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Definition: Acephaly |
AcephalyNoun1. Absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AcephalySynonyms: acephalia (n), acephalism (n). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ACEPHALY literally means absence of the head. It is a much rarer condition than anencephaly. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-l-p-y" | |
-1 letter: acaleph, cheaply. | |
-2 letters: apache, chapel, leachy, palace, peachy, phylae, pleach. | |
-3 letters: aleph, alpha, apace, chape, cheap, chela, chyle, haply, lacey, leach, lycea, pacha, palea, peach, phyla, phyle, place, playa. | |
-4 letters: ache, achy, acyl, alae, alec, ayah, cape, caph, chap, chay, clap, clay, each, epha, hale, heal, heap, help, hyla, hype, lace, lacy, leap, lech, paca, pace, pale, paly, peal, pech, play, plea, yeah, yech, yelp. | |
-5 letters: aah, aal, ace, aha, ala, ale, alp, ape, aye, cap, cay, cel, cep, hae, hap, hay, hep, hey, hyp, lac, lap, lay, lea, ley, lye, pac, pah, pal, pay, pea, pec, peh, ply, pya, pye, yah, yap, yea, yeh, yep. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-l-p-y" | |
+2 letters: archetypal. | |
+3 letters: anencephaly, aphetically, autocephaly, edaphically, parenchymal. | |
+4 letters: archetypally, archetypical, bathypelagic, cephalically, empathically, emphatically, hypocalcemia, metaphysical, pathetically, seraphically. | |
+5 letters: apathetically, brachycephaly, graphemically, hypercalcemia, hypocalcemias, myelencephala, psychoanalyze, unimpeachably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 65 70 68 61 6C 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000001 01100011 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c e p h a l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0065 0070 0068 0061 006C 0079 |
| 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)3569718274677891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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