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SCLEROUS

Definition: SCLEROUS

SCLEROUS

Adjective

1. Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Sclerous \Scle"rous\, adjective. [from Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SCLEROUS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

multiple sclerous

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCLEROUS

Language Translations for "SCLEROUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

склерозиран, твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), втвърден (consolidated, hard, hard set, indurate, sclerotic). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پینه خورده (Callous), متصلب . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eroussclay

   

Spanish

  

escleroso (sclerosed, sclerotic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sertleşmiş (sclerotic, weather beaten, weather-worn), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), katı (callous, emphatic, emphatical, firm, fold, hard, hard and fast, hard boiled, hard line, insensitive, ironclad, rigid, solid, Square, steel, steely, stern, stiff, strict). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SCLEROUS"

Words rhyming with "SCLEROUS" (pronounced 'Scle"rous'): Anomaloflorous, Anurous, Aurous, Canorous, Chlorous, Cirrous, Decorous, Durous, Eurhipidurous, ferrous, Garous, Gastrurous, Geminiflorous, Hypochlorous, indecorous, Insonorous, Irous, leprous, Liguliflorous, Macrurous, mercurous, Multiflorous, Pellagrous, Radiciflorous, Ramiflorous, serous, Serrous, sonorous, Squarrous, Subserous, susurrous, Thysanurous, Uniflorous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCLEROUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: closures.

Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: closers, closure, colures, courses, cresols, oscules, sources, sucrose.

-2 letters: ceorls, cerous, closer, closes, clours, coleus, colure, corses, course, cresol, crosse, crouse, cruses, curses, cusser, lessor, losers, louses, lucres, oscule, ousels, rouses, scores, scours, scouse, serous, socles, soleus, sorels, source, sucres, ulcers.

-3 letters: ceorl, ceros, close, clour, clues, coles, cores, corse, coses, cress, cross, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, cusso, ecrus, euros, locus, loess, lores, loser, loses, lours, louse, luces, lucre, lures, orles, ousel, roles, roses, roues, rouse, rules, ruses, score, scour, sloes, slues, slurs, socle, soles, solus, sorel, sores, sorus, souls, sours, souse, sucre, suers, ulcer, users.

-4 letters: cels, cero, cess, clue, cole, cols, core, cors, coss, crus, cues, cure, curl, curs, cuss, ecru, ecus, eros, euro, less, lore, lose, loss, lour, luce, lues, lure, oles, orcs, ores, orle, oses, ours, recs, rocs, roes, role, rose, roue, rues, rule, ruse, secs, sels, sers, sloe, slue, slur, sole, sols, sore, soul, sour, sous, suer, sues, sure, user, uses.

-5 letters: cel, col, cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, els, ers, ess, leu, oes, ole, orc, ore, ors, ose, our, rec, res, roc, roe, rue, sec, sel, ser, sol, sos, sou, sue, use.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: caroluses, carousels, slouchers.

 

+2 letters: carrousels, consulters, corpuscles, counselors, disclosure, enclosures, fluoresces, housecarls, inclosures, reclusions, scoundrels, sourceless, supercoils, supercools.

 

+3 letters: brucelloses, brucellosis, counsellors, courtliness, disclosures, fluorescers, pelycosaurs, preclusions, speculators, superblocks, superschool, telecourses, uncrossable.

 

+4 letters: blockbusters, bloodsuckers, censoriously, colorfulness, computerless, copublishers, emasculators, fluoresceins, fluorescents, fluoroscopes, forcefulness, foreclosures, furunculoses, groupuscules, multicourses, portcullises, pronucleuses, sacrilegious, scornfulness, supercilious, superschools, tuberculoses, tuberculosis, uricotelisms.

 

+5 letters: clamorousness, counselorship, counterblasts, counterspells, counterstyles, courtlinesses, credulousness, fluorescences, fluoroscopies, gesticulators, lecherousness, ludicrousness, microcapsules, nondisclosure, perspicuously, proconsulates, ribonucleases, supercolossal.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCLEROUS


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

53 43 4C 45 52 4F 55 53

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 01001100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 004C 0045 0052 004F 0055 0053

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

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

5337463952495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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