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CURTEIN

Definition: CURTEIN

CURTEIN

Noun

1. Same as Curtana.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CURTEIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Anagrams: CURTEIN

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CURTEIN


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

43 55 52 54 45 49 4E

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 01010101 01010010 01010100 01000101 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#85 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#73 &#78

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)

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

37555254394348

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INDEX

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


  

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