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Definitions: Bland |
BlandAdjective1. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics; "a bland pudding"; "a bland diet for her irritated stomach". 2. Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea". 3. Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Bland \Bland\, adjective. [Latin expression blandus, of unknown origin.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BlandSynonyms: flat (adj), flavorless (adj), flavourless (adj), insipid (adj), savorless (adj), savourless (adj), vapid (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: pungent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious. |
Feebleness | Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight. |
Insipidity | Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted. |
Moderation | Unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bland |
| English words defined with "bland": Arbutus unedo ♦ bland diet, blandly ♦ dimensional ♦ Faair-spoken, flat, flavorless, flavourless, flummery ♦ impregnably, insipid, Irish strawberry ♦ Obtundent ♦ pop, pop music ♦ savorless, savourless, strawberry tree ♦ The gentle craft ♦ ulcer diet ♦ vapid. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bland": Blandation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bland" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (among, amongst, mid, of, with). |
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Screenplays | Can I get a side of bland with that bland? (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) You useless piles of bland flesh! (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner (1961) En Piga bland pigor (1924) | |
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![]() | A Great Surgeon. : (Dr. Bland Sutton.) / Elf [pseud.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Childlike and -- Bland.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl. | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche | Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! |
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Health | Bland aerosols, often made from solutions of salt or bicarbonate of soda, are inhaled. (references) | |
Try having a bland snack such as toast or crackers and apple juice before your appointment. (references) | ||
Thus, treatment focused on hospitalization with bed rest and prescription of special bland foods. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bland" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.54% of the time. "Bland" is used about 621 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) | 71.54% | 445 | 13,012 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.46% | 177 | 23,322 |
| Total | 100.00% | 621 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bland" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bland | Last name | 12,000 | 1,028 |
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1. Bland, MO (city, FIPS 6256) 2. Bland, VA |
Expressions using "bland": bland County ♦ bland diet. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bland": bland-looking. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bland diet | 206 | bland ulcer diet | 6 |
bobby blue bland | 61 | bland county school | 5 |
bland | 52 | bobby blue bland lyrics | 4 |
bobby bland | 44 | bland altman | 4 |
richard bland college | 39 | bland county | 4 |
bland va | 36 | bland jeff | 4 |
bland food | 27 | auction bland kenny | 4 |
bland farm | 17 | jeffrey bland | 3 |
bland missouri | 13 | john bland | 3 |
bland food diet | 13 | bland diet dog | 3 |
richard bland | 11 | bland diet menu | 3 |
bland diet recipe | 8 | ann bland paula | 3 |
bland college community richard | 8 | bland high school | 3 |
bland county virginia | 8 | bland virginia | 3 |
tony bland | 8 | bland king leblanc | 3 |
bland park | 7 | bland library regional smyth | 3 |
bland isd | 7 | bland recipe | 3 |
bland messenger | 6 | eleanor taylor bland | 3 |
bland james | 6 | act allison bland | 3 |
bland nate | 6 | city of bland | 3 |
bland diet it | 3 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "bland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer), i sjellshëm (amiable, complaisant, courteous, courtly, delicate, discreet, fair-spoken, gallant, genteel, good, kind, kindly, mannerly, nice, polite, suave, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), i shpërlarë (bald, inexpressive), i njerëzishëm (courteous, human, humane, polite, urbane), i butë (balmy, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), غير منبه, غير حريف, عليل (below par, ill, queer, sick), رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мек (balmy, benign, benignant, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), лек (airy, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), ироничен (derisive, derisory, dry, ironic, pawky, sly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 平淡. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jemný (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, graceful, gracious, light, milky, nice, silken, silky, soft, suave, subtle, superfine, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sterilt infarkt (bland aseptic infarct), skånekost (bland diet, mild diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | poeslief (sugary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | afekte milda (sugary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملایم (Benign, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), نجیب (Decent, Genteel, Gentle, Meek, Nice, Noble), ارام (Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist), شیرین ومطلوب , بی مزه (Flat, Hammy, Insipid, Jejune, Namby, Unsavory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | imelä hymy (bland smile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fade, doucereux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verbindlich (allying, binding, combinable, compulsory, engaging, obligatory, obliging, reliable, urbane, urbanely), sanft (blandly, calm, caressing, delicate, gentle, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mild, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, soft, softly, suave, undulating), nichtssagend (blank, characterless, empty, expressionless, featureless, frivolous, inexpressive, inexpressively, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, trite, trivial, unmeaning, unmeaningly, vacant, vacuous, vapid), nüchtern (abstemious, arid, austere, bare, businesslike, demure, down to earth, dry, dull, hard-headed, insipid, jejune, jejunely, levelheaded, literal, matter of fact, mundane, no-nonsense, plain, prosaic, prosaically, rational, sober, sober minded, soberly, staid, temperate, unemotional, unemotionally), mild (balmy, benevolent, benign, clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly), höflich (blandly, civil, civilly, complimentarily, complimentary, cordial, cordially, courteous, debonair, fairspoken, polite, politely, unrude, urbane, urbanely, well-mannered), glatt (clean, completely, cool, direct, downright, even, flat, flatly, glib, glibby, glossy, level, outright, plain, polished, really, sheer, silken, silky, sleek, slick, slickly, slippery, smooth, smoothly, suave, unruffled, waveless), fade (characterless, commonplace, dismal, dull, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, stuffy, tasteless, tastelessly, trite, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid), ausdruckslos-höflich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μειλίχιοσ (mild), πράοσ (benign, biddable, gentle, meek, mild, placid, quiet), ήπιοσ (Clement, gentle, mild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מר'יע (abirritant, relaxing, restful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvarias (affable, civil, civil-spoken, complacent, complaisant, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, to be gracious to sy, to wrap up his censure in a polite formula, urbane, well-mannered), szelíd (benign, biddable, gentle, lenient, light, meek, milky, placid, quiet, subdued, sweet, sweet-tempered, tame), enyhe (benign, clement, easy, faint, genial, gentle, lenient, light, mild, slight, soft), nyugtató (balmy, relaxing, sedative, soothing, tranquillizer), nyájas (affable, benign, comely, complacent, complaisant, endearing, friendly, gentle, good-natured, kind, meek, placid, suave, sweet), mézesmázos (candied, honeyed, mealy mouthed, mealy-mouthed, mellifluous, silky, smarmy, treacly, wheedling), lágy (mellow, milky, silken, silky, soft, still, suave, tender), jóságos (benign, benignant, have a big heart, kindly, warm-hearted), fűszerezetlen (unseasoned), csillapító (absorber, attenuative, balmy, depressant, mitigative, palliative, soothing), baktériummal nem fertőzött, üdítő (bracing, exhilarating, fine, refreshing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lunak (lenient, soft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | blando (gentle, mild), mite di gusto, mite (genial, gentle, lenient, meek, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate), mischiarsi (mingle, mix), gentile (affable, charming, civil, courteous, decent, fair, genteel, gentile, gentle, gracious, kind, kindly, likable, mild, nice, obliging, polite, tender, thoughtful), dolce (cake, dessert, fresh, gentle, Goody, honeyed, luscious, mild, pudding, smooth, soft, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle, tuck), cortese (accommodating, affable, complaisant, courteous, friendly, good-natured, gracious, kind, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, respectful, urbane, well-mannered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブランド (brand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 온"한 (mild, temperate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meen (darling, dear, patient, pet, quiet, sweet), meeley (delicate, fine, fine to touch, mangling, moisten, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, yielding), meein (clement, fine, gentle, Halcyon days, pet, silky, smooth, soft, tame not wild; assuage pain; small ground, tame; assuage; small ground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andblay brando (dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flag, gentle, lenient, light, lithe, meek, mellow, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, tender), suave (creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), meigo (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, mild, refined, soft, sweet, tender), malicioso (arch, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parmesan, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious, wanton), doce (bonbon, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeymoon, junket, kiss, lozenge, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, niddle-noddle, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, sweet, tender), ameno (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, kindness, lovely, mild, nice, pleasant, soft, suave, sweet, tender). (various references) blând (benign, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genteel, gentle, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, lithe, nice, propitious, ungrudging, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding), dulce (amorously, benign, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), curtenitor (courteous, courteously, fair, fair-spoken), amabil (affable, agreeable, amiable, amiably, considerate, courteous, decent, endearing, fair, favorable, favourable, genial, good natured, good tempered, gracious, kind, kindly, lovable, obliging, obligingly, polite, politely, sweet-tempered), afabil (affable, affably, amiable, blandly, mellow). (various references) вкрадчивый (silky, sleeky, smarmy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soapy), вежливый (affable, attentive, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, parliamentary, polite, respectful, urbane), мягкий (balmy, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references) blag (benign, clement, genial, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous), učtiv (affable, civilized, courteous, polite, respectful, urbane, well mannered, well spoken, well-behaved). (various references) templado (anneal, keyed, mild, subdued, temperate, tempered, tempering, tune, warm), poco fuerte, amable (affable, agreeable, amiable, charming, comradely, dainty, darling, decent, friendly, gentile, gentle, good, good-natured, helpful, kind, levely, likeable, lovable, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, pleasant, pretty, sympathetic, thankful). (various references) förbindlig (affable, courteous, obliging, suave), blid (advantageous, favourable, gentle, mild, placid, sentle, soft). (various references) yumuşak (benignant, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), mülayim (dovelike, pliable, sweet-natured, sweet-tempered, tender), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered). (various references) улесливий (adulatory, candied, fawning, honeyed, obsequious, oily, silky, sleeky, suave, wheedling), ввічливий (affable, civil, complaisant, conventional, courteous, courtly, debonair, diplomatic, discreet, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave, urbane). (various references) thơm dịu, có cử chỉ dịu d ng. (various references) tyner (gentle, tender), tirion (benign, gentle, gracious, kind, tender), mwyn (benign, dear, gentle, kind, mild, mineral, ore, sake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blandus. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | blando. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bland": blander, blandest, blandish, blandished, blandisher, blandishers, blandishes, blandishing, blandishment, blandishments, blandly, blandness, blandnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bland": scabland, scrubland. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bland": scablands, scrublands. (additional references) | |
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"Bland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baland, balande, balland, balnd, bandh, beand, Beland, belind, Biland, Billund, blaand, blad, blam, blan, blanda, Blando, blandy, blang, blanh, blani, blans, blant, blard, blarn, blasnd, blenda, bleng, bleni, Blidn, blinb, blindr, blindy, blinn, blinq, blondy, blynd, Buland, Bulyanda, fland, iland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bland" (pronounced bla"nd) |
| 4 | -l a" n d | gland, land, meadowland, planned, unplanned. |
| 3 | -a" n d | and, band, banned, brand, canned, command, demand, disband, expand, fanned, firsthand, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, outmanned, panned, rand, remand, sand, scanned, spanned, stand, strand, tanned, understand, unmanned, withstand. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-n" | |
-1 letter: bald, band, land. | |
-2 letters: alb, and, bad, bal, ban, dab, dal, lab, lad, nab. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, al, an, ba, la, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-n" | |
+2 letters: badland, balding, blander, blandly, blanked, enabled. | |
+3 letters: backland, badlands, balanced, baldness, banderol, bendable, bidental, bilander, bindable, blanched, blandest, blandish, blazoned, blindage, blinkard, bondable, bushland, clubhand, dabbling, damnable, damnably, deniable, deniably, fahlband, findable, handball, handbell, handbill, labdanum, landgrab, lendable, mandible, mendable, scabland, sendable, subnodal, unblamed, undoable, vendable, windable. | |
+4 letters: abdominal, abidingly, abuilding, amendable, backlands, balconied, baldachin, ballooned, banalized, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, barnacled, beladying, belauding, bellyband, benchland, bilanders, blackened, blackland, blandness, blanketed, blarneyed, blindages, blinkards, breadline, brushland, bushlands, clubhands, dabblings, danceable, definable, definably, detonable, disabling, drabbling, drinkable, emendable, endurable, endurably, fahlbands, handballs, handbells, handbills, handblown, handlebar, hobnailed, husbandly, inaudible, inaudibly, kneadable, labdanums, landgrabs, libidinal, mandibles, multiband, prebendal, sandblast, scablands, scrubland, soundable, spendable, tableland, unlabeled, unridable, vendables, windblast. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 6E 64 |
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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)01000010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 006E 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)3678678070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Cities 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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