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STERCOBILIN

Definition: STERCOBILIN

STERCOBILIN

Noun

1. A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Stercobilin \Ster`co*bi"lin\, noun. [Latin expression stercus dung English bilin.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "STERCOBILIN"

Words rhyming with "STERCOBILIN" (pronounced 'Ster`co*bi"lin'): Berlin, Bilin, Calin, Capelin, Carlin, Cascarillin, Collin, Esculin, Franklin, Gallin, goblin, Hemicollin, Kremlin, Lobelin, Maalin, marlin, Mashlin, Mechlin, Medullin, Merlin, metheglin, Muslin, Parillin, Paulin, Podophyllin, Poplin, Roccellin, Smerlin, Spongiopilin, tarpaulin, urobilin, Vanillin, Vitellin. (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Stercobilin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The reddish-brown color of human feces is derived from stercobilin, a tetrapyrrole chemical compound created by bacterial action on bilirubin and subsequent oxidation.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stercobilin."

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Anagrams: STERCOBILIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: relictions.

-2 letters: bisection, elicitors, reliction, sclerotin.

-3 letters: bicornes, binocles, bisector, bistroic, bornites, bricoles, briniest, brionies, citrines, clitoris, cloister, cointers, coistrel, coistril, colistin, corbeils, corniest, costlier, crinites, elicitor, inciters, incloser, inscribe, isocline, lections, licensor, lioniser, nitriles, nitrolic, noticers, recision, retinols, rinsible, roiliest, silicone, soricine, strobile, strobili, telsonic, trilbies.

-4 letters: berlins, bicorne, bicrons, binocle, bionics, biontic.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+3 letters: binocularities, incorruptibles, noncelebrities, recalibrations, relubrications, republications.

 

+4 letters: prepublications, ribonucleotides.

 

+5 letters: antituberculosis, commensurability, confirmabilities, convertibilities, enforceabilities, triboluminescent.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STERCOBILIN


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

53 54 45 52 43 4F 42 49 4C 49 4E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001111 01000010 01001001 01001100 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0045 0052 0043 004F 0042 0049 004C 0049 004E

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

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

5354395237493643464348

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INDEX

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


  

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