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PERISSAD

Definition: PERISSAD

PERISSAD

Adjective

1. Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Perissad \Per"is*sad\, adjective. [Greek expression odd, from over.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "PERISSAD"

Words rhyming with "PERISSAD" (pronounced 'Per"is*sad'): Unsad. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERISSAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: despairs.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: apsides, aspired, aspires, despair, diapers, paresis, parises, praised, praises, prissed, spaders, sparids, spiders, spireas, spreads.

-2 letters: aiders, arises, asides, aspers, aspire, daises, dassie, deairs, diaper, dipsas, drapes, irades, padres, paired, pardie, paries, parsed, parses, passed, passer, pissed, pisser, praise, prases, prides, prised, prises, raised, raises, rapids, rasped, redias, redips, repaid, repass, resaid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: airspeeds, diaspores, dispersal, dispraise, dispreads, misparsed, paradises, rapidness.

 

+2 letters: despairers, disappears, disparages, dispensary, dispersals, dispersant, dispraised, dispraiser, dispraises, disrepairs, dissipater, misphrased, redisplays, rhapsodies, sandpipers, spermatids, spikenards, therapsids.

 

+3 letters: caryopsides, crispbreads, dealerships, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, disapproves, disparagers, disparities, dispatchers, dispersants, displeasure, dispraisers, dissipaters, espadrilles, headsprings, imparadises, jeopardises, leaderships, parasitised, pasteurised, pederasties, pedestrians, pediatrists, peroxidases, praesidiums, preassigned, pyranosides, rapidnesses, readerships, rhapsodizes, scorpaenids, spearfished, springheads, stewardship, wardenships, wingspreads.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERISSAD


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

50 45 52 49 53 53 41 44

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 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0049 0053 0053 0041 0044

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

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

5039524353533538

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INDEX

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


  

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