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"BALSAMS" is a plural of: balsam. |
Date "BALSAMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Resinous substances which most commonly originate from trees. In addition to resins, they contain oils, cinnamic acid and benzoic acid. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BALSAMS |
| English words defined with "BALSAMS": Benzoic acid ♦ embalmment. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dixville Notch from the Balsams. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Balsams, Dixville Notch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lake Glorietta [sic] and the Balsams, Dixville Notch. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Group at the Balsams, Dixville Notch, White Mts., N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "BALSAMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BALSAMS" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
balsams | 68 |
balsams resort | 20 |
balsams hotel | 10 |
balsams hampshire new | 9 |
balsams grand hotel resort | 8 |
balsams nh | 7 |
balsams grand resort | 5 |
balsams resort new hampshire | 4 |
balsams wilderness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BALSAMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | balsami - unguenti. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | alsamsbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"BALSAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abesamis, Baasam, balam, balans, Balram, balsalm, balsamy, Balsan, balsom, Balzamo, basam, belasis, Belsham, Bislama, blasam, blesmag, Bolsius, easams. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-m-s-s" | |
-1 letter: balsam, balsas, sambas. | |
-2 letters: albas, almas, amass, baals, balas, balms, balsa, basal, blams, lamas, lambs, massa, salsa, samba, slabs, slams. | |
-3 letters: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, alma, alms, amas, baal, baas, balm, bals, bams, bass, blam, labs, lama, lamb, lams, lass, mass, sabs, sals, slab, slam. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ala, alb, als. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-m-s-s" | |
+1 letter: baalisms, lambasts. | |
+2 letters: assumable, assumably, blastemas, blastomas, cabalisms, lambastes. | |
+3 letters: anabolisms, assemblage, impassable, impassably. | |
+4 letters: ambisexuals, ameloblasts, amiableness, assemblages, assemblyman, assimilable, catabolisms, compassable, misbalances, stablemates. | |
+5 letters: amicableness, assemblagist, assumability, biracialisms, cannibalisms, damnableness, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, reassemblage, saltimboccas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4C 53 41 4D 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. ... .- -- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001100 01010011 01000001 01001101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A L S A M S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004C 0053 0041 004D 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36354653354753 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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