ADELPHOUS

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

ADELPHOUS

Definition: ADELPHOUS

ADELPHOUS

Adjective

1. Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Adelphous \A*del"phous\, adjective. [from Greek expression 'adelfo`s brother.]. (Websters 1913)

 

.

Crosswords: ADELPHOUS

English words defined with "ADELPHOUS": Triadelphous. (references)

Top     

Derivations: ADELPHOUS

Derivations

Words ending with "ADELPHOUS": diadelphous, monadelphous. (additional references)

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

Top     

Rhyming with "ADELPHOUS"

Words rhyming with "ADELPHOUS" (pronounced 'A*del"phous'): Amorphous, Anthropomorphous, Dimorphous, Enantiomorphous, gynandromorphous, Heteromorphous, Homoeomorphous, Hystricomorphous, Isodimorphous, isomorphous, Isotrimorphous, -morphous, Ophiomorphous, paramorphous, Pentadelphous, Peristeromorphous, Pleomorphous, Plesiomorphous, Polymorphous, Pseudomorphous, Pyromorphous, Triadelphous, Typhous. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: ADELPHOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-p-s-u"

-1 letter: asphodel.

-2 letters: deposal, holdups, pedalos, plashed, shauled, shoaled, upholds, uploads.

-3 letters: aholds, aldose, alephs, aslope, dholes, ephods, haloed, haloes, haoles, hasped, hauled, holdup, housed, housel, lapsed, lashed, lehuas, louped, loupes, loused, lushed, ouphes, padles, pashed, paused, pedalo, pedals, phased, pleads, pseudo, pulsed, pushed, shaled, shaped, should, sloped, soaped, souled, souped, sulpha, upheld, uphold, upload.

-4 letters: ahold, aleph, aloes, aloud, apods, ashed, dahls, dales, deals, deash, dhals, dhole, doles, dopas, dopes, douse, duals, duels, dulse, dupes, duple, ephas, ephod, hades, haled, hales, halos, haole, hauls, heads, heals, heaps, helos, helps, holds, holed, holes, hoped, hopes, hosed, hosel, house, hulas, lades, lapse, lased, lauds, leads, leaps, leash, lehua, leuds, loads, lodes, loped, lopes, loupe, loups, louse, ludes, opahs, opals, ouphe, ouphs, ousel, padle, paled, pales, paseo, pause, peals, pedal, phase, plash, plead, pleas, plods, plush, poled, poles, posed, pseud, psoae, puled, pules, pulse, sadhe, sadhu, salep, selah, sepal, shade, shale, shape, shaul, sheal, sheol, shlep, shoal, shoed, slope, slued, soled, spade, spado, spaed, spale, spode, spued, updos.

-5 letters: ados, ales, aloe, alps, also, aped, apes, apod, apse, auld, dahl, dahs, dale, dals, daps, dash, deal, dels, dhal, does, dole, dols, dopa, dope, dose, dual, duel, dues, duos, dupe, dups, edhs, elds, epha, epos, hade, haed, haes, hale, halo, haps, hasp, haul, head, heal, heap, held, helo, help, hods, hoed, hoes, hold, hole, holp, hols, hope, hops, hose, hued, hues, hula, lade, lads, laps, lase, lash, laud, lead, leap, leas, leud, load, lode, lope, lops, lose, loud, loup, lude, lues, lush, odea, odes, ohed, olds, olea, oles, opah, opal, oped, opes, opus, ouds, ouph, pads, pale, pals, pase, pash, peal, peas, peds, pehs, peso, plea, pled, plod, plus, pods, pole, pols, pose, posh, puds, pula, pule, puls, push, sade, sale, salp, saul, seal, shad, shea, shed, shod, shoe, shop, shul, slap, sled, sloe, slop, slue, soap, soda, sola, sold, sole, soph, soul, soup, spae, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, udos, upas, updo, used.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-p-s-u"
 

+2 letters: audiophiles, diadelphous.

 

+3 letters: monadelphous.

 

+4 letters: hydrocephalus.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: ADELPHOUS


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

41 44 45 4C 50 48 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01000100 01000101 01001100 01010000 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#69 &#76 &#80 &#72 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0045 004C 0050 0048 004F 0055 0053

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

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

353839465042495553

Top     

 

INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.