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PHAEACIAN

Definition: PHAEACIAN

PHAEACIAN

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PHAEACIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)


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Rhyming with "PHAEACIAN"

Words rhyming with "PHAEACIAN" (pronounced 'Ph[ae]*a"cian'): Academician, Acoustician, Apician, Arithmetician, Ascian, Atomician, Cilician, Cistercian, Confucian, Dacian, Galician, Geometrician, logician, magician, Magnetician, Marcian, mathematician, Mechanician, Metaphysician, Metrician, Mnemonician, Monoecian, Musician, Neoplatonician, Obstetrician, Optician, Ordovician, Peripatecian, Periscian, Phenician, Phoenician, Phonetician, Physician, Practician, Pyrotechnician, Simplician, statistician, Sulpician, Symmetrician, tactician, technician, Thracian. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PHAEACIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: acapnia, panacea, panache.

-3 letters: apache, apneic, canape, chaine, painch, pechan.

-4 letters: aecia, apace, apian, apnea, chain, chape, cheap, china, chine, hance, niche, pacha, paean, panic, peach, pecan, pinch.

-5 letters: ache, acne, cain, cane, cape, caph, chap, chia, chin, chip, cine, each, epha, epic, haen, heap, inch, nape, neap, nice, nipa, paca, pace, pain, pane.

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

+2 letters: ipecacuanha.

 

+3 letters: analphabetic, ipecacuanhas.

 

+4 letters: analphabetics.

 

+5 letters: alphanumerical, inapproachable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PHAEACIAN


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

50 48 41 45 41 43 49 41 4E

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)

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