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DESMODONT

Definition: DESMODONT

DESMODONT

Noun

1. A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Desmodont \Des"mo*dont\, noun. [from Greek expression desmo`s bond + tooth.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "DESMODONT"

Words rhyming with "DESMODONT" (pronounced 'Des"mo*dont'): Acrodont, Coelodont, Conodont, Coryphodont, Cyprinodont, Dicynodont, Diodont, Diphyodont, Glyptodont, Gymnodont, Homodont, Hybodont, Iguanodont, labyrinthodont, Macrodont, Mesodont, Microdont, Monophyodont, Octodont, Oreodont, Phocodont, Pycnodont, Rachiodont, Rhachiodont, Rhizodont, Sigmodont, Squalodont, Tetrodont, Theriodont, Tillodont, Trigonid, Trigonodont, Zeuglodont. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DESMODONT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-m-n-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: oddments.

-2 letters: endmost, moonset, oddment, snooded, snooted.

-3 letters: demons, dodoes, doomed, modest, mondes, mondos, montes, mooned, mooted, nodose, noosed, oddest, odeons, sodden, sooted, stoned, tondos.

-4 letters: demon, demos, dents, dodos, doest, domed, domes, dooms, dosed, doted, dotes, mends, meson, modes, monde, mondo, monos, monte, moods, mooed, moons, moose, moots, moste, motes, nodes, nomes, nomos.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-m-n-o-o-s-t"
 

+3 letters: rodomontades.

 

+4 letters: demodulations, misunderstood, rhodomontades.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESMODONT


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

44 45 53 4D 4F 44 4F 4E 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 01010011 01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#77 &#79 &#68 &#79 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 004D 004F 0044 004F 004E 0054

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

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

383953474938494854

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INDEX

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


  

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