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Definition: ELAPS |
ELAPSNoun1. A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral. |
Date "ELAPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Elaps \E"laps\, noun. [New Latin expression, of uncertain origin.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ELAPS |
| English words defined with "ELAPS": Ophiophagus elaps. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ELAPS": Elapine. (references) |
Expressions using "ELAPS": Elaps corallinus ♦ Elaps fulvius ♦ Ophiophagus elaps. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "elaps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | elapsay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ELAPS": elapse, elapsed, elapses, elapsing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ELAPS": prelapsarian, relapse, relapsed, relapser, relapsers, relapses, relapsing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ELAPS" (pronounced 'E"laps'): Laelaps. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, spale. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ales, alps, apes, apse, laps, lase, leap, leas, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, plea, sale, salp, seal, slap, spae. | |
-2 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, els, lap, las, lea, pal, pas, pea, pes, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, spa. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: alephs, appels, apples, asleep, aslope, elapse, espial, lapels, lapsed, lapser, lapses, lipase, maples, padles, palest, palets, panels, parles, passel, pastel, pearls, pedals, petals, places, plages, planes, plates, pleads, please, pleats, saleps, salpae, sample, sepals, septal, spales, splake, staple, tepals. | |
+2 letters: alipeds, alpines, amplest, ampules, aplites, apostle, appeals, applies, appulse, beclasp, beleaps, capless, caplets, capsule, carpels, chapels, clasped, clasper, cypsela, dapples, deposal, dewlaps, earlaps, elapids, elapsed, elapses, empales, enclasp, escalop, espanol, espials, exposal, felspar, hapless, impales, lampers, lapides, lapises, lappers, lappets, lapsers, leapers, lipases, napless, paddles, paellas, paisley, palaces, palates, paliest, pallets, palmers, palsied, palsies, palters, papules, parcels, parleys, paroles, parrels, parsley, passels, pastels, pedalos, pedlars, pelages, pelotas, peltast, persalt, perusal, phaseal, pineals, placers, placets, plagues, plaices, planers, planets, plaques, plashed, plasher, plashes, plaster, platens, platers, platies, players, pleased, pleaser, pleases, pleiads, pleuras, presale, psalmed, psalter, pulsate, rappels, reclasp, relapse, repeals, replans, replays, reposal, sampled, sampler, samples, sapless, scaleup, scalped, scalpel, scalper, sepaled, shapely, slapped, slapper, spackle, spalled, spaller, spancel, spangle, spaniel, sparely, sparkle, spatzle, special, specula, spelean, spheral, splakes, splayed, splenia, stapled, stapler, staples, talipes, upleaps, upscale. | |
+3 letters: acalephs, allspice, amplexus, ampoules, anableps, apolunes, apostles, apparels, applause, appliers, appulses, asparkle, asphodel, beclasps, bedlamps, biplanes, bluecaps, calipees, calipers, capelans, capelets, capelins, capsuled, capsules, chaplets, clampers, clappers, claspers, cleanups, collapse, cypselae, deplanes, deposals, displace, dyspneal, earflaps, earlship, earplugs, elapsing, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, enclasps, enplanes, ensample, epaulets, epiblast, episomal, escallop, escalops, espalier, especial, espousal, examples, explains, explants, exposals, feldspar, felspars, flapless, flappers, flareups, fleapits, grapnels, grapples, graupels, haplites, haploses, harelips, heeltaps, helipads, hexaplas, impalers, impanels, impearls, impleads, jalopies, lampases, lampreys, lapsable, lapsible, lempiras, leopards, malposed, maniples, maypoles, megalops, misplace, misplead, neoplasm, opalesce, opalines, outleaps, overlaps, paddlers, painless, paisleys, palavers, paleness, paleosol, palestra, paletots, palettes, paleways, palewise, palfreys, palisade, palliest, palmiest, palpates, panelist, panicles, pantiles, papulose, parables, paralyse, parflesh, parolees, parsable, parsleys, parslied, partlets, passable, passible, passless, pastille, pastless, patellas, pathless, payables, peafowls, peakless, pearlash, pearlers, pedestal, pedocals, pelicans, pelorias, peltasts, penalise, percales, pergolas, perillas, persalts, personal, perusals, petalous, petrales, petrosal, peytrals, piebalds, pilaster, pillages, pinwales, placates, placebos, plackets, plaguers, plainest, plaister, plaiters, planches, planless, planners, planters, plashers, plashier, plasters, plastery, platanes, plateaus, platiest, platters, plausive, playless, playlets, playpens, pleaches, pleaders, pleasant, pleasers, pleasing, pleasure, pleaters, pleiades, pleonasm, plumages, plussage, polarise, poleaxes, polecats, polentas, polestar, potables, pralines, prattles, prebasal, prelates, preplans, prevails, prolapse, psalters, psaltery, psoralea, psoralen, pulsated, pulsates, purslane, rampoles, reclasps, relapsed, relapser, relapses, repanels, replaces, replants, replates, repleads, replicas, reposals, reprisal, resample, samplers, sandpile, sapropel, scalepan, scaleups, scalpels, scalpers, scapulae, sceptral, scopulae, scrapple, seaplane, sepaline, sepalled, sepaloid, sepalous, septical, shapable, shrapnel, skiplane, slappers, slipcase, slippage, slipware, snapless, soapless, soaplike, spackled, spackles, spadeful, spadille, spaetzle, spallers, spalpeen, spancels, spandrel, spangled, spangles, spaniels, spanless, sparable, sparkled, sparkler, sparkles, sparlike, sparsely, spatzles, specials, spectral, specular, spelaean, spiculae, spillage, spinulae, spiracle, spiraled, spirulae, splashed, splasher, splashes, splatted, splatter, splenial, spoilage, spoliate, spraddle, sprattle, sprawled, sprawler, stapelia, staplers, subpanel, sulphate, superlay, supernal, tadpoles, talipeds, tapeless, tapholes, templars, tieclasp, tramples, upscaled, upscales, vesperal, wasplike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4C 41 50 53 |
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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)01000101 01001100 01000001 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E L A P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004C 0041 0050 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)3946355053 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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