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FENCELESS

Definition: FENCELESS

FENCELESS

Adjective

1. Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FENCELESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: FENCELESS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Danger

Defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless; unshielded; vulnerable, expugnable, exposed; open to; (liable).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: FENCELESS

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

Albanian

  

pa gardh. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неограден. (various references)

   

Czech

  

bez plotu. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άφρακτοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyitott (drag, open, open minded, open-air, spread fan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encelessfay

   

Portuguese

  

sem defesa (defenseless, naked, undefended, unguarded, unprotected), praticar esgrima. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fãrã apãrare (defenceless, naked, nakedly), neîngrãdit (open), neîmprejmuit (open). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неогороженный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin protección (indefensible, unprotected). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oskyddad (exposed, naked, open, unguarded, unprotected), öppen (aboveboard, candid, clear, declared, fair, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, naked, open, openable, open-faced, overt, unconcealed, undisguised, up front). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

необгороджений, незахищений (defenceless, defenseless, exposed, naked, obvious, open, outdoor, out-of-door, unclosed, undefended, unguarded, unprotected, wide open). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có h ng r o, không có bảo vệ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FENCELESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "FENCELESS": fencelessness, fencelessnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FENCELESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fencibles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FENCELESS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "FENCELESS" (pronounced fe"nslus)
7f e" n s l u sdefenseless.
6-e" n s l u ssenseless.
4-s l u sbaseless, ceaseless, classless, faceless, graceless, priceless, purposeless, remorseless, sexless, useless, voiceless.
3-l u saccomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, childless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, prothallus, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, valueless, victimless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FENCELESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-l-n-s-s"

-2 letters: essence, feeless, fleeces, flenses.

-3 letters: censes, fences, fleece, flense, lenses, lessee, lessen, scenes.

-4 letters: cense, clefs, feces, feels, fence, fesse, flees, lenes, lense, scene, seels, selfs, sense.

-5 letters: cees, cels, cess, clef, eels, else, eses, feel, fees, fens, fess, flee, lees, lens, less, ness, secs, seel, seen, sees, self, sels, sene.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-l-n-s-s"
 

+3 letters: cheerfulness, facelessness, facilenesses, fecklessness, ficklenesses, florescences, peacefulness.

 

+4 letters: carefulnesses, deceitfulness, effectualness, fencelessness, fluorescences.

 

+5 letters: affectlessness, beneficialness, cheerfulnesses, efflorescences, facelessnesses, fecklessnesses, forcefulnesses, forciblenesses, gesellschaften, gracefulnesses, inflorescences, mercifulnesses, neglectfulness, peacefulnesses, reflectiveness, respectfulness, voicefulnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FENCELESS


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

46 45 4E 43 45 4C 45 53 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)

01000110 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 004E 0043 0045 004C 0045 0053 0053

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

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

403948373946395353

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INDEX

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


  

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