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SCISSORSTAIL

Definition: SCISSORSTAIL

SCISSORSTAIL

Noun

1. A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Anagrams: SCISSORSTAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scissortails.

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

-1 letter: scissortail.

-2 letters: socialists.

-3 letters: assistors, classists, coassists, coistrils, sciolists, socialist.

-4 letters: aoristic, assistor, classist, clitoris, coassist, coistril, oralists, sacrists, sciolist, scissors, solicits.

-5 letters: aorists, aristos, assists, assoils, assorts, castors, citolas, citrals, classis, colitis, costars, crissal, italics, lictors, oralist, racists, rialtos, sacrist, sailors, satiric, satoris, scissor, scotias, scrotal, silicas, socials, solicit, soritic, stoical, tailors.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: historicalnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCISSORSTAIL


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

53 43 49 53 53 4F 52 53 54 41 49 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)

...    -.-.    ..    ...    ...    ---    .-.    ...    -    .-    ..    .-..

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

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

01010011 01000011 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001111 01010010 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0049 0053 0053 004F 0052 0053 0054 0041 0049 004C

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

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

533743535349525354354346

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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