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FESTIVOUS

Definition: FESTIVOUS

FESTIVOUS

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a feast; festive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Festivous \Fes"ti*vous\, adjective. [See Festive.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: FESTIVOUS

Etymologies containing "FESTIVOUS": festive. (references)

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Rhyming with "FESTIVOUS"

Words rhyming with "FESTIVOUS" (pronounced 'Fes"ti*vous'): Acclivous, Ambilevous, Bivalvous, Coevous, Concavous, Confervous, Flavous, Fulvous, Grandevous, Longevous, mischievous, Multicavous, Plentevous, Primevous, Proclivous, Recidivous, Recurvous, Salivous, Saxicavous, Torvous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FESTIVOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-o-s-s-t-u-v"

-2 letters: outvies, softies, soviets, tussive.

-3 letters: feists, foetus, foists, outvie, setous, softie, soviet, stoves, suites, tissue, touses.

-4 letters: etuis, feist, fetus, fists, fives, foist, fosse, fuses, issue, ousts, seifs, sifts, sites, situs, softs, souse, sties, stove, suets, suite, suits, tofus, touse, vests, vises, votes.

-5 letters: efts, etui, fess, fets, feus, fist, fits, five, foes, foss.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-o-s-s-t-u-v"
 

+5 letters: overfastidious.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FESTIVOUS


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

46 45 53 54 49 56 4F 55 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 01010011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0053 0054 0049 0056 004F 0055 0053

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

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

403953544356495553

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INDEX

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


  

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