Acrodont

  

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Acrodont

Definition: Acrodont

Acrodont

Noun

1. An animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Acrodont \Ac"ro*dont\, noun. [from Greek expression 'a`kros summit 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.]. (Websters 1913)

Derivations: Acrodont

Derivations

Words beginning with "acrodont": acrodonts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Acrodont"

Words rhyming with "acrodont" (pronounced 'Ac"ro*dont'): Coelodont, Conodont, Coryphodont, Cyprinodont, Desmodont, Dicynodont, Diodont, Diphyodont, Glyptodont, Gymnodont, Homodont, Hybodont, Iguanodont, labyrinthodont, Macrodont, Mesodont, Microdont, Monophyodont, Octodont, Oreodont, Phocodont, Pycnodont, Rachiodont, Rhachiodont, Rhizodont, Sigmodont, Squalodont, Tetrodont, Theriodont, Tillodont, Trigonid, Trigonodont, Zeuglodont. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Acrodont

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-n-o-o-r-t"

-1 letter: cardoon, cartoon, coranto, donator, odorant, tandoor, tornado.

-2 letters: candor, cantor, carton, condor, contra, cordon, corona, craton, croton, doctor, racoon, ratoon.

-3 letters: acorn, actor, adorn, canto, codon, condo, conto, cotan, croon, donor, narco, octad, octan, racon, radon, rondo, tardo, taroc, tondo, trona.

-4 letters: arco, cant, card, carn, cart, coat, coda, coon, coot, cord, corn, darn, dart, dato, doat, dona, door, drat, narc, nard, nota, odor, onto, orad, orca, ordo, rand, rant, rato, road, roan, rood, root, rota, roto, taco, tarn, taro, toad, toon, tora, torc, torn, toro, trad, trod.

-5 letters: act, ado, and, ant, arc, art, cad, can, car, cat, cod, con, coo, cor, cot, doc, don, dor, dot, nod, noo, nor, not, oar, oat, oca, oot, ora, orc, ort, rad, ran, rat, roc, rod, rot, tad, tan, tao, tar, tod, ton, too, tor.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-n-o-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: acrodonts, cartooned, concordat, coronated, creodonta.

 

+2 letters: carotenoid, carotinoid, concordant, concordats, coordinate, decoration, octahedron.

 

+3 letters: cardiotonic, carotenoids, carotinoids, condolatory, coordinated, coordinates, coordinator, decorations, motorcading, notochordal, octahedrons, recordation, trichomonad.

 

+4 letters: accordionist, cardiotonics, commendatory, concordantly, condemnatory, conductorial, conquistador, consolidator, contradictor, coordinately, coordinating, coordination, coordinative, coordinators, cotyledonary, gonadotropic, incorporated, mitochondria, monodramatic, nonbroadcast, productional, recordations, redecoration, trichomonads.

 

+5 letters: accordionists, confederation, conglomerated, conquistadors, consideration, consolidators, contradiction, contradictors, contradictory, coordinations, cotransported, decarbonation, decortication, discoloration, gonadotrophic, granodioritic, indoctrinator, mitochondrial, nonbroadcasts, nondemocratic, overcautioned, overeducation, postsecondary, reconsolidate, redecorations, uncoordinated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Acrodont


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

41 63 72 6F 64 6F 6E 74

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)

01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01100100 01101111 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#114 &#111 &#100 &#111 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0072 006F 0064 006F 006E 0074

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

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

3569848170818086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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