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CANDLEFISH

Definitions: CANDLEFISH

CANDLEFISH

Noun

1. 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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: CANDLEFISH

English words defined with "CANDLEFISH": BeshowCoalfishEulachonHorse mackrel. (references)

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Modern Translations: CANDLEFISH

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

   

Portuguese

  

eulacom (eulachon). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

eulacón (eulachon), eperlón del Pacífico (eulachon). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ljusfisk (eulachon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: CANDLEFISH

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Thaleichthys pacificus, Thaleichthys pacificus (Richardson). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: CANDLEFISH

Derivations

Words beginning with "CANDLEFISH": candlefishes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CANDLEFISH

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CANDLEFISH


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

43 41 4E 44 4C 45 46 49 53 48

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 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001100 01000101 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#70 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004E 0044 004C 0045 0046 0049 0053 0048

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

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

37354838463940435342

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INDEX

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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