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CHATTS

Specialty Definition: CHATTS

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Slang in 1811

CHATTS. Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice being the chief live stock of chattels of beggars, gypsies, and the rest of the canting crew. CANT.--Also, according to the canting academy, the gallows. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: CHATTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-s-t-t"

-1 letter: chats, scatt, tachs, tacts.

-2 letters: acts, cash, cast, cats, chat, hast, hats, scat, shat, stat, tach, tact, tats, that.

-3 letters: act, ash, att, cat, has, hat, sac, sat, sha, tas, tat.

-4 letters: ah, as, at, ha, sh, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: cattish, tachist.

 

+2 letters: attaches, cathects, chartist, chastest, chastity, chattels, chatters, etchants, hatchets, latchets, ratchets, tachiste, tachists, thatches.

 

+3 letters: aesthetic, asthmatic, atheistic, athletics, attachers, catchiest, catechist, catfights, catheters, chapattis, chartists, chattiest, chitchats, outcheats, patchiest, shtetlach, stanchest, stonechat, stopwatch, tachistes, tetrarchs, thatchers, theatrics, thematics, theocrats, trachytes, watchouts.

 

+4 letters: aesthetics, anesthetic, architects, arthritics, asthmatics, athrocytes, backstitch, catchments, catechists, cathartics, chapatties, charlottes, chastities, chatoyants, chatterers, chattiness, clathrates, cutthroats, entrechats, hatchments, hemostatic, humectants, hypostatic, matchstick, metaethics, nuthatches, outcatches, outmatches, outwatches, potlatches, reattaches, rheostatic, snatchiest, starchiest, staunchest, stochastic, stonechats, thatchiest, theistical, thumbtacks, toothaches, tracheitis, unchastity, wristwatch.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CHATTS


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

43 48 41 54 54 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)

01000011 01001000 01000001 01010100 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0041 0054 0054 0053

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

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

374235545453

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1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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