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"PECTINS" is a plural of: pectin. |
"PECTINS" is a common misspelling or typo for: pectin. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | High molecular weight polysaccharides present in the cell walls of all plants. Pectins cement cell walls together. They are used as emulsifiers and stabilizers in the food industry. They have been tried for a variety of therpeutic uses including as antidiarreals, where they are now generally considered ineffective, and in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PECTINS |
| Specialty definitions using "PECTINS": pectin esterase, pectinase, pectolytic enzyme, polygalacturonase. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PECTINS": amylopectins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: incepts, inspect. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: incept, incest, insect, instep, nicest, pectin, septic, spinet. | |
-2 letters: cents, cesti, cines, cites, epics, inept, inset, neist, nites, peins, penis, pines, pints, piste, scent, senti, sepic, since, snipe, spent, spice, spine, spite, stein, stipe, tines. | |
-3 letters: cent, ceps, cine, cist, cite, epic, etic, ices, nest, nets, nice, nips, nite, nits, pecs, pein, pens. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: inspects, pectines. | |
+2 letters: anapestic, cathepsin, inceptors, inspected, inspector, patencies, patiences, phenetics, phonetics, pittances, potencies, precincts, prentices, prescient, punchiest, reinspect, sceptring, sphincter, splenetic. | |
+3 letters: analeptics, anapestics, antiseptic, carpetings, cathepsins, centipedes, clothespin, constipate, deceptions, depictions, discepting, discrepant, epicenters, exceptions, excipients, impotences, inceptions, inceptives, inculpates, inspecting, inspection, inspective, inspectors, intercepts, intercrops, interspace, introspect, isentropic, neoplastic, neotropics, nephrotics, nepotistic, nightscope, nitpickers, panickiest, patchiness, paunchiest, penitences, pestilence, phenacites, plasticene, plasticine, pleonastic, pleustonic, pontifices, precasting, princelets, prosecting, psittacine, putrescine, receptions, recipients, reinspects, respecting, sceptering, speciating, speciation, spectating, sphincters, splenetics, stenotopic, supertonic, suspecting, unscripted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 43 54 49 4E 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -.-. - .. -. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E C T I N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 0043 0054 0049 004E 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50393754434853 |
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