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CAPONIERE

Definition: CAPONIERE

CAPONIERE

Noun

1. A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Caponiere \Cap`o*niere"\, noun. [French expression caponni[`e]re, from Spanish caponera, originally, cage for fattening capons, hence, place of refuge; compare to Italian expression capponiera. See Capon.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Anagrams: CAPONIERE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-p-r"

-1 letter: apocrine, caponier, procaine.

-2 letters: apnoeic, caprine, corneae, pereion, perinea, pioneer, porcine.

-3 letters: aeonic, apiece, apneic, careen, carnie, coiner, copier, cornea, crepon, encore, ocreae, opener, orcein, orpine, panier, pereia, pereon, picaro, piecer, pierce, pincer, prance, prince, rapine, recane, recipe, recoin, reopen, repine.

-4 letters: acorn, aerie, apron, areic, arpen, cairn, caner, canoe, caper, capon, carpi, ceria.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-p-r"
 

+2 letters: deprecation.

 

+3 letters: apperception, deprecations, depreciation, deuteranopic, inoperculate, inspectorate, intercompare, narcolepsies, perceptional, porcelainize, precautioned, precentorial, precessional, predominance, recuperation.

 

+4 letters: apperceptions, cephaloridine, cerebrospinal, contraceptive, convertiplane, coparcenaries, decrepitation, depreciations, expectorating, expectoration, inoperculates, inspectorates, intercompared, intercompares, porcelainized, porcelainizes, porcelainlike, predominances, proteinaceous, recuperations, reincorporate, scenographies, semiporcelain, spermatogenic, terpsichorean, uncooperative.

 

+5 letters: asthenospheric, cephaloridines, conceptualizer, contemporaries, contraceptives, convertiplanes, cyproheptadine, decrepitations, electroplating, expectorations, hypoallergenic, intercorporate, magnetospheric, mercaptopurine, noncooperative, nontherapeutic, oceanographies, overcompliance, precariousness, predominancies, preoccupancies, prosencephalic, reincorporated, reincorporates, rhinencephalon, semiporcelains.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAPONIERE


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

43 41 50 4F 4E 49 45 52 45

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 01010000 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 004F 004E 0049 0045 0052 0045

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

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

373550494843395239

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INDEX

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


  

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