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Definition: LINCTUS |
LINCTUSNoun1. Medicine taken by licking with the tongue. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A syrupy liquid medicament, usually having sucrose as a basis, used in the treatment of irritating throaty coughs; it should not be diluted with water and is untended to be swallowed in sips. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LINCTUS |
| English words defined with "LINCTUS": Lincture, Lingence. (references) |
| "LINCTUS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "LINCTUS" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LINCTUS": linctus-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bisolvon linctus | 4 |
gees linctus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LINCTUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | linctus (looch). (various references) | |
Dutch | linctus (looch), liksap (looch). (various references) | |
French | looch. (various references) | |
German | Linctus (looch), Lecksaft (looch), Eklegma (looch). (various references) | |
Italian | linto (looch), eclemma (looch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inctuslay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LINCTUS": anilinctus, cunnilinctus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LINCTUS": anilinctuses, cunnilinctuses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutins, incult, insult, sunlit, tunics. | |
-2 letters: clits, culti, cults, cutin, cutis, ictus, incus, lints, lunts, suint, sulci, tunic, units, unlit, until. | |
-3 letters: cist, clit, cult, cuts, lins, lint, list, lits, litu, lunt, lust, nils, nits, nuts, scut, silt, slit, snit, stun, suit, tics, tils, tins, tuis, tuns, unci, unit. | |
-4 letters: cis, cut, ins, its. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cutlines, linecuts, linocuts, lunatics, sultanic, tunicles. | |
+2 letters: clunkiest, columnist, cultigens, locutions, sculpting, scuttling, suctional. | |
+3 letters: anilinctus, clinquants, clustering, columnists, consulting, consultive, culminates, elocutions, flounciest, inculcates, inculpates, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, knuckliest, lacustrine, lenticules, licentious, linguistic, liquescent, lubricants, lunchtimes, nightclubs, osculating, osculation, pleustonic, punctilios, succinctly, supplicant, touchlines, trucklines, ultrasonic, unicyclist, unluckiest. | |
+4 letters: allocutions, antimusical, calumniates, citrullines, columnistic, communalist, contumelies, copulations, courtliness, cultishness, cumulations, curtainless, exultancies, gesticulant, glauconites, inculcators, inoculators, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, inscrutably, instinctual, linguistics, liposuction, luminescent, maculations, masculinist, masculinity, multiscreen, novaculites, nucleations, nucleotides, osculations, outclassing, outmuscling, outscolding, outslicking, peculations, petulancies, punctilious, quiescently, resculpting, sacculation, sculpturing, speculating, speculation, spiculation, supplicants, tenaciously, tuberculins, ulcerations, ultrasonics, unclarities, unicyclists, unrealistic, unselective, unsolicited, ventriculus, vulcanisate. | |
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