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CORNET-A-PISTON

Definition: CORNET-A-PISTON

CORNET-A-PISTON

Noun

1. A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Cornet-a-piston \Cor"net-[`a]-pis`ton\ (French, noun; plural Cornets-[`a]-piston. [French]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: CORNET-A-PISTON

English words defined with "CORNET-A-PISTON": Cornets-a-piston, Cornopean. (references)

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Rhyming with "CORNET-A-PISTON"

Words rhyming with "CORNET-A-PISTON" (pronounced 'Cor"net-[`a]-pis`ton'): B'eton, Crouton, Fronton, guncotton. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CORNET-A-PISTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: contraptions.

-2 letters: antiprotons, contraption, nonoperatic, personation, protections, transection.

-3 letters: antiproton, carnotites, cartoonist, constipate, constraint, containers, crenations, entoprocts, entropions, introspect, neotropics, octonaries, operations, pentatonic, prenotions, pronations, protection, protonates, stenotopic, stentorian.

-4 letters: anointers, anoretics, atropines, cannister, canonries, caponiers, carnotite, conations, consortia, constrain, container, coparents, copatrons, corantoes, cornetist, cornpones, coronates, corotates, corposant, cortisone, cotenants, creations, crenation, crepitant.

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

+1 letter: containerports, contraceptions.

 

+2 letters: introspectional.

 

+3 letters: anthropocentrism, prenotifications.

 

+4 letters: anthropocentrisms, compartmentations, contemporaneities, countercomplaints, noncooperationist.

 

+5 letters: counteradaptations, noncooperationists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CORNET-A-PISTON


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

43 4F 52 4E 45 54 2D 41 2D 50 49 53 54 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01000101 01010100 00101101 01000001 00101101 01010000 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#82 &#78 &#69 &#84 &#45 &#65 &#45 &#80 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0052 004E 0045 0054 002D 0041 002D 0050 0049 0053 0054 004F 004E

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

374952483954153515504353544948

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INDEX

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


  

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