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FTICTION

Definition: FTICTION

FTICTION

Noun

1. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.

2. The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.

3. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ftiction \Ftic"tion\, noun. [Latin expression frictio, from fricare, frictum,to rub: compare to the French expression friction. See Fray to rub, arid compare to Dentifrice.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: FTICTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: fiction.

-2 letters: confit, otitic.

-3 letters: ficin, ionic, ontic, tinct, tonic.

-4 letters: cion, coft, coif, coin, coni, fico, fino, foci, foin, font, icon, info, inti, into, otic, tint, titi, toft, toit.

-5 letters: con, cot, fin, fit, fon, ion, nit, not, oft, tic, tin, tit, ton, tot.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-i-n-o-t-t"
 

+2 letters: fictionist.

 

+3 letters: fictionists, metafiction, pontificate.

 

+4 letters: antifriction, citification, facilitation, felicitation, fictionality, metafictions, notification, petrifaction, pontificated, pontificates, pontificator, ratification, satisfaction, trifurcation, typification.

 

+5 letters: abortifacient, acetification, antifrictions, autoinfection, beatification, certification, citifications, facilitations, factorization, felicitations, fianchettoing, fortification, fractionating, fractionation, functionalist, functionality, gratification, justification, lithification, metafictional, mortification, multifunction, mystification, nitrification, notifications, perfectionist, petrifactions, petrification, pontificating, pontification, pontificators, postinfection, ratifications, rectification, satisfactions, trifurcations, typifications, vitrification.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FTICTION


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

46 54 49 43 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 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0054 0049 0043 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)

4054433754434948

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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