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GALACTIN

Definitions: GALACTIN

GALACTIN

Noun

1. An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

2. A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

3. An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Galactin \Ga*lac"tin\, noun. [from Greek expression milk. Compare to Lactin.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: GALACTIN

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

Pig Latin

  

alactingay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "GALACTIN"

Words rhyming with "GALACTIN" (pronounced 'Ga*lac"tin'): Alloxantin, Austin, Carotin, cathartin, Cetin, Chitin, Conglutin, Cretin, Destin, Elastin, Ettin, Fibrinoplastin, Glutin, Granatin, Indiretin, Lamantin, Metapectin, Myristin, Oxalantin, Parapectin, Pectin, Plastin, Rhodeoretin, Rubiretin, Saliretin, Semiglutin, Urechitin, Violantin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GALACTIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antalgic.

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

-1 letter: actinal, agnatic, catling, talcing.

-2 letters: acting, agnail, catlin, lacing, tincal.

-3 letters: acing, actin, again, alang, alant, algin, align, antic, canal, clang, cling, giant, glint, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linac, linga, natal, taiga, tical.

-4 letters: acta, agin, alan, alga, alit, anal, anga, anil, anta, anti, cain, cant, clag, clan, clit, gain, gait, gala, gilt, glia, gnat, laic, lain, lang, lati, ling, lint, nail, tail, tain, tala, talc, tali, tang, ting.

-5 letters: aal, act, aga, ail, ain, ait, ala, alt, ana, ani, ant, can, cat, cig, gal, gan, gat, gin, git, lac, lag, lat, lin, lit, nag, nil, nit, tag, tan, tic, til, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: acylating, analgetic, antalgics, lactating, placating.

 

+2 letters: allocating, analgetics, canulating, cataloging, catalyzing, catcalling, escalating, glaciating, glaciation, jaculating, lacerating, maculating, playacting.

 

+3 letters: acclimating, acetylating, acidulating, actualizing, altercating, antilogical, autoclaving, calculating, calibrating, cataloguing, catapulting, coagulating, coagulation, defalcating, ejaculating, enigmatical, glaciations, lancinating, placatingly, playactings, tracklaying, vacillating.

 

+4 letters: accelerating, accumulating, anthological, articulating, auscultating, calumniating, cantillating, capitalising, capitalizing, capitulating, catabolizing, caterwauling, coagulations, deescalating, deglaciation, diagnostical, emasculating, facilitating, geobotanical, gigantically, interglacial, magnetically, outbalancing, reallocating, reescalating, tabernacling, tracklayings.

 

+5 letters: acclimatising, acclimatizing, acculturating, agonistically, anglicization, anticoagulant, antigenically, calculatingly, campanologist, carboxylating, cartilaginous, changeability, collaborating, confabulating, conflagration, conjugational, deglaciations, encapsulating, enigmatically, fascinatingly, galactosamine, gallicization, galvanometric, gastronomical, gymnastically, hallucinating, intercalating, intergalactic, interglacials, intragalactic, matriculating, misallocating, miscataloging, mutagenically, nematological, nostalgically, paleomagnetic, recalculating, recalibrating, syllabicating, translocating, uncalculating, ungrammatical, vacillatingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GALACTIN


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

47 41 4C 41 43 54 49 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)

01000111 01000001 01001100 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 004C 0041 0043 0054 0049 004E

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

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

4135463537544348

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INDEX

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


  

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