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Definitions: CANDLEFISH |
CANDLEFISHNoun1. The beshow. 2. A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it |
Crosswords: CANDLEFISH |
| English words defined with "CANDLEFISH": Beshow ♦ Coalfish ♦ Eulachon ♦ Horse mackrel. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "CANDLEFISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kærtefisk (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kaarsvis (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kynttiläkuore (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | eulakane, eulachon, \EUL. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kerzenfisch (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επερλάνος (eulachon, European smelt, smelt, sparling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csendes-óceáni lazacfajta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sperlano striato (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andlefishcay eulacom (eulachon). (various references) eulacón (eulachon), eperlón del Pacífico (eulachon). (various references) ljusfisk (eulachon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Thaleichthys pacificus, Thaleichthys pacificus (Richardson). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CANDLEFISH": candlefishes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-h-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: canfields. | |
-2 letters: canfield, dealfish, echidnas, faciends, flinched, flinches, shinleaf. | |
-3 letters: calends, candies, candles, chained, chaines, chields, childes, clashed, deafish, denials, echidna, faciend, fadeins, fancied, fancies, fascine, fecials, fiances, filched, filches, finales, finches, flashed, halides, handles, handsel, incased, inhaled, inhales, inlaced, inlaces, lichens, sanicle, scaleni, snailed. | |
-4 letters: afield, aisled, alcids, aliens, alined, alines, ascend, califs, candle, canids, casein, cashed, chafed, chafes, chaine, chains, chaise, chased, chelas, chides, chiefs, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chinas, chined, chines, chisel, clades, cleans, clines, dances, danish, deasil, decafs, decals, denial, elains, elands, elfins, elfish, encash, facies, facile, fadein, failed, falces, falsie, fashed, fecial, felids, fiance, fiches, fields, fiends, finale, finals, fiscal, fished, flanes, flench, flinch, hailed, halide, halids, hances, handle, hansel, heliac, ideals, incase, inched, inches, inhale, inlace, island, laches, ladens, ladies, laichs, lanced, lances, lashed, lianes, lichen, liches, linacs, naches, nailed, naleds, nicads, niched, niches, sailed, sained, saline, sandhi, scaled, sendal, shaled, sheila, shield, shined, silane, sliced. | |
-5 letters: ached, aches, acids, acned, acnes, aides, ailed, aisle, alcid, alecs, alefs, alien, alifs, aline, anile, anils, anise, asdic, ashed, ashen, aside, cades, cadis, cafes, caids, cains, calfs, calif, caned, canes, canid, cased, cedis, ceils, chads, chafe, chain, chase, chefs, chela, chias, chide, chief, chiel, child, chile, china, chine, chins, cines, clade, clads, clans, clash, clean, clefs, cline, daces, dahls, dales, dance, dashi, deals, deans, deash, decaf, decal, defis, deils, delfs, delis, dhals, dials, dices, dines, elain, eland, elans, elfin, faced, faces, fades, fails, false, fanes, fecal, felid, fends, fices, fiche, field, fiend, filch, filed, files, final, finch, finds, fined, fines, flans, flash, fleas, flesh, flics, flied, flies, hades, hafis, hails, haled, hales, halid, hance, hands, hanse, heads, heals, heils, hides, hinds, ideal, ideas, idles, ileac, isled, laced, laces, laden, lades, laich, laics, lance, lands, lanes, lased, leach, leads, leafs, leans, leash, lends, lenis, liane, liens, linac, lined, lines, naifs, nails, naled, neifs, nicad, niche, nidal, nides, sadhe, saice, salic, saned, scald, scale, scena, scend, sedan, selah, shade, shale, sheaf, sheal, shelf, shend, shied, shiel, shine, sidle, since, slain, slice, slide, snail, snide. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-h-i-l-n-s" | |
+2 letters: candlefishes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4E 44 4C 45 46 49 53 48 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. -.. .-.. . ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001100 01000101 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A N D L E F I S H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004E 0044 004C 0045 0046 0049 0053 0048 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37354838463940435342 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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