PERSCRUTATION

  

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PERSCRUTATION

Definition: PERSCRUTATION

PERSCRUTATION

Noun

1. A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Perscrutation \Per`scru*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression perscrutatio, from perscrutari to search through.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PERSCRUTATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inquiry

Examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "PERSCRUTATION"

Words rhyming with "PERSCRUTATION" (pronounced 'Per`scru*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERSCRUTATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: counterparts.

-2 letters: counterpart, eructations, parturients, precautions, procrustean, reputations, retractions, tetrasporic, triceratops.

-3 letters: carnotites, carrotiest, constipate, contraries, copartners, corruptest, eructation, instructor, intercrops, interrupts, introspect, parturient, precarious, precaution, pretorians, raconteurs, reputation, retraction, rusticator, supertonic, transcript, truantries.

-4 letters: anoretics, atropines, caponiers, capturers, carnotite, carrotins, coinsurer, coparents, copartner, cornetist, countries, courantes, courtesan, courtiers, creations, crepitant, cretinous, croupiers, croupiest.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+4 letters: neuropsychiatrist.

 

+5 letters: neuropsychiatrists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERSCRUTATION


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

50 45 52 53 43 52 55 54 41 54 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)

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

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