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Definition: RHOTACISM |
RHOTACISMNoun1. An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were. |
Etymology: Rhotacism \Rho"ta*cism\, noun. [from Greek expression "rwtaki`zein to use the letter ([rho]) overmuch: compare to the French expression rhotacisme.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: RHOTACISM |
| English words defined with "RHOTACISM": Rotacism. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RHOTACISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sorakielisyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otacismrhay rotacism. (various references) sự rung quá đáng âm r sự chuyển thanh âm r chứng ngọng r. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "RHOTACISM" (pronounced 'Rho"ta*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Atticism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, romanticism, Rotacism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acrotism, actorish, chariots, haricots. | |
-2 letters: amorist, atomics, chamiso, chamois, chariot, charism, chimars, chrisma, chrisom, chromas, haricot, isotach, mohairs, osmatic, ostrich, shortia, somatic, stomach, tachism, thairms, thirams, thorias. | |
-3 letters: actors, airths, aorist, aortic, aristo, atomic, caroms, castor, chairs, charms, charts, chiasm, chimar, chirms, chiros, choirs, chrism, chroma, coatis, costar, crista, ichors, ihrams, machos, macros. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-m-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chromatics, chromatids, chromatins, dichromats, monarchist. | |
+2 letters: achromatism, atmospheric, bichromates, choirmaster, chrismation, dichromates, harmonicist, hematocrits, machinators, monarchists, morphactins, trichromats. | |
+3 letters: achromatisms, achromatizes, atmospherics, choirmasters, chrismations, chromaticism, cologarithms, dichromatism, euchromatins, harmonicists, lachrymosity, mesothoracic, misanthropic, radiochemist, thermostatic, trichomonads. | |
+4 letters: catastrophism, chromaticisms, chromatolysis, dichromatisms, hemichordates, microhabitats, radiochemists, thermoplastic, thoracotomies, tracheotomies, trichromatism. | |
+5 letters: actinomorphies, antimonarchist, catastrophisms, cephalometries, chemotherapies, chemotherapist, cholestyramine, chrestomathies, chromaticities, cinematographs, lachrymosities, magnetospheric, monochromatism, noncharismatic, petrochemicals, phantasmagoric, pharmacologist, psychodramatic, radiochemistry, spermatophytic, stereochemical, subatmospheric, thermodynamics, thermoplastics, thromboplastic, tracheostomies, trichomoniases, trichomoniasis, trichromatisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 48 4F 54 41 43 49 53 4D |
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