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STYPHNIC

Definition: STYPHNIC

STYPHNIC

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Styphnic \Styph"nic\, adjective. [from Greek expression (spurious) sty`fein to contract.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: STYPHNIC

English words defined with "STYPHNIC": Styphnate. (references)

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Rhyming with "STYPHNIC"

Words rhyming with "STYPHNIC" (pronounced 'Styph"nic'): Aganglionic, Allemannic, Ammonic, Atechnic, Britannic, Caffetannic, Carnic, Cornic, Funic, Gallotannic, Hennotannic, Komenic, Metastannic, Mimotannic, Mischnic, Mishnic, Morintannic, Oxyphenic, Paleotechnic, Phenic, Pinic, Polytechnic, Punic, Quercitannic, runic, splanchnic, Stannic, Strychnic, Stryphnic, Sulphostannic, tannic, tunic, Usnic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STYPHNIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-n-p-s-t-y"

-2 letters: chints, hypnic, physic, pitchy, scyphi, snitch.

-3 letters: chins, chips, chits, hints, itchy, pinch, pints, pitch, piths, pithy, psych, pyins, shiny, spicy, spiny, stich, synch, synth, thins, tipsy, typic.

-4 letters: chin, chip, chis, chit, cist, city, cyst, hins, hint, hips, hisn, hist, hits, hyps, ichs, inch, itch, nips, nits, phis, pics, pins, pint, piny.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-n-p-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: hypnotics.

 

+3 letters: sycophantic.

 

+4 letters: chymotrypsin, hypersthenic, interpsychic, intrapsychic, nonpsychotic, phenocrystic, polytechnics, posthypnotic, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, scintigraphy, sycophantish, sycophantism.

 

+5 letters: amphictyonies, antipsychotic, chymotrypsins, lycanthropies, metaphysician, parasynthetic, phagocytosing, psychasthenia, psychasthenic, psychogenetic, psychokinetic, pyrotechnists, sycophantisms, unsympathetic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STYPHNIC


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

53 54 59 50 48 4E 49 43

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 01011001 01010000 01001000 01001110 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#89 &#80 &#72 &#78 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0059 0050 0048 004E 0049 0043

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

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

5354595042484337

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INDEX

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


  

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