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MORTPAY

Definition: MORTPAY

MORTPAY

Noun

1. Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Mortpay \Mort"pay`\, noun. [French expression mort dead English pay.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: MORTPAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-o-p-r-t-y"

-2 letters: amort, aport, atomy, atopy, mayor, moray, party, payor, tramp, tromp, tryma.

-3 letters: army, arty, atom, atop, mart, mayo, moat, mopy, mora, mort, part, paty, port, pram, prao, prat, pray, proa, prom, ramp, rapt, rato, roam, romp, ropy, rota, ryot, tamp, taro, tarp, tora, tory, tram, trap, tray, trop, troy, typo, tyro.

-4 letters: amp.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-o-p-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: ambrotype, cryptogam, patrimony, temporary.

 

+3 letters: ambrotypes, cryptogams, cryptogram, importancy, laparotomy, macrophyte, patronymic, poultryman, temporally, tomography.

 

+4 letters: cryptogamic, cryptograms, cryptomeria, extemporary, hymenoptera, hypothermal, hypothermia, importantly, imprecatory, macrophytes, macrophytic, misanthropy, mythography, overpayment, paramountcy, paramountly, patronymics, polarimetry, postprimary, primatology, protomartyr, proximately, sportsmanly, temporality, temporarily, trypanosome.

 

+5 letters: actinomorphy, aromatherapy, cephalometry, chemotherapy, compensatory, contemporary, cryptogamous, cryptomerias, dermatophyte, extemporally, hymenopteran, hypothermias, intercompany, intracompany, manipulatory, mythographer, overpayments, performatory, protomartyrs, spermatocyte, thermography, trypanosomes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MORTPAY


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

4D 4F 52 54 50 41 59

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)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01010010 01010100 01010000 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#80 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0052 0054 0050 0041 0059

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

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

47495254503559

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INDEX

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


  

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