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BURKISM

Definition: BURKISM

BURKISM

Noun

1. The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Rhyming with "BURKISM"

Words rhyming with "BURKISM" (pronounced 'Burk"ism'): Absenteeism, Anticivism, Antitheism, Aramaism, Bahaism, Bardism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boyism, Buffoonism, Cavalierism, Chartism, Chemism, Churchism, Civism, Dashism, Deism, Frenchism, Geusdism, Jainism, Lamarckism, Lyrism, Malebranchism, Mandarinism, Mutism, Neo-Lamarckism, Occultism, Old-maidism, Ophism, Opportunism, Owlism, Panslavism, Panzoism, Pasteurism, Pharisaism, Priestism, Purism, Quackism, Rantism, Red-tapism, Routinism, Saintism, Scaphism, Sclavism, Scribism, Sectism, Selfism, Sensism, Slavism, sophism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BURKISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-k-m-r-s-u"

-1 letter: krubis.

-2 letters: birks, brims, brisk, brusk, krubi, mirks, murks, smirk.

-3 letters: birk, bisk, brim, bris, bums, burs, busk, irks, kirs, kris, mibs, mirk, mirs, murk, musk, ribs, rims, risk, rubs, rums, rusk, skim, urbs.

-4 letters: bis, bum, bur, bus, irk, ism, kir, mib, mir, mis, mus, rib, rim, rub, rum, sib, sim, sir, ski.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-k-m-r-s-u"
 

+3 letters: berkeliums.

 

+4 letters: buttermilks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BURKISM


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

42 55 52 4B 49 53 4D

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)

01000010 01010101 01010010 01001011 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#82 &#75 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0052 004B 0049 0053 004D

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

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

36555245435347

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INDEX

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


  

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