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POINTAL

Definition: POINTAL

POINTAL

Noun

1. See Poyntel.

2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.

3. The pistil of a plant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: POINTAL

English words defined with "POINTAL": Pointel. (references)
Etymologies containing "POINTAL": Pointel, Poyntel. (references)
Non-English Usage: "POINTAL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (lay, lay guns).

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Anagrams: POINTAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: latino, plaint, pliant, pontil, talion.

-2 letters: aloin, inapt, lapin, nopal, notal, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pilot, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, plain, plait, plant, point, talon, tolan, tonal.

-3 letters: alit, alto, anil, anti, atop, into, iota, lain, lati, lino, lint, lion, lipa, loan, loin, lota, loti, nail, naoi, nipa, noil, nota, opal, pail.

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

+1 letter: antipole, anviltop, oppilant, optional, platonic, ponytail, talapoin.

 

+2 letters: altiplano, antipodal, antipoles, anviltops, ballpoint, complaint, compliant, epilation, haplontic, optionals, palmation, palpation, placation, planation, planetoid, plication, plutonian, pollinate, polyanthi, ponytails, potential, prolactin, pulsation, talapoins.

 

+3 letters: altiplanos, antilepton, antiphonal, antipodals, antipolice, ballpoints, complaints, copulating, copulation, depilation, epilations, lithophane, neoplastic, noncapital, nonoptimal, nonplastic, nonspatial, nontypical, nyctalopia, oppilating, optionally, outleaping, outplaying, palliation, palmations, palpations, patrolling, peculation, pentaploid, peritoneal, pixilation, placations, planations, planetoids, planktonic, plantation, platooning, pleonastic, plications, poignantly, politician, pollinated, pollinates, pollinator, pontifical, ponytailed, populating, population, positional, potentials, potentilla, pratincole, prolactins, pulsations, spallation, spoliating, spoliation, synoptical, thiopental, trampoline.

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

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Alternative Orthography: POINTAL


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

50 4F 49 4E 54 41 4C

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 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0049 004E 0054 0041 004C

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

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

50494348543546

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INDEX

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


  

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