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OSTEOPHONE

Definition: OSTEOPHONE

OSTEOPHONE

Noun

1. An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Osteophone \Os"te*o*phone\, noun. [Greek expression bone voice.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "OSTEOPHONE"

Words rhyming with "OSTEOPHONE" (pronounced 'Os"te*o*phone'): Actinophone, Aerophone, Antiphone, Audiphone, Auxetophone, Biophotophone, gramophone, homophone, megaphone, Metallophone, microphone, Photographone, Photophone, Polyphone, Pyrophone, Radiophone, Radiotelephone, saxophone, Spectrophone, Sphygmophone, Sulphone, Xylophone. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OSTEOPHONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-o-o-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: potheens.

-3 letters: heptose, hoopoes, openest, pentose, photons, posteen, poteens, potheen, toeshoe.

-4 letters: ethnos, honest, hoopoe, netops, peones, phones, phonos, photon, photos, pontes, poteen, soothe, sphene, topees, tophes.

-5 letters: estop, ethos, hents, hones, hoops, hoots, hopes, hosen, neeps, netop, noose, notes, onset, opens, peens, penes, peons, pesto, phone, phono, phons, photo, phots, poets, pones, poohs.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-o-o-o-p-s-t"
 

+3 letters: iontophoreses.

 

+4 letters: photoelectrons.

 

+5 letters: phenomenologist, photoreceptions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OSTEOPHONE


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

4F 53 54 45 4F 50 48 4F 4E 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)

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

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

01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001111 01010000 01001000 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#79 &#80 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0053 0054 0045 004F 0050 0048 004F 004E 0045

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

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

49535439495042494839

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INDEX

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


  

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