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OWLISM

Definition: OWLISM

OWLISM

Noun

1. Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Rhyming with "OWLISM"

Words rhyming with "OWLISM" (pronounced 'Owl"ism'): Absenteeism, Anticivism, Antitheism, Aramaism, Bahaism, Bardism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boyism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cavalierism, Chartism, Chemism, Churchism, Civism, Dashism, Deism, Frenchism, Geusdism, Jainism, Lamarckism, Lyrism, Malebranchism, Mandarinism, Mutism, Neo-Lamarckism, Occultism, Old-maidism, Ophism, Opportunism, Panslavism, Panzoism, Pasteurism, Pharisaism, Priestism, Purism, Quackism, Rantism, Red-tapism, Routinism, Saintism, Scaphism, Sclavism, Scribism, Sectism, Selfism, Sensism, Slavism, sophism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OWLISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-l-m-o-s-w"

-1 letter: limos, milos, moils.

-2 letters: limo, lows, milo, mils, miso, moil, mols, mows, oils, owls, silo, slim, slow, soil, soli, swim.

-3 letters: ism, lis, low, mil, mis, mol, mos, mow, oil, oms, owl, sim, sol, som, sow, wis, wos.

-4 letters: is, li, lo, mi, mo, om, os, ow, si, so, wo.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-m-o-s-w"
 

+1 letter: wholism, wormils.

 

+2 letters: silkworm, wailsome, wholisms.

 

+3 letters: milkwoods, milkworts, millworks, semivowel, silkworms, winsomely.

 

+4 letters: blindworms, demiworlds, disembowel, semivowels, snowmobile, warlordism, womanishly, womanliest.

 

+5 letters: disembowels, microworlds, middlebrows, mindblowers, snowmobiler, snowmobiles, warlordisms, wearisomely, wolframites, womanliness, workaholism, worrisomely.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OWLISM


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

4F 57 4C 49 53 4D

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 01010111 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#87 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0057 004C 0049 0053 004D

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

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

495746435347

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INDEX

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


  

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