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MEDICASTER

Definition: MEDICASTER

MEDICASTER

Noun

1. A quack.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: MEDICASTER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deceiver

Quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: MEDICASTER

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

Albanian

  

shtrigë (Beldam, beldame, cummer, gorgon, hag, hex, lamia, medicine man, necromancer, night-hag, termagant, witch). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الطبيب المداوي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

знахар (charlatan, quack, quacksalver, witch doctor). (various references)

   

French

  

médecin. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sarlatán (charlatan, empiricist, imposter, mountebank, quack, quack doctor, sham, tarlatan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edicastermay

   

Portuguese

  

remédio (cure, curing, drug, help, medicine, pharmaceutical, physic, redress, relief, remedy, salve), curandeiro (charlatan, curium, imposter, quack, quacksalver, witchdoctor). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

знахарь (charlatan, doctor, medicine man, medicineman, mountebank, powwow, quack, quacksalver, voodoo, voodoo doctor, voodoo priest, witch doctor, witch-doctor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nadri-lekar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

curandero (charlatan, medicine man, quack, quack doctor, witchdoctor). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

коновал (farrier), знахар (charlatan, powwow, wizard). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lang băm (quacksalver). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "MEDICASTER"

Words rhyming with "MEDICASTER" (pronounced 'Med"i*cas`ter'): Amphiaster, Anglemeter, Animater, Archiater, Backwater, Bandmaster, Bargemastter, Beemaster, Bergmaster, Black-letter, Blendwater, Bloodletter, Bogtrotter, Breakwater, Burghermaster, Burghmaster, Burgomaster, Calc-sinter, Capellmeister, Catchwater, Chalkcutter, Coal-meter, Cockmaster, Colporter, Confederater, Constituter, Controverter, Corncutter, Court-plaster, Craftsmaster, Criticaster, Cutwater, Dekaliter, Dekameter, Dynamiter, Fillibuster, Fresh-water, goddaughter, limewater, Macerater, manslaughter, Masticater, Meliorater, micromillimeter, midwinter, Mint-master, news-letter, Ohmmeter, Outfitter, Penteconter. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MEDICASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: miscreated.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-r-s-t"

-1 letter: creamiest, decimates, diameters, dreamiest, medicares, medicates, miscreate, mistraced, timecards.

-2 letters: acridest, casimere, ceramist, cremated, cremates, deciares, decimate, demerits, desertic, diameter, dimeters, discreet, discrete, emeritas, emirates, mastered, matrices, mediates, medicare, medicate, misacted, misrated, mistrace, readiest, readmits, scimetar, screamed, seriated, steadier, steamier, streamed, timecard.

-3 letters: admires, aeriest, amerced, amerces, aridest, astride, catered, cerated, cerates, cerites.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: acidimeters, mediatrices.

 

+2 letters: acidimetries, commiserated, decemvirates, democratizes, predicaments.

 

+3 letters: credentialism, democratizers, determinacies, documentaries, hemichordates, overmedicates, tragicomedies.

 

+4 letters: credentialisms, diastereomeric, discouragement, intermediacies.

 

+5 letters: adrenalectomies, diffractometers, discouragements, echinodermatous, electrodynamics, indeterminacies, overmedications, recommendations, semidocumentary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MEDICASTER


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

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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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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