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PENTECOSTY

Definition: PENTECOSTY

PENTECOSTY

Noun

1. A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pentecosty \Pen`te*cos"ty\, noun; plural Pentecosties. [from Greek expression, from the fiftieth, fifty.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: PENTECOSTY

English words defined with "PENTECOSTY": Every now and thenPentecosties. (references)

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Rhyming with "PENTECOSTY"

Words rhyming with "PENTECOSTY" (pronounced 'Pen`te*cos"ty'): Batty, BEAUTY, Betty, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Butty, Canty, Catty, Clotty, Cosurety, County, Cutty, Cytty, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duty, Empty, Entierty, Entirety, Fatty, Flitty, Fouty, frailty, Fretty, Genty, gritty, Gutty, Hasty, haughty, Highty-tighty, Hyponasty, Insafety, Janty, jaunty, kitty, knotty, Literalty, Mitty, Motty, Musty, Nasty, Natty, Naughty, Netty, Nonsurety, nutty, Overempty. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PENTECOSTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: stenotype.

-2 letters: ecotypes, neotypes, postteen, potences, potteens.

-3 letters: cenotes, contest, cotypes, ecotype, ectypes, eyespot, neotype, openest, pectens, pentose, peyotes, posteen, poteens, potence, potency, potteen, syncope, teentsy, typeset.

-4 letters: cenote, centos, coneys, contes, copens, cotype, coyest, cytons, ectype, encyst, netops, octets, pecten, peones, peyote, ponces, pontes, poteen, potent, septet, snotty, spence, spotty, stoney, teensy, tenets.

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

+5 letters: hypertonicities, introspectively.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PENTECOSTY


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

50 45 4E 54 45 43 4F 53 54 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)

.--.    .    -.    -    .    -.-.    ---    ...    -    -.--.

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

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

01010000 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 004E 0054 0045 0043 004F 0053 0054 0059

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

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

50394854393749535459

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INDEX

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


  

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