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Definitions: Acrid |
AcridAdjective1. Strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning rubber". 2. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "acrid" was first used: 1712. (references) |
Etymology: Acrid \Ac"rid\, adjective. [Latin expression acer sharp; probably assimilated in form to acid. See Eager.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AcridSynonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), caustic (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), virulent (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bitterness | Adjective: bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic. |
Pungency | Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory . |
Unsavoriness | Adjective: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Acrid |
| English words defined with "acrid": acerb, acerbic, acid, Acrid poison, acridity, Anemonic, Anemonin, Asbolin ♦ baneberry, Barbados nuts, Bear's-foot, bitter, blistering, bloodroot, Bombardier beetle, briony, bryony ♦ Cantharidin, caustic, Chelerythrine, chloric acid, Clove nutmeg, cohosh, Conine, Croton oil ♦ dogbane, Dyspepsy ♦ Eccoriate, euphorbium ♦ gum eurphorbium ♦ herb Christopher, Hydropiper ♦ intense ♦ Lobelia inflata ♦ Manchineel, Monesin, Mordicant, Mudar ♦ Poison gland, Polygalic, pungency, pungent ♦ redroot ♦ Sanguinaria canadensis, Savine, Smallage, Smartweed, Solanine, Subacrid, sulfurous, sulphurous ♦ tetterwort, To brace sharp, To sharp up, To the bitter end ♦ venomous, Veratrine, virulent, vitriolic ♦ Water celery, Waterwort, Wolf's-milk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acrid": MONTRICHARDIA ARBORESCENS ♦ Peracetic Acid ♦ Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "acrid": Acerb, Antacrid. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Acrid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acrid" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "acrid": Acrid poison. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "acrid": acrid-smelling, acrid-tasting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acrid | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "acrid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i hidhur (acid, acidulated, acrimonious, bitter, distressing, salt, sardonic), i hidhët (bitter, dry), djegës (fiery, hot, piquant, poignant, pungent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مر (bitter, embittered, go along, go by, go over, go past, pass, pass by), لاذع (acerb, acid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), قارص (acid, acrimonious, biting, cutting, mordacious, sharp), حاد (abrupt, acid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), حريف (cayenne, hot, nippy, piquant, poignant, pungent, sharp), جارح (cutting, injurious, offensive, painful, predatory, wounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), остър (acid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), ожесточен (bitter, keen, stiff, warm), жлъчен (adust, atrabilious, biliary, envenomed, poisonous), парлив (burning, hot, peppery, sharp, stinging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | agut (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尖酸 (Acrimony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ostrý (abrupt, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), kousavý (acerbic, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, snappy, tart, vitriolic, waspish), štiplavý (piquant, poignant, waspish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, cut, cutting, gassy, harsh, lurid, piquant, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wrang (acerbic, acid, astringent, constringent, harsh, sour, tart), snibbig (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), snerpend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), schril (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp, shrill), scherp (abrasive, accurate, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, cutting, exactly, harsh, lurid, nutty, precise, sharp, sour, tart), schel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, alarm, bell, harsh, lurid, sharp, shrill, sour, tart), guur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, lurid, sharp), fel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bile, intense, intensive, lurid, sharp), doordringend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, harsh, lurid, sharp, sour, tart), bits (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), býtend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | hvassur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گس (Astringent), تندخو (Fierce), سوزاننده (Torrid), زننده (Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), دبش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | terävä (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, keen, lurid, peaky, sharp, tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | âcre (acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), bitsich (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), bekjelûkerich (acerbic, acid, astringent, constringent, harsh, tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, gassy, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, piquant, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, rough, savage, scabrous, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στυφόσ (sour, tart), δριμύσ (acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מריר (bitter, pungent, tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, edgy, fine, hilly, keen, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, tapering), fanyar (acerbic, acid, acrimonious, austere, crusty, dry, frumpish, harsh, sour, tart), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | skrækur (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), skerandi (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), skarpur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), leiftandi (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), hvellur (abrasive, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), hrjúfur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), beittur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), beiskur (acerbic, acid, harsh, sour, tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tajam (acrimonious, acute, brisk, edgy, incisive, keen, nippy, poignant), sengit (acrimonious, keen, violent), pedas (caustic, hot, poignant, pungent, seasoned), bermulut bisa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aspro (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, foxy, gruff, harsh, hoarse, lurid, rough, rugged, scathing, sharp, smart, sour, stark, tart, uncharitable), acre (harsh, pungent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sharroo (acid, acidific, acrimonious, bitter, cutting, embittered, sardonic, sour, tart, vitriolic), geyre (abrupt, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), garg (austere, bitter, brusque, harsh, pungent, tuneless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acriday ostry (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, severe, sharp, strict). (various references) acre (acerbic, acre, bitter, harsh, mordacious, poignant, pungent, sharp, sour, tart, vinegary), acerbo (acerbic, acetous, green, harsh, poignant, sour, tart, vinegary), sarcástico (backhanded, ironical, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, sneering, squint eyed), punjente, picante (acerbic, biting, home affairs, hot, jujitsu, mordacious, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, Savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), mordaz (bitter, clear-sighted, doubletree, incisor, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), irritante (annoying, gratis, irritant, irritate, irritating, irritative, provocative, provoking). (various references) acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), usturãtor (biting, burning, cutting, mordant, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, shrewd, smart, smarting, stinging), sarcastic (biting, caustic, caustically, cynical, lashing, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, satiric, severe, sharp, sneering, tart, taunting), neplãcut (annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), muşcãtor (acid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, peppery, sarcastic, snappish), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, personal, pungent, pungently, scathing, scorching). (various references) острый (acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), едкий (acerb, acerbic, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scalding, scathing, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references) searbh (bitter, disagreeable, pungent, sour), geur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, lurid, sharp, sharp pointed, shrewd; acrid), garg (bitter, fierce, pungent, tart, wrathful). (various references) oštar (acidulous, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), jedak (acidulous, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, scathing, sharp, sour, vitriolic). (various references) agudo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, high, lurid, penetrating, piping, poignant, quick, quick-witted, raging, ready, searing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shrill), agrio (acetous, acid, acidic, bitter, citrous, citrus, harsh, jaundiced, lurid, sour, tart), afilado (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, grinding, hone, keen, lurid, setting, sharp, sharp-edged, sharpening, sharply-edged, whetting), acre (acre, acute, caustic, gruff, harsh, keen, mordant, pungent, sharp, sour), cáustico (acrimonious, biting, caustic, caustic substance, mordacious, scathing, vitriolic). (various references) srapu (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp, sharpen). (various references) -kali (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, hot, lurid, sharp). (various references) skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), bitter (acerbic, acrimonious, acute, bitter, jaundiced, severe, vitriolic). (various references) matúlis (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), matálas (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) acı (ache, acidulous, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), sert (adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), keskin (acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), buruk (acetous, acid, sec, sour, subacid, tart). (various references) уїдливий (acid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, carping, cattish, caustic, epigrammatic, exceptive, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), ущипливий (acid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, caustic, cutting, nipping, pointed, stinging, tart), їдкий (acid, acrimonious, caustic, corrosive, nipping, poignant, scalding, scathing), різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), гострий (abrupt, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful). (various references) hăng (impetuous), cay sè chua cay. (various references) llymsur, chwerw (acrimonious, bitter, severe, sharp). (various references) yeh (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). 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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acer, acris, acerbus, austerus, Capsicum annuum, Capsicum frutescens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "acrid": acrider, acridest, acridine, acridines, acridities, acridity, acridly, acridness, acridnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "acrid": subacrid. (additional references) | |
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"Acrid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acard, accr, accred, Acfis, achid, acic, acido, acii, acir, acrew, acri, Acrida, acride, acried, acril, acru, actid, acured, Afridi, Akarit, Akkid, Alrad, Arcad, arcic, Arclid, aridi, aridy, aridz, arrid, ascarid, atrid, Azrad, azrid, caraid, cardi, carida, Caridi, crid, Ecroyd, Macraild. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acrid" (pronounced a"krud) |
| 4 | -k r u d | sacred. |
| 3 | -r u d | anhydride, arid, florid, hatred, horrid, hundred, hybrid, kindred, lurid, putrid, torrid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: caird, daric. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-r" | |
-1 letter: acid, arid, cadi, caid, card, raid. | |
-2 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-r" | |
+1 letter: acarid, bardic, cairds, cardia, caried, chadri, darics, rancid. | |
+2 letters: acarids, acaroid, acrider, acridly, arcadia, ascarid, baldric, bawdric, cairned, carabid, carbide, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, carding, carotid, carried, catbird, chaired, cordial, corrida, daturic, deciare, decrial, dharmic, diarchy, discard, drastic, dryadic, faradic, iracund, parodic, peracid, picador, quadric, radical, radicel, radices, radicle, sarcoid, sidecar, triacid, triadic, triclad. | |
+3 letters: acaridan, accredit, aciduria, acquired, acridest, acridine, acridity, adscript, arachnid, arcadian, arcadias, arcading, archived, articled, ascarids, ascribed, auricled, baldrick, baldrics, bawdrics, bedchair, birdcage, birdcall, braconid, caldaria, calibred, cancroid, candider, carabids, carangid, carbides, cardiacs, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cardioid, carditic, carditis, carotids, caryatid, catbirds, ceratoid, chadarim, characid, charquid, chedarim, citrated, cityward, coadmire, coracoid, cordials, cordwain, corridas, cradling, crannied, deciares, decigram, decrials, diapiric, diarchic, dicentra, dicrotal, dictator, diffract, dioramic, discards, disgrace, distract, drachmai, draconic, dramatic, dyarchic, faradaic, filmcard, fricando, grimaced, hadronic, heraldic, hydracid, hyracoid, idocrase, inarched, ironclad, lacertid, medicare, peracids, picadors, picrated, pilchard, podagric, quadrics, racemoid, rachides, radiance, radiancy, radicals, radicand, radicate, radicels, radicles, rancidly, raticide, readdict, riddance, sarcoids, sardonic, sidecars, sporadic, subacrid, tetracid, tetradic, timecard, tornadic, tracheid, triacids, triadics, tribadic, triclads. | |
+4 letters: abdicator, acaricide, acaridans, according, accordion, accredits, acidifier, acidurias, acierated, acridines, acridness, adscripts, androecia, aperiodic, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archaised, archaized, archfiend, ardencies, ascarides, astricted, backfired, bacteroid, baldricks, barricade, barricado, bedchairs, birdcages, birdcalls, blackbird, braconids, bratticed, brickyard, brocading, cabdriver, cadaveric, caldarium, calendric, calipered, calorized, cancroids, caprioled, carangids, carbamide, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, cardioids, carinated, carnified, cartridge, caryatids, cashiered, cedarbird, chagrined, chancroid, characids, charioted, chipboard, chivareed, chivaried, choroidal, chromatid, chrysalid, circadian, clarified, clarioned, clipboard, cnidarian, coadmired, coadmires, cochaired, coracoids, coralloid, cordially, cordwains, coriander, corrading, corydalis, cowardice, crusading, cuadrilla, cuirassed, curarized, curtailed, curtained, dackering, decaliter, decigrams, declaimer, declaring, dedicator, diachrony, diacritic, diaeretic, diametric, diarchies, diarrheic, dicentras, dichondra, dichromat, dictators, dicumarol, diffracts, digastric, digraphic, disaccord, discarded, discarder, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, distracts, doctrinal, draconian, dramatics, dropsical, druidical, dyarchies, dyscrasia, epicardia, eradicate, fiduciary, filmcards, friedcake, garlicked, goliardic, graecized, hindrance, holandric, hydracids, hydraulic, hyperacid, hyracoids, idocrases, increased, indicator, infarcted, infracted, ironclads, judiciary, juridical, kickboard, lacertids, larvicide, manicured, matricide, medicares, midrashic, miracidia, mistraced, mydriatic, myocardia, ordinance, paramedic, parricide, patricide, pediatric, picadores, picofarad, pilchards, podiatric, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, quadratic, racemized, radiances, radically, radicands, radicated, radicates, radicchio, radicular, rancidity, raticides, readdicts, recarried, reclaimed, redacting, redaction, regicidal, rhachides, rhapsodic, riddances, rudbeckia, scarified, scraiched, scraighed, sidetrack, tetracids, timecards, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducing, urticated, varicosed, veridical, viricidal, virucidal, yardstick. | |
+5 letters: abdicators, abstricted, acaricidal, acaricides, accordions, accredited, achondrite, acidifiers, acidimeter, acidimetry, acridities, acrylamide, adrenergic, aldermanic, androecium, androgenic, antidromic, arabicized, arachnoids, archfiends, backslider, bacterized, bacteroids, barricaded, barricades, bifurcated, blackbirds, brachiated, brachiopod, brainchild, breadstick, brecciated, brickyards, cabdrivers, cadaverine, caddisworm, calibrated, callipered, carbamides, carbonized, carburised, carburized, carcinoids, cardinally, cardiogram, cardiology, carditides, carditises, carotenoid, carotinoid, cartelised, cartelized, cartridges, caryatides, cauterized, cavaliered, cedarbirds, centigrade, chagrinned, chairmaned, chancroids, chandelier, charladies, chipboards, chromatids, chrysalids, cicatrized, circulated, clavichord, clipboards, clostridia, cnidarians, coadjutrix, coadmiring, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordiality, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, cowardices, crassitude, crawfished, credential, creditable, creditably, crepitated, criminated, crispbread, cuadrillas, cypripedia, deaconries, decaliters, decametric, decemviral, decenaries, declaimers, decorating, decoration, decorative, decreasing, dedicators, dedicatory, dekametric, democratic, depreciate, deracinate, desiccator, detracting, detraction, detractive, diachronic, diacritics, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichondras, dichromate, dichromats, dicoumarin, dicoumarol, dictionary, dicumarols, diffracted, disaccords, discarders, discarding, discarnate, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, disclaimer, discordant, discourage, discrepant, disgracers, disgracing, dispatcher, distracted, divaricate, dormancies, duplicator, dyscrasias, elucidator, enchiridia, endarchies, endocardia, epicardial, epicardium, eradicable, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, escadrille, excoriated, extricated, fabricated, factorized, federacies, fireplaced, forecaddie, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fratricide, fricandeau, fricandoes, fricasseed, friedcakes, germicidal, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, handicraft, headachier, herbicidal, hindrances, hydraulics, icosahedra, ideogramic, imbricated, immoderacy, imprecated, incarnated, incendiary, incurvated, indicators, indicatory, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, irradiance, judicatory, judicature, kickboards, larvicidal, larvicides, lubricated, madreporic, mandarinic, matricidal, matricides, microfarad, microwaved, micturated, miracidial, miracidium, miscarried, mischarged, miscreated, mordancies, mydriatics, myocardial, myocardium, narcotized, noncardiac, nudibranch, obduracies, orchardist, ordinances, ostracised, ostracized, paediatric, paradisaic, paradisiac, paramedics, parodistic, parricidal, parricides, patricidal, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, pericardia, periodical, picarooned, picofarads, placarding, predacious, predicable, predicated, predicates, premedical, proclaimed, prosodical, quadratics, quadriceps, rachitides, radiancies, radicalise, radicalism, radicalize, radicating, radicchios, radiogenic, radiologic, radiolytic, rancidness, reacceding, reaccredit, reacquired, readdicted, redactions, rededicate, refinanced, repacified, replicated, rubricated, rudbeckias, rusticated, saccharide, sacrificed, scorpaenid, scrimmaged, semisacred, sidetracks, sporicidal, switchyard, syndicator, taxidermic, tracksides, trafficked, trochoidal, undramatic, verdancies, vindicator, wildcatter, yardsticks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 72 69 64 |
| 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)01000001 01100011 01110010 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c r i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0072 0069 0064 |
| 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)3569847570 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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