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DETRUNCATION

Definition: DETRUNCATION

DETRUNCATION

Noun

1. The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: DETRUNCATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nonaddition Subtraction

Noun: subtraction, subduction; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation; abstraction; (taking); garbling; Verb: mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment; minuend, subtrahend; decrease; abrasion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: DETRUNCATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: continuate, detraction, enunciator, eructation, truncation.

-3 letters: auctioned, carnotite, cautioned, centurion, contained, container, continued, continuer, crenation, curtained, education, intonated, introduce, inundator, neutronic, noncredit, ordinance, redaction, reductant, reduction, runcinate, tinctured, truncated, tunicated, uncertain, undercoat, unnoticed, untainted, untrained, urticated.

-4 letters: aeroduct, anointed, anointer, anoretic, antidote, antinode, anuretic, arointed, attorned, cantoned, cartoned, catenoid, centroid, ceratoid, citrated, coattend.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: counterstained, uncontradicted.

 

+3 letters: nonmatriculated.

 

+4 letters: antireductionism, antireductionist, countertradition.

 

+5 letters: antireductionisms, antireductionists, counteradaptation, countertraditions, intercommunicated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DETRUNCATION


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

44 45 54 52 55 4E 43 41 54 49 4F 4E

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 01010100 01010010 01010101 01001110 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

D E T R U N C A T I O N

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0054 0052 0055 004E 0043 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

383954525548373554434948

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