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ECTHLIPSIS

Definition: ECTHLIPSIS

ECTHLIPSIS

Noun

1. The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

2. The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Ecthlipsis \Ec*thlip"sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to squeeze out.]. (references)

Anagrams: ECTHLIPSIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-i-l-p-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: eclipsis, pithless, pitiless, spiciest.
	-3 letters: cesspit, chilies, chisels, elicits, hipless, hitless, litchis, pelitic, pistils, pitches, schleps, septics, shilpit, spilths, splices, stipels, tipless.
	-4 letters: chests, chiels, chiles, chilis, chisel, cities, elicit, ethics, heists, iciest, islets, istles, itches, liches, lichis, lichts, litchi, lithic, pishes, pistes, pistil, pities, plisse, schist, schlep, septic, shiels, shiest, shleps, slices.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-i-l-p-s-s-t"
	+3 letters: physicalities.
	+5 letters: sophisticatedly.
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.

Alternative Orthography: ECTHLIPSIS

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

45 43 54 48 4C 49 50 53 49 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)

01000101 01000011 01010100 01001000 01001100 01001001 01010000 01010011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#67 &#84 &#72 &#76 &#73 &#80 &#83 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0043 0054 0048 004C 0049 0050 0053 0049 0053

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

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

39375442464350534353

INDEX

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

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