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ACQUIET

Definition: ACQUIET

ACQUIET

Transitive verb

1. To quiet.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Acquiet \Ac*qui"et\, transitive verb. [from Late Latin expression acquietare; Latin ad quies rest. See Quiet and compare to Acquit.]. (Websters 1913)

Rhyming with "ACQUIET"

Words rhyming with "ACQUIET" (pronounced 'Ac*qui"et'): Anet, Armet, Becket, Blushet, Brocket, Budget, Bushet, Cachet, Chewet, Chuet, Claret, Clicket, Comet, Crevet, Crewet, Crocket, Crownet, Cruet, Crumpet, Divet, Evet, Flacket, Flasket, freshet, Gobet, grivet, Gromet, HATCHET, Howlet, Inquiet, Klicket, Latchet, Leafet, Levet, locket, Malet, midget, Miscovet, Moonet, Nidget, Nymphet, Owlet, Piet, Placket, Planchet, Planet, Plashet, Pledget, Poet, Poket, Popet, Porket, Pricket, Privet, Prophet, Puet, Purset, Pyet, ratchet, Rewet, Rillet, Rotchet, Scelet, Skelet, Smicket, Smilet, Snacket, Snecket, socket, Spleget, sprocket, Stacket, Sucket, suet, Tacket, Tapet, tenet, Teret, thicket, Topet, Treget, trivet, Tuet, Unrivet, Unsocket, valet, Verset, Wicket, Zaimet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ACQUIET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-q-t-u"

-1 letter: acquit, caique.

-2 letters: acute, cutie, quate, quiet, quite.

-3 letters: cate, cite, cute, etic, etui, quai, quit, tace.

-4 letters: ace, act, ait, ate, cat, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, ice, qat, qua, tae, tau, tea, tic, tie, tui, uta.

-5 letters: ae, ai, at, et, it, ta, ti, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-q-t-u"
 

+2 letters: acquitted, acquitter, quittance, sequacity.

 

+3 letters: acquainted, acquitters, coequality, coequating, equivocate, quittances, reacquaint, requiescat.

 

+4 letters: acquiescent, acquirement, acquisitive, acquittance, aquiculture, equinoctial, equivocated, equivocates, equivocator, loquacities, quitclaimed, reacquaints, requiescats, semiaquatic, sequacities.

 

+5 letters: acquaintance, acquirements, acquittances, aquicultures, cinematheque, coequalities, equinoctials, equivocality, equivocating, equivocation, equivocators, liquefaction, reacquainted, unacquainted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ACQUIET


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

41 43 51 55 49 45 54

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 01010001 01010101 01001001 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#81 &#85 &#73 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0051 0055 0049 0045 0054

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

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

35375155433954

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INDEX

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


  

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