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Date "POLTRON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Poltron A bird of prey, with the talons of the hind toes cut off to prevent its flying at game. (Latin, pollicetruncato, deprived of its toe or thumb.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POLTRON |
| Non-English Usage: "POLTRON" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (coward, cowardly, lily livered, poltroon), Romanian (poltroon, poltroonish), Serbo-Croatian (chairwarmer, poltroon). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Poltron (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pronto, proton. | |
-2 letters: orlop, porno, troop. | |
-3 letters: loon, loop, loot, lorn, nolo, onto, plot, polo, pool, poon, poor, porn, port, root, rotl, roto, tool, toon, torn, toro, trop. | |
-4 letters: loo, lop, lot, noo, nor, not, oot, opt, ort, pol, pot, pro, rot, ton, too, top, tor. | |
-5 letters: lo, no, on, op, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: pliotron, poltroon. | |
+2 letters: pliotrons, poltroons. | |
+3 letters: colorpoint, lipotropin, pollinator, protonemal. | |
+4 letters: coleopteran, colorpoints, counterplot, counterploy, exploration, lipoprotein, lipotropins, luteotropin, nontemporal, nontropical, operational, opportunely, percolation, periodontal, pollinators, poltroonery, portionless, probational, promotional, protocoling, protoplanet, sporulation, zooplankter. | |
+5 letters: anthropology, coleopterans, contemplator, counterplots, counterploys, explorations, flavoprotein, glycoprotein, interpolator, lipoproteins, luteotrophin, luteotropins, metropolitan, nephrologist, nonpetroleum, nontemporals, organoleptic, overplotting, percolations, perorational, photonuclear, phrenologist, polarization, portentously, proclamation, proconsulate, productional, projectional, prolongation, promulgation, proportional, proteoglycan, prothalamion, protocolling, protonematal, protoplanets, repopulation, sporulations, trichlorphon, zooplankters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 54 52 4F 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. - .-. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L T R O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0054 0052 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50494654524948 |
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