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PESTILATION

Definition: PESTILATION

PESTILATION

Noun

1. The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pestilation \Pes`ti*la"tion\, noun. [from Late Latin expression pestillum, from Latin expression pistillum. See Pestle.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: PESTILATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-t"

-1 letter: epilations, poinsettia, potentials, tonalities.

-2 letters: antipoles, epilation, paintiest, petitions, pointiest, potential, siltation, tinplates.

-3 letters: alienist, alpinist, antipole, antislip, elations, insolate, intitles, lintiest, litanies, nepotist, opalines, ostinati, paletots, panelist, pantiles, patients, petition, pinitols, pintails, pisolite, plainest, platiest, plotties, polentas, politest, polities, potlines, saponite, spoliate, tailspin, talipots, tinplate, toenails, toplines, totalise.

-4 letters: alpines, altoist, anisole, antipot.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: exploitations, neoplasticist, optionalities, sexploitation.

 

+3 letters: antineoplastic, interpolations, neoplasticists, operationalist, palletizations, pelletizations, polytonalities, postliberation, potentialities, sexploitations.

 

+4 letters: antispeculation, conceptualistic, conceptualities, epithelizations, implementations, inhospitalities, interpellations, introspectional, operationalists, proselytization, recapitulations, reimplantations.

 

+5 letters: alphabetizations, exceptionalities, hyperstimulation, malpractitioners, nonexploitations, operationalistic, postdepositional, postencephalitic, postpresidential, proselytizations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PESTILATION


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

50 45 53 54 49 4C 41 54 49 4F 4E

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

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