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HECDECANE

Definition: HECDECANE

HECDECANE

Noun

1. A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hecdecane \Hec"de*cane\, noun. [Greek expression six ten.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: HECDECANE

English words defined with "HECDECANE": Hexadecane, Hexdecyl, Hexdecylic. (references)

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Rhyming with "HECDECANE"

Words rhyming with "HECDECANE" (pronounced 'Hec"de*cane'): Arcane, Dodecane, Hurricane, Plant-cane. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HECDECANE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-h-n"

-2 letters: cadence, chanced.

-3 letters: accede, achene, cached, chance, decane.

-4 letters: ached, acned, cache, caned, dance, eched, hance, hence.

-5 letters: aced, ache, acne, cade, cane, ceca, cede, chad, dace, dean, dene, each, eche, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, heed, need.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-h-n"
 

+5 letters: chickenhearted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HECDECANE


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

48 45 43 44 45 43 41 4E 45

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)

01001000 01000101 01000011 01000100 01000101 01000011 01000001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#67 &#68 &#69 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0043 0044 0045 0043 0041 004E 0045

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

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

423937383937354839

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INDEX

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


  

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