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Literature | Marvedie (A). A maravedi (q.v.), a small obsolete Spanish copper coin of less value than a farthing. "What a trifling, foolish girl you are, Edith, to send me by express a letter crammed with nonsense about books and gowns, and to shde the only thing I cared a marvedie about into the postscript."- Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-r-v" | |
-2 letters: admire, aeried, dearie, derive, evader, mediae, reamed, reaved, rediae, reived, remade, varied. | |
-3 letters: adeem, aerie, aider, aimed, aimer, aired, aiver, ameer, amide, armed, deair, deave, derma, dimer, diver, drave, dream, drive, eared, eaved, edema, eider, evade, irade, madre, mavie, media, merde, mired, ramee, ramie, raved, reave, redia, reive, rimed, rived. | |
-4 letters: aide, amid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-r-v" | |
+2 letters: decemviral, misaverred. | |
+3 letters: decemvirate, deformative, deliveryman, overclaimed, premedieval, remotivated, semidwarves. | |
+4 letters: animadverted, decemvirates, misadventure, overmedicate, ventromedial, vermiculated. | |
+5 letters: advertisement, advertizement, demonstrative, determinative, misadventures, overamplified, overdemanding, overdominance, overdramatize, overestimated, overmedicated, overmedicates, premeditative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 52 56 45 44 49 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. ...- . -.. .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010010 01010110 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A R V E D I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0052 0056 0045 0044 0049 0045 |
| 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)4735525639384339 |
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