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FAILANCE

Definition: FAILANCE

FAILANCE

Noun

1. Fault; failure; omission.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Failance \Fail"ance\, noun. [Old French expression faillance, from faillir.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: FAILANCE

Language Translations for "failance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ailancefay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "FAILANCE"

Words rhyming with "FAILANCE" (pronounced 'Fail"ance'): Abearance, Abeyance, Abidance, Abodance, Acceptance, Accordance, Achievance, Acquaintance, Admirance, Affirmance, Aggrievance, Aidance, Allegeance, Allurance, Annoyance, Appearance, Appendance, Appliance, Approvance, Arrivance, Assistance, Attendance, Avengeance, Avoidance, Avowance, Boastance, Buoyance, Chievance, Clairvoyance, Clearance, Coinsurance, Compliance, Comportance, Concordance, Conductance, Confirmance, Conformance, Connivance, Contrivance, Conveyance, Defailance, Defiance, Demeanance, Deniance, Desistance, Disacquaintance, Disaffirmance, Disagreeance, Disallowance, Disappearance, Disavowance, Discernance, Discompliance, Displeasance, Dispurveyance, Disturbance, Doubtance, Durance, Endurance, Entreatance, forbearance, grievance, guidance, Impartance, impedance, Inacquaintance, Incompliance, Indisturbance, Indurance, Inobservance, Inquirance, INSURANCE, Intreatance, Irrepentance, Irresistance, Manurance, misalliance, Misguidance, Mountance, Noiance, Nonacceptance, Nonacquaintance, Nonappearance, Nonattendance, Noncompliance, Nonobservance, Nonperformance, Nonregardance, Nonresistance, Nonusance, Observance, Outbalance, Perceivance, Performance, Perseverance, Perturbance, Pleasance, Plesance, Pourveyance, Preacquaintance, Preassurance, Pursuance, Purveyance, reactance, Realliance, reappearance, reassurance, Reconveyance, Recordance, reinsurance, Reliance, repentance, Reposance, Representance, Reservance, resistance, Resultance, Revengeance, self-reliance, Sorance, Sortance, Stintance, Supportance, Surance, Surceaseance, Surveyance, Tendance, Transportance, Unacquaintance, Unobservance, Unrepentance, Unresistance, Upbuoyance, usance, Vengeance, Voidance, Wieldance, Yieldance. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FAILANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-n"

-2 letters: aecial, anlace, facial, facile, faecal, fecial, fiance, finale, inlace.

-3 letters: aecia, alane, alien, aline, anile, calif, canal, clean, cline, elain, elfin, facia, faena, fecal, final, ileac, lanai, lance, liana, liane, linac.

-4 letters: acne, alae, alan, alec, alef, alfa, alif, anal, anil, cafe, cain, calf, cane, ceil, cine, clan, clef, elan, face, fail, fain, fane, feal, fice, fila, file, fine, flan, flea, flic, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, leaf, lean, lice, lief, lien, life, line, naif, nail, neif, nice.

-5 letters: aal, ace, ail, ain, ala, ale, ana, ane, ani, can, cel, elf, fan, fen, fie, fil, fin, ice, lac, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-n"
 

+3 letters: acriflavine, affectional, defalcating, defalcation, flagrancies, interfacial, malefaction.

 

+4 letters: acriflavines, defalcations, ineffaceable, ineffaceably, malefactions.

 

+5 letters: affectionally, confiscatable, craftsmanlike, fanaticalness, flamboyancies, fractionalize, metafictional, rarefactional.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FAILANCE


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

46 41 49 4C 41 4E 43 45

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)

01000110 01000001 01001001 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0049 004C 0041 004E 0043 0045

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

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

4035434635483739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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