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DRACONTIC

Definition: DRACONTIC

DRACONTIC

Adjective

1. Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dracontic \Dra*con"tic\, adjective. [From Latin draco dragon, in allusion to the terms dragon's head and dragon's tail.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: DRACONTIC

Specialty definitions using "DRACONTIC": nodical month. (references)

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Anagrams: DRACONTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: cancroid, cratonic, draconic, narcotic, tornadic.

-2 letters: acronic, acrotic, cactoid, carotid, carotin, diatron, octadic.

-3 letters: accord, action, adroit, anodic, aortic, arctic, aroint, atonic, candor, cantic, cantor, carton, cation, citron, cocain, contra, cortin, craton, dacoit, inroad, nordic, ordain, rancid, ration.

-4 letters: acorn, acrid, actin, actor, adorn, antic, aroid, cacti, caird, cairn, canid, canto, circa, coact, coati.

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

+1 letter: contradict.

 

+2 letters: achondritic, cardiotonic, contradicts.

 

+3 letters: accordionist, androcentric, cardiotonics, conductorial, contradicted, contradictor, undemocratic.

 

+4 letters: accordionists, accreditation, contradicting, contradiction, contradictors, contradictory, cotransducing, decorticating, decortication, idiosyncratic, nonaccredited, nondemocratic.

 

+5 letters: accreditations, adrenocortical, antidemocratic, contradictable, contradictions, contradictious, contraindicate, cotransduction, counterclaimed, deconsecrating, deconsecration, decortications, electrodynamic, recodification, trichomonacide, uncontradicted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRACONTIC


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

44 52 41 43 4F 4E 54 49 43

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 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0043 004F 004E 0054 0049 0043

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

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

385235374948544337

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INDEX

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


  

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