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Definition: Itch |
ItchNoun1. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch". 2. A strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?". 3. An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch. Verb1. Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!". 2. Have or perceive an itch; "I'm itching--the air is so dry!". 3. Have a strong desire or urge to do soemthing; "She is itching to start the project". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "itch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman. J J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, jacere, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To see persons with the itch, and you endeavor to escape contact, you will stand in fear of distressing results when your endeavors will bring pleasant success. If you dream you have the itch yourself, you will be harshly used, and will defend yourself by incriminating others. For a young woman to have this dream, omens she will fall into dissolute companionship. To dream that you itch, denotes unpleasant avocations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Itch My fingers itch to be at him. This is a French locution, "Les poings me démangent de le battre." An itch for gold. A longing desire. (Anglo-Saxon, giccan, to itch.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Sarcoptic infestation of human skin. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ItchSynonyms: itchiness (n), itching (n), scabies (n), urge (n), rub (v), scratch (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Be hungry; Adjective: have a good appetite, play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to. |
Appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence. | |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
Sensations of Touch | Verb: itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle, titillate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Itch |
| English words defined with "itch": acariasis, acaridiasis, acariosis, Antipsoric ♦ Elcaja ♦ genus Sarcoptes ♦ Itch insect, itch mite, Itched ♦ Kwell ♦ neurodermatitis ♦ Prairie itch, Psora ♦ Sarcoptes, scabicide, scabies, Scotch fiddle, scratcher, Shab, Shug, Sibbens, swamp itch ♦ winter itch ♦ Yuck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "itch": CALEA GLOMERATA, CALEA PENNELLII, CALEA PRUNIFOLIA, CALEA TERNIFOLIA, CALEA YURUPARINA, COW ITCH ♦ HYPTIS VERTICILLATA ♦ ICHTHYOTHERE SCANDENS, ICHTHYOTHERE TERMINALES, Itching of the Lips ♦ SCOTCH FIDDLE, SCRUBBADO ♦ TERMINALIA CATAPPA ♦ WELCH FIDDLE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "itch": Autopsorin ♦ Combust ♦ Prurient, Prurigo ♦ Roynish ♦ Uredo. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It makes my dick itch! (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch! (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher) When you scratch your balls, is it 'cause they itch, or 'cause it feels good? (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier) Kif, I'm getting the Captain's Itch. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) I got depressed as hell when my athlete's foot and jock itch went away. (Breaking Away; writing credit: Steve Tesich) | |
Lyrics | I feel the itch (The Itch; performing artist: Vitamin C) I'm feeling the itch again (The Itch; performing artist: Vitamin C) So feel the itch again (The Itch; performing artist: Vitamin C) Yeah yeah, I feel the itch again (The Itch; performing artist: Vitamin C) | |
Clever | The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Itch (1965) To Itch His Own (1958) Girl with an Itch (1957) The Seven Year Itch (1955) An Itch in Time (1943) | |
Song Titles | The Itch (performing artist: Vitamin C) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many. |
Decimus Junius Juvenal | An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts. |
Gilda Radner | I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. |
Sir Henry Wotton | The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He touched the tip of his nose tenderly and waggled it around to stop an itch. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Swimmer's itch generally occurs during summer months. (references) | |
It can cause children to itch and scratch themselves until they bleed. (references) | ||
No. Many factors must be present for swimmer's itch to become a problem in water. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Itch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.52% of the time. "Itch" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.52% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 24.07% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.41% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "itch": alkali itch ♦ baker's itch ♦ Barber's itch ♦ barley itch ♦ Bricklayer's itch ♦ cobalt itch ♦ copra itch ♦ Cortef Feminine Itch ♦ Cupid's itch ♦ dhobi itch ♦ grain itch ♦ grocer's itch ♦ have an itch ♦ have an itch to ♦ itch for trouble ♦ Itch insect ♦ itch mite ♦ itch to ♦ jock itch ♦ make itch ♦ nickel itch ♦ nickel refiner's itch ♦ picric itch ♦ prairie itch ♦ Saint Ignatius' itch ♦ St Ignatius's itch ♦ straw itch ♦ sugar baker's itch ♦ swamp itch ♦ sweet itch ♦ swimmer's itch ♦ Warehouseman's itch ♦ Washerwoman's itch ♦ winter itch. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
how jock itch | 828 | home itch jock remedy | 14 |
itch | 179 | itch relief | 13 |
swimmer itch | 168 | feminine itch | 12 |
itch jock picture | 121 | dog itch | 11 |
vaginal itch | 94 | itch vagina | 11 |
the seven year itch | 88 | cure for the itch | 11 |
anal itch | 49 | technical itch | 11 |
sunburn itch | 33 | ear itch | 11 |
symptom of jock itch | 31 | scrotum itch | 11 |
itch jock photo | 27 | anti itch cream | 10 |
rectal itch | 27 | angry hedwig itch | 10 |
skin itch | 25 | genital itch | 9 |
cure for jock itch | 25 | breast itch | 9 |
scalp itch | 24 | foot itch | 9 |
treatment for jock itch | 20 | itch photo swimmer | 9 |
sweet itch | 18 | mosquito bite itch | 9 |
penis itch | 18 | duck itch | 9 |
itch seven tom year | 18 | itch sunburn relief | 8 |
7 year itch | 17 | marilyn monroe seven year itch | 8 |
itch jock pic | 16 | anti itch | 8 |
itch mites | 15 | bite itch mosquito why | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "itch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zgjebe (mange, scab, scabies), të kruara, s'më pritet, mërzi me pres, më kruhet, kruarje (scratching, tetter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حكة (prickle), حك (abrade, abrasion, friction, paw, polish, rasp, rub, sand, scrabble, scrape, scraping, scrubbing), غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), تلهف (gasp, lust, pant, sigh), جعل الجلد متطلبا للحك, أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), رغب في عمل شئ, شهوة (appetence, desire, lust, lust after, passion, pleasure, rage, will). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърбеж (pruritus, tingle), сърби ме (tickle), силно желание (ambition, anxiety, appetence, appetency, avarice, impatience, lust, oestrum, oestrus, yearning), краста (mange, scab, scabies), горя от непреодолимо желание, причинявам сърбеж. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 癢 , 发' (Tickled, tickling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svrbìt, svrbìní, svìdit (tickle, tingle), svìdìní (tingle), laskominy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | scabies (scabies), fnat (mange, scabies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | krieuwelen, kriebelen (tickle), jeuken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | juko, juki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | skriði. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خاریدن (Tickle), خارش کردن , خارش (Scabies), جرب (Mange, Scab, Scabies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syyhyttää (rub, scratch), syyhyä, syyhy (mange, scab, scabies), syyhelmä (mange), kutkuta (feel ticklish), kutku (tickle, tickling), kutista (tickle), kutina, kihelmöidä (tingle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | démanger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | jûkte, jûkje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | jucken (itchiness, itching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαγούρα (prickliness, scratchiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'ר" (abrade, grate, scrabble, scrape, scratch), תשוק" (craving, desire, lust, passion, rage, thirst, urge, yen), עקצוץ (itching), 'רוי (excitation, excited, irritation, provocation, provoked, stimulation, stimulus), 'רו" (scraping, scratching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | viszketés (itchiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyakit kudis, penyakit gatal, nafsu (lust, passion), gatal (cager for, prurient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scabbia (mange, scab, scabies), prurito (pricking, pruritus), prudere (be itchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 疥癬 (mange, scabies), 掻' , イタルタス通信 (aitchbone, first-person novel, idea, idiom, it, ITAR-TASS News Agency, Yippie, ytterbium, yttrium), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうよう (clothing), かいせ" (battle, cargo vessel, circuit, convolution, engagement, game, lighter, line, mange, match, naval battle, outbreak of war, re-election, revolution, rotation, scabies, starting a war), むずむず (be impatient, itchy), イッチ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 가 워하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taghys (itchiness, psora, scabies), screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, stridulate, striking), screebane (curry-comb, hoe, scuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skabb, kløe, klø. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kishikishi, kishikí, grawatashi, grawatamentu, grawatamento, grawatá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itchay sarna (scab). (various references) te mânca, sete (covetousness, craving, itching, lust, thirst), scabie (scab, scald), râie (Ray, scab), produce mâncãrime, pasiune (Ardor, ardour, avidity, avocation, fervour, fire, flame, glow, hobby, interest, love, passion, pathos), mâncãrime (itchiness, prurience, pruriency, tingle), fi nerãbdãtor, avea o poftã grozavã, avea o dorinţã grozavã. (various references) чесотка (mange, psora, scab, scabies), чесаться (scratch), зудеть, зуд (prurience, scratch), испытывать зуд. (various references) tachas (itching, scratching), fealan, broth (lunar halo). (various references) svrbeti (tickle), svrab (tickling). (various references) picazón (irritation, prickle, prickling), picar (bite, chop, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick, sting). (various references) krasi. (various references) klia (prickle, scratch, tickle), skabb (mange, scab, scabbies, scabies, scurf), klåda (itching, prickle). (various references) ทำให้คัน (tickle), อาการคัน, รบกวน (annoy, badger, bug, bug one, harass, hassle, irk, jar, molest, narc, nark), รู้สึกคัน (tickle), ปรารถนา (fancy). (various references) uyuz (heartless, inert, itchy, languid, mange, mangy, scab, scabby, scabies, scabious, slouching, slouchy, stick in the mud), kaşıntı (itchiness, itching), kaşınmak (ask, ask for trouble, itch for trouble, scratch), kaşınma (itching), kaşındırmak (irritate), heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, crave, die for, hanker, have an itch to, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, long, look forward to, raring to, set one's heart on), can atma (alacrity, anxiety, aspiration, eagerness, longing, readiness), boyunduruk (chain, headlock, lock, oppression, pillory, stock, yoke), çok istemek (aspire, be thirsty for, covet, crave, gasp for smth., have an itch to, itch to, raring to, set one's heart on, set one's mind on, slaver for). (various references) gikilewik (annoyance), giji. (various references) свербіти (tingle), свербіж (prurience, pruriency, pruritus, tingle). (various references) sự ngứa, bệnh ngứa, bệnh ghẻ sự rất mong muốn. (various references) ysu (consume, eat, hanker), crafu (scrape, scratch), cosi (itching, scratch), cosfa (itching, thrashing), clafr (mange). (various references) sak'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prurientes, prurigine, scabies. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sceabb. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "itch": itched, itches, itchier, itchiest, itchily, itchiness, itchinesses, itching, itchings, itchy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "itch": aitch, backstitch, bewitch, bitch, carritch, czarevitch, ditch, eldritch, featherstitch, fitch, flitch, glitch, hemstitch, hitch, lockstitch, microswitch, outbitch, outpitch, parritch, pitch, quitch, restitch, snitch, stitch, superbitch, switch, topstitch, twitch, unhitch, unstitch, whipstitch, witch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "itch": aitchbone, aitchbones, aitches, backstitched, backstitches, backstitching, bewitched, bewitcheries, bewitchery, bewitches, bewitching, bewitchingly, bewitchment, bewitchments, bitched, bitcheries, bitchery, bitches, bitchier, bitchiest, bitchily, bitchiness, bitchinesses, bitching, bitchy, britches, carritches, chitchat, chitchats, chitchatted, chitchatting, czarevitches, ditchdigger, ditchdiggers, ditched, ditcher, ditchers, ditches, ditching, dowitcher, dowitchers, featherstitched, featherstitches, featherstitching, fitchee, fitches, fitchet, fitchets, fitchew, fitchews, fitchy. (additional references) | |
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"Itch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acth, Aitc, atch, attch, bicth, Bitchu, bithc, btch, eatcha, gitch, Iachr, ich, ichs, icm, Icoh, icq, Icsh, ict, Idk, iicx, Imcv, inth, ioc, irch, irth, Ischgl, Istc, istdc, Itca, itcz, itec, ith, ithe, Itrc, Ittc, ixth, kitch, litch, mitch, Nimtech, nitch, Nitech, Nitsch, Ritech, tch, tekh, tich, Tikcha, tinch, tish, titch, Utc, vich, Yith, zitch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "itch" (pronounced i"kh) |
| 2 | i" kh | bewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, Fitch, glitch, hitch, ich, kitsch, lich, niche, pitch, rich, snitch, Stich, stitch, switch, twitch, unhitch, which, wich, witch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chit. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-t" | |
-1 letter: chi, hic, hit, ich, tic. | |
-2 letters: hi, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-t" | |
+1 letter: aitch, bitch, chits, ditch, ethic, fitch, hitch, itchy, licht, pitch, stich, thick, witch. | |
+2 letters: bitchy, canthi, chints, chintz, chital, chitin, chiton, chitty, cither, ethics, ethnic, fetich, fitchy, flitch, glitch, gothic, haptic, hectic, itched, itches, kitsch, lichts, litchi, lithic, mythic, phatic, photic, pitchy, quitch, schist, schtik, schuit, shtick, snitch, stichs, stitch, switch, techie, thetic, thicks, thoric, thrice, thymic, twitch, witchy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 74 63 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. - -.-. .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I t c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0074 0063 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43866974 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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