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"DROPSTONE" is a common misspelling or typo for: dripstone. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 4F 50 53 54 4F 4E 45 |
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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)01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R O P S T O N E |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)385249505354494839 |
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