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Definitions: DEFLOUR |
DEFLOURTransitive verb1. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce. 2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. 3. To deprive of flowers. |
Note: Deflour \De*flour"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Defloured; present participle verb or noun Deflouring.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: DEFLOURSynonym: ravish. (additional references) |
Crosswords: DEFLOUR |
| English words defined with "DEFLOUR": Defloured, Deflouring, Depucelate, Depudicate, Devirginate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DEFLOUR": Deflorate. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: floured. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: folder, fouled, fouler, furled, louder, loured, refold, rolfed. | |
-2 letters: flour, flued, fluor, lured, older, ruled, uredo. | |
-3 letters: delf, doer, dole, dore, dour, duel, dure, duro, euro, feod, feud, fled, floe, flue, fold, ford, fore, foul, four, froe, fuel, furl, leud, lode, lord, lore, loud, lour, lude, lure, orle, redo, rode, role, rolf, roue, rude, rued, rule. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dol, dor, due, duo, eld, elf, fed, fer, feu, flu, foe, for, fou, fro, fud, fur, led, leu, ode, old, ole, ore, oud, our, red, ref, rod, roe, rue, udo, urd. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, el, er, lo, od, oe, of, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: flounder, fluoride, unfolder. | |
+2 letters: flavoured, flounders, fluorides, underflow, unfolders, wonderful. | |
+3 letters: dolefuller, dropperful, floundered, flourished, fluoresced, fluoridate, formulated, formulized, furbelowed, furloughed, outfielder, underflows. | |
+4 letters: dropperfuls, droppersful, floundering, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, hundredfold, outfielders, wonderfully. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscoped, flutterboard, formularized, furazolidone, perfidiously, reformulated, shuffleboard, surefootedly, unaffordable, unformulated. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 46 4C 4F 55 52 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. .-.. --- ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E F L O U R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0046 004C 004F 0055 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38394046495552 |
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