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APOCRUSTIC

Definition: APOCRUSTIC

APOCRUSTIC

Adjective

1. Astringent and repellent.

Noun

1. An apocrustic medicine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Apocrustic \Ap`o*crus"tic\, adjective. [Greek expression able to drive off, from to drive off.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "APOCRUSTIC"

Words rhyming with "APOCRUSTIC" (pronounced 'Ap`o*crus"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: APOCRUSTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: acoustic, acrostic, apricots, autopsic, captious, coscript, occiputs, piscator, spiccato.

-3 letters: accurst, acrotic, airpost, apricot, aprotic, arctics, captors, carious, caustic, citrous, curiosa, occiput, parotic, picaros, practic, prosaic, psoatic, sautoir, surcoat, tropics, turacos, upcoast, upstair, utopias.

-4 letters: accost, actors, aorist, aortic, arctic, aristo, atopic, aurist, cactus, capric, capris, captor, carpus, cartop, castor, catsup, circus, citrus.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: plutocracies.

 

+3 letters: pococurantism, reoccupations.

 

+4 letters: claustrophobic, pococurantisms, preoccupations.

 

+5 letters: conceptualizers, ultramicroscope.

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

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Alternative Orthography: APOCRUSTIC


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

41 50 4F 43 52 55 53 54 49 43

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 01010000 01001111 01000011 01010010 01010101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#79 &#67 &#82 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 004F 0043 0052 0055 0053 0054 0049 0043

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

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

35504937525553544337

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INDEX

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


  

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