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DESTRUCTIVES

Specialty Definition: DESTRUCTIVES

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Literature

Destructives (The), as a political term, arose in 1832.
"The Times newspaper, hitherto the most effective advocate of the [Reform] bill, has been obliged to designate those whom it formerly glorified as Radicals, by the more appropriate and emphatic title of the Destructives." - Quarterly Review (Dec.,1832, p. 545.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: DESTRUCTIVES

Specialty definitions using "DESTRUCTIVES": Barn-burners. (references)

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Anagrams: DESTRUCTIVES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: destructive.

-2 letters: certitudes, rectitudes, servitudes.

-3 letters: certitude, cerusites, cerussite, crustiest, cursedest, curtesies, curvetted, cutesiest, destructs, directest, icteruses, rectitude, reductive, restudies, scurviest, scuttered, seductive, servitude, sturdiest, tessiture, trisected.

-4 letters: cerusite, citruses, crudites, curdiest, curetted, curettes, cursives, curtsied, curtsies, curveted, curviest, cutesier, cuvettes, decuries, decurves, descries, desertic, destruct, detritus, deuteric, devisers, diesters, diestrus, discreet, discrete, disserve.

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

+3 letters: destructiveness, destructivities.

 

+4 letters: diverticulitises.

 

+5 letters: destructivenesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESTRUCTIVES


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

44 45 53 54 52 55 43 54 49 56 45 53

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 01010100 01010010 01010101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#85 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0054 0052 0055 0043 0054 0049 0056 0045 0053

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

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

383953545255375443563953

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1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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