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Definition: SCRUTOIRE |
SCRUTOIRENoun1. A escritoire; a writing desk. |
Date "SCRUTOIRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Scrutoire \Scru*toire"\, noun. [Old French expression escritoire. See Escritoire.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCRUTOIRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | boayrd screeuee (blackboard). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | utoirescray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: courtiers. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: citreous, couriers, courters, courtier, crustier, outcries, recruits. | |
-2 letters: cirrose, cirrous, citrous, corries, courier, courser, courter, couters, crosier, cruiser, curites, curries, erotics, icterus, orrices, recruit, rectors, rioters, roister, rouster, routers, rustier, scourer, scouter, stourie, tourers, trouser. | |
-3 letters: cerous, cestoi, cirrus, citers, citrus, coitus, corers, corrie, corset, cosier, coster, course, courts, couter, criers, crores, crouse, cruets, cruise, cruors, cruset, curers, curets, curies, curios, curite, currie, curser, cursor, curter, cuties, erotic, eructs, escort, orrice, ouster, outers, rector, rectos, rectus, recurs, recuts, resort, retros, ricers, rictus, rioter, rosier, roster, rouser, router, routes, rustic, scorer, scoter, sector, sorter, sortie, source, sourer, souter, steric, stoure, suiter, suitor, tories, tourer, trices, triers, triose, truces, uretic. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cesti, cires, citer, cites, coirs, corer, cores, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, court, crest, crier, cries, crore, cruet, cruor, cruse, crust, curer, cures, curet, curie, curio, currs, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, eruct, escot, etuis, euros, ictus, orris, osier, ourie, outer, outre, recti, recto, recur, recut, retro, ricer, rices, riots, riser, rites, roset, rotes, rotis, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, ruers, score, scour, scout, scute, sieur, sorer, stoic, store, stour, sucre, suite, surer, tiers, tires, tiros, torcs, tores, toric, torse, torsi, torus, tours, touse, trice, trier, tries, trios, trois, truce, truer, trues, ureic, uteri. | |
-5 letters: cero, cire, cist, cite, coir, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crus, cues, cure, curr, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, eros, errs, erst, etic, etui, euro, ices, ires, orcs, ores, orts, otic, ours, oust, outs, recs, reis, rest, rets, rice, riot, rise, rite, rocs, roes, rose, rote, roti, rots, roue, rout, ruer, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, scot, scut, sect, sice, sire, site, sore, sori, sort, sour, stir, suer, suet, suit, sure, tics, tier, ties, tire, tiro, toes, torc, tore, tori, torr, tors, tour, trio, true, tuis, uric, user. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: couturiers. | |
+2 letters: couturieres, intercourse, introducers, quercitrons, subdirector, terricolous. | |
+3 letters: carburetions, countercries, counterfires, counterraids, crematoriums, insurrection, intercourses, mercurations, meretricious, peritrichous, reintroduces, resurrection, resuscitator, stringcourse, subdirectors. | |
+4 letters: correctitudes, countersniper, counterstrike, floricultures, horticultures, incorruptness, insurrections, interlocutors, microcultures, oracularities, prosecutorial, recuperations, reproductions, reproductives, resurrections, resuscitators, stringcourses, subcontraries, superromantic, tubocurarines. | |
+5 letters: arboricultures, counterfeiters, counterrallies, countersnipers, counterstrikes, incorruptibles, insurrectional, macronutrients, meretriciously, microcomputers, micronutrients, micropunctures, microstructure, multiprocessor, neurochemistry, neurosecretion, nonintercourse, peritrichously, preproductions, proventriculus, recirculations, reconstructing, reconstruction, reconstructive, relubrications, resurrectional, superpatriotic, superscription, ultraprecision. | |
| 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 52 55 54 4F 49 52 45 |
| 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 01010010 01010101 01010100 01001111 01001001 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C R U T O I R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0052 0055 0054 004F 0049 0052 0045 |
| 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)533752555449435239 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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