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Definitions: IMPORTUNEE |
IMPORTUNEEAdjective1. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. 2. Inopportune; unseasonable. |
Etymology: Importunee \Im`por*tunee"\, adjective. [French expression importun, from Latin expression importunus; prefix im- not derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore originally meaning, hard of access. See Port harbor, and compare to Importunate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "importunee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | importuneeay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peritoneum. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: importune. | |
-2 letters: erumpent, eruption, mutineer, orpiment, outpreen, perineum, preunite, routemen. | |
-3 letters: emptier, epitome, imputer, minuter, mounter, onetime, pereion, permute, pimento, pinetum, pioneer, pointer, poutier, premune, promine, protein, protium, remount, retinue, reunite, routine, tropine, umpteen, unmiter, unmitre, uterine. | |
-4 letters: emetin, emoter, empire, entire, epimer, ermine, impone, import, impure, impute, inpour, iterum, mentor, merino, meteor, metier, metope, minter, minuet, minute, mopier, moreen, murein, murine, mutine, neuter, norite, opener, optime, orient, orpine, pereon, permit, pitmen, pointe, poteen, potmen, pouter, premen, premie, protei, pterin, punier, punter, purine, reemit, remint, remote, reopen, repent, repine, repute, retime, retine, retune, roupet, temper, tenour, tenure, toneme, tonier, toupee, triene, triune, trompe, tropin, troupe, tureen, turnip, umpire, uniter, unmeet, unripe, untrim, uptime, uptore, uptorn. | |
-5 letters: emote, enorm, enter, enure, erupt, inept, inert, input, inter, intro, inure, irone, merit, meter, metre, metro, miner, minor, miter, mitre, moire, monie, monte, moper, mount, mourn, muter, muton, netop, neume, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, notum, onium, opine, opium, orpin, ourie, outer, outre, peter, pinot, pinto, piton, point, preen, prime, primo, print, prion, proem, prone, prune, punto, puree, purin, puton, remet, remit, rente, repin, repot, retem, retie, ripen, rouen, route, rumen, rupee, rutin, tempi, tempo, tenor, terne, timer, toner, topee, toper, treen, trine, tripe, tromp, trone, trope, trump, tumor, tuner, unite, unmet, unrip, untie, urine, uteri. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: peritoneums. | |
+3 letters: primogeniture. | |
+4 letters: mercaptopurine, primogenitures, uncomputerized. | |
+5 letters: immunotherapies, importunateness, mercaptopurines, noncomputerized. | |
| 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 4D 50 4F 52 54 55 4E 45 45 |
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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 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01010101 01001110 01000101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P O R T U N E E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 004F 0052 0054 0055 004E 0045 0045 |
| 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)43475049525455483939 |
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