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PEPENANCE

Specialty Definition: PEPENANCE

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Botanical

The fruits are edible raw or cooked. They are made into a beer in South America. The seeds are edible roasted but are rather dangerous. They are someticme pulverized and mixed with sago starch to make bread. They are used by some Europeans to make a "sloe gin". Young leaves serve as a potherb. The seed oil is placed on hollow teeth before extraction in Africa. The roots are chewed for toothache and are also used for sleeping sickness, fevers, ringworm, and venereal diseases, and to stop vomiting and diarrhea. In the Antilles, a syrup prepared from the fruits is used for rheumatism and dropsy. (references)

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

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Anagrams: PEPENANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-n-n-p-p"

-2 letters: penance.

-3 letters: pennae.

-4 letters: nance, nappe, panne, peace, pecan, pence, penna, penne.

-5 letters: acne, cane, cape, cepe, epee, nape, neap, neep, nene, pace, pane, pean, peen, peep.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-n-n-p-p"
 

+2 letters: inappetence.

 

+3 letters: inappetences.

 

+4 letters: preponderance.

 

+5 letters: preponderances.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PEPENANCE


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

50 45 50 45 4E 41 4E 43 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)

01010000 01000101 01010000 01000101 01001110 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#80 &#69 &#78 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0050 0045 004E 0041 004E 0043 0045

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

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

503950394835483739

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