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Purace

Definition: Purace

Purace

Noun

1. 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.
 


Non-Fiction Usage: Purace

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Anagrams: Purace

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Purace


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

50 75 72 61 63 65

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 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#101

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)

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

508784676971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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