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CONTRAFISSURE

Definition: CONTRAFISSURE

CONTRAFISSURE

Noun

1. A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: CONTRAFISSURE

English words defined with "CONTRAFISSURE": Counter fissure. (references)

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Rhyming with "CONTRAFISSURE"

Words rhyming with "CONTRAFISSURE" (pronounced 'Con`tra*fis"sure'): Acupressure, Clausure, Closure, Cocksure, Commissure, Composure, Compressure, foreclosure, Frisure, inclosure, Miscensure, Morsure, Oppressure, Overpressure, Poisure, Rasure, Reposure, scissure, Self-exposure, Supposure, tonsure. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CONTRAFISSURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: cotransfers, rainforests, refractions.

-3 letters: coinsurers, confitures, contraries, cotransfer, courtesans, craftiness, fornicates, furcations, intercross, raconteurs, rainforest, recursions, refraction, serrations, suctorians.

-4 letters: ancestors, anestrous, anoretics, arsenious, assertion, canisters, canoeists, carousers, carrotins, cessation, coinsurer, coinsures, confiture, confuters, construes, countries, courantes, courtesan, courtiers, creations, cretinous, croissant, crossfire, curarines, facetious, factories, forecasts, forensics, fornicate, fractions, fractious, fractures, frontiers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CONTRAFISSURE


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

43 4F 4E 54 52 41 46 49 53 53 55 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 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000110 01001001 01010011 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#70 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 0041 0046 0049 0053 0053 0055 0052 0045

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

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

37494854523540435353555239

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INDEX

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


  

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