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Definition: CURTEIN |
CURTEINNoun1. Same as Curtana. |
Date "CURTEIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cretin, curite, triune, uniter, uretic. | |
-2 letters: centu, citer, cruet, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, cutin, eruct, incur, inert, inter, inure, nicer, niter, nitre, recti, recut, runic, rutin, trice, trine, truce, tuner, tunic, unite, untie, ureic, urine, uteri. | |
-3 letters: cent, cine, cire, cite, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, etic, etui, nice, nite, rein, rent, rice. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: anuretic, ceinture, cincture, enuretic, eructing, intercut, neuritic, neurotic, reinduct, ruthenic, tincture, unerotic. | |
+2 letters: antiulcer, ceintures, centuries, centurion, cinctured, cinctures, confiture, continuer, countries, cretinous, curetting, curtained, curveting, enuretics, incrusted, incurrent, incurvate, interclub, intercuts, introduce, lecturing, neuritics, neurotics, neutronic, quercetin, recutting, reduction, reinducts, relucting, runcinate, tinctured, tinctures, truancies, truckline, tuckering, uncertain. | |
+3 letters: aeronautic, auctioneer, becrusting, butchering, centauries, centrifuge, centurions, chuntering, circumvent, citrulline, clustering, cluttering, confitures, continuers, contribute, counterbid, countering, counterion, croqueting, crunchiest, crustiness, curtseying, curvetting, discounter, encrusting, enunciator, eructating, eructation, inaccurate, incurvated, incurvates, insecurity, instructed, introduced, introducer, introduces, lacustrine, lenticular, neurotoxic, nunciature, precaution, precutting, putrescine, quercetins, quercitron, raunchiest, reacquaint, recounting, recruiting, rediscount, reductions, reinducted, renunciate, retinacula, retouching, scrutineer, scrutinies, scrutinise, scrutinize, scuttering, succincter, supertonic, surjection, trucklines, tuberculin, turgencies, ulcerating, ulceration, uncreating, uncreative, uncredited, undertrick, undirected, unneurotic, unscripted, ventriculi. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 55 52 54 45 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01000011 01010101 01010010 01010100 01000101 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C U R T E I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0055 0052 0054 0045 0049 004E |
| 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)37555254394348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
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