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Literature | Acestes (3 syl.) The Arrow of Acestes. In a trial of skill Acestes, the Sicilian, discharged his arrrow with such force that it took fire. (Æ. 5, line 525.) "Like Acestes' shaft of old, The swift thought kindles as it flies." Longfellow. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Alternative: Egestes
Virgil I, 550; V, 36, 61, 73.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ectases. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: castes, ceases, cestas, teases. | |
-2 letters: asset, cases, caste, casts, cates, cease, cesta, cetes, eases, easts, sates, scats, seats, sects, setae, taces, tasse, tease. | |
-3 letters: aces, acts, ates, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cess, cete, ease, east, eats, eses, etas, sacs, sate, scat, seas, seat, secs, sect, sees, seta, sets, tace, tass, teas, tees. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: caseates, casettes, cassette, cateress, celestas, cerastes, escheats, pectases. | |
+2 letters: acescents, actresses, acuteness, caestuses, casemates, casements, cassettes, cineastes, creasiest, decussate, ecstasies, escalates, eustacies, exactness, exsecants, notecases, reascents, sarcenets, secateurs, sectaries, setaceous, speciates, spectates, telecasts, tesseract, testacies, traceless, typecases, vesicates. | |
+3 letters: abjectness, accentless, activeness, aesthetics, affectless, ancestress, ancestries, antecessor, ascendents, caespitose, careerists, cartelises, caseinates, catecheses, catechesis, cateresses, celestials, chanteuses, chasteners, chasteness, clematises, decussated, decussates, desecrates, desiccates, desistance, despatches, exsiccates, hesitances, jacketless, masseteric, miscreates, misteaches, newscaster, reductases, resistance, scatheless, scatterers, specialest, spectacles, speculates, stavesacre, streetcars, sustenance, tesseracts, testaceous, timescales, watercress. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 45 53 54 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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 01000011 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C E S T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0045 0053 0054 0045 0053 |
| 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)35373953543953 |
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