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COSMOLINE

Definition: COSMOLINE

COSMOLINE

Noun

1. A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: COSMOLINE

Specialty definitions using "COSMOLINE": aircraft armorer, AIRCRAFT-ARMAMENT MECHANIC. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COSMOLINE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cosmoline

33

cosmoline removal

4

brother cosmoline

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "COSMOLINE"

Words rhyming with "COSMOLINE" (pronounced 'Cos"mo*line'): Acauline, Acervuline, Aline, Alkaline, Amygdaline, Anticline, Aquiline, Baculine, Bandoline, Benzoline, Berylline, Bowline, Bubaline, Buntline, Caballine, Cappeline, Capreoline, Cauline, Choline, Chrysaniline, Cinnoline, Circuline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Corolline, Corrovaline, Crepusculine, Crinoline, Crotaline, Cryptocrystalline, Flavaniline, Fringilline, Gantline, Ghibelline, Girtline, Glyoxaline, headline, indiscipline, Leucaniline, Leucoline, Limicoline, Lobeline, Lurchline, marteline, masculine, Mauvaniline, Melaniline, Microcline, microcrystalline. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COSMOLINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: semicolon.

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-s"

-1 letter: colonies, colonise, eclosion, monocles, oinomels, simoleon.

-2 letters: cineols, clonism, coeloms, colones, console, coolies, inclose, incomes, locoism, lomeins, loonies, mesonic, monocle, noisome, oinomel.

-3 letters: celoms, cineol, climes, clines, clones, coelom, colies, colins, colone, coloni, colons, comose, conies, consol, coolie, cosine, eloins, enolic, eonism, icones, income, insole, lemons, lesion, limens, locoes, lomein, looies, loosen, melons.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: monoclines, monostelic, semicolons, semicolony.

 

+2 letters: completions, complexions, scopolamine.

 

+3 letters: commonalties, contumelious, scopolamines, semicolonial, semicolonies.

 

+4 letters: campanologies, ceremoniously, commonalities, compellations, compendiously, complexations, compressional, coterminously, criminologies, homeschooling, mononucleosis, oleandomycins, tonsillectomy.

 

+5 letters: commonsensible, commonsensical, compassionless, compensational, contemplations, conterminously, contumeliously, emotionalistic, homeschoolings, indecomposable, miscorrelation, monoglycerides, monotheistical, neocolonialism, noncombustible, noncommercials, noncompliances, recompilations, sedimentologic, triamcinolones.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COSMOLINE


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

43 4F 53 4D 4F 4C 49 4E 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 01010011 01001101 01001111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#83 &#77 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0053 004D 004F 004C 0049 004E 0045

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

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

374953474946434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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