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DIETHYLSTIBESTROL

Specialty Definition: DIETHYLSTIBESTROL

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	A synthetic estrogen hormone. DES was used widely in the United States as a growth promoter in cattle and sheep and as a treatment for estrogen-deficiency disorders in veterinary medicine, and for postcoital contraception. However, because of its carcinogenic properties and other adverse effects, the Food and Drug Administration has revoked all use of it in food-producing animals. (DES). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: DIETHYLSTIBESTROL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-h-i-i-l-l-o-r-s-s-t-t-t-y"
	-5 letters: titleholders.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-h-i-i-l-l-o-r-s-s-t-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: diethylstilbestrol.
	+2 letters: diethylstilbestrols.
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Alternative Orthography: DIETHYLSTIBESTROL

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

44 49 45 54 48 59 4C 53 54 49 42 45 53 54 52 4F 4C

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 01001001 01000101 01010100 01001000 01011001 01001100 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000010 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#69 &#84 &#72 &#89 &#76 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#66 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0045 0054 0048 0059 004C 0053 0054 0049 0042 0045 0053 0054 0052 004F 004C

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

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

3843395442594653544336395354524946

INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography

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