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COVETISE

Definition: COVETISE

COVETISE

Transitive verb

1. Avarice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COVETISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Rhyming with "COVETISE"

Words rhyming with "COVETISE" (pronounced 'Cov"et*ise'): Advertise, Affranchise, Afterwise, Altarwise, Anglewise, Anise, Anthemwise, Anywise, Apoise, Appraise, Archwise, Arriswise, Barwise, Bendwise, Bepraise, Blandise, Breadthwise, Broadwise, Catechise, Cerise, Chaise, Chastise, Chemise, Cheval-de-frise, Chevronwise, Circumcise, Clockwise, Comprise, Concise, Contrariwise, Cornerwise, Cotise, Cottise, Crescentwise, Croise, Crosswise, Dandyise, Eclaircise, Fesswise, Flatwise, Foolhardise, Forbruise, Foreadvise, Froise, Galliardise, Gatewise, guise, incise, likewise, longwise. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COVETISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-o-s-t-v"

-1 letter: coesite, costive.

-2 letters: cestoi, civets, covets, evicts, evites, soviet, vetoes, voices.

-3 letters: cesti, cetes, cites, civet, coset, cosie, cotes, coves, covet, escot, evict, evite, sieve, stoic, stove, vices, voces, voice, votes.

-4 letters: cees, cete, cist, cite, cost, cote, cots, cove, etic, eves, ices, otic, scot, sect, sice, site, tees, tics, ties, toes, vees, vest.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-o-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: evections.

 

+2 letters: congestive, covellites, objectives, velocities, ventricose, viscometer.

 

+3 letters: coevalities, coextensive, collectives, connectives, consecutive, convexities, correctives, costiveness, equivocates, insectivore, outachieves, overdirects, overexcites, prospective, vasectomies, vasectomize, venesection, viscometers, vociferates.

 

+4 letters: coercivities, collectivise, compensative, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, conventicles, convertibles, cooperatives, correlatives, counterviews, decongestive, divorcements, eigenvectors, evisceration, insectivores, nonelectives, nonselective, pocketknives, vasectomized, vasectomizes, velocimeters, venesections, viscometries, viscosimeter, vitrectomies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COVETISE


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

43 4F 56 45 54 49 53 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 01010110 01000101 01010100 01001001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0056 0045 0054 0049 0053 0045

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

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

3749563954435339

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INDEX

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


  

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