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STRIGES

Definition: STRIGES

STRIGES

Noun plural

1. The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Striges \Stri"ges\, plural noun. [Latin expression, plural of strix streech owl; compare Greek for screaming night bird.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "STRIGES"

Words rhyming with "STRIGES" (pronounced 'Stri"ges'): Ambages, Asperges, Boanerges, Compages, meninges, Osages. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STRIGES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tigress.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: grists, resist, sister, tigers.

-2 letters: gests, girts, gists, grist, grits, rests, rises, rites, sires, sites, sties, stirs, tiers, tiger, tires, tress, tries, trigs.

-3 letters: egis, ergs, erst, gest, gets, gies, girt, gist, gits, grit, ires, regs, reis, rest, rets, rigs, rise, rite, segs, seis, sers, sets, sire, sirs, site, sits, sris, stir, tegs.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: glisters, gorsiest, gristles, resights, sighters, stingers, strigose, trigness.

 

+2 letters: asserting, astringes, crestings, digesters, digestors, ergotisms, ganisters, grassiest, greasiest, grisettes, grisliest, magisters, prestiges, redigests, registers, resisting, restrings, rightness, russeting, sightseer, sistering, sterigmas, sterlings, stressing, stringers, sugariest, synergist, tigresses.

 

+3 letters: allergists, brightness, disserting, eyestrings, foresights, gannisters, gearshifts, geyserites, gravitases, gristliest, grittiness, insurgents, nightdress, oversights, oysterings, persisting, predigests, progestins, registrars, registries, resittings, rightsizes, ringtosses, rugosities, russetings, russetting, scraggiest, scroggiest, serologist, shoestring, sightseers, signatures, sortileges, splurgiest, spriggiest, springiest, stingarees, strategies, strategist, streakings, streamings, stringiest, stringless, synergists, theurgists, trignesses, turgidness, wrestlings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STRIGES


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

53 54 52 49 47 45 53

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 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000111 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0052 0049 0047 0045 0053

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

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

53545243413953

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INDEX

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


  

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