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COUNTER-PALY

Definition: COUNTER-PALY

COUNTER-PALY

Adjective

1. Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Rhyming with "COUNTER-PALY"

Words rhyming with "COUNTER-PALY" (pronounced 'Coun"ter-pa`ly'): Abstractly, Barefacedly, Bellicosely, Braggingly, Brainsickly, Circumscriptly, Complexly, Counterfeitly, Foremostly, fortnightly, half-hourly, half-yearly, housewifely, Lilly-pilly, loblolly, Manifoldly, Morphophyly, naively, Nonchalantly, Orthodoxly, Paramountly, Pasilaly, Pot-belly, Qualifiedly, redbelly, Rightwisely, Rolly-poly, Sawbelly, Speckled-belly, Swagbelly, tread-softly, uniformly, uprightly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COUNTER-PALY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: counterplay.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-p-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: corpulent, nucleator, operantly, peculator, petulancy.

-3 letters: calotype, calutron, calypter, centaury, conepatl, coparent, copulate, courante, enactory, eucalypt, opercula, opulency, ornately, outcaper, outlearn, outrance, patronly, pectoral, plectron, portance.

-4 letters: acolyte, acutely, aleuron, anolyte, aplenty, apolune, caloyer, caltrop, capture, cautery, centaur, central, century, cleanup, cloture, clouter, copulae, copular, corneal, cornual, cornute, coulter, counter, country, coupler, couplet.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-p-r-t-u-y"
 

+1 letter: counterplays.

 

+2 letters: counterplayer.

 

+3 letters: counterplayers, percutaneously, pertinaciously.

 

+4 letters: hyperfunctional, neuropathically, uncomplimentary, uncopyrightable.

 

+5 letters: pronounceability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COUNTER-PALY


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

43 4F 55 4E 54 45 52 2D 50 41 4C 59

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

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

01000011 01001111 01010101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01010000 01000001 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#80 &#65 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 004E 0054 0045 0052 002D 0050 0041 004C 0059

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

374955485439521550354659

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INDEX

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


  

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