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ACHILLEAN

Definition: ACHILLEAN

ACHILLEAN

Adjective

1. Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"ACHILLEAN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Chilean, chilling.

Synonyms within Context: ACHILLEAN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Resentment

Adjective: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross; (irascible); Achillean; sulky; a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious; (discourteous); violent.

Safety

Defensible, tenable, proof against, invulnerable; unassailable, unattackable, impenetrable; impregnable, imperdible; inexpugnable; Achillean.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "ACHILLEAN"

Words rhyming with "ACHILLEAN" (pronounced 'Ach`il*le"an'): Achean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Dian, Ditrochean, Duan, Egean, Enwoman, Epozoan, Etnean, Genian, Gigantean, Growan, Hyblaean, Hypocarpogean, Hypogean, Idumean, Iroquoian, Johannean, Judean, Laodicean, Laryngean, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan, Orphean, Paleogaean, Panacean, Pandean, Panomphean, Paraguayan, Pavan, Pekan, Perigean, Petrean, Pharisean, Pigmean, Platan, Polypean, Polyzoan, Prian, Priapean, Protozoan, Ptisan, Pyrenean, Riban, rowan, Samoan, Sisyphean, Sotadean, Stian, Styan, Tempean, terpsichorean, Thalian, Unwoman, Wigan, Witan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ACHILLEAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-n"

-1 letter: achenial, achillea, alliance, ancillae, canaille, heliacal.

-2 letters: ancilla, canella, challie, helical.

-3 letters: aecial, anlace, callan, chaine, challa, clinal, heliac, inhale, inlace, laical, lichen, lienal, lineal.

-4 letters: aecia, alane, alien, aline, anile, calla, canal, cella, celli, chain, chela, chiel, chile, chill, china, chine, clean, cline, elain, hance, ileac, ileal, laich, lanai, lance, leach, liana, liane, lilac, linac, niche.

-5 letters: ache, acne, alae, alan, alec, anal, anil, cain, call, cane, ceil, cell, chia, chin, cine, clan, each, elan, elhi, haen, hail, hale, hall, heal, heil, hell, hila, hill, ilea, inch, lace, laic, lain, lane, leal, lean, lech, lice, lich, lien, line, nail, nice, nill.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-n"
 

+2 letters: hallucinate, melancholia.

 

+3 letters: hallucinated, hallucinates, mechanically, melancholiac, melancholias.

 

+4 letters: authentically, intrathecally, lamellibranch, melancholiacs.

 

+5 letters: alphanumerical, anesthetically, antithetically, enharmonically, lamellibranchs, unemphatically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ACHILLEAN


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

41 43 48 49 4C 4C 45 41 4E

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)

01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0048 0049 004C 004C 0045 0041 004E

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

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

353742434646393548

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INDEX

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


  

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