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Definition: ESCURIAL |
ESCURIALNoun1. A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid. |
Date "ESCURIAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Escurial \Es*cu"ri*al\, noun. [Prop. Spanish escorial, i. e., hill or heap of rubbish, earth, and stones brought out of mine, from escoria dross of metal, from Latin expression scoria, from the Greek expression. Compare to Scoria.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ESCURIAL |
| English words defined with "ESCURIAL": Escorial. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Escurial (1991) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
escurial | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "ESCURIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | escurial får (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόβατο εσκοριάλ (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | escurialay ovelha de raça escurial (escurial sheep). (various references) escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "ESCURIAL" (pronounced 'Es*cu"ri*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: auricles. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: auricle, claries, eclairs, recusal, saucier, scalier, secular, uracils. | |
-2 letters: aculei, ariels, caries, carles, caules, caulis, causer, cerias, cesura, clause, clears, cruise, curiae, curial, curies, eclair, ericas, lacers, lacier, lucres, relics, resail, sailer, saucer, saurel, scaler, sclera, serail, serial, slicer, sluice, ulcers, uracil, urials. | |
-3 letters: acres, aisle, alecs, arcus, areic, ariel, arils, arise, arles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: peculiars, simulacre, vesicular. | |
+2 letters: circulates, curtailers, curtilages, graticules, incurables, lacustrine, lubricates, luciferase, mercurials, revictuals, saucerlike, secularise, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularize, simulacres, testicular, versicular, victualers. | |
+3 letters: apicultures, arenicolous, articulates, avicultures, calciferous, cartularies, circularise, curtainless, disgraceful, electuaries, elucidators, inscrutable, irrecusable, irrecusably, lactiferous, lawrenciums, luciferases, luxuriances, republicans, reticulates, secularised, secularises, secularisms, secularists, secularized, secularizer, secularizes, specularity, subliteracy, superficial, ulcerations, ultrafiches, unclarities, unrealistic, veraciously, victuallers, vulcanizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 43 55 52 49 41 4C |
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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)01000101 01010011 01000011 01010101 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S C U R I A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 0043 0055 0052 0049 0041 004C |
| 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)3953375552433546 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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