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Definition: SARSEN |
SARSENNoun1. One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone. |
Note: Sarsen \Sar"sen\, noun. [Etymology uncertain; perhaps for saracen stone, i.e., heathen or pagan stone or monument.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SARSEN |
| Specialty definitions using "SARSEN": Sarsen Stones. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "SARSEN": sarsen stone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
horseshoe sarsen | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sarsen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | arsensay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bloco de arenito. (various references) | |
Turkish | büyük tek parça taş. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SARSEN": sarsenet, sarsenets, sarsens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SARSEN" (pronounced 'Sar"sen'): Bowssen, Brasen, Delicatessen, Fausen, Forechosen, greisen. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: snares. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: arses, earns, nares, nears, rases, saner, sanes, sears, sensa, snare. | |
-2 letters: anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, eras, erns, near, ness, rase, sane, sans, sear, seas, sera, sers. | |
-3 letters: ane, are, ars, ass, ear, ens, era, ern, ers, ess, nae, ran, ras, res, sae, sea, sen, ser. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: ancress, answers, arsines, caserns, farness, harness, rawness, reasons, sanders, sangers, sarsens, senoras, snarers. | |
+2 letters: airiness, anestrus, anserous, anureses, anuresis, archness, arcsines, aridness, arsenals, arsenics, arsenous, artiness, assenter, assentor, assigner, bareness, baroness, casernes, coarsens, danseurs, darkness, dearness, drabness, earnests, ensnares, ensnarls, erasions, fairness, grayness, hardness, harshens, hoarsens, insnares, narcoses, nearness, pasterns, personas, pressman, raciness, rainless, rankness, raptness, rareness, rashness, realness, reassign, rennases, reseason, responsa, retsinas, salterns, sanserif, sardines, sarments, sarsenet, saunters, scanners, seasoner, seminars, senarius, senators, senhoras, sensoria, seringas, serranos, servants, sharpens, slanders, smartens, snappers, snarlers, sneakers, spankers, spanners, spawners, stainers, standers, starnose, stearins, surnames, tartness, treasons, unswears, versants, wariness, warmness. | |
+3 letters: absenters, acridness, alertness, anacruses, analysers, ancestors, anchoress, ancresses, anestrous, aneurisms, aneurysms, angerless, angriness, anserines, answerers, antipress, apartness, arginases, arsenates, arsenides, arsenious, arsenites, ascenders, aspersing, aspersion, assenters, assentors, asserting, assertion, assigners, assurance, assurgent, astringes, aversions, awareness, banishers, banisters, bearskins, brainless, brashness, brisances, broadness, canisters, canvasers, canvasser, caressing, cesareans, cesarians, chariness, cleansers, clearness, crassness, craziness, darndests, dwarfness, eagerness, earliness, earstones, enchasers, endosarcs, enslavers, ensnarers, estragons, estranges, farnesols, farnesses, fasteners, frailness, frankness, furanoses, gangsters, ganisters, garnishes, grandness, grapiness, graveness, greatness, hairiness, handpress, hardiness, hardnoses, harnessed, harnesses, harshness, hasteners, hoariness, increases, insnarers, irateness, islanders, kaiserins, largeness, larkiness, laundress, masonries, mislearns, monsteras, naysayers, nearsides, necessary, organises, pantdress, passenger, passerine, patroness, personals, pinasters, preassign, preseason, pristanes, psoralens, purslanes, pyranoses, rabidness, ranginess, ransomers, rapidness, ratsbanes, rawnesses, readiness, reascends, reascents, reasoners, reassigns, recusants, redshanks, refastens, repassing, reseasons, resinates, resistant, resonants, resonates, restrains, rhamnoses, rhamnuses, romanises, sangarees, sanserifs, sarcenets, sarsenets, sauternes, scenarios, scenarist, scrannels, seafronts, searobins, seasoners, seastrand, seatrains, senoritas, sensorial, serenades, serenatas, sergeants, serjeants, serranids, shagreens, sharpness, shearings, signalers, sirenians, slatterns, smartness, snarkiest, snarliest, snatchers, solanders, spandrels, spareness, spearguns, squanders, stanchers, starkness, starnoses, stearines, steersman, sternways, strainers, straitens, stranders, strangers, strangest, strangles, superfans, surnamers, sustainer, suzerains, swanherds, swartness, synergias, tardiness, tarnishes, transects, transepts, transfers, transfuse, transpose, transudes, trapnests, tsarevnas, underpass, underseas, unharness, unmaskers, unreasons, urbanises, vanishers, varnishes, weariness. | |
+4 letters: abruptness, absconders, absorbents, abstainers, absurdness, addressing, adroitness, adsorbents, aggressing, aggression, airinesses, ampersands, ancestress, ancestries, anchorless, anestruses, antecessor, antiserums, antistress, arabinoses, arccosines, archnesses, aridnesses, arrestants, arsenicals, artfulness, artinesses, ascertains, aspersions, assertions, assortment, assurances, auslanders, averseness, bannisters, barenesses, baronesses, barrenness, baseliners, baudronses, bleariness, braincases, braininess, branchless, brandishes, brassiness, brattiness, brawniness, brazenness, bystanders, caesareans, caesarians, cannisters, canvassers, carbonless, chasteners, coarseness, courtesans, craftiness, cragginess, crankcases, crankiness, cravenness, creakiness, creaminess, crevassing, dapperness, daringness, darknesses, dearnesses, depressant, dispensary, dispersant, drabnesses, draftiness, dreaminess, dreariness, earthiness, earwitness, easterners, enravishes, esperances, estrangers, expressman, eyestrains, fairnesses, fashioners, foreshanks, formalness, franchises, freakiness, gainsayers, gannisters, garishness, garnishees, gesneriads, goosanders, graininess, grandsires, granuloses, graynesses, greasiness, greensands, harassment, hardnesses, harmonises, harnessing, heartiness, hoarseness, horsebeans, husbanders, increasers, installers, insurances, interclass, intradoses, invertases, inwardness, janisaries, larcenists, laypersons, lemongrass, linearises, manageress, mannerisms, mannerists, mannerless, manslayers, markedness, marlstones, marshiness, meagerness, mergansers, mestranols, misandries, miscreants, mishanters, muscarines, narrowness, nearnesses, newsbreaks, newscaster, newsmakers, newspapers, nonanswers, nonskaters, normalises, northeasts, noseguards, nursemaids, nutgrasses, observants, organisers, ornateness, ostensoria, paltriness, pancreases, paperiness, parentless, parsonages, passengers, passerines, patronises, personages, personates, persuasion, pervasions, pingrasses, pistareens, planishers, ponderosas, pranksters, preassigns, precisians, preseasons, pursuances, racinesses, raffinoses, raggedness, rainwashes, rakishness, rancidness, randomness, ranknesses, ransackers, raptnesses, rarenesses, rashnesses, realnesses, reanalyses, reanalysis, reasonings, reasonless, reassigned, reassuming, reassuring, refashions, reinstalls, reinstates, reseasoned, resistance, resistants, resonances, resonators, restraints, resultants, ringhalses, sacraments, sacredness, safranines, sandgrouse, sandpapers, sandpipers, sanitaries, sarabandes, sardonyxes, saunterers, savoriness, scarceness, scavengers, scenarists, schnauzers, scrawniest, screwbeans, seafarings, seastrands, sectarians, segregants, seminaries, seminarist, senhoritas, serenaders, serrations, severances, sharpeners, shearlings, shrinkages, signallers, signatures, slanderers, slanderous, sloganeers, smarminess, snakebirds, snakeroots, snowmakers, sovranties, sparseness, sparteines, spearmints, spikenards, spinnakers, squareness, stannaries, stationers, sterilants, sternwards, stingarees, stonewares, straitness, stramonies, stranglers, streakings, streamings, subalterns, submarines, sugarcanes, sunbathers, superbanks, supernovas, surceasing, sustainers, swanneries, synaereses, synaeresis, syncarpies, tanistries, tarantases, tartnesses, tawdriness, tearstains, transaxles, transcends, transduces, transfects, transfixes, transfused, transfuses, transgress, transients, translates, transmutes, transpires, transposed, transposes, transshape, transverse, trashiness, treasonous, tyrannises, tyrosinase, underclass, unfairness, universals, unwariness, upwardness, urinalyses, urokinases, varnishers, vernissage, warinesses, warmnesses, wateriness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 52 53 45 4E |
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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)01010011 01000001 01010010 01010011 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A R S E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0052 0053 0045 004E |
| 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)533552533948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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