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DIPSAS

Definitions: DIPSAS

DIPSAS

Noun

1. A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

2. A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DIPSAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Etymology: Dipsas \Dip"sas\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from thirst.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: DIPSAS

Non-English Usage: "DIPSAS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (snake).

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Expression: DIPSAS

Expression using "DIPSAS": Dipsas dendrophila. Additional references.

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

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Anagrams: DIPSAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-p-s-s"

-1 letter: apsis, aspis, padis, sadis, saids, sapid.

-2 letters: aids, asps, dais, daps, dips, diss, padi, pads, paid, pass, pias, piss, psis, sadi, said, saps, sips, spas.

-3 letters: ads, aid, ais, asp, ass, dap, dip, dis, ids, pad, pas, pia, pis, psi, sad, sap, sip, sis, spa.

-4 letters: ad, ai, as, id, is, pa, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-p-s-s"
 

+1 letter: apsides, capsids, salpids, sparids.

 

+2 letters: adiposes, adiposis, apodosis, despairs, dipsades, dishpans, disparts, displays, disposal, phasmids, plasmids, plastids, sandpits, spadices, spadixes, sparoids, synapsid.

 

+3 letters: adscripts, airspeeds, amidships, deanships, diapasons, diapauses, diaphyses, diaphysis, diasporas, diaspores, dioptases, dispersal, displaces, displants, displease, disposals, dispraise, dispreads, dissipate, dyspepsia, dysphasia, dysphasic, dysplasia, dystopias, hardships, headships, isopodans, ladyships, landskips, landslips, lapidists, midspaces, misadapts, misparsed, mispleads, misshaped, misspaced, padishahs, palisades, paludisms, paradises, parodists, plasmoids, rapidness, sandpiles, satinpods, scaphoids, shiploads, shipyards, slipcased, spadefish, spadilles, spandrils, spasmodic, spondaics, synapsids, upsadaisy, vapidness, wardships.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIPSAS


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

44 49 50 53 41 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 01001001 01010000 01010011 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#80 &#83 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0050 0053 0041 0053

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

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

384350533553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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