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SPECTANT

Definition: SPECTANT

SPECTANT

Adjective

1. Looking forward.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPECTANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Spectant \Spec"tant\, adjective. [Latin expression spectans, present participle of spectare to look at.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SPECTANT

Specialty definitions using "SPECTANT": Look One Way and Row Another. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SPECTANT

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Books

  • Iuris et iudicii fecialis, sive, iuris, inter gentes, et quaestionum de eodem explicatio : qua quae ad pacem & bellum inter diversos principes, aut populos spectant, ex praecipuis historico-jure-peritis, exhibentur (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Rhyming with "SPECTANT"

Words rhyming with "SPECTANT" (pronounced 'Spec"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Flotant, Gestant, humectant, important, Montant, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, Sectant, self-important, sextant, statant, supernatant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPECTANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-p-s-t-t"

-1 letter: patents, pattens.

-2 letters: aptest, ascent, aspect, centas, enacts, epacts, patens, patent, patten, pecans, secant, stacte, stance.

-3 letters: acnes, antes, aspen, canes, canst, cants, capes, caste, cates, cents, cesta, enact, epact, etnas, napes, nates, neaps, neats, netts, paces, pacts, panes, pants, paste, paten, pates, peans, peats, pecan, scant, scape, scatt, scena, scent, septa, sneap.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-p-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: pancettas, pittances.

 

+2 letters: antiseptic, constipate, expectants, psittacine, punctuates, spectating.

 

+3 letters: anticipates, antiseptics, constipated, constipates, pacesetting, pantheistic, planchettes, protectants, psittacines, typecasting.

 

+4 letters: acceptations, antipyretics, compartments, contemplates, counterparts, crepitations, expectations, expectorants, inspectorate, pancreatitis, pectinations, pontificates, postaccident, precipitants, stupefaction.

 

+5 letters: antiparticles, antipesticide, conceptualist, contemplators, cotransported, decapitations, incapacitates, inspectorates, letterspacing, neoplasticist, outplacements, pantheistical, parasynthetic, paternalistic, pertinacities, petrifactions, placentations, practitioners, preanesthetic, privatdocents, procrastinate, prognosticate, punctualities, putrefactions, stupefactions, transcriptase, trichopterans, unsympathetic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SPECTANT


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

53 50 45 43 54 41 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 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 0041 004E 0054

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

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

5350393754354854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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