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HERISSON

Definition: HERISSON

HERISSON

Noun

1. A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rhyming with "HERISSON"

Words rhyming with "HERISSON" (pronounced 'Her"is*son'): Advowson, Antimason, Arson, Bason, Benison, Bison, Bisson, Boson, Caisson, Cargason, Chanson, Diapason, Disdiapason, Disgarrison, Disherison, Disinherison, Disputison, Dobson, Elison, Encrimson, Engarrison, Foison, Foyson, Freemason, Gambeson, Gambison, Geason, godson, grandson, Great-grandson, grison, hyson, Impoison, Intercomparison, jettison, keelson, Kelson, liaison, Livraison, Malison, Nupson, Oraison, Orison, Outreason, Overgarrison, Overseason, Parson, Plasson, Pocoson, Ramson, reason, Samson, Semidiapason, son, Sponson, Stemson, stepson, Sternson, Telson, Toison, treason, Tridiapason, Unpoison, Unseason, Urson, Venison, Warison, Waveson, Whitson, Whoreson. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HERISSON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-o-r-s-s"

-1 letter: heroins, hosiers, inshore, noshers, senhors, seniors, shiners, shrines, sonsier.

-2 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, heroin, herons, hisser, hoises, honers, horses, hosier, irones, noesis, noises, nosher, noshes, nosier, osiers, ossein, resins, rhinos, rinses, rosins, seisor, senhor, senior, senors, sensor, serins, shiers, shiner, shines, shires, shoers, shores, shrine, sirens, snores, sonsie.

-3 letters: eosin, heirs, herns, heron, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, honer, hones, horns, horse, hosen, hoses, irone, irons, noirs, noise, noris, noses, ornis, osier, reins, resin, rhino, rinse, risen, rises, roses, rosin, senor, serin, shier, shies, shine, shins, shire, shoer, shoes, shone, shore, shorn, shris, sines, sinhs, siren, sires, snore, sones, sores, sorns.

-4 letters: eons, erns, eros, heir, hens, hern, hero, hers, hies, hins, hire, hisn, hiss, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, horn, hose, inro, ions, ires, iron, ness, noes, noir, nori, nose, nosh, ones, ores, oses, rein, reis, resh, rhos, rins, rise, roes, rose, seis, sers, shes, shin, shoe, shri, sine, sinh, sins, sire, sirs, sone, sons, sore, sori, sorn, sris.

-5 letters: ens, eon, ern, ers, ess, hen, her, hes, hie, hin, his, hoe, hon, ins, ion, ire, noh, nor, nos, oes, ohs, one, ons, ore, ors, ose, rei, res, rho, rin, roe, sei, sen, ser, she, sin, sir, sis, son, sos, sri.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-o-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: hoariness, horniness, horsiness, nephrosis, nourishes.

 

+2 letters: censorship, fashioners, frothiness, harmonises, heroinisms, horridness, horsemints, isochrones, nourishers, ornithoses, ownerships, refashions, senhoritas, shipowners, shoestring, shorelines, thorniness, worthiness.

 

+3 letters: admonishers, birthstones, boorishness, censorships, dishonorers, erythrosins, fishmongers, grouchiness, growthiness, hoarinesses, horizonless, horninesses, horsinesses, hotpressing, housetrains, ionospheres, marchioness, mentorships, moonshiners, prehensions, premonishes, rhinestones, roguishness, senatorship, shoestrings, shortenings, springhouse, surgeonfish, synchronies, synchronise, threnodists, throatiness, trichinoses.

 

+4 letters: anorthosites, antistrophes, asynchronies, bronchitises, chairpersons, chansonniers, chinoiseries, consumership, disharmonies, droughtiness, erythrosines, foremanships, frothinesses, groundfishes, hemosiderins, horribleness, horridnesses, horsemanship, horseshoeing, icosahedrons, interschools, misanthropes, motherliness, nourishments, orthogenesis, parishioners, rhinoceroses, rhinoscopies, rhinoviruses, ribbonfishes, senatorships, sonographies, spinsterhood, springhouses, synchronised, synchronises, synchronizes, thorninesses, unworthiness, vaporishness, worthinesses.

 

+5 letters: airworthiness, apprehensions, atherogenesis, attorneyships, boorishnesses, brotherliness, chondriosomes, consumerships, counselorship, crosschecking, crotchetiness, disharmonizes, downrightness, endomorphisms, foolhardiness, governorships, grouchinesses, growthinesses, hilariousness, horsemanships, housepainters, housewarmings, hypertensions, inspectorship, iontophoreses, iontophoresis, marchionesses, misanthropies, morphogenesis, necrophilisms, nephrologists, neurochemists, overnourishes, phrenologists, prehistorians, pyrotechnists, relationships, reprehensions, rhinoplasties, righteousness, roguishnesses, scenographies, schizophrenes, seaworthiness, siphonophores, spinsterhoods, stenographies, stereophonies, superheroines, surgeonfishes, synchronizers, theocentrisms, throatinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HERISSON


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

48 45 52 49 53 53 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)

01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0052 0049 0053 0053 004F 004E

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

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

4239524353534948

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INDEX

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


  

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