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NEEDFIRE

Specialty Definition: NEEDFIRE

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Literature

Needfire Fire obtained by friction. It has been supposed to defeat sorcery, and cure diseases assigned to witchcraft. (Danish, gnide, to rub.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: NEEDFIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: redefine.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-f-i-n-r"

-1 letter: definer, needier, refined.

-2 letters: defier, define, denier, feeder, fender, ferine, finder, friend, needer, nereid, redfin, reefed, refeed, refind, refine, reined.

-3 letters: defer, diene, diner, eerie, eider, ender, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed, fried, infer, refed.

-4 letters: deer, defi, dene, deni, dere, dine, dire, dree, eide, erne, feed, fend, fere, fern, find, fine, fire, firn.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-f-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: predefine, redefined, redefines, refeeding.

 

+2 letters: befingered, befriended, difference, greenfield, interfered, predefined, predefines, reinfected.

 

+3 letters: deferential, differenced, differences, overfeeding, overrefined, redefeating, redefecting.

 

+4 letters: differentiae, fervidnesses, indifference, reidentified, reidentifies, underfeeding.

 

+5 letters: confederacies, confederative, counterfeited, deferentially, differentiate, differentness, featheredging, indifferences, nonesterified, recentrifuged, superinfected, unelectrified.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEEDFIRE


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

4E 45 45 44 46 49 52 45

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)

01001110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#70 &#73 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0045 0044 0046 0049 0052 0045

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

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

4839393840435239

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