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Definition: Purace |
PuraceNoun1. An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia; last erupted in 1950. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Human Rights | Colombia | On December 31, FARC guerrillas shot to death indigenous law student Jimmy Guauna Chicangana, as he and fellow citizens in Purace, Cauca department, participated in unarmed civil resistance in the town square. (references) |
Colombia | On February 13, FARC guerrillas killed nine young hikers in the Purace National Park in Huila department. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: apercu. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: caper, crape, pacer, pareu, recap. | |
-2 letters: acre, aper, cape, care, carp, crap, cure, ecru, pace, pare, pear, prau, puce, pure, race, rape, reap, urea. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cap, car, cep, cue, cup, cur, ear, eau, ecu, era, pac, par, pea, pec, per, pur, rap, rec, rep, rue. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, er, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: apercus, capture, scauper, upreach. | |
+2 letters: captured, capturer, captures, opercula, outcaper, peculiar, purchase, scaupers, specular, supercar, unpacker. | |
+3 letters: aruspices, capturers, creamcups, creampuff, cupbearer, curlpaper, epicurean, opercular, outcapers, outpreach, parachute, parbuckle, paunchier, peculator, peculiars, pecuniary, prelaunch, purchased, purchaser, purchases, pursuance, recapture, sapsucker, supercars, superrace, supremacy, unpackers, uppercase, upreached, upreaches. | |
+4 letters: apiculture, coryphaeus, creampuffs, cupbearers, curlpapers, drupaceous, epicardium, epicureans, haruspices, hyperacute, leprechaun, metacarpus, operculars, operculate, outcapered, parachuted, parachutes, paramecium, parbuckled, parbuckles, pasticheur, peculators, peculiarly, peduncular, pelycosaur, perceptual, picaresque, precalculi, precarious, precaution, predaceous, predacious, procedural, procurable, pronuclear, purchasers, pursuances, purtenance, purveyance, quadriceps, recaptured, recaptures, recoupable, recuperate, republican, repugnance, repugnancy, repurchase, sapsuckers, sepulchral, specularly, speculator, subchapter, supercargo, superclass, superclean, superflack, supermacho, superraces, superscale, uncarpeted, uppercased, uppercases, upreaching. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 75 72 61 63 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. ..- .-. .- -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P u r a c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0075 0072 0061 0063 0065 |
| 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)508784676971 |
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