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| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers) An optical device that reads the location of filled-in dots on a precisely aligned form that has been microfilmed, converting the data to a magnetic tape format. FOSDIC dots represent numeric or alphabetic codes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FOSDIC |
| Specialty definitions using "FOSDIC": FACT_90. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-o-s" | |
-1 letter: coifs, disco, fidos, sodic. | |
-2 letters: cods, coif, disc, docs, fico, fido, fids, fisc, foci, odic. | |
-3 letters: cis, cod, cos, dis, doc, dos, fid, ids, ifs, ods, sic, sod. | |
-4 letters: do, id, if, is, od, of, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: codfish, fucoids. | |
+2 letters: codifies, confides, disfrock, factoids. | |
+3 letters: chiefdoms, codfishes, codifiers, confiders, disciform, discomfit, disfrocks, focalised, fossicked, scorified, sudorific. | |
+4 letters: coalfields, confidants, cornfields, defections, defocusing, discomfits, discomfort, disconfirm, disfrocked, fricandoes, misfocused, picofarads, recodifies, sudorifics. | |
+5 letters: aficionadas, aficionados, chiffonades, childproofs, closefisted, commodifies, confidantes, confidences, confirmands, confiscated, defecations, deflections, defocussing, discomfited, discomforts, disconfirms, disfrocking, disfunction, dysfunction, forecaddies, goldfinches, microfarads, misfocussed, scaffolding. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4F 53 44 49 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- ... -.. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001111 01010011 01000100 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F O S D I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004F 0053 0044 0049 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)404953384337 |
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