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"PORPHYRINS" is a plural of: porphyrin. |
"PORPHYRINS" is a common misspelling or typo for: porphyries. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A group of compounds containing the porphin structure, four pyrrole rings connected by methine bridges in a cyclic configuration to which a variety of side chains are attached. The nature of the side chain is indicated by a prefix, as uroporphyrin, hematoporphyrin, etc. The porphyrins, in combination with iron, form the heme component in biologically significant compounds such as hemoglobin and myoglobin. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PORPHYRINS |
| Specialty definitions using "PORPHYRINS": Coproporphyrins ♦ Deuteroporphyrins, Dihematoporphyrin Ether ♦ Etioporphyrins ♦ Hematoporphyrin Derivative ♦ Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic ♦ Mesoporphyrins, metallo-organic compound, Metalloporphyrins ♦ porphin ring, Porphyrinogens, Protoporphyrins ♦ Uroporphyrins. (references) |
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| "PORPHYRINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PORPHYRINS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
porphyrins | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PORPHYRINS": hematoporphyrins, protoporphyrins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: porphyrin. | |
-3 letters: shippon. | |
-4 letters: hippos, orpins, popish, prions, priors, priory, prison, rhinos, rosiny, siphon, snippy, spinor, syphon. | |
-5 letters: hippo, hippy, hoppy, horns, horny, horsy, hypos, hyson, irons, irony, nippy, noirs, noisy, noris, opsin, ornis, orpin, orris, phons, phony, pions, pirns, popsy, porns, porny, prion, prior, props, prosy, pyins, rhino, rosin, shiny, shirr, shorn, sophy. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: porphyropsin. | |
+3 letters: porphyropsins. | |
+5 letters: hyperresponsive, protoporphyrins, semipornography. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 52 50 48 59 52 49 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. .--. .... -.--. .-. .. -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001000 01011001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O R P H Y R I N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0052 0050 0048 0059 0052 0049 004E 0053 |
| 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)50495250425952434853 |
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