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DEPOLISHING

Definition: DEPOLISHING

DEPOLISHING

Noun

1. The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: DEPOLISHING

English words defined with "DEPOLISHING": Ivory porcelain. (references)

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Rhyming with "DEPOLISHING"

Words rhyming with "DEPOLISHING" (pronounced 'De*pol"ish*ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Aforegoing, Agoing, Airling, Allthing, Almsgiving, Althing, Aswing, Atheling, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Backbiting, Ballooning, Bantling, Banxring, Bardling, Batfowling, Baubling, Bawbling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Beeswing, Bicycling, Bing, Birdcatching, Birding, Birdling, Bird's-nesting, Birthing, Bittering, Bitterling, Blackbirding, Blattering, Bloodletting, Bloodshedding, Bluestocking, Bluewing, Blunging, Bocking, Bogtrotting, Bolling, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boottopping, Bottling. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DEPOLISHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-p-s"

-1 letter: despoiling.

-2 letters: polishing, shielding.

-3 letters: depolish, deposing, dinghies, dogeship, dolphins, helpings, hildings, hiplines, holdings, indigoes, lionised, longship, pignolis, pinholes, ploidies, polished, shieling, shingled, sideling, sidelong, siphoned, speiling, sphenoid, sphingid, spieling, spoiling.

-4 letters: despoil, dingies, dingles, dingoes, diploes, dipoles, dishing, doilies, dolphin, dongles, eliding, elision, eloigns, eloping, engilds, english, epigoni, epigons, epilogs, epsilon, gipsied, glenoid.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEPOLISHING


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

44 45 50 4F 4C 49 53 48 49 4E 47

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 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0050 004F 004C 0049 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047

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

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

3839504946435342434841

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INDEX

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


  

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