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"BISCUITS" is a plural of: biscuit. |
Date "BISCUITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the Southern United States, biscuit means a form of bread similar to a roll made with baking powder or baking soda as a rising agent rather than yeast (rolls made with yeast are often called "yeast rolls" to distinguish them, and biscuits and corn bread are sometimes referred to collectively as "quick bread")A basic biscuit recipe includes flour, shortening (often lard), baking powder or soda, and milk (buttermilk or sweet milk). Common variations involve cheese or sugar.
In Europe, a biscuit is a harder baked product which in North America would be called a "cookie". The origins of the word mean twice cooked.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biscuit."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonpreparation | Verb: be unprepared; Adjective:; want preparation, lack preparation; lie fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits; live from hand to mouth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BISCUITS |
| English words defined with "BISCUITS": shortcake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BISCUITS": Bake-meats, BAKER HELPER, BAKER, SECOND ♦ flake-miller helper, flake-or-shred-roll operator, FLAKING-ROLL OPERATOR ♦ OVEN OPERATOR ♦ Refreshments, ring-biscuit, roll operator ♦ ships' biscuits, shredded wheat ♦ wheat flakes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I just made enough money to bake biscuits for the projects (Paid in Full; writing credit: Azie Faison Jr.; Austin Phillips) You sure you don't want no biscuits and gravy with that (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Lyrics | Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) | |
Tongue Twisters | A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits. (references; author: unknown) I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. (references; author: unknown) Mixed biscuits. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mirandy Pass the Biscuits (1943) Dog Biscuits (1925) Concrete Biscuits (1920) Love My Biscuits Love Me (1917) All Over His Biscuits (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Some digestive biscuits from another era at Scott's Hut Point shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Rear view of woman making biscuits in country kitchen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One of the Wilkins family making biscuits for dinner on corn-shucking day at home of Mrs. Fred Wilkins. Tallyho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | White migrant mother making biscuits in tent home. Mercedes, Texas. See 32108-D. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migrant mother making biscuits in tent home near Mercedes, Texas. See 32108-D. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Unbalanced diet, new rehabilitation family. Coffee County, Alabama. Beans and biscuits. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dinner of new rehabilitation family: biscuits, beans, and cake. Coffee County, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Garfield County, Montana. Sheepherder making biscuits in his winter quarters. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Seoul - 2 Koreans with wine, biscuits & baggage preparing meal at a wayside inn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Biscuits and cookies" by Michel Marcon Commentary: "Sort biscuits and cookies." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The oven door was open, and a great pan of high brown biscuits stood waiting there |
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Health | Mixes for pancakes, biscuits, and cookies. (references) | |
Business | Crabtree & Evelyn, which has offices in the U.K. and the U.S., sell a wide range of food items such as biscuits, preserves and tea, toiletries and home fragrance accessories such as potpourri and fragrance oils. Their popular items during Christmas are mainly food items followed by toiletries and home fragrance products which can be packed in gift baskets. (references) | |
The category of giftware is extremely broad and popular gift items include jewelry, costume jewelry, fashion accessories such as hairclips, ladies' handbags, crystalware, stationery items, some apparel such as scarves, ties, lingerie and baby clothing, books, gift certificates, toiletries, candles, wine, chocolates, biscuits, toys, decorative household accessories and watches. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Ice cream, biscuits, farm tools, automobile component and corrugated paper and board have been de-reserved. (references) |
Nigeria | On average, about 95% of all U.S. wheat shipped to Nigeria is HRW, although a growing volume of SRW for biscuits is also evident. (references) | |
Yemen | Trade (2000 est.): Exports--$4.2 billion: crude petroleum, refined oil products, hides, fish, fruits, vegetables, cotton, coffee, biscuits, plastic pipes. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | The most current regulations, issued in November 1999 and February 2000, prohibit the import of commodities such as seasoning powder, soft drinks, assorted biscuits, chewing gum, cake, wafers, chocolate, canned foods noodles, liquor, beer, cigarette and fruits. (references) |
Bangladesh | Quality control licenses issued by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute are required to export the following items: cane molasses, shrimp and prawns (except frozen de-veined or cooked), oil cake, wet batteries and dry battery cells, electric fans and other select electric appliances, biscuits, and PVC electric cables. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BISCUITS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.79% of the time. "BISCUITS" is used about 1,043 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) | 95.79% | 999 | 7,365 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.12% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,043 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | Biscuits Gardeil | United Kingdom | United Biscuits (Holdings) Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "BISCUITS": s'embarquer sans biscuits ♦ ships' biscuits. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BISCUITS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | langtidsholdbart bagværk (dry baked goods). (various references) | |
Dutch | houdbaar gebak (dry baked goods), duurzaam gebak (dry baked goods). (various references) | |
Finnish | pikkuleivät (cookies). (various references) | |
French | biscotterie de conservation, articles de biscuiterie de conservation. (various references) | |
German | Kekse (crackers), gebäck (baked goods, buns, cakes, cookies, cookiesUS, pastries, pastry, tarts). (various references) | |
Greek | μπισκότα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rágnivaló (crackets). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | siva. (various references) | |
Italian | prodotto di pasticceria industriale (dry baked goods). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 堅パン (hard biscuits, hardtack). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かたパン (hard biscuits, hardtack). (various references) | |
Manx | brishtaghyn lheieagh (digestive biscuits), biskeeyn millish (fancy biscuits). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iscuitsbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | produtos de pastelaria industrial (dry baked goods). (various references) | |
Spanish | producto de pastelería industrial (dry baked goods). (various references) | |
Swedish | småbröd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BISCUITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basquiats, Bercuit, Bercuvitz, Beskitas, Bichitr, bisaccates, bisacuta, biscit, biscottes, biscut, biscuts, bisquit, bisquits, boskovits, briscuit, busuutis, ebiscite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BISCUITS" (pronounced bi"skuts) |
| 5 | -s k u t s | baskets, caskets, gaskets, wastebaskets. |
| 4 | -k u t s | advocates, affricates, blankets, brackets, buckets, certificates, circuits, crickets, dockets, hypermarkets, jackets, junkets, markets, microcircuits, packets, pickets, pickpockets, pockets, rackets, racquets, rickets, rockets, silicates, sockets, supermarkets, thickets, tickets, trinkets, wickets. |
| 3 | -u t s | affidavits, affiliates, agates, aggregates, amulets, animates, anklets, approximates, articulates, associates, audits, Babbitts, ballots, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baronets, berets, bigots, billets, bluebonnets, booklets, bracelets, branchlets, budgets, buffets, bullets, cabinets, carats, carpets, carrots, chariots, chestnuts, cheviots, chocolates, ciliates, climates, closets, comets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, consulates, coordinates, correlates, covets, credits, culprits, deficits, degenerates, demerits, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, doctorates, droplets, edits, electorates, electromagnets, elicits, Emirates, ergots, estimates, exhibits, exits, eyelets, facets, faucets, favorites, ferrets, fillets, frigates, gadgets, garrets, graduates, guesstimates, habits, hamlets, hatchets, helmets, helots, hermits, hornets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inherits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, interprets, intimates, invertebrates, islets, jesuits, laminates, lancets, laureates, leaflets, legates, limits, limpets, maggots, magnets, merits, microclimates, midgets, millets, minutes, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, nutlets, omelets, opiates, opposites, orbits, palates, pallets, pamphlets, parrots, particulates, patriots, peanuts, pellets, perquisites, piglets, pilots, pirates, planets, platelets, plaudits, plummets, poets, portraits, posits, prelates, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, quintuplets, requisites, revisits, riots, rivets, russets, secrets, sextuplets, snippets, solicits, spigots, spirits, starlets, summits, surrogates, tablets, targets, tenets, toilets, triplets, trumpets, turrets, underestimates, undergraduates, unfortunates, units, violets, visits, wallets, whats, widgets, zealots. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-i-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: biscuit, bustics, cubists. | |
-2 letters: bustic, cistus, cubist, cubits. | |
-3 letters: busts, cists, cubit, cutis, ictus, scuts, situs, stubs, suits. | |
-4 letters: bits, buss, bust, buts, cist, cubs, cuss, cuts, ibis, scut, sibs, sics, sits, stub, subs, suit, tics, tubs, tuis. | |
-5 letters: bis, bit, bus, but, cis, cub, cut, its, sib, sic, sis, sit, sub, tic, tis, tub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-i-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: publicists. | |
+3 letters: obscurities, subdistrict. | |
+4 letters: absolutistic, bioacoustics, subdistricts, subjectivise, subjectivism, subjectivist, subscription, subsocieties. | |
+5 letters: insusceptible, insusceptibly, subdistricted, subjectivised, subjectivises, subjectivisms, subjectivists, subjectivizes, subliteracies, subscriptions, subspecialist. | |
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