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POSTFRONTAL

Definition: POSTFRONTAL

POSTFRONTAL

Adjective

1. Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.

Noun

1. A postfrontal bone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Postfrontal \Post*fron"tal\, adjective. [Prefix post- frontal.]. (Websters 1913)


Misspellings: POSTFRONTAL

Misspellings

"POSTFRONTAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ostfront, postprantial. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "POSTFRONTAL"

Words rhyming with "POSTFRONTAL" (pronounced 'Post*fron"tal'): Abettal, Abuttal, Aconital, Acquittal, Alimental, Aliseptal, Antenatal, Antisacerdotal, Aplacental, Argental, Argumental, Assonantal, Atlantal, Attal, Bidental, Brutal, Cliental, Coincidental, Committal, Complemental, Complimental, Consonantal, Contrapuntal, Costal, fatal, festal, fetal, firmamental, foetal, fragmental, Glottal, governmental, horizontal, implemental, incremental, instrumental, intercontinental, intercostal, Linguidental, Meatal, Medicamental, Mercaptal, Momental, monumental, Nasofrontal, Nasoseptal, Natal, Nidamental, Noncommittal, Notal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POSTFRONTAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: tonoplast.

-3 letters: arnottos, flattops, frontals, ortolans, patroons, plastron, platoons, polarons, postoral, rattoons, stolport, taproots.

-4 letters: arnotto, attorns, flattop, frontal, ortolan, partons, patrols, patrons, patroon, platoon, polaron, portals, prolans, pronota, protons, ratoons, rattons, rattoon, soprano, taproot, tarpons.

-5 letters: aprons, attorn, floats, floors, floras, flotas, fontal, fronts, loofas, lorans, lottos, nopals, orlops, ottars, pantos, parols, parson.

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

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Alternative Orthography: POSTFRONTAL


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

50 4F 53 54 46 52 4F 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 01010011 01010100 01000110 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#70 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0053 0054 0046 0052 004F 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)

5049535440524948543546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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