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CATHERETIC

Definition: CATHERETIC

CATHERETIC

Noun

1. A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Catheretic \Cath`e*ret"ic\, noun. [from Greek expression, from to bring down or raze; down to take.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: CATHERETIC

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Calefaction

Cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa; acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium.

Pain

Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "CATHERETIC"

Words rhyming with "CATHERETIC" (pronounced 'Cath`e*ret"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CATHERETIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-r-t-t"

-1 letter: architect.

-2 letters: aetheric, catchier, catheter, chattier, hetaeric, tetchier, theatric.

-3 letters: accrete, ariette, catcher, cathect, cattier, chatter, cheater, chitter, citrate, ectatic, erethic, etheric, hectare, heretic, iterate, ratchet, recheat, reteach, teacher, techier, theater, theatre, thecate, thereat, theriac.

-4 letters: acetic, achier, aether, arctic, attire, cachet, cahier, cattie, cerate, cerite, chicer, cither, cratch, create, creche, cretic, ecarte, either.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: architecture.

 

+3 letters: architectures.

 

+5 letters: atherosclerotic, heterochromatic, hypercatalectic, nonarchitecture.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CATHERETIC


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

43 41 54 48 45 52 45 54 49 43

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 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0048 0045 0052 0045 0054 0049 0043

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

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

37355442395239544337

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INDEX

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


  

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