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Definition: Burial |
BurialNoun1. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. 2. Concealing something under the ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Burial \Bur"i*al\, noun. [from Old English expression buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, Anglo-Saxon byrgels, from byrgan to bury, and akin to Old Saxon burgisli sepulcher.]. (references) |
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Bible | Burial The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver current money with the merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a part of the land of Canaan, the only part he ever possessed. When he himself died, "his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah," beside Sarah his wife (Gen. 25:9). Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried under Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping" (Gen. 35:8), near to Bethel. Rachel died, and was buried near Ephrath; "and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave" (16-20). Isaac was buried at Hebron, where he had died (27, 29). Jacob, when charging his sons to bury him in the cave of Machpelah, said, "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah" (49:31). In compliance with the oath which he made him swear unto him (47:29-31), Joseph, assisted by his brethren, buried Jacob in the cave of Machpelah (50:2, 13). At the Exodus, Moses "took the bones of Joseph with him," and they were buried in the "parcel of ground" which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor (Josh. 24:32), which became Joseph's inheritance (Gen. 48:22; 1 Chr. 5:1; John 4:5). Two burials are mentioned as having taken place in the wilderness. That of Miriam (Num. 20:1), and that of Moses, "in the land of Moab" (Deut. 34:5, 6, 8). There is no account of the actual burial of Aaron, which probably, however, took place on the summit of Mount Hor (Num. 20:28, 29). Joshua was buried "in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah" (Josh. 24: 30). In Job we find a reference to burying-places, which were probably the Pyramids (3:14, 15). The Hebrew word for "waste places" here resembles in sound the Egyptian word for "pyramids." Samuel, like Moses, was honoured with a national burial (1 Sam. 25:1). Joab (1 Kings 2:34) "was buried in his own house in the wilderness." In connection with the burial of Saul and his three sons we meet for the first time with the practice of burning the dead (1 Sam. 31:11-13). The same practice is again referred to by Amos (6:10). Absalom was buried "in the wood" where he was slain (2 Sam. 18:17, 18). The raising of the heap of stones over his grave was intended to mark abhorrence of the person buried (comp. Josh. 7:26 and 8:29). There was no fixed royal burying-place for the Hebrew kings. We find several royal burials taking place, however, "in the city of David" (1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 15:8; 2 Kings 14:19, 20; 15:38; 1 Kings 14:31; 22:50; 2 Chr. 21:19, 20; 2 Chr. 24:25, etc.). Hezekiah was buried in the mount of the sepulchres of the sons of David; "and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death" (2 Chr. 32:33). Little is said regarding the burial of the kings of Israel. Some of them were buried in Samaria, the capital of their kingdom (2 Kings 10:35; 13:9; 14:16). Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matt. 27:57-60; Mark 15:46; John 19:41, 42). The grave of Lazarus was "a cave, and a stone lay on it" (John 11:38). Graves were frequently either natural caverns or artificial excavations formed in the sides of rocks (Gen. 23:9; Matt. 27:60); and coffins were seldom used, unless when the body was brought from a distance. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining on the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations, and perhaps the happy marriage of some one of them is about to occur. But if rain and dismal weather prevails, sickness and bad news of the absent will soon come, and depressions in business circles will be felt. A burial where there are sad rites performed, or sorrowing faces, is indicative of adverse surroundings or their speedy approach. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea. The custom of burial is primeval and omnipresent in all cultures and civilizations, generally accompanied by ceremonial rites. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Burial is putting something in a pit or trench (which is often dug for this purpose) and covering it with soil. It is sometimes applied to hide an object; for cables and pipelines it provides protection and allows the convenience of walking or driving over them.
For dead bodies it is applied for hygiene, to avoid a bad smell and sight, and to avoid being eaten by animals.
Burial grounds have been uncovered all over the world. Mounds of earth, temples, and underground caverns were used to store the dead bodies of ancestors. In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker is used in almost every culture.
The digging up of a buried body is called exhumation.
Compare cremation, sky burial, burial at sea. See also funeral, burial mound.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burial."
Synonyms: BurialSynonyms: burying (n), entombment (n), inhumation (n), interment (n), sepulture (n). (additional references) |
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Interment | Noun: interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation. |
Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. | |
Adjective: burried. Verb: burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic. | |
Rite | Matrimony; burial; visitation of the sick. |
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Screenplays | I've never been at a burial scenario before (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) It was built on an ancient Indian burial ground, and was the setting of Satanic rituals, witch-burnings, and five John Denver Christmas specials (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Oh, her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) I only wish that there was a junkyard, so could give him a proper burial. (Dragonball Z; writing credit: Katsuyuki Sumizawa) A relationship like ours can't work; things buried deep down are bound to come to the surface and destroy us. It's like building on an ancient burial ground (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner) | |
Lyrics | You're The flash of light, on a burial shroud (Jumper; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Premature Burial (1962) | |
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 | Bleach solution is sprayed on body bag prior to burial to prevent the spread of infection. Kikwit, Zaire. Credit: CDC. |  | Burial site of an American sailor who never made it home. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A burial at sea off the JOHN N. COBB. A mariner returning to the sea he loved. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Burial of 18 patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Chaplain at burial service]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Following Hawaiian tradition, Sailors honor men killed during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu. The casualties had been buried on 8 December. This ceremony took place sometime during the following months, possibly on Memorial Day, 31 May 1942. See Photo # 80-G-32854 for a photograph of the 8 December 1941 burial ceremonies. Credit: NAVY. |
 | An Tjilatjap, Java, 6 February 1942, seen from USS Marblehead (CL-12), which was passing close aboard. Houston's colors are half-masted pending return of her funeral party, ashore for burial of men lost when a bomb hit near her after eight-inch gun turret two days earlier during a Japanese air attack in Banka Strait. The disabled turret is visible in the center of the view, being trained to port. Credit: NAVY. |  | Burial marker of Nikolai Rezanov, prominent naval officer and one of the directors of the Russian-American Company, Krasnoiarsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | The burial of the bosses the morning after election. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Burial of the victims of the Maine in their final resting place, Arlington Cemetery, Va., Dec. 28, 1899. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dead cricket" by Mike Rose Commentary: "I found this dead cricket on the floor, I took a picture of it and then gave it a proper burial. ." |
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Christopher Marlowe | All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. |
Seneca | Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. |
William Shakespeare | Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He will please defray therefrom the expenses of my trial, and of the burial of the woman who died this morning |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | ' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. |
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Business | The remaining ten percent ($157.7 million) consisted of personal accident and burial insurance. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Police only allowed immediate family members to enter the cemetery for the burial ceremony. (references) |
Thailand | The change was implemented in 1999 in response to the demands of parliamentarians for simpler identification of persons who required Muslim burial. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Members of unrecognized religious groups (particularly evangelical Christians), at times face problems obtaining marriage certificates or burial services. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Most funerals are conducted by Buddhist priests, and burial grounds attached to temples are used by both faiths. (references) |
Madagascar | Many incorporate the cult of the dead with their religious beliefs and bless their dead at church before proceeding with the traditional burial rites. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | Burial ceremonies, public and private, commenced at year's end. (references) |
Minorities | Romania | The Greek Catholic, Baptist, and Pentecostal Churches also have reported similar refusals by Orthodox clergy to allow the burial of the believers of these churches in Orthodox cemeteries. (references) |
Romania | According to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Orthodox priests have not allowed Adventist ministers to conduct burial rituals in localities, mainly in rural areas, where the number of Adventist members was small. (references) | |
India | Human rights groups allege that in many Tamil Nadu villages, scheduled castes are not allowed to participate in local festivals, own houses or property in upper caste areas, share upper caste burial grounds, or draw water from public wells in upper-caste neighborhoods. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus. |
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| "Burial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Burial" is used about 909 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 909 | 7,890 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "burial": burial at see ♦ Burial case ♦ burial chamber ♦ burial custom ♦ burial garment ♦ burial ground ♦ burial mound ♦ burial of wastes ♦ burial place ♦ burial rite ♦ burial rites ♦ burial service ♦ burial site ♦ burial vault ♦ emergency burial ♦ take for burial ♦ Tree burial. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "burial": burial-at-sea, burial-cave, burial-chamber, burial-chambers, burial-cliffs, burial-dump, burial-ground, burial-grounds, burial-hill, burial-mounds, burial-place, burial-places, burial-service. | |
Ending with "burial": ship-burial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "burial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | begrawing (funeral, interment), begrafnis (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Albanian | varrim (committal, entombment, exequies, sepulture), groposje (landfill). (various references) | |
Arabic | قبر (bury, grave, inter, sepulcher, sepulture, shrine, tomb), دفن (bury, earth, entomb, funeral, inhumation, inhume, inter, interment, lay, lay to rest, put away). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | погребване (entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture), погребение (entombment, funeral, inhumation, interment, obsequies, sepulture). (various references) | |
Catalan | enterrament (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Chinese | 葬禮 (funeral), 埋葬 (Bury). (various references) | |
Czech | pohřeb (funeral, sepulture), pohřbení (entombment, inhumation). (various references) | |
Danish | nedgravning (destruction), jordfæstelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | begrafenis (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | entombigo (funeral, interment), enterigo (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Farsi | تدفدین , دفن (Interment, Mortuary), بخاک سپاری (Interment). (various references) | |
Finnish | hautaus (interment), hautajaiset (funeral). (various references) | |
French | enterrement. (various references) | |
Frisian | begraffenis (funeral, interment), beïerdiging (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
German | begräbnis (entombment, funeral, interment, sepulture), beisetzung (funeral, interment), beerdigung (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Greek | ταφή (interment, sepulture). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קבורה (entombment, interment, sepulchre, tomb), אשכבה (requiem), הטמנה (concealing, hiding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | temetés (committal to the earth, funeral, interment, obsequies, obsequy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penguburan (funeral, interment), pengebumian, pemakaman. (various references) | |
Italian | inumazione (entombment, inhumation, interment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 埋葬. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まいそう, のべおくり, どそう (interment), とぶらい (condolence, funeral), とむらい (condolence, funeral). (various references) | |
Korean | 매장 (Bury, Burying). (various references) | |
Manx | oanluckey (bury, burying; hush up, entomb; committal, inter, interment). (various references) | |
Norwegian | begravelse (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Papiamen | entiero (funeral, interment), deramento (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urialbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enterro (bury, burying, entombment, funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Romanian | prohod (dead-office, requiem), înmormântare (funeral, inhumation, interment, laying out, obsequies, sepulture), înhumare (inhumation, interment, sepulture), îngropare (burying, committal, entombment, inhumation), îngropãciune. (various references) | |
Russian | похороны (exequies, funeral, obsequies). (various references) | |
Scottish | tòrradh (heaping or piling up), adhlac (a burial). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sahrana (exequies, funeral, interment, obsequies, sepulture), pokop (inhumation), pogreb (exequies, funeral, interment, obsequies). (various references) | |
Spanish | entierro (entombment, funeral, interment), enterramiento (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Sranan | beri (bury, entomb, funeral, inter, interment). (various references) | |
Swedish | begravning (committal, entombment, exequies, funeral, inhumation, interment, obsequies). (various references) | |
Thai | งานศพ. (various references) | |
Turkish | toprağa verme (interment), gömme (built in, burying, committal service, entombment, flush, inhumation, inlaid, interment, let in, sepulture, sunk, sunken), defin (funeral, interment, sepulture), cenaze töreni (burial service, exequies, funeral, funeral rites, obsequies). (various references) | |
Turkmen | jaяlama. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | похорон (entombment, funeral, inhumation, obsequies), поховання (committal, inhumation, interment, obsequies, sepulture). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | việc mai táng, việc chôn cất. (various references) | |
Welsh | claddedigaeth, angladd (funeral). (various references) | |
Zulu | umngcwabo (funeral, interment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consepulti, funere, funeris, sepulto, sepultos, sepultura, sepulturae, sepulturam, sepulturaque, sepulturas, sepultus, sepultusque. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | byrgels. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Balousa gar auth to muron touto epi tou swmatoV mou proV to entafiasai me epoihsen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mittens enim haec unguentum hoc in corpus meum ad sepeliendum me fecit |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hyo dyde þas sealfe on minne lichamanþæt ic wære ge-smyred to beberienne. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | This womman sendynge this oynement in to my bodi, dide to birie me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And in yt she casted this oyntment on my bodye she dyd it to burye me wt all. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Sa iyang pagbobo niining pahumot dinhi sa akong lawas, gihimo niya kini aron sa pag-andam kanako alang sa lubong. |
| Chinese | 他 將 這 香 膏 澆 在 我 身 上 、 是 為 我 安 葬 作 的 。 |
| Croatian | Izlila je tu pomast na moje tijelo - za ukop mi to uèini. |
| Danish | Thi da hun udgød denne Salve over mit Legeme, gjorde hun det for at berede mig til at begraves. |
| Dutch | Want als zij deze zalf op Mijn lichaam gegoten heeft, zo heeft zij het gedaan tot een voorbereiding van Mijn begrafenis. |
| Finnish | Sillä kun hän valoi tämän voiteen minun ruumiilleni, teki hän sen minun hautaamistani varten. |
| French | En répandant ce parfum sur mon corps, elle l`a fait pour ma sépulture. |
| German | Daß sie dies Wasser hat auf meinen Leib gegossen, hat sie getan, daß sie mich zum Grabe bereite. |
| Hungarian | Mert hogy õ ezt a kenetet testemre töltötte, az én temetésemre nézve cselekedte azt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dengan menuang minyak wangi itu ke atas badan-Ku, ia mempersiapkan Aku untuk penguburan-Ku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena di dalam hal perempuan itu mencurahkan minyak ini di atas tubuh-Ku itu, seolah-olah diperbuatnya akan menyediakan hal menguburkan Aku kelak. |
| Italian | Versando questo olio sul mio corpo, lo ha fatto in vista della mia sepoltura. |
| Manx Gaelic | Son liorish dy vel ee er gheayrtey yn ooil shoh er n y chorp, t'ee er n'yannoo eh cour my oanluckey. |
| Maori | I ringihia ai hoki tenei hinu kakara ki toku tinana, he mea mo toku tanumanga. |
| Norwegian | For da hun helte denne salve ut over mitt legeme, gjorde hun mig i stand til min jordeferd. |
| Portuguese | Ora, derramando ela este bálsamo sobre o meu corpo, fê-lo a fim de preparar-me para a minha sepultura. |
| Rumanian | Dacq a turnat acest mir pe trupul Meu, ea a fqcut lucrul acesta kn vederea pregqtirii Mele pentru kngropare. |
| Russian | ЧПЪМЙЧ НЙТП УЙЕ ОБ ФЕМП нПЕ, ПОБ РТЙЗПФПЧЙМБ нЕОС Л РПЗТЕВЕОЙА; |
| Shuar | Ju nuwa kunkuinjai ukatrurai juka, Wi iwiarnastin asamtai aitkiarayi. |
| Spanish | Porque al derramar este perfume sobre mi cuerpo, ella lo hizo para prepararme para la sepultura. |
| Swahili | Huyu mama amenimiminia marashi ili kunitayarisha kwa maziko. |
| Swedish | När hon göt ut denna smörjelse på min kropp, gjorde hon det såsom en tillredelse till min begravning. |
| Uma | Natuai-a hante lana toe, mpakasadia ami' woto-ku hi karatana-ku mpai'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burial": burials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "burial": reburial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "burial": reburials. (additional references) | |
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"Burial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baginal, baral, Bareala, barila, Barisal, Bartal, beral, Bikila, birail, Birkill, Bodipala, boral, borgioli, Bouiali, Bouira, Boureima, Bowral, breal, briil, brinal, Buaiad, Bueil, buial, Burali, Burall, Burdale, burea, bureaw, Burewala, buriall, burian, Buridan, burill, Buriram, burjan, Buroa, burqa, bursal, burtal, Burvill, Gurdial, murial, uriel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burial" (pronounced be"rēul) |
| 5 | -e" r ē u l | actuarial, adversarial, aerial, Ariel, malarial, secretarial. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, advertorial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, cereal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, terrestrial, territorial, janitorial, magisterial, managerial, material, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, senatorial, serial, tutorial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: brail, libra, urbia, urial. | |
-2 letters: abri, aril, bail, birl, blur, bura, burl, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial. | |
-3 letters: ail, air, alb, arb, bal, bar, bra, bur, lab, lar, lib, ria, rib, rub, urb. | |
-4 letters: ab, ai, al, ar, ba, bi, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burials, fibular, railbus. | |
+2 letters: balisaur, baulkier, binaural, biovular, lubrical, reburial, rubrical, ruinable, subviral, tribunal, turbinal. | |
+3 letters: balisaurs, binocular, brutalise, brutality, brutalize, corbicula, incurable, incurably, insurable, laborious, labouring, lubricant, lubricate, nailbrush, orbicular, railbuses, reburials, salubrity, subaerial, tribulate, tribunals, turbinals, unridable. | |
+4 letters: acquirable, bicultural, binaurally, binoculars, brutalised, brutalises, brutalized, brutalizes, bulwarking, burglaries, burglarize, columbaria, corbiculae, curability, durability, equilibria, floribunda, inarguable, inarguably, incurables, jubilarian, lambrequin, lubricants, lubricated, lubricates, lubricator, mandibular, orbiculate, railbusses, republican, rubrically, salubrious, suborbital, survivable, tribulated, tribulates, triturable, ultrabasic, unreliable, vestibular. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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