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FILANDERS

Definition: FILANDERS

FILANDERS

Noun plural

1. A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Filanders \Fil"an*ders\, plural noun. [French expression filandres, from the Latin expression filum thread.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: FILANDERS

English words defined with "FILANDERS": BackwormFelanders. (references)

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Modern Translations: FILANDERS

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

Manx

  

snaiean (filament), doghan snaa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilandersfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "FILANDERS"

Words rhyming with "FILANDERS" (pronounced 'Fil"an*ders'): Felanders, Flinders, Glanders, malanders, Sallenders, Wonders. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FILANDERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-n-r-s"

-1 letter: flinders, islander.

-2 letters: aldrins, aliners, darnels, denials, derails, dialers, fadeins, fardels, farside, finales, finders, flinder, friends, infares, landers, nailers, randies, redfins, redials, refinds, renails, sandier, sardine, slander, snailed, snarled.

-3 letters: afield, aiders, aisled, alders, aldrin, aliens, alined, aliner, alines, ariels, ariled, arisen, arsine, darnel, deairs, deasil, denari, denars, denial, derail, dialer, dinars, diners.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-n-r-s"
 

+2 letters: dragonflies, grainfields, ladyfingers.

 

+3 letters: deflorations, faultfinders.

 

+4 letters: deflagrations, differentials, foolhardiness, furazolidones.

 

+5 letters: antifederalist, formidableness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FILANDERS


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

46 49 4C 41 4E 44 45 52 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 01001001 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 004C 0041 004E 0044 0045 0052 0053

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

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

404346354838395253

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INDEX

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


  

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