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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cloacina Goddess of sewers (Latin, cloaca, a sewer) "Then Cloacina, goddess of the tide. Whose sable streams beneath the city glide Indulged the modish flame, the town she loved A mortal scavenger she saw she loved." Gay Trivia ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: conical, laconic. | |
-2 letters: alcaic, alnico, calico, canola, cicala, cloaca, clonic, cocain, oilcan. | |
-3 letters: aloin, cacao, canal, coala, colic, colin, conic, lanai, liana, linac, nicol. | |
-4 letters: alan, anal, anil, anoa, caca, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coca, coil, coin, cola, coni, icon, laic, lain, lino, lion, loan, loca, loci, loin, nail, naoi, noil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: canonical. | |
+2 letters: canonicals, caracoling, occasional. | |
+3 letters: accessional, acclamation, acclimation, anacoluthic, anecdotical, calcination, calculation, cancelation, canonically, caracolling, chancroidal, charcoaling, laconically, monarchical, sacculation, uncanonical. | |
+4 letters: acceleration, acclamations, acclimations, accumulation, calcinations, calculations, cancelations, cancellation, cationically, clairvoyance, claudication, complaisance, concanavalin, craniofacial, craniosacral, cytochalasin, decalcomania, melancholiac, microbalance, narcotically, neoclassical, nonclassical, nonpractical, occasionally, occupational, postvaccinal, sacculations, volcanically. | |
+5 letters: accelerations, acculturation, accumulations, acronymically, anecdotically, archidiaconal, biomechanical, calcification, calculational, cancellations, catatonically, catecholamine, clairvoyances, clarification, claudications, coalification, coeducational, collocational, complaisances, concanavalins, confiscatable, contractional, convocational, cycloparaffin, cytochalasins, decalcomanias, encyclopaedia, fasciculation, machicolation, melancholiacs, microanalytic, microbalances, monarchically, nonmechanical, plantocracies, recalculation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 4F 41 43 49 4E 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- .- -.-. .. -. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01001111 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L O A C I N A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 004F 0041 0043 0049 004E 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3746493537434835 |
| 1. Anagrams 2. Orthography 3. Bibliography |
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