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Definitions: HERMETICAL |
HERMETICALAdjective1. Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically. 2. Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine. 3. Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic. |
| Language | Translations for "HERMETICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 密封 (hermetic, sealed). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | hermétique (hermetic), étanche (hermetic). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | luftdicht (air tight, airtight, air-tight, hermetic, sealed), hermetisch (airtight, air-tight, hermetic, hermetically, sealed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | kedap (close-meshed, impermeable, watertight). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ermetico (abstruse, air-tight, dark, difficult to understand, hermetic, obscure, obscurely, opaque, recondite, sealed, tight). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 비한 (hermetic, Mysterious). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermeticalhay hermetico (hermetic). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HERMETICAL": hermetically. (additional references) | |
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"HERMETICAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heremetical, herimetical, Hermetica, Hermeticum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: heretical. | |
-2 letters: aetheric, hermetic, hetaeric, leachier, materiel, metrical, realtime, rhematic. | |
-3 letters: article, atelier, charlie, cheater, chelate, chimera, chimere, claimer, climate, cremate, emerita, emirate, erethic, etheric, ethical, haltere, hectare, hematic, heretic, lathier, leacher, leather, machete, machree, maltier, marlite, matcher, mealier, meatier, metical, miracle, recheat, recital, reclaim, reclame, rematch, reteach, reticle, teacher, techier, theriac, thermae, thermal, thermel, thermic, tiercel, trachle, treacle. | |
-4 letters: achier, aether, amerce, archil, armlet, atelic, cahier, calmer, camlet, cartel, ceiler, cerate, cereal, cerite, cermet, chalet, chelae, chimar, chimer, chimla, chiral, chital, cither, citral, claret, create, ecarte, eclair, either, elater, elmier, emetic, etcher, haemic, hailer, halite, halter, hamlet, hareem, healer, heater, heliac, helmet, hereat, hermae, hermai, hermit, hiemal, imaret, lacier, lather, lecher, lichee, lither, mailer, malice, marcel, mealie, melter, metier, metric, milter, mither, mitral, raceme, rachet, ramtil, recite, rectal, reemit, reheat, relace, relate, relict, remail, remate, remelt, retail, reteam, retial, retile, retime, rictal, tailer, techie, tercel, thairm, thaler, thecae, thecal, therme, thiram, thrice, tierce, tramel. | |
-5 letters: aerie, aimer, airth, aitch, alert, almeh, alter, ameer, amice, areic, arete, ariel, armet, artel, camel, caret, carle, carte, cater, ceria, chair, chare, charm, chart, cheat, cheer, chela, chert, chiel, chile, chime, chirm, citer, claim, clear, cleat, clime, crate, cream, creel, creme, crime, earth, eater, eclat, elate, elect, elemi, elite, email, erect, erica, ether, ethic, haler, harem, hater, heart, hemal, hemic, herma, hilar, ihram, ileac, irate, ither, lacer, laich, laith, lamer, larch, laree, latch, later, lathe, lathi, leach, leech, letch, lethe, licht, liter, lithe, litre, macer, mache, macle, maile, malic, march, match, mater, melic, merit, merle, metal, meter, metre, miche, micra, milch, miler, mirth, miter, mitre, ramee, ramet, ramie, ratch, ratel, rathe, reach, react, realm, recta, recti, rehem, relet, relic, relit, remet, remit, retch, retem, retia, retie, tache, taler, tamer, teach, telae, telia, telic, terai, terce, tharm, theca, their, theme, there, therm, thirl, three, tical, tiler, timer, trace, trail, triac, trial, trice. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-r-t" | |
+2 letters: hermetically. | |
+3 letters: cephalometric, hermeneutical, hypermetrical, petrochemical. | |
+4 letters: cephalometries, cholestyramine, exothermically, hypermetabolic, multichambered, petrochemicals, stereochemical, thermochemical. | |
+5 letters: cholestyramines, electrochemical, heliometrically, hermeneutically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 52 4D 45 54 49 43 41 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. -- . - .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01010010 01001101 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E R M E T I C A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0052 004D 0045 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42395247395443373546 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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