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EXPLETORY

Definition: EXPLETORY

EXPLETORY

Adjective

1. Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXPLETORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Rhyming with "EXPLETORY"

Words rhyming with "EXPLETORY" (pronounced 'Ex"ple*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXPLETORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-p-r-t-x-y"

-1 letter: expertly.

-2 letters: explore, peytrel, protyle.

-3 letters: eloper, expert, export, pelter, peltry, peroxy, pertly, petrel, petrol, peyote, peyotl, plexor, poetry, portly, protyl, replot, retype, yelper.

-4 letters: elope, epoxy, exert, expel, extol, leery, leper, loper, oxeye, oxter, peery, peter, plyer, poler, prexy, prole, proxy, relet, repel, reply, repot, ropey, telex, tepoy, topee, toper, toyer, trope.

-5 letters: eely.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-p-r-t-x-y"
 

+3 letters: extemporally.

 

+4 letters: exploratively, extemporarily.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXPLETORY


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

45 58 50 4C 45 54 4F 52 59

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 01011000 01010000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 004C 0045 0054 004F 0052 0059

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

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

395850463954495259

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INDEX

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


  

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