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SIGMODONT

Definition: SIGMODONT

SIGMODONT

Noun

1. Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Sigmodont \Sig"mo*dont\, noun. [from Greek expression sigma, tooth.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "SIGMODONT"

Words rhyming with "SIGMODONT" (pronounced 'Sig"mo*dont'): Acrodont, Coelodont, Conodont, Coryphodont, Cyprinodont, Glyptodont, Homodont, labyrinthodont, Macrodont, Mesodont, Microdont, Monophyodont, Octodont, Oreodont, Phocodont, Pycnodont, Rachiodont, Rhachiodont, Rhizodont, Squalodont, Zeuglodont. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SIGMODONT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-m-n-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: monodist.

-2 letters: dominos, dooming, gnomist, mooting, motions, sooting.

-3 letters: doings, doming, domino, dosing, doting, godson, ingots, inmost, isogon, mondos, mongos, mongst, monist, mooing, motion, ootids, simoon, stingo, tigons, tondos.

-4 letters: dingo, dings, dints, doing, doits, dongs, dooms, gismo, goods, goons, ingot, midst, minds, mints, misdo, moist, mondo, mongo, monos, moods, moons, moots, nomoi, nomos.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-m-n-o-o-s-t"
 

+3 letters: demonologist.

 

+4 letters: demonologists, discomforting, gonadectomies, sedimentology.

 

+5 letters: dogmatizations, sedimentologic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SIGMODONT


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

53 49 47 4D 4F 44 4F 4E 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 01001001 01000111 01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#71 &#77 &#79 &#68 &#79 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0047 004D 004F 0044 004F 004E 0054

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

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

534341474938494854

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INDEX

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


  

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