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ASCIANS

Definition: ASCIANS

ASCIANS

Noun plural

1. Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: ASCIANS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-s-s"

-1 letter: cassia.

-2 letters: assai, cains, casas, sains, sasin, scans.

-3 letters: ains, anas, anis, ansa, asci, cain, cans, casa, sacs, sain, sans, scan, sics, sins.

-4 letters: aas, ain, ais, ana, ani, ass, can, cis, ins, sac, sic, sin, sis.

-5 letters: aa, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-s-s"
 

+1 letter: acrasins, scandias.

 

+2 letters: amnesiacs, anacrusis, ascidians, canalises, cesarians, chainsaws, estancias, sacristan.

 

+3 letters: analgesics, anapestics, anarchisms, anarchists, arsenicals, ascertains, assistance, braincases, caesarians, cannabises, canvassing, caparisons, capsaicins, carnassial, caseations, caseinates, casuarinas, causations, fantastics, fascinates, massacring, saccharins, sacristans, scandalise, sectarians, selachians.

 

+4 letters: accessional, accusations, antifascism, antifascist, antiracisms, antiracists, ascensional, assistances, associating, association, candidiases, candidiasis, carnassials, castrations, escalations, fanaticisms, fasciations, fascinators, isocyanates, landscapist, maraschinos, misbalances, misfeasance, nasogastric, radicalness, renaissance, sanctuaries, sarracenias, saurischian, scandalised, scandalises, scandalizes, scarlatinas, shamanistic, stagnancies, subclavians, unclassical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASCIANS


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

41 53 43 49 41 4E 53

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 01010011 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0043 0049 0041 004E 0053

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

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

35533743354853

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


  

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