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DECURT

Definition: DECURT

DECURT

Transitive verb

1. To cut short; to curtail.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Decurt \De*curt"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression decurtare; de- curtare.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: DECURT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: truced.

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

-1 letter: crude, cruet, cured, curet, cuter, educt, eruct, recut, truce, trued.

-2 letters: crud, cued, curd, cure, curt, cute, duce, duct, duet, dure, ecru, rude, rued, true, turd.

-3 letters: cud, cue, cur, cut, due, ecu, rec, red, ret, rue, rut, ted, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, et, re, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: courted, crudest, crusted, curated, eductor, eructed, traduce, trucked.

 

+2 letters: aeroduct, arcuated, captured, clotured, cornuted, crudites, crutched, cultured, curdiest, curetted, curtsied, curveted, destruct, deuteric, diuretic, educator, eductors, furcated, grutched, lectured, outcried, outraced, pictured, reductor, reinduct, relucted, traduced, traducer, traduces, trounced, truckled, tuckered, uncrated, underact, undercut, untraced.

 

+3 letters: accoutred, aeroducts, becrusted, butchered, certitude, chuntered, cinctured, circuited, clustered, cluttered, construed, contoured, corrupted, countered, courtside, credulity, critiqued, croqueted, croustade, cruddiest, crudities, cursedest, curtailed, curtained, curtseyed, curvetted, decurrent, destructs, diuretics, dustcover, educators, encrusted, eructated, fractured, incrusted, introduce, outcrowed, outcursed, outpriced, outrocked, outscored, punctured, recounted, recruited, rectitude, reductant, reductase, reduction, reductive, reductors, reeducate, reinducts, retouched, scuttered, tinctured, traducers, transduce, trauchled, truncated, ulcerated, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, undercuts, urticated.

 

+4 letters: abductores, accoutered, bifurcated, carbureted, cauterized, certitudes, circulated, coauthored, cocultured, cofeatured, corrugated, coruscated, counterbid, courtesied, courtsides, crassitude, crenulated, croustades, destructed, discounter, documenter, dustcovers, edulcorate, elucidator, fructified, huckstered, incurvated, instructed, introduced, introducer, introduces, judicature, lubricated, mercurated, micturated, obstructed, outcapered, outcharged, outcharmed, outcrawled, outcropped, outcrossed, outmarched, outproduce, outreached, outscorned, outtricked, parachuted, pedicurist, persecuted, picturized, productive, prosecuted, recaptured, recomputed, rectitudes, rediscount, reductants, reductases, reductions, reeducated, reeducates, reinducted, reluctated, resculpted, rubricated, rusticated, scouthered, sculptured, seductress, structured, subcordate, subtracted, transduced, transducer, transduces, uncarpeted, uncorseted, uncredited, uncultured, underacted, undercoats, undercount, undercroft, underreact, undertrick, undirected, undoctored, unescorted, unscripted, woodcutter.

 

+5 letters: articulated, audiometric, candidature, carburetted, caricatured, caterwauled, centrifuged, computerdom, conductress, conjectured, constructed, contributed, cotransduce, counterbade, counterbids, countermand, counterraid, countersued, countrified, countryfied, countryside, countrywide, crassitudes, credulities, deconstruct, decrepitude, destructing, destruction, destructive, discounters, discourtesy, disjuncture, disturbance, diverticula, documentary, documenters, edulcorated, edulcorates, elucidators, elucubrated, encountered, eudiometric, excruciated, incertitude, incorrupted, incredulity, introducers, judicatures, operculated, outpreached, outproduced, outproduces, overcounted, overeducate, pedicurists, photoreduce, precomputed, proctodaeum, pulchritude, quarterdeck, radiolucent, recontoured, recuperated, rediscounts, reductional, reductively, reduplicate, reeducating, reeducation, reeducative, reinducting, reintroduce, resurrected, reticulated, revictualed, scrutinised, scrutinized, securitized, subcultured, subdirector, sugarcoated, thermoduric, thunderclap, traducement, transducers, trifurcated, truncheoned, tuberculoid, unbracketed, uncastrated, uncertified, unchartered, uncluttered, uncontrived, unconverted, uncorrected, uncurtained, undecorated, underacting, underactive, undercounts, undercrofts, underreacts, undertricks, unprotected, unretouched, urochordate, woodcutters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DECURT


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

44 45 43 55 52 54

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 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#67 &#85 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0043 0055 0052 0054

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

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

383937555254

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3. Orthography
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