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FLOCCILLATION

Definition: FLOCCILLATION

FLOCCILLATION

Noun

1. A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Floccillation \Floc`cil*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression floccus flock of wool. Compare to Flock of wool.]. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: FLOCCILLATION

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

Agitation

Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FLOCCILLATION

English words defined with "FLOCCILLATION": CarphologyTilmus. (references)

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Rhyming with "FLOCCILLATION"

Words rhyming with "FLOCCILLATION" (pronounced 'Floc`cil*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FLOCCILLATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-4 letters: coalition, coitional, collation, cotillion, fictional, foliation, octillion, olfaction.

-5 letters: aconitic, cationic, clinical, coaction, colonial, conflict, confocal, cotillon, flotilla, iconical, illation, lactonic, linalool, location.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FLOCCILLATION


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

46 4C 4F 43 43 49 4C 4C 41 54 49 4F 4E

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 01001100 01001111 01000011 01000011 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

F L O C C I L L A T I O N

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 004F 0043 0043 0049 004C 004C 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

40464937374346463554434948

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