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Definition: PTISAN |
PTISANNoun1. An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane. 2. A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink. |
Etymology: Ptisan \Ptis"an\, noun. [Latin expression ptisana peeled barley, barley water, Greek, from to peel, husk; compare to French ptisane, tisane.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon, panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac, ptisan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PTISAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отвара (decoction, infusion), ечемична вода. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyákleves. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isanptay питательный отвар (tisane). (various references) ječmena voda. (various references) örtte (infusion). (various references) nước lúa mạch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PTISAN": ptisans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PTISAN" (pronounced 'Ptis"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Genian, Gigantean, Iroquoian, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: paints, patins, pintas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antis, inapt, nipas, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, saint, satin, spait, stain, tains, tapis. | |
-2 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, naps, nipa, nips, nits, pain, pans, pant, past, pats, pian, pias, pina, pins, pint, pita, pits, sain, sati, snap, snip, snit, span, spat, spin, spit, tain, tans, taps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: catnips, hatpins, pandits, panties, pastina, pasting, patinas, patines, pianist, pinatas, pissant, pitmans, plaints, ptisans, sandpit, sapient, spinate, spirant, taipans. | |
+2 letters: alpinist, antiship, antislip, appoints, aspirant, atropins, bepaints, cantrips, captains, captions, depaints, displant, epinasty, impaints, implants, maintops, mispaint, misplant, nappiest, nuptials, opuntias, pactions, paganist, painters, panelist, pantiles, pantries, pantsuit, partings, partisan, pastinas, patients, pertains, petunias, pianists, pinaster, pintadas, pintados, pintails, pintanos, pissants, plainest, platinas, platings, pristane, ptomains, ptyalins, puissant, puritans, repaints, sandpits, saponite, satinpod, spatting, spirants, stamping, stapling, steapsin, supinate, synaptic, tailspin, tampions, tankship, tappings, thespian, tranship, unplaits, utopians. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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