Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: DECASTICH |
DECASTICHNoun1. A poem consisting of ten lines. |
Etymology: Decastich \Dec"a*stich\, noun. [Prefix deca- Greek sti`chos row, line of writing, verse.]. (references) |
| Words rhyming with "DECASTICH" (pronounced 'Dec"a*stich'): Hemistich, Monostich, Pentastich, Stich. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-i-s-t" | |
-2 letters: achiest, aitches, ascetic, cachets, catches, chicest, ditches, scathed. | |
-3 letters: acetic, cached, caches, cachet, cadets, caseic, cashed, chaise, chased, chaste, cheats, chides, deaths, detach, dicast, edicts, ethics, hasted, hectic, histed, itched, itches, sachet, saithe, scathe, sicced, taches. | |
-4 letters: ached, aches, acids, acted, adits, aides, aitch, asdic, ashed, aside, cache, cacti, cades, cadet, cadis, caids. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-i-s-t" | |
+3 letters: backstitched, switchbacked. | |
+4 letters: homoscedastic, trisaccharide. | |
+5 letters: trisaccharides. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 43 41 53 54 49 43 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -.-. .- ... - .. -.-. .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E C A S T I C H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0043 0041 0053 0054 0049 0043 0048 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383937355354433742 |
| 1. Definition 2. Rhymes 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
