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DROPSTONE

"DROPSTONE" is a common misspelling or typo for: dripstone.


Specialty Definition: DROPSTONE

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Mining

A. An oversized clast in laminated sediment that depresses the underlying laminae and may be covered by "draped" laminae. Most dropstones originate through "ice-rafting"; other sources are floating tree roots and kelp holdfasts.b. A stalagmatitic variety of calcite. CF:dripstone. (references)

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

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Anagrams: DROPSTONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: doorstep, portends, protends, torpedos.

-2 letters: deports, enroots, operons, ponders, poorest, portend, postern, protend, protons, redtops, respond, rodents, roosted, snooped, snooper, snooted, snorted, spooned, spoored, sported, stooped, stooper, torpedo, trooped.

-3 letters: deport, depots, despot, donors, dopers, doters, drones, droops, enroot, nestor, netops, nodose, noosed, nooser, noters, odeons, operon, pedros, person, ponder, pontes, pornos, porose.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: desorption, postmodern.

 

+2 letters: desorptions, parenthoods, profoundest, pteranodons.

 

+3 letters: corespondent, counterposed, deportations, dessertspoon, periodontics, periodontist, repositioned, spinsterhood, uprootedness.

 

+4 letters: boustrophedon, corespondents, correspondent, cotransported, counterpoised, dessertspoons, nonrespondent, periodontists, postmodernism, postmodernist, postsecondary, preconditions, propositioned, redisposition, reproductions, spinsterhoods.

 

+5 letters: boustrophedons, correspondents, dinitrophenols, nonrespondents, periodizations, postdepression, postmodernisms, postmodernists, predisposition, predominations, preordinations, preproductions, prognosticated, redispositions, superconductor, trapezohedrons, uprootednesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROPSTONE


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

44 52 4F 50 53 54 4F 4E 45

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)

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050 0053 0054 004F 004E 0045

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

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

385249505354494839

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


  

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