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ROUNCIVAL

Date "ROUNCIVAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: ROUNCIVAL

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Literature

Rouncival Large, of gigantic size. Certain large bones of antediluvian animals were at one time said to be the bones of the heroes who fell with Roland in Roncesvalles. "Rounceval peas" are those large peas called "marrowfats," and a very large woman is called a rouncival.
"Hereof, I take it, it comes that seeing a great woman, we say she is a rouncival."- Mandeville. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ROUNCIVAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: involucra.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r-u-v"

-1 letter: univocal.

-2 letters: clarion, cornual, corvina, courlan, inocula, unvocal, vincula.

-3 letters: alnico, anuric, carlin, caroli, cornua, curial, lorica, ocular, oilcan, ovular, uncial, uncoil, uracil, uranic, urinal, valour, vicuna.

-4 letters: acorn, aloin, anvil, aulic, auric, avion, cairn, carol, cavil, claro, clavi, clour, colin, coral, coria, cornu, covin, curia, curio, incur, invar, linac, loran, lunar, narco, naric.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r-u-v"
 

+1 letter: involucral.

 

+2 letters: countervail, involucrate.

 

+3 letters: countervails, unchivalrous.

 

+4 letters: carnivorously, cavernicolous, convulsionary, countervailed, ultraviolence, vermiculation, voluntaristic.

 

+5 letters: chivalrousness, coevolutionary, countervailing, macroevolution, ultraviolences, unchivalrously, undiscoverable, vermiculations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROUNCIVAL


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

52 4F 55 4E 43 49 56 41 4C

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001001 01010110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#86 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0055 004E 0043 0049 0056 0041 004C

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

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

524955483743563546

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