, rode.
	-4 letters: bed, bod, bro, cob, cod, cor, deb, doc, doe, dor, kob, kor, obe, ode, oke, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, red, rob, roc, rod, roe.
	-5 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r"
	+1 letter: bedrocks.
	+2 letters: blockader.
	+3 letters: blockaders.
	+4 letters: backcrossed, backdropped, bloodsucker, cinderblock, crookbacked, goldbricked, roadblocked.
	+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, bloodsuckers, checkerboard, cinderblocks, stockbreeder.
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Alternative Orthography: BED ROCK

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 44 52 4F 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0044 0052 004F 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363938252493745

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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