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Definition: SCOLITHUS |
SCOLITHUSNoun1. A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm. |
Etymology: Scolithus \Scol"i*thus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression skw`lhx worm li`qos stone.]. (references) |
| Words rhyming with "SCOLITHUS" (pronounced 'Scol"i*thus'): Acanthus, Ailanthus, Amianthus, Aspalathus, Canthus, Compsognathus, Paragnathus, Polyanthus, strophanthus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: oculists. | |
-2 letters: coltish, cultish, holists, locusts, loutish, oculist, schuits, scouths. | |
-3 letters: cistus, cloths, clouts, coitus, coulis, couths, custos, hoists, holist, lichts, lithos, locust, schist, schuit, scouth, scouts, shouts, sloths, slouch, souths, stichs, stoics, thiols, toluic. | |
-4 letters: chits, cists, clits, cloth, clots, clout, coils, colts, costs, couth, cuish, culti, cults, cusso, cutis, hilts, hilus, hists. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dishclouts, slouchiest. | |
+3 letters: polystichous. | |
+4 letters: sansculottish. | |
+5 letters: consultantship, laughingstocks, psycholinguist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 4F 4C 49 54 48 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- .-.. .. - .... ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001000 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C O L I T H U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 004F 004C 0049 0054 0048 0055 0053 |
| 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)533749464354425553 |
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