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Definitions: IMPOSTHUME |
IMPOSTHUMEIntransitive & transitive verb1. Same as Imposthumate. Noun1. A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess. |
Date "IMPOSTHUME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: IMPOSTHUME |
| English words defined with "IMPOSTHUME": Imposthumate, Imposthumation. (references) |
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "IMPOSTHUME". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Meres | N/A | Biblical | Imposthume |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "imposthume"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | imposthumeay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "IMPOSTHUME": imposthumes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-m-o-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: impostume. | |
-2 letters: humpiest, optimums. | |
-3 letters: homiest, impetus, imputes, metumps, mopiest, ophites, optimes, optimum, piteous, pommies, timeous, tommies, tummies, uptimes, utopism. | |
-4 letters: immesh, impose, impost, impute, metump, mimeos, mismet, mopish, mouths, mutism, ophite, opiums, optime, osmium, ostium, ouphes, pommie, potsie, septum, somite, sopite, summit, tempos, theism, thumps, tophes, tophus, tushie, upmost, upshot, uptime. | |
-5 letters: emits, estop, ethos, etuis, heist, hemps, hoise, hoist, homes, hopes, house, humps, items, memos, meous, meths, metis, mimeo, mimes, mites, moist, momes, momus, mopes, moste, motes, moths, moues, mouse, mouth, mumps, musth, mutes, omits, opium, ouphe, ouphs, pesto, phots, phuts, pious, piste, piths, poems, poets, poise, pomes, posit, pouts, setup, shote, shout, shute, situp, smite, smith, smote, south, spite, spout, spume, stime, stipe, stomp, stope, stoup, stump, stupe, suite, tempi, tempo, temps, those, thous, thump, times, tomes, topes, tophe, tophi, tophs, topis, touse, tumps, upset. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-m-o-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: imposthumes, promethiums. | |
+5 letters: immunotherapies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 4F 53 54 48 55 4D 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. --- ... - .... ..- -- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001000 01010101 01001101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P O S T H U M E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 004F 0053 0054 0048 0055 004D 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)43475049535442554739 |
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