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DESMONCHUS

Specialty Definition: DESMONCHUS

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Botanical

The stems, reputed to be a water source, are good for basketry and cordage, but are hard enough to nick a machete if not soaked in water for some time. (references)

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

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Anagrams: DESMONCHUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-m-n-o-s-s-u"

-2 letters: consumed, consumes, hocussed, muchness.

-3 letters: choused, chouses, cohunes, consume, douches, duchess, dunches, escudos, hocused, hocuses, mouched, mouches, moussed, munched, munches, osmunds, schmoes, seconds.

-4 letters: census, chemos, chosen, choses, chouse, codens, cohune, coshed, coshes, cussed, demons, douche, douses, dunces, escudo, hounds, housed, houses, mensch, mesons, mondes, moshed, moshes, mossed, mounds, moused, mouses, mousse, muches.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-m-n-o-s-s-u"
 

+5 letters: dichotomousness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESMONCHUS


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

44 45 53 4D 4F 4E 43 48 55 53

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)

01000100 01000101 01010011 01001101 01001111 01001110 01000011 01001000 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#77 &#79 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 004D 004F 004E 0043 0048 0055 0053

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

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

38395347494837425553

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