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Definition: MELANOSCOPE |
MELANOSCOPENoun1. An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit. |
Etymology: Melanoscope \Me*lan"o*scope\, noun. [from Greek expression me`las, -anos, black -scope.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Words rhyming with "MELANOSCOPE" (pronounced 'Me*lan"o*scope'): Aeroscope, AEthrioscope, Alethoscope, Altiscope, Anamorphoscope, Anemoscope, Angioscope, Anorthoscope, Astroscope, Auriscope, Baroscope, Ceraunoscope, Chromascope, Chromatoscope, Chronoscope, Cyclonoscope, Cycloscope, Cymoscope, Debuscope, Echoscope, Galvanoscope, Gasoscope, gastroscope, gyroscope, horoscope, hygroscope, Kaleidoscope, Leucoscope, Lychnoscope, Manoscope, Meatoscope, Megalethoscope, Megascope, Meteoroscope, Metroscope, Microspectroscope, Mutoscope, Myrioscope, Nephoscope, Niloscope, Opeidoscope, Ophthalmoscope, Orthoscope, oscilloscope, Otheoscope, Otoscope, Ozonoscope, Pantascope, Periodoscope, Periscope. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: moonscape, someplace. | |
-3 letters: coelomes, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, ensample, lampoons, lonesome, monocles, neoplasm, oenomels, opalesce, placemen, pleonasm, spacemen. | |
-4 letters: cleanse, cleomes, coelome, coeloms, colones, compels, compone, compose, console, copalms, empales, empanel, emplace, emplane, enamels, encamps, enclasp, enclose, enlaces, enolase, escalop, espanol, lampoon, menaces, monocle, oenomel, pencels, plasmon, pomaces, pomelos, scalene, someone, spancel, spelean. | |
-5 letters: amoles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
+3 letters: indecomposable. | |
+4 letters: commonplaceness, overcompliances. | |
+5 letters: complementations. | |
| 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 45 4C 41 4E 4F 53 43 4F 50 45 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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