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Date "BESANTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Besants or ~~~Bezants. Bezants. Circular pieces of bullion without any impression, supposed to represent the old coinage of Byzantium, and to have been brought to Europe by the Crusaders. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BESANTS |
| Specialty definitions using "BESANTS": Byzantines. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: absents. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: absent, assent, basest, basset, bastes, beasts, sanest, stanes. | |
-2 letters: abets, antes, asset, banes, bases, baste, basts, bates, beans, beast, beats, bents, bests, betas, easts, etnas, nabes, nates, neats, nests, sabes, sanes, sates, seats, sensa, stabs, stane, tabes, tasse. | |
-3 letters: abet, anes, ante, ants, ates, bane, bans, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, bean, beat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: basinets, bassinet. | |
+2 letters: absentees, absenters, absinthes, banisters, basements, basseting, bassinets, battiness, beastings, bedstands, botanises, ratsbanes, subagents, substance, sunbathes. | |
+3 letters: abasements, abashments, abjectness, abruptness, absorbents, abstainers, adsorbents, antibioses, bannisters, bassetting, bastinades, beanstalks, blastments, brattiness, bystanders, constables, isobutanes, oblateness, observants, sanbenitos, snakebites, stableness, stoneboats, subalterns, substances, subtenants, sunbathers, sweatbands, unstablest. | |
+4 letters: abiogenists, absenteeism, abstentions, abstentious, abstinences, ambushments, bandmasters, banishments, bastinadoes, battinesses, beastliness, belatedness, breastbones, breathiness, debasements, disbarments, gangbusters, handbaskets, notableness, obstinacies, potableness, sandblasted, sandblaster, subbasement, submediants, substantive, subtrahends, sustainable, tablespoons, tenableness, transcribes, tunableness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 53 41 4E 54 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... .- -. - ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01010011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E S A N T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0053 0041 004E 0054 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36395335485453 |
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