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IRONHEADS

Definition: IRONHEADS

IRONHEADS

Noun

1. A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Frequency of Internet Keywords: IRONHEADS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ironheads myleague.com

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: IRONHEADS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: adhesion, aneroids, hardnose, hordeins.

-2 letters: airshed, aneroid, dashier, dehorns, dineros, dronish, erasion, hadrons, hairdos, handier, hardens, hardies, hernias, heroins, hinders, hoarsen, hoidens, hordein, indorse, inroads, inshore, nerdish, ordains, ordines, randies, roadies, rosined, sadiron, sandier, sardine, senhora, shadier, shrined, sordine.

-3 letters: adonis, adores, adorns, ahorse, aiders, anodes, ariose, arisen, aroids, arseno, arshin, arsine, arsino.

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

+1 letter: admonisher, harmonised, rhodamines.

 

+2 letters: achondrites, admonishers, diachronies, icosahedron, radiophones, refashioned.

 

+3 letters: archdiocesan, dehydrations, disharmonies, disharmonize, dishonorable, housetrained, hydromancies, icosahedrons, malnourished, rehydrations.

 

+4 letters: boardinghouse, commandership, dechlorinates, diathermanous, disharmonized, disharmonizes, foolhardiness, foreshadowing, hyaluronidase, landownership, overshadowing, rhabdomancies, thioridazines.

 

+5 letters: archdeaconries, boardinghouses, cephaloridines, commanderships, countershading, hyaluronidases, hydrogenations, hydromechanics, hydroxylamines, landownerships, monosaccharide, roadworthiness, thermodynamics, trisoctahedron.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IRONHEADS


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

49 52 4F 4E 48 45 41 44 53

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)

01001001 01010010 01001111 01001110 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0052 004F 004E 0048 0045 0041 0044 0053

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

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

435249484239353853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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