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DECUMBITURE

Definitions: DECUMBITURE

DECUMBITURE

Noun

1. Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

2. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rhyming with "DECUMBITURE"

Words rhyming with "DECUMBITURE" (pronounced 'De*cum"bi*ture'): Abature, Abbreviature, Acclimature, Acture, Adjudicature, Admixture, Affixture, Agriculture, Alcoholature, Anfracture, Aperture, Apiculture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, architecture, Attainture, Aventure, Aviculture, Batture, Belecture, Breviature, Candidature, Capillature, Ceinture, Celature, Celsiture, Cincture, Climature, Colature, Colorature, Comfiture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Confiture, Conjuncture, Connature, Consignature, Constructure, Contemperature, Contexture, Contracture, Corporature, Coverture, Creature, Crenature, Crispature, Cubature, Curvature, Decerniture, Declinature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, Delineature, Denature, Denture, Departure, Depasture, Depicture, Deporture, Depositure, Dictature, Digesture, Disadventure, Disarmature, Disaventure, Discomfiture, Discoverture, Disfeature, Disinvestiture, Disjuncture, Disrupture, Distasture, Distemperature, Distincture, Disventure, Divestiture, Divesture, Domiculture, Ducture, Duplicature, Electro-puncture, Enacture, Encincture, Enrapture, Entablature, Esture, Exhausture, Expenditure, Exploiture, Exposture, Facture, feature, Fellow-creature, Fermeture, filature, fixture, floriculture, Foliature, Forfalture, forfeiture, Fructure, furniture, Gallature, Galvanopuncture, Garmenture, Garniture, Geniture, Gladiature, Habiture, horticulture, Illiterature, Imbosture, immature, Immixture, Impasture, imposture, Incommixture, Incubiture, Inculture, Insculpture, Insisture, Intemperature, intermixture, Intertexture, investiture, judicature, juncture, Lavature, Legature, Limature, Lineature, literature, Loture, Maculature, Magistrature, Mercature, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Musculature, Nomenclature, Nouriture, Nunciature, Nutriture, Offerture, Ornature, Ostreaculture, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Piscicapture, Pisciculture, Plasmature, Plicature, Politure, Pomiculture, Positure, Postgeniture, Postremogeniture, Prefecture, Premature, Prepositure, Pretexture, Pretorture, Primogeniture, Progeniture, Projecture, Prompture, Purpresture, Quadrature, Quitture, Recomforture, Redempture, Repasture, Retexture, Revestture, Ricture, Roture, Rudenture, Scripture, Secundo-geniture, Self-culture, Self-imposture, self-torture, sepulture, sericulture, Serrature, Serviture, silviculture, Stirpiculture, Striature, stricture, structure, substructure, Superinvestiture, superstructure, suture, Sylviculture, tablature, Tainture, Teinture, Terraculture, Transnature, Treature, Tubulature, Unculture, Unigeniture, Usurpature, Vecture, Verditure, Vestiture, Vesture, Viatecture, Vincture, Viniculture, Viticulture, Vitrifacture, Voiture, Vulture, Wafture. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DECUMBITURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-m-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: deuterium.

-3 letters: becrimed, cumbered, deuteric, embruted, imbruted, timbered.

-4 letters: becrime, bedtime, bemired, berimed, bruited, crumbed, demerit, dimeter, embrued, embrute, eructed, erudite, eucrite, imbrued, imbrute, merited, mitered, recited, retimed, terbium, terebic, tierced, triduum, umbered, uredium.

-5 letters: bemire, berime, betide, betime, bireme, bruted, burdie, buried, cerite, cerium, cermet, credit, cumber, curbed, curite, curium, deceit, deicer, demure, dermic, dictum, dieter, direct, dumber, embrue, emetic, erbium, imbrue, imbued, itemed, iterum, metier, metred, metric, mitred, recite, rectum, reduce, reedit, reemit, retied, retime, rubied, tedium, terbic, termed, tierce, tiered, timber, timbre, triced, truced, turbid, ureide, uremic, uretic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DECUMBITURE


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

44 45 43 55 4D 42 49 54 55 52 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)

01000100 01000101 01000011 01010101 01001101 01000010 01001001 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#73 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0043 0055 004D 0042 0049 0054 0055 0052 0045

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

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

3839375547364354555239

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INDEX

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


  

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