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PTEROTIC

Definition: PTEROTIC

PTEROTIC

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.

Noun

1. The pterotic bone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pterotic \Pte*ro"tic\, adjective. [Greek expression wing + ear.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "PTEROTIC"

Words rhyming with "PTEROTIC" (pronounced 'Pte*ro"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PTEROTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-t-t"

-1 letter: cottier, pottier, protect.

-2 letters: copier, copter, cotter, erotic, poetic, potter, protei, ptotic, tiptoe, tricot, tropic.

-3 letters: citer, coper, crept, cripe, octet, optic, otter, petit, petti, petto, picot, price, recti, recto, repot, rotte, titer, titre, toper, topic, toric, torte, toter, trice, tripe, trite, trope.

-4 letters: cero, cire, cite, coir, cope, core, cote, crop, epic, etic.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: prothetic.

 

+2 letters: competitor, introspect, optometric, prosthetic, protecting, protection, protective, protreptic.

 

+3 letters: competitors, computerist, crepitation, decapitator, ectotrophic, heterotopic, heterotypic, interceptor, introspects, luteotropic, peridotitic, photometric, prosthetics, protections, proteolytic, protostelic, protractile, protractive, protreptics, stereotypic, tetrasporic, topocentric, triceratops.

 

+4 letters: antientropic, cataphoretic, coleopterist, computerists, counterpoint, crepitations, decapitators, ectoparasite, hyperostotic, inspectorate, interception, interceptors, interoceptor, introspected, luteotrophic, micropipette, osteoporotic, petrifaction, petrogenetic, practitioner, precipitator, privatdocent, protectively, protectories, putrefaction, pyrotechnist, receptionist, spectatorial, stereopticon, streptococci, streptomycin, thermotropic, trichopteran.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PTEROTIC


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

50 54 45 52 4F 54 49 43

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 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0054 0045 0052 004F 0054 0049 0043

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

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

5054395249544337

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INDEX

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


  

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