EXTERSION

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EXTERSION

Definition: EXTERSION

EXTERSION

Noun

1. The act of wiping or rubbing out.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Extersion \Ex*ter"sion\, noun. [Latin expression extergere, extersum, to wipe out; ex out tergere to wipe or rub off.]. (references)

 

Anagrams: EXTERSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: exertions, exsertion.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-x"

-1 letter: exertion, extensor, intersex, oneriest, serotine.

-2 letters: entires, entries, estrone, externs, norites, oestrin, orients, retines, sixteen, stonier, toxines, trienes.

-3 letters: enters, entire, eosine, estrin, exerts, exines, exsert, extern, inerts, insert, inters, intros, irones, nereis, nester, nestor, niters, nitres, nitros, norite, nosier, noters, orient, oxters, renest, rentes, resent, resite, reties, retine, seiner, senior, serein, serine.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-x"
 

+1 letter: excretions, exsertions.

 

+2 letters: excerptions, execrations, pyroxenites, tinderboxes.

 

+3 letters: enterotoxins, exasperation, executioners, exonerations, exorbitances, extortioners, extraversion, extroversion, heteroauxins.

 

+4 letters: exacerbations, exaggerations, exasperations, exenterations, exercitations, exhibitioners, expressionist, extemporising, exteriorising, exterminators, extraversions, extroversions, letterboxings, overanxieties, overexertions, overextension, proximateness, reannexations, retroflexions.

 

+5 letters: expectorations, expressionists, exterminations, hyperextension, neoorthodoxies, overextensions, postexperience, reexaminations, reexportations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXTERSION


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

45 58 54 45 52 53 49 4F 4E

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)

.    -..-    -    .    .-.    ...    ..    ---    -.

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

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

01000101 01011000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

E X T E R S I O N

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0054 0045 0052 0053 0049 004F 004E

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

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

395854395253434948

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