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HIRCIC

Definition: HIRCIC

HIRCIC

Adjective

1. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hircic \Hir"cic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression hircique. See Hircin.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: HIRCIC

English words defined with "HIRCIC": Hircin. (references)

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Rhyming with "HIRCIC"

Words rhyming with "HIRCIC" (pronounced 'Hir"cic'): Cahincic, Calcic, Dicalcic, Erucic, Francic, Glaucic, Glucic, Laccic, Lactucic, Mucic, Pyromucic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HIRCIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-h-i-i-r"

-2 letters: chic, rich.

-3 letters: chi, hic, ich.

-4 letters: hi.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-h-i-i-r"
 

+2 letters: chimeric, diarchic, dichroic, orchitic, rachitic.

 

+3 letters: chicories, chimaeric, chinchier, chivalric, chloritic, chorionic, cirrhotic, microchip, microinch, radicchio, schlieric.

 

+4 letters: anchoritic, archaistic, bronchitic, chiccories, chickories, chimerical, chondritic, chronicity, cirrhotics, cochairing, cryophilic, diachronic, heroicomic, hierarchic, microchips, microfiche, oligarchic, radicchios, scraiching, tribrachic.

 

+5 letters: achondritic, anarchistic, anthracitic, charismatic, chicaneries, cholinergic, chromatinic, chronicling, dichromatic, eucharistic, hypercritic, microfiches, microinches, microlithic, microphonic, microswitch, necrophilic, psychiatric, ricocheting, sphincteric.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIRCIC


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

48 49 52 43 49 43

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 01001001 01010010 01000011 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0052 0043 0049 0043

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

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

424352374337

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INDEX

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


  

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