BLINDFISH

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BLINDFISH

Definition: BLINDFISH

BLINDFISH

Noun

1. A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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Derivations & Misspellings: BLINDFISH

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLINDFISH": blindfishes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BLINDFISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blindish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLINDFISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-f-h-i-i-l-n-s"

-3 letters: bindis, blinds, blinis, finish, nihils.

-4 letters: bifid, bindi, binds, blind, blini, finds, finis, hinds, nihil.

-5 letters: bids, bind, bins, blin, dibs, dins, dish, fibs, fids, fils, find, fins, fish, hili, hind, hins, hisn, ibis, libs, lids, lins, nibs, nidi, nils, nisi, shin, sild, sinh, slid, snib.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-f-h-i-i-l-n-s"
 

+2 letters: blindfishes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLINDFISH


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

42 4C 49 4E 44 46 49 53 48

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

B L I N D F I S H

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0049 004E 0044 0046 0049 0053 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

364643483840435342

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