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SCRAT

Definitions: SCRAT

SCRAT

Intransitive verb

1. To rake; to search.

Noun

1. An hermaphrodite.

Transitive verb

1. To scratch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCRAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

"SCRAT" is a common misspelling or typo for: scat, scram, scrap, script, sprat.

Derivations: SCRAT

Derivations

Words beginning with "SCRAT": scratch, scratchboard, scratchboards, scratched, scratcher, scratchers, scratches, scratchier, scratchiest, scratchily, scratchiness, scratchinesses, scratching, scratchy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SCRAT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carts, scart.

Words within the letters "a-c-r-s-t"

-1 letter: acts, arcs, arts, cars, cart, cast, cats, rats, scar, scat, star, tars, tsar.

-2 letters: act, arc, ars, art, car, cat, ras, rat, sac, sat, tar, tas.

-3 letters: ar, as, at, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: actors, bracts, carats, carets, cartes, caster, castor, caters, charts, costar, crafts, crates, crista, racist, reacts, recast, scarts, scrota, starch, tarocs, traces, tracks, tracts, triacs.

 

+2 letters: accurst, actress, amtracs, arctics, astrict, canters, cantors, captors, carates, caritas, carnets, carpets, carrots, cartels, carters, cartons, casters, castors, cavorts, cerates, chaster, citrals, clarets, coaster, coaters, contras, costard, costars, cottars, craters, cratons, cravats, creates, crestal, cristae, crustal, crystal, curates, curtals, custard, czarist, drastic, ecartes, factors, fractus, gastric, karstic, narcist, nectars, ostraca, oxcarts, preacts, precast, rachets, raciest, racists, rackets, ratches, recants, recasts, redacts, restack, retacks, sacrist, satiric, satyric, scanter, scarlet, scarted, scatter, scratch, scrotal, sectary, spectra, stacker, starchy, stearic, surcoat, tackers, tanrecs, tarmacs, tracers, tragics, trances, trocars, turacos.

 

+3 letters: abreacts, abstract, abstrict, accretes, acerbest, acridest, acrobats, acrostic, acrotism, actorish, actressy, adscript, agrestic, amtracks, ancestor, ancestry, aoristic, apricots, archaist, articles, artistic, astricts, attracts, backrest, batchers, bearcats, brachets, brackets, cabarets, cabestro, cabresta, cabresto, cadaster, cadastre, caltraps, caltrops, canister, cantraps, cantrips, captures, carditis, carotids, carotins, carports, cartages, cartoons, castrate, castrati, castrato, catarrhs, catbirds, catchers, caterans, caterers, cateress, centares, centaurs, centrals, ceramist, cerastes, ceratins, chanters, chantors, chapters, chariest, chariots, charters, chartist, chatters, cheaters, cigarets, cisterna, citators, citharas, citrates, clatters, claustra, clearest, coactors, coarsest, coasters, comparts, congrats, contrast, copastor, corantos, costards, costmary, courants, crampits, crankest, crassest, cratches, craziest, creatins, creators, cremates, crispate, cristate, cryostat, crystals, curators, currants, curtails, curtains, custards, custardy, cutgrass, cytaster, czarists, detracts, distract, dogcarts, ectosarc, enactors, ergastic, erratics, escargot, exacters, exactors, extracts, factures, flatcars, forecast, fractals, fracturs, furcates, futharcs, haircuts, haricots, hatchers, hatracks, hectares, infarcts, infracts, locaters, locators, matchers, matrices, mistrace, narcists, orgastic, ostracod, ostracon, outraces, overacts, overcast, paretics, patchers, picrates, piscator, postcard, postrace, practise, precasts, pushcart, quartics, rachitis, racquets, ratchets, reactors, reascent, recharts, recheats, recitals, recrates, recusant, redcoats, reenacts, refracts, restacks, retraces, retracks, retracts, ricottas, rustical, sacrists, sacristy, sarcenet, scantier, scarcest, scarcity, scariest, scarlets, scarting, scatters, scattier, sceptral, scimetar, scimitar, scramjet, scratchy, seacraft, secateur, sectoral, snatcher, spectral, stackers, stancher, starched, starches, sterical, stockcar, subtract, surcoats, suricate, tacklers, tacrines, teacarts, teachers, terraces, theriacs, thoraces, tipcarts, touracos, tracheas, trachles, tracings, trackers, tractors, traduces, traffics, trajects, tramcars, tranches, transact, transect, treacles, triacids, triadics, tribasic, triclads, tripacks, trochars, turacous, uncrates, watchers, yachters.

 

+4 letters: abductors, abstracts, abstricts, accentors, accepters, acceptors, accouters, accoutres, accredits, acerbates, achromats, acierates, acrodonts, acrolects, acroliths, acrostics, acrotisms, acrylates, actresses, actuaries, actuators, adductors, adscripts, aeroducts, affecters, ahistoric, amoristic, anarchist, ancestors, ancestral, anchorets, anoretics, anthraces, arcatures, archaists, archivist, armistice, aromatics, artefacts, artifacts, artifices, ascertain, ascorbate, astricted, astrocyte, ataraxics, atrocious, attachers, attackers, autocrats, autocross, awestruck, baccarats, backrests, bacterias, bacterins, becarpets, boracites, bracelets, bractlets, brattices, brickbats, broadcast, brocatels, cabernets, cabestros, cabrestas, cabrestos, cabrettas, cadasters, cadastral, cadastres, calthrops, calutrons, calypters, calyptras, canisters, cannister, cantharis, cantraips, capturers, carburets, carcanets, careerist, caretakes, caritases, carotenes, carrotins, carryouts, cartelise, cartloads, caryatids, caryotins, castoreum, castrated, castrates, castrator, castratos, casuistry, cataracts, catbriers, catharses, catharsis, cathedras, catheters, catnapers, catteries, cauteries, caveators, cavorters, cellarets, centiares, ceramists, cervelats, chantries, chapiters, charities, charriest, chartists, chastener, chastiser, chaunters, chelators, chlorates, chordates, chromates, cilantros, cisternae, cisternal, claptraps, clarinets, clarities, claustral, claustrum, cloistral, coastward, coatdress, coatracks, coatrooms, coauthors, cocreates, cofactors, collarets, collators, colorants, colorfast, colostral, combaters, consortia, constrain, contracts, contrails, contrasts, contrasty, coparents, copastors, copatrons, corantoes, corelates, cornstalk, coronates, corotates, corposant, coruscant, coruscate, corybants, costarred, cottagers, courantes, courantos, courtesan, crabbiest, crabmeats, crabstick, crackpots, craftiest, craftsman, craftsmen, craggiest, craniates, crankiest, crappiest, crapshoot, crawliest, crayonist, creakiest, creamiest, creasiest, creatines, creations, creatures, cremators, crewmates, croakiest, croissant, crosstalk, croustade, crustacea, cryostats, cubatures, cultivars, curatives, customary, cutwaters, cystocarp, cytasters, czaritzas, decanters, decorates, decretals, democrats, desecrate, detachers, dicentras, dictators, diffracts, digastric, distracts, dramatics, dumpcarts, ectosarcs, educators, entrances, eristical, eructates, escalator, escargots, esoterica, etceteras, ethnarchs, evocators, execrates, factories, footraces, forecasts, fractions, fractious, fractures, handcarts, hardtacks, heartsick, heptarchs, impacters, impactors, insectary, interacts, iterances, jackstraw, jockstrap, justiciar, kickstart, lacerates, lacertids, larcenist, loricates, macerates, marcasite, merchants, miscreant, miscreate, mistraced, mistraces, mobocrats, monocrats, motorcars, narcotics, navicerts, nectaries, nectarous, nonactors, obscurant, ocularist, operatics, oratrices, orchestra, orgiastic, ostracise, ostracism, ostracize, ostracode, ostracods, outcapers, outcharms, outcrawls, outrances, overcasts, overcoats, parasitic, particles, patristic, pectorals, pentarchs, perfectas, piscators, piscatory, placaters, portances, postcards, postcrash, practices, practised, practises, praefects, praelects, preenacts, prismatic, prostatic, protracts, psoriatic, pushcarts, racemates, racialist, raclettes, radicates, raincoats, rascality, raticides, raucities, reaccents, reaccepts, reactants, reactions, readdicts, realistic, reascents, reattacks, recanters, recarpets, recasting, recreants, recreates, recusants, redactors, reductase, rejackets, relocates, rematches, renascent, repatches, restacked, retackles, reteaches, retroacts, rockshaft, romantics, roughcast, rusticals, rusticate, sacrament, sacristan, sanctuary, sarcastic, sarcenets, sarcomata, satirical, scarriest, scattered, scatterer, scenarist, scimetars, scimitars, sclerotia, scramjets, scratched, scratcher, scratches, scrutable, scutellar, seacrafts, secateurs, secretary, sectarian, sectaries, sectorial, shortcake, sidetrack, snatchers, snatchier, spaceport, spectator, spermatic, staircase, stanchers, starchier, starchily, starching, stauncher, stockcars, stockyard, stomacher, strategic, streetcar, subarctic, subtracts, suctorial, suctorian, sugarcoat, suricates, sybaritic, sympatric, tailraces, tamaracks, tesseract, tetracids, tetrarchs, thatchers, theatrics, theocrats, theriacas, thwackers, timecards, traceless, traceries, tracheids, trachomas, trachytes, trackages, trackings, trackless, trackside, tracksuit, trackways, tractates, tractions, traducers, transacts, transcend, transduce, transects, transfect, transonic, traprocks, trauchles, tribrachs, trichinas, trictracs, trifectas, trifocals, triptycas, trochaics, trochleas, truancies, truckages, truncates, turbocars, turncoats, ulcerates, uncreates, underacts, urticants, urticates, varactors, verticals, vicarates, victorias, warcrafts, whitracks, yardstick.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCRAT


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

53 43 52 41 54

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 01010010 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0052 0041 0054

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

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

5337523554

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INDEX

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


  

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