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SCISSORS-TAILED

Definition: SCISSORS-TAILED

SCISSORS-TAILED

Adjective

1. Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: SCISSORS-TAILED

Language Translations for "SCISSORS-TAILED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

剪刀盯梢. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

가위 꼬리를 다ëŠ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

issors-tailedscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCISSORS-TAILED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: scissortails.

-3 letters: dissociates, scissortail, solidarists.

-4 letters: carditises, clitorides, clitorises, cloistress, clostridia, coassisted, disclosers, dislocates, dissectors, disseisors, dissociate, editorials, estradiols, idolatries, isostasies, ostracised, ostracises, sacristies, serialists, socialised, socialises, socialists, socialites, sodalities, solidarist, solitaires, solitaries.

-5 letters: assisters, assistors, asteroids, clarities, classiest, classists, cloisters, coassists, coatdress, coistrels, coistrils, colitises, crosslets, crossties, dacoities, deistical, diastoles, diastolic, disasters, discloser, discloses, dislocate, dissector, disseisor, dissocial, doleritic, drossiest, editorial, elicitors, eristical, estradiol, idealists, idiolects, idocrases, idolaters, idolisers, lacertids, lacrosses, lodestars, loricates, oralities, ostiaries, ostracise, raticides, realistic, sarodists, satirised, satirises, sciolists, scissored, sclerosis, sclerotia, sectorial, serialist, silicates, silicoses, socialise, socialist, socialite, sodalists, sodalites, solarised, solarises, solecists, solicited, solitaire, solstices, steroidal, trailside.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCISSORS-TAILED


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

53 43 49 53 53 4F 52 53 2D 54 41 49 4C 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010011 01000011 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001111 01010010 01010011 00101101 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#83 &#45 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0049 0053 0053 004F 0052 0053 002D 0054 0041 0049 004C 0045 0044

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

533743535349525315543543463938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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