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Definition: DETRUNCATION |
DETRUNCATIONNoun1. The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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. 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 54 52 55 4E 43 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . - .-. ..- -. -.-. .- - .. --- -. |
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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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383954525548373554434948 |

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