KIST-VAEN

  

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KIST-VAEN

Specialty Definition: KIST-VAEN

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Kist-vaen (The). A rude stone sepulchre or mausoleum, like a chest with a flat stone for a cover
"At length they reached a grassy mound, on the top of which was placed one of those receptacles for the dead of the ancient British chiefs of distinction, called Kist-vaen, which are composed of upright fragments of granite, so placed as to form a stone coffin. "- Sir Walter Scott: The Betrothed, chap. xxix. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: KIST-VAEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-n-s-t-v"

-1 letter: intakes, naivest, natives, vainest.

-2 letters: intake, invest, kinase, knaves, knives, naives, native, navies, savine, takins, tenias, tineas, tisane.

-3 letters: anise, antes, antis, avens, entia, etnas, ikats, inset, kains, kanes, kinas, kines, kites, kivas, knave, knits, naevi, naive, nates, naves, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, savin, senti, skate, skean, skein, skint, skite, skive, snake.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-n-s-t-v"
 

+3 letters: overtasking.

 

+5 letters: talkativeness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KIST-VAEN


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

4B 49 53 54 2D 56 41 45 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01001011 01001001 01010011 01010100 00101101 01010110 01000001 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#45 &#86 &#65 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0049 0053 0054 002D 0056 0041 0045 004E

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

454353541556353948

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2. Orthography
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