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Definition: LEUCIN |
LEUCINNoun1. A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid. |
Crosswords: LEUCIN |
| English words defined with "LEUCIN": Leucinic ♦ Neurokeratin ♦ Spongin. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LEUCIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | leucinaminopeptidase (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | leusiiniaminopeptidaasi (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | leucine aminopeptidase (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Leucin (leucine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | λευκίνη (leucine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | leucina amminopeptidasi (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eucinlay leucina aminopeptidase (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) leucinaminopeptidasa (aminopeptidase leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LEUCIN": leucine, leucines, leucins. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LEUCIN": isoleucine, isoleucines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "LEUCIN" (pronounced 'Leu"cin'): Bilifuscin, Datiscin, Fluorescin, Indifuscin, Indiglucin, Isorcin, Laccin, Lactucin, Noctilucin, Orcin, Phloroglucin, Putrescin, Resorcin, Uroglaucin, Viscin, Xylorcin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nuclei. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: cline, uncle. | |
-2 letters: ceil, cine, clue, lice, lien, lieu, line, luce, lune, nice, unci. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, ecu, ice, lei, leu, lie, lin, nil. | |
-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: cauline, clueing, cutline, funicle, include, leucine, leucins, linecut, nucelli, nuclein, nuclide, tunicle. | |
+2 letters: acauline, baculine, clunkier, culicine, cultigen, culverin, cupeling, cutlines, dulcinea, funicles, included, includes, leucines, linecuts, lunacies, nucleins, nucleoid, nucleoli, nuclides, pulicene, tunicles, ulcering, uncoiled, undocile, unicycle, unlicked, unsliced. | |
+3 letters: acidulent, antiulcer, calumnies, cingulate, clunkiest, colubrine, columbine, cudgeling, culicines, culminate, cultigens, culverins, cupelling, curliness, decupling, dulcineas, elocution, euclidean, euclidian, excluding, exclusion, flouncier, fluencies, inclosure, inclusive, inculcate, inculpate, incunable, incurable, inducible, influence, inoculate, insculped, interclub, involucre, jubilance, knucklier, lecturing, lemniscus, lenticule, licensure, lichenous, lucencies, lucidness, luciferin, luckiness, luminance, luminesce, lunchtime, masculine, miniscule, minuscule, neuralgic, nucleoids, nucleonic, numerical, pronuclei, reclusion, relucting, secluding, seclusion, surcingle, touchline, truckline, unclaimed, uncliched, unclipped, unethical, unicycles, unluckier, unpoliced, virulence, virulency, vulcanise, vulcanize. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 55 43 49 4E |
| 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)01001100 01000101 01010101 01000011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E U C I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0055 0043 0049 004E |
| 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)463955374348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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