CIMISS

  

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CIMISS

Definition: CIMISS

CIMISS

Noun

1. The bedbug.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Cimiss \Ci"miss\, noun. [Latin expression cimex, -icis, bug.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "CIMISS"

Words rhyming with "CIMISS" (pronounced 'Ci"miss'): koumiss. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIMISS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-i-m-s-s"

-2 letters: isms, miss, sics, sims.

-3 letters: cis, ism, mis, sic, sim, sis.

-4 letters: is, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-i-m-s-s"
 

+1 letter: civisms, seismic.

 

+2 letters: camisias, laicisms, miscites, miscoins, miskicks, sciolism, stoicism.

 

+3 letters: actinisms, activisms, atticisms, casimires, chiliasms, civicisms, cynicisms, dioecisms, disclaims, iotacisms, ischemias, isocheims, isochimes, isosmotic, lyricisms, messianic, mischiefs, misclaims, miscopies, misprices, mosaicism, mosaicist, musicians, mysticism, pacifisms, scientism, scimitars, scimiters, sciolisms, semiotics, siliciums, simoniacs, simplices, socialism, stoicisms, trisomics.

 

+4 letters: anglicisms, armistices, asceticism, biblicisms, caciquisms, chimerisms, cicisbeism, classicism, commission, cramoisies, cretinisms, criticisms, dichroisms, dicrotisms, discomfits, epicenisms, epicurisms, eroticisms, exoticisms, facsimiles, fetichisms, gallicisms, gnosticism, hemistichs, insomniacs, ischaemias, isometrics, machinists, microseism, miniscules, miscarries, miscasting, mischoices, misdirects, misspacing, mosaicisms, mosaicists, mucosities, musicalise, mysticisms, narcissism, poeticisms, racialisms, reminisces, scepticism, schismatic, scientisms, scrimpiest, seismicity, semeiotics, sicklemias, simplistic, skepticism, socialisms, specialism, speciesism, stigmatics, strabismic, victimises, victimless, vorticisms, witticisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CIMISS


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

43 49 4D 49 53 53

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)

01000011 01001001 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#77 &#73 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 004D 0049 0053 0053

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

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

374347435353

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INDEX

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


  

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