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Definition: SPINELLE |
SPINELLENoun1. A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jewelry | Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPINELLE |
| Non-English Usage: "SPINELLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (spinel). |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPINELLE": spinelles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ellipse, nellies, pensile. | |
-2 letters: enisle, ensile, nellie, penile, pensil, senile, spinel, spleen, spline. | |
-3 letters: lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, lisle, neeps, nills, peels, peens, peins, peise, peles, penes, penis, piles, pills, pines, plies, seine, selle, sleep, slipe, snell, snipe, speel, speil, spell, spiel, spile, spill, spine. | |
-4 letters: eels, ells, else, ills, isle, lees, leis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: spinelles. | |
+2 letters: pointelles, preselling, respelling. | |
+3 letters: pelletising, pestilently, pliableness, pollenizers, respellings, spellbinder, spinelessly. | |
+4 letters: equipollents, glockenspiel, nucleophiles, pallidnesses, pedestalling, pestilential, philhellenes, planetesimal, repellencies, septennially, sleepwalking, speedballing, spellbinders. | |
+5 letters: equipollences, glockenspiels, interpellates, penicillinase, philhellenism, philhellenist, planetesimals, planetologies, plausibleness, plentifulness, pliablenesses, replenishable, sempiternally, splenetically, theophyllines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 49 4E 45 4C 4C 45 |
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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)... .--. .. -. . .-.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P I N E L L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0049 004E 0045 004C 004C 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)5350434839464639 |
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