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ABDEST

Definition: ABDEST

ABDEST

Noun

1. Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABDEST

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abdest

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ABDEST

Language Translations for "abdest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

abdestay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABDEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: basted.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-s-t"

-1 letter: abets, based, baste, bated, bates, beads, beast, beats, betas, dates, debts, sabed, sated, stade, stead, tabes, tsade.

-2 letters: abed, abet, ates, bade, bads, base, bast, bate, bats, bead, beat, beds, best, beta, bets, dabs, date, debs, debt, east, eats, etas, sabe, sade, sate, seat, seta, stab, tabs, tads, teas, teds.

-3 letters: abs, ads, ate, bad, bas, bat, bed, bet, dab, deb, eat, eds, eta, sab, sad, sae, sat, sea, set, tab, tad, tae, tas, tea, ted.

-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, as, at, ba, be, de, ed, es, et, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-s-t"
 

+1 letter: baddest, baldest, bedfast, bestead, blasted, boasted, dabster, debates, stabbed, stabled.

 

+2 letters: absented, baptised, bartends, basseted, bawdiest, beadiest, bedmates, bedstand, bedstead, bedstraw, besteads, bethesda, blandest, breadths, breasted, broadest, dabsters, database, daubiest, debaters, diabetes, drabbest, drabbets, flatbeds, jetbeads, redbaits, sublated, tribades.

 

+3 letters: abdicates, abductees, abstained, absterged, absurdest, adsorbate, adsorbent, backdates, baldpates, ballasted, bassetted, bastinade, bastioned, bedplates, bedstands, bedsteads, bedstraws, besteaded, bethesdas, boltheads, botanised, breadnuts, bystander, databases, datebooks, deadbeats, deadbolts, deathbeds, debutants, diabetics, diatribes, downbeats, drawtubes, drumbeats, eastbound, habitudes, lambasted, redbreast, sabotaged, sibilated, speedboat, streambed, sunbathed, sweatband, teaboards, waterbeds.

 

+4 letters: abducentes, abductores, abstracted, abstricted, adjustable, adsorbates, adsorbents, adumbrates, antibodies, backlisted, bacteroids, balustrade, banditries, bandmaster, banistered, bartenders, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bastinades, beatitudes, bedlamites, besteading, birthdates, blastoderm, breadstick, breadstuff, broadsheet, brutalised, butadienes, bystanders, deathblows, debarments, debasement, debutantes, detestable, detestably, disbarment, disputable, grubstaked, handbasket, molybdates, obfuscated, outboasted, outdebates, pasteboard, postdebate, rabidities, redbreasts, shortbread, showboated, skateboard, speedboats, stabilized, stablished, streambeds, subcordate, subdialect, subjugated, sublimated, submediant, subrogated, subtotaled, subtracted, subtrahend, sweatbands, sweetbread, tablelands, twayblades, waterbirds.

 

+5 letters: abridgments, absolutized, absurdities, backstabbed, backstopped, balustraded, balustrades, bandmasters, bardolaters, barnstormed, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, belatedness, bespattered, bestialized, blacklisted, bladdernuts, blastoderms, bloodstream, breadbasket, breadfruits, breadsticks, breadstuffs, breadthwise, breakfasted, broadcasted, broadcaster, broadsheets, debasements, debatements, debilitates, delectables, deliberates, destabilize, disablement, disbandment, disbarments, disturbance, drumbeaters, dumbwaiters, established, featherbeds, handbaskets, keyboardist, masturbated, paddleboats, pasteboards, prediabetes, rebroadcast, roundtables, sandblasted, sandblaster, shortbreads, skateboards, starboarded, subdialects, submediants, subordinate, subtotalled, subtrahends, sweetbreads, switchblade, timberheads, timberlands, transcribed, unballasted, wattlebirds, whitebeards, whiteboards.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABDEST


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

41 42 44 45 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01000001 01000010 01000100 01000101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#68 &#69 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0044 0045 0053 0054

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

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

353638395354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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