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ALFET

Definition: ALFET

ALFET

Noun

1. A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rhyming with "ALFET"

Words rhyming with "ALFET" (pronounced 'Al"fet'): Beaufet, Effet, Farfet, Whiffet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ALFET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fetal.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-t"

-1 letter: alef, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, late, leaf, left, tael, tale, teal, tela.

-2 letters: aft, ale, alt, ate, eat, eft, elf, eta, fat, fet, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, at, ef, el, et, fa, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-t"
 

+1 letter: falter, fealty, featly, festal, fetial, foetal, folate.

 

+2 letters: default, deflate, falcate, falsest, falters, fateful, fatless, fatlike, faulted, fellate, fetials, filiate, flasket, flatbed, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flotage, folates, foliate, hateful, inflate, leaflet, reflate, refloat, refutal, sulfate, tearful.

 

+3 letters: affluent, aflutter, antileft, antilife, califate, conflate, deadlift, deathful, defaults, deflated, deflater, deflates, deflator, facelift, facetely, falcated, falconet, falsetto, faltered, falterer, fatherly, faultier, fauteuil, fayalite, fealties, feastful, featlier, fellated, fellates, fellatio, fellator, festally, festival, fetiales, fetialis, filament, filature, filiated, filiates, filtrate, fistulae, fittable, flakiest, flameout, flamiest, flaskets, flatbeds, flatfeet, flathead, flatlets, flatline, flatmate, flatness, flattens, flatters, flattery, flattest, flatuses, flatware, flatwise, flaunted, flaunter, flawiest, flaxiest, fleabite, fleapits, fleawort, floatage, floatels, floaters, floatier, flotages, fluxgate, foliated, foliates, folktale, fontanel, forestal, frailest, gatefold, grateful, halftime, halftone, hasteful, inflated, inflater, inflates, kalifate, leafiest, leaflets, leftward, lifeboat, liftable, liftgate, meatloaf, outfable, pantofle, plateful, reflated, reflates, refloats, refutals, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, tableful, taffarel, tafferel, talkfest, tasteful, wasteful.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ALFET


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

41 4C 46 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 01001100 01000110 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#70 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 0046 0045 0054

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

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

3546403954

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INDEX

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


  

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