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CRIOSPHINX

Definition: CRIOSPHINX

CRIOSPHINX

Noun

1. A sphinx with the head of a ram.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRIOSPHINX

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
criosphinx	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: CRIOSPHINX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-x"
	-2 letters: siphonic.
	-3 letters: chopins, incisor, noirish, phonics, porcini, princox.
	-4 letters: chinos, chiros, chirps, choirs, chopin, ichors, ionics, ironic, orchis, orcins, orphic, orpins, phonic, pionic, prions, prison, rhinos, ricins, siphon, sphinx, spinor.
	-5 letters: chino, chins, chips, chiro, chirp, choir, chops, cions, coins, coirs, corns, corps, crisp, crops, horns, ichor, icons, ionic, irons, noirs, noris, opsin, orcin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: CRIOSPHINX

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

43 52 49 4F 53 50 48 49 4E 58

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 01010010 01001001 01001111 01010011 01010000 01001000 01001001 01001110 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#73 &#79 &#83 &#80 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0049 004F 0053 0050 0048 0049 004E 0058

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

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

37524349535042434858

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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