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Definitions: PERTUSION |
PERTUSIONNoun1. A punched hole; a perforation. 2. The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein. |
Etymology: Pertusion \Per*tu"sion\, noun. [Latin expression pertusio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opening | Apertion, perforation; piercing; Verb: terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Words rhyming with "PERTUSION" (pronounced 'Per*tu"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eruptions. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: eruption, pointers, porniest, proteins, pruinose, roupiest, routines, snoutier, tropines, unripest. | |
-2 letters: inpours, nitrous, norites, nutsier, oestrin, orients, orpines, petrous, pintoes, piteous, pointer, pointes, postern, posture, pouters, poutier, prostie, protein, proteus, pterins, puniest, punster, punters, punties, purines, reposit, riposte, ropiest, routine, soupier, spinout, spouter, stonier, stourie, tenours, tonsure, triunes, tropine, tropins, troupes, turnips. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: importunes, resumption, subreption, supertonic. | |
+2 letters: euphoriants, importuners, neutrophils, outpressing, outsprinted, peritoneums, persecution, precautions, presumption, pretentious, prosecuting, prosecution, reputations, resprouting, resumptions, subreptions, supernation, supertonics. | |
+3 letters: computerniks, counterpoise, counterspies, expurgations, housepainter, interruptors, luteotropins, mucoproteins, neuroleptics, neuropathies, outspreading, perfusionist, permutations, persecutions, pertinacious, polyneuritis, premunitions, presumptions, profundities, prosecutions, proteinurias, reassumption, repudiations, supernations, superstation, superstition, supervention, unstoppering, upholstering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 54 55 53 49 4F 4E |
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