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Definition: PTERON |
PTERONNoun1. The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other. |
Etymology: Pteron \Pte"ron\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression wing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: PTERON |
| Etymologies containing "PTERON": Parapterum. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PTERON": dipteron, hymenopteron. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PTERON": hymenopterons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PTERON" (pronounced 'Pte"ron'): boron, Catopron, Charon, Chevron, Citron, micron, moneron, neuron, Oxymoron, Perron, Pleuron, Polron, Southron, squadron. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: netop, noter, prone, repot, tenor, toner, toper, trone, trope. | |
-2 letters: nope, note, open, pent, peon, pert, poet, pone, pore, porn, port, rent, repo, rope, rote, tern, tone, tope, tore, torn, trop. | |
-3 letters: eon, ern, net, nor, not, one, ope, opt, ore, ort, pen, per, pet, pot, pro, rep, ret, roe, rot, ten, toe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: entropy, operant, pointer, portend, portent, postern, pronate, protean, protein, protend, tropine. | |
+2 letters: atropine, coparent, dipteron, entrepot, entropic, eruption, forspent, inceptor, operants, orpiment, outpreen, patentor, petronel, plectron, pointers, pointier, porniest, portance, portends, portents, posterns, pronated, pronates, proteans, proteins, protends, terpinol, tropines, uptowner. | |
+3 letters: atropines, coparents, copartner, copresent, corpulent, davenport, deporting, dripstone, entoproct, entrepots, entropies, entropion, eruptions, exporting, godparent, importune, inceptors, inspector, intercrop, interlope, interpose, nephrotic, nonexpert, notepaper, operantly, operating, operation, opportune, orpiments, outpreens, overplant, overprint, overspent, patentors, patrolmen, patronage, patroness, patronise, patronize, pennywort, perdition, peritonea, personate, petronels, plectrons, portances, portended, portering, portioned, postponer, pothering, pothunter, pottering, precentor, predation, prenotify, prenotion, prepotent, pretorian, procreant, profluent, progestin, prominent, proponent, protamine, protended, protonate, protonema, provident, reappoint, reception, repletion, reporting, repotting, sportsmen, sternpost, stonecrop, terpenoid, terpineol, terpinols, thereupon, transpose, treponema, treponeme, underplot, unstopper, uptowners. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 54 45 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 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P T E R O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0054 0045 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)505439524948 |
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