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Definition: Famine |
FamineNoun1. A severe shortage (especially a shortage of food). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "famine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Bible | Famine The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Gerar (Gen. 26:1, 17). But the most remarkable of all was that which arose in Egypt in the days of Joseph, which lasted for seven years (Gen. 41-45). Famines were sent as an effect of God's anger against a guilty people (2 Kings 8:1, 2; Amos 8:11; Deut. 28:22-42; 2 Sam. 21:1; 2 Kings 6:25-28; 25:3; Jer. 14:15; 19:9; 42:17, etc.). A famine was predicted by Agabus (Acts 11:28). Josephus makes mention of the famine which occurred A.D. 45. Helena, queen of Adiabene, being at Jerusalem at that time, procured corn from Alexandria and figs from Cyprus for its poor inhabitants. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
| If you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful in competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion over slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care, hauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair, your waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition and en{??}y{envy??} overthrow. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | |
Public Administration | A catastrophic food shortage affecting large numbers of people; it may be due to poor harvests following drought, floods, earthquake, war, social conflict, etc. ; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A famine is a situation when a certain country or area doesn't have enough available food and related resources to feed its population. As a result many affected by the famine are undernourished and die of starvation or thirst.
Famine is an ancient problem: famine was so well known in the ancient world that Famine was one of the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As a result of the green revolution, the incidence of famine has been greatly reduced or eliminated in many parts of the world. However, in spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still occurs.
As observed by the economist Amartya Sen, famine is usually a problem of food distribution and poverty, rather than an absolute lack of food. In spite of this, people die. In many cases such as the Great Leap Forward or North Korea in the mid-1990s, famine is caused as an unintentional result of government policy. In other cases, such as Somalia, famine is a consequence of civil disorder as food distribution systems break down.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Famine."
Synonyms: FamineSynonyms: dearth (n), shortage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dearness | Noun: dearness; Adjective: high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse. |
Insufficiency | Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought. |
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Crosswords: Famine |
| English words defined with "famine": Four Horsemen ♦ relapsing fever ♦ To be beside one's self. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "famine": ACHYRANTHES ASPERA, ACHYROCLINE SATUREOIDES, Agabus, ALTERNANTHERA SESSILIS, APEIBA TIBOURBOU ♦ Bald, Bones ♦ CENCHRUS ECHINATUS, CENTELLA ASIATICA, Country, Crippled ♦ Desert, Doves' Dung ♦ ECHINOCHLOA COLONUM ♦ Food Security Commodity Reserve, Food Security Wheat Reserve ♦ JOSEPH ♦ Lice ♦ NDVI ♦ Pail ♦ Sand, Sensitiva de Agua, soul ♦ Teeth ♦ Uniform Relatives ♦ Verdolago rosado. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Famine" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (famine, starvation). |
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Screenplays | We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease. (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes) They've survived flood, famine and plague. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) It took him three tries. The town was awash; the groceries were burnt. It was fire, flood and famine. If he could have managed plague, it would have been the four horsemen of the apocalypse in one P, B & Y. I mean he was unique. (Always; writing credit: Chandler Sprague; David Boehm) Believe?! If you believe you are gullible. Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it? Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death! (The Masque of the Red Death; writing credit: Charles Beaumont; R. Wright Campbell) Think of it -- famine! War! Death! (Saturday the 14th; writing credit: Jeff Begun; Howard R. Cohen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bengal Famine (1943) The Famine Within (1990) | |
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 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 2. Vue de environs de Port Famine. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 3. Observatoire de Port Famine. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 4. Port Famine. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Food line, the first lunch after big famine, or, The first lunch after days of starvation / Ardeshir Mohssess [i.e. Mohassess].Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | D'Aguesseau sauve la France pendant la famine 1709 / Desfontaines delt. ; Moret sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When I stand here this quiet afternoon I shudder to visualize what is actually happening to millions now and what is going to happen in this period when famine stalks the earth. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In cases of famine, emeute, Buzancais, for instance, has a true, pathetic, and just point of departure. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They apprehended my breaking loose, that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine. |
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Business | From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward and bad weather resulted in famine. (references) | |
Economic History | Ireland | The famine spawned the first mass wave of Irish emigration to the United States. (references) |
Ukraine | Estimates of deaths from the 1932-33 famine alone range from 3 million to 7 million. (references) | |
Chad | This payment included a special USD 7 million increase to help Chad respond to the worst famine in a decade. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Several defectors and former inmates reported that the total figure is approximately 150,000, while South Korean authorities stated the total figure is about 200,000. The South Korean Ministry of National Unification reported to its National Assembly in October 1997 that North Korea held more than 200,000 political prisoners in camps where many had frozen or starved to death, and that famine may have worsened conditions. (references) |
Political Economy | Eritrea | The U.S. also supports financing for regional projects that benefit areas such as locust control programs and early famine warning systems. (references) |
Chad | Since independence in 1960, war, drought and famine have severely damaged Chad's institutions, its infrastructure and its chances for outside investment. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our food programs have already helped millions avoid the horrors of famine. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Of immediate concern is the prospect of millions of Africans threatened by famine because of drought and civil disturbances. |
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| "Famine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Famine" is used about 631 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.26% | 620 | 10,430 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.27% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 631 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "famine": Famine fever ♦ year of famine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "famine": famine-affected, famine-free, famine-hit, famine-level, famine-periods, famine-ravaged, famine-relief, famine-stricken, famine-torn. | |
Ending with "famine": anti-famine, bonk-famine, near-famine, snow-famine. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
famine | 136 |
irish potato famine | 68 |
potato famine | 61 |
irish famine | 33 |
ethiopia famine | 23 |
famine in ethiopia | 22 |
famine in africa | 16 |
famine africa | 15 |
world famine | 14 |
famine ireland potato | 13 |
famine in korea north | 13 |
famine picture | 12 |
great famine | 11 |
famine ukrainian | 9 |
famine korea north | 9 |
great potato famine | 8 |
famine ship | 7 |
sudan famine | 6 |
famine ukraine | 6 |
ethiopian famine | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "famine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zi (bereavement, black, dearth, mourning, sables), uri (dearth, hunger), krizë (access, attack, blizzard, conjuncture, crisis, fit, paroxysm, seizure, slump, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجاعة (dearth, starvation, wolf), ندرة (drought, paucity, penury, poverty, rareness, rarity, scarceness, tightness), عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глад (hunger, scarcity, starvation), недостиг (deficit, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, ullage, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 饥', 飢' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hladomor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hungersnød. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geeuwhonger (bulimia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malsatego. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nälänhätä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | famine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | breakrapte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hungersnot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כפן (hunger), רעב (famished, gluttonous, greedy, hunger, hungry, ravenous, scarcity, starvation, yearning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | éhínség (starvation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kelaparan (hunger), kekurangan (absence, dearth, dearth of, default, deficiency, demerit, lack, short of, shortage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carestia (dearth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 払底 (dearth, scarcity, shortage), 乏 (shortage, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きき" (contribution, donation, foundation, fund), きょう"う (consternation, crime, enforcement, firm, forcing, height of a mirror stand, murder, panic, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, vigorous, violence), ふってい (dearth, scarcity, shortage), けつぼう (shortage, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기근. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gortey (dearth, destitution, hurt, injure, injury, scarceness, smart, starvation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | hungersnød. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aminefay fome (hunger, hunger strike, starvation). (various references) foamete (dearth, starvation), foame (hunger, starvation). (various references) голод (hunger, starvation). (various references) gort , goirt. (various references) glad (hunger). (various references) hambruna (ravenous hunger), hambre (fame, hearsay, hunger, renown, repute, rumor, rumour, starvation). (various references) hungersnöd, svält (hunger, starvation). (various references) าวะข้าวยากหมากแพง. (various references) yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, failure, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparseness, sparsity), açlık (dearth, hollowness, hunger, starvation). (various references) гостра недостача, голод (hunger, starvation). (various references) nạn đói kém sự khan hiếm. (various references) newyn (hunger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fame, famem, fames, fami, famis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hungor. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | famine. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 39 |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | \43:1\And the famine was severe in the land. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now the land was in bitter need of food. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 39 |
| Danish | Men Hungersnøden var hård i Landet; |
| Norwegian | Men hungersnøden var hård i landet. |
| Swedish | \43:1\ Josefs bröders andra resa till Egypten. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "famine": famines. (additional references) | |
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"Famine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afine, Facine, fagina, Fahmi, Faiman, Faine, Faini, faline, famade, famane, famen, famene, fami, famile, famin, famite, famn, famon, fanine, fannie, farine, fasine, Fatimeh, fatina, fatine, fegine, femin, femina, feminae, femine, Feminead, femini, Feminiad, Femmina, fevine, Fifine, Flavien, fomite, Fraxino, Fucine, Fukien, fuminal, Kamien, kaminer, samine, xamine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "famine" (pronounced fa"mun) |
| 4 | -a" m u n | examine, gammon, reexamine, salmon. |
| 3 | -m u n | abdomen, acumen, adman, admen, airman, albumin, alderman, antihistamine, Ashman, assemblywoman, backgammon, backwoodsman, Badman, bagman, barman, baseman, bayman, bellman, Benjamin, bitumen, Boardman, boatman, bookman, Bowman, bowmen, brakeman, bushman, businesswoman, cameraman, Carman, Carmen, carmine, cattlemen, Cayman, chairman, chairwoman, Chapman, chessman, chrismon, churchman, churchmen, cinnamon, clergyman, coachman, cochairman, committeeman, common, congressman, congresswoman, corpsman, councilman, councilwoman, councilwomen, countryman, cowman, craftsman, craftsmen, crewman, daemon, dairymen, Daman, demon, desman, determine, Dolman, draftsman, draftsmen, dromon, dustman, Dutchman, Ermine, Everyman, ferryman, fireman, firemen, Firman, footman, foramen, foreman, foremen, forewoman, Freedman, Freeman, freshman, gentleman, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, german, Goodman, gunman, hangman, headman, headsman, henchman, henchmen, Herdman, Hetman, horseman, horsemen, houseman, human, huntsman, hymen, illumine, infantryman, inhuman, jasmine, Kirkman, Landman, landsman, lawman, layman, laymen, Leman, lemon, Letterman, Liman, Lineman, linemen, lobsterman, longshoremen, lumen, madmen, marksman, messman, midshipman, newswoman, newswomen, nobleman, noblewoman, nonhuman, nurserymen, oarsman, ombudsman, omen, ottoman, Outman, overman, Packman, Penman, pitchman, Pitman, Plowman, policeman, policewoman, postman, predetermine, pressman, Pullman, ragmen, regimen, rifleman, Rodman, roman, rumen, salarymen, salesman, saleswoman, saleswomen, seaman, seamen, seedsman, semen, sermon, shaman, Shipman, showman, Spearman, specimen, spokesman, spokeswoman, sportsman, statesman, Stillman, Stockman, subhuman, summon, superhuman, superwoman, talisman, Telamon, thiamin, timberman, Titman, Toman, townsman, tradesmen, trainmen, uncommon, vitamin, watchman, Waterman, watermen, wingman, wireman, woman, women, Woodman, woodsmen, Woolman, workman, yachtsman, yeoman. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: amine, anime, minae. | |
-2 letters: amen, amie, amin, fain, fame, fane, fine, main, mane, mean, mien, mina, mine, naif, name, neif, nema. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ane, ani, emf, fan, fem, fen, fie, fin, mae, man, men, nae, nam, nim. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, am, an, ef, em, en, fa, if, in, ma, me, mi, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: famines, fireman, inflame. | |
+2 letters: defaming, feminacy, filament, filename, flamines, infamies, inflamed, inflamer, inflames, manifest, rifleman. | |
+3 letters: affixment, damnified, damnifies, defoaming, enflaming, enframing, filaments, filenames, firemanic, firmament, fisherman, flambeing, foaminess, fulminate, inflamers, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, mainframe, manifesto, manifests, reframing, semifinal, tamoxifen. | |
+4 letters: affirmance, affixments, ammonified, ammonifies, antifemale, antireform, chamfering, defamation, effeminacy, effeminate, famishment, feminacies, firmaments, flamingoes, forearming, freemartin, fulminated, fulminates, magnifiers, mainframes, maleficent, manifested, manifester, manifestly, manifestos, manifolded, meaningful, semifinals, tamoxifens. | |
+5 letters: affirmances, confirmable, defamations, deformation, effeminates, famishments, ferrimagnet, filamentary, filamentous, firmamental, fisherwoman, foaminesses, fomentation, foraminifer, foremanship, fragmenting, fragmentize, freemartins, infantrymen, infirmaries, inflammable, infomercial, informative, interfamily, lifemanship, magnificent, magnificoes, malefaction, maleficence, manifestant, manifesters, manifesting, manifestoed, manifestoes, metafiction, microfaunae, misfeasance, myofilament, nonfamilies, reaffirming, reformation, refrainment, sulfonamide, tumefaction, unamplified, unmagnified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6D 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -- .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a m i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006D 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406779758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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