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LANGUET

Definitions: LANGUET

LANGUET

Noun

1. That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

2. Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LANGUET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Languet \Lan"guet\, noun. [French expression languette, diminutive of langue tongue, from Latin expression lingua.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: LANGUET

Specialty definitions using "LANGUET": ORGAN-PIPE VOICER. (references)

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Modern Translations: LANGUET

Language Translations for "LANGUET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

languette. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anguetlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LANGUET

Derivations

Words beginning with "LANGUET": languets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LANGUET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blaguet, langu, languer, Lengua, lingue, longue, Mainguet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LANGUET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n-t-u"

-1 letter: eluant, englut, gelant, gluten, lagune, langue, lunate, tangle.

-2 letters: agent, aglet, angel, angle, gault, gaunt, genua, glean, laten, leant, lunet, lunge, lutea, tegua, ulnae, unlet.

-3 letters: ague, ante, aunt, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gale, gane, gate, gaun, gelt, gent, genu, geta, glen, glue, glut, gnat, guan, lane, lang, late, lean, lent, luge, luna, lune, lung, lunt, lute, neat, tael, tale, tang, teal, tela, tule, tuna, tune, tung, ulan, ulna.

-4 letters: age, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, eat, eau, eng, eta, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, gnu, gul, gun, gut, lag, lat, lea, leg, let, leu, lug, nae, nag, net, nut, tae, tag, tan, tau, tea, teg, tel, ten, tug, tun, uta.

-5 letters: ae, ag, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, na, ne, nu, ta, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n-t-u"
 

+1 letter: angulate, gauntlet, gunmetal, languets, ungulate, untangle.

 

+2 letters: angulated, angulates, cingulate, emulating, gauntlets, gluconate, glutamine, granulate, granulite, gunmetals, langouste, ungulates, untangled, untangles.

 

+3 letters: antiplague, defaulting, eluviating, evaluating, gauntleted, gelatinous, geniculate, glauconite, gluconates, glutamines, granulated, granulates, granulites, judgmental, langoustes, laureating, multirange, nucleating, outgeneral, outleaping, peculating, plateauing, regulating, regulation, resaluting, ulcerating, ungrateful, urogenital.

 

+4 letters: agglutinate, antiplagues, centrifugal, conjugately, devaluating, ejaculating, elucidating, elutriating, enucleating, exculpating, gauntleting, geniculated, gesticulant, glauconites, glutaminase, glutathione, granulocyte, langoustine, ligamentous, multiagency, outbleating, outgenerals, outlearning, rectangular, regulations, reluctating, repugnantly, revaluating, speculating, strangulate, triangulate, uncataloged, undelegated, unfaltering, ungainliest, unregulated.

 

+5 letters: adulterating, agglutinable, agglutinated, agglutinates, agglutinogen, agranulocyte, angularities, autogenously, battleground, caterwauling, centrifugals, conglutinate, congratulate, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, edulcorating, elucubrating, emasculating, gelatinously, glutaminases, glutathiones, granulocytes, gratefulness, judgmentally, langoustines, languishment, magniloquent, manslaughter, metalanguage, multimegaton, nauseatingly, neutralising, neutralizing, nonregulated, outgeneraled, pneumatology, reevaluating, repopulating, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, revictualing, slaughtering, strangulated, strangulates, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unapologetic, unflattering, ungratefully, unnegotiable, urinogenital, vesiculating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LANGUET


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

4C 41 4E 47 55 45 54

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)

01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0045 0054

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

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

46354841553954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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