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LITHOCYST

Definition: LITHOCYST

LITHOCYST

Noun

1. A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medusae, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rhyming with "LITHOCYST"

Words rhyming with "LITHOCYST" (pronounced 'Lith"o*cyst'): Acephalocyst, Aerocyst, Blastocyst, Ctenocyst, Cyst, Encyst, Nematocyst, Otocyst, Ovicyst, Phyllocyst, Pneumatocyst, Sagittocyst, Somatocyst, Sporocyst, Urocyst, Zoocyst. (additional references)

Anagrams: LITHOCYST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cystolith.
	Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: coltish, thistly.
	-3 letters: chitty, chotts, cloths, clotty, cosily, costly, coyish, holist, hostly, lichts, lithos, octyls, stitch, stithy, thiols, tilths, toyish.
	-4 letters: chits, chott, clits, cloth, clots, cloys, coils, colts, hilts, hoist, holts, hotly, itchy, licht, litho, lochs, lotic, lytic, octyl, shily, shott, silty, sloth, stich, stilt, stoic, styli, thiol, tilth, tilts, toils, toits.
	Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: cystoliths.
	+3 letters: coquettishly, polytheistic.
	+4 letters: cholecystitis, ichthyologist, sympatholytic.
	+5 letters: erythroblastic, hypostatically, ichthyologists, polytheistical, prosthetically, stochastically, sympatholytics, trichotomously.
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Alternative Orthography: LITHOCYST

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

4C 49 54 48 4F 43 59 53 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 01001001 01010100 01001000 01001111 01000011 01011001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#67 &#89 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0054 0048 004F 0043 0059 0053 0054

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

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

464354424937595354

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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