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PICAMAR

Definition: PICAMAR

PICAMAR

Noun

1. An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Picamar \Pic"a*mar`\, noun. [Latin expression pix, picis, pitch amarus bitter.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: PICAMAR

Language Translations for "PICAMAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

hắc ín (pitch, tar), dầu hắc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PICAMAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-p-r"

-1 letter: picara.

-2 letters: acari, campi, carpi, cramp, crimp, maria, micra, praam, prima.

-3 letters: amia, amir, aria, camp, carp, cram, crap, maar, mair, marc, mica, paca, pair, para, pica, pima, pram, prim, raia, rami, ramp.

-4 letters: aim, air, ama, ami, amp, arc, arm, cam, cap, car, imp, mac, map, mar, mir, pac, pam, par, pia, pic.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-p-r"
 

+2 letters: metacarpi, panoramic, paramecia, paramedic, pragmatic, procambia.

 

+3 letters: alphameric, amphibrach, amphimacer, anamorphic, campaigner, pancratium, paramecium, paramedics, parametric, pharmacies, pharmacist, pragmatics, procambial, pyromaniac, rampancies.

 

+4 letters: amphibrachs, amphimacers, campaigners, comparatist, comparative, emancipator, impractical, macrophagic, malpractice, pancratiums, parameciums, paramedical, pharmacists, pragmatical, pyramidical, pyromaniacs.

 

+5 letters: alphanumeric, amphibrachic, apochromatic, camphorating, chairmanship, comparatists, comparatives, emancipators, epigrammatic, incomparable, incomparably, intracompany, malpractices, mammographic, metaphorical, panchromatic, paradigmatic, paramagnetic, paramedicals, parochialism, paronomastic, pharmacopeia, pragmaticism, pragmaticist, pragmatistic, preeclampsia, proclamation, programmatic, pyromaniacal, sarcoplasmic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PICAMAR


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

50 49 43 41 4D 41 52

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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