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DECYL

Definition: DECYL

DECYL

Noun

1. A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Decyl \De"cyl\, noun. [Latin expression decem ten -yl.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: DECYL

English words defined with "DECYL": Decylic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DECYL": higher alcohols. (references)
Etymologies containing "DECYL": Hexdecyl. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DECYL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

decyl polyglucose

4

alcohol decyl

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DECYL

Language Translations for "DECYL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

dekyyliradikaali (decyl radical). (various references)

   

French

  

radical decyl (decyl radical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecylday

   

Portuguese

  

radical decilo (decyl radical). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

decyl-radikal (decyl radical). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DECYL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-y"

-1 letter: yeld.

-2 letters: cel, del, dey, dye, eld, led, ley, lye.

-3 letters: de, ed, el, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-y"
 

+1 letter: clayed, cloyed, cycled.

 

+2 letters: alcayde, condyle, cowedly, crudely, doucely, lynched, ycleped.

 

+3 letters: acylated, alcaydes, bicycled, condyles, credibly, cursedly, curvedly, cussedly, cyclized, cylinder, decently, delegacy, delicacy, deucedly, diacetyl, directly, docilely, dulcetly, dyslexic, ecdysial, forcedly, lackeyed, myceloid, recycled, sacredly, secondly, secundly, uncloyed, wickedly.

 

+4 letters: aldehydic, catalyzed, chandlery, chlamydes, clepsydra, comradely, cordately, cotyledon, credulity, crookedly, cylinders, decalcify, decidedly, decimally, declivity, diacetyls, dicyclies, dyslexics, excitedly, glyceride, glycoside, hydrocele, lacqueyed, lyricised, lyricized, medically, pelecypod, playacted, reducibly, shylocked.

 

+5 letters: acceptedly, accidently, accursedly, acetylated, acrylamide, adjacently, affectedly, bellyached, cardplayer, chalcedony, chlamydiae, clepsydrae, clepsydras, cloudberry, cockeyedly, coemployed, composedly, concededly, confusedly, consumedly, copyholder, cotyledons, creditably, cyclodiene, cyclopedia, cyclopedic, cylindered, decadently, decisively, declassify, decorously, decrepitly, dejectedly, delectably, delicately, despicably, detachably, detachedly, diphyletic, discreetly, discretely, epicycloid, expectedly, flyspecked, glycerides, glyceridic, glycosides, hydroceles, incredibly, indecently, indelicacy, indirectly, pelecypods, pellucidly, secludedly, wretchedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DECYL


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

44 45 43 59 4C

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 01011001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#67 &#89 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0043 0059 004C

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

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

3839375946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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