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TECTRICES

Definition: TECTRICES

TECTRICES

Noun plural

1. The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tectrices \Tec"tri*ces\, plural noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression tegere, tectum, to cover.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: TECTRICES

English words defined with "TECTRICES": Tegmen. (references)

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Modern Translations: TECTRICES

Language Translations for "TECTRICES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

fedjagyn coodee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectricestay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TECTRICES"

Words rhyming with "TECTRICES" (pronounced 'Tec"tri*ces'): Acinaces, Altrices, Apieces, Delices, Faeces, Fasces, Gastromyces, Percesoces, Praecoces, Precoces, Premices, Rapaces, Saccharomyces, Trichoscolices, Vibices. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TECTRICES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: cerites, cretics, recites, tercets, testier, tierces, trisect.

-3 letters: cercis, cerise, cerite, certes, citers, cretic, erects, recces, recite, resect, resite, retest, reties, secret, setter, sitter, steric, street, strict, terces, tercet, tester, tierce, titers, titres, trices, triste.

-4 letters: cerci, ceres, ceric, cesti, cetes, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, erect, ester, recce, recti, reest, reset, retie, rices, rites, scree, siree, steer, stere, terce, terse, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trees, trets, trice, tries, trite.

-5 letters: cees, cere, cete, cire, cist, cite, cris, erst, etic, ices, ires, recs, rees, reis, rest, rete, rets, rice, rise, rite, sect, seer, sere, sett, sice, sire, site, stet, stir, tees, test, tets, tics, tier, ties, tire, tits, tree, tret.

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

+3 letters: centricities, certificates, decorticates, metacentrics, stereotactic, telocentrics.

 

+4 letters: architectures, correctitudes, crotchetiness, cyberneticist, electricities, electrostatic, interconnects, microcassette, reticulocytes, spectrometric, tetracyclines.

 

+5 letters: clitorectomies, concertmeister, contraceptives, corticosterone, counterpickets, cyberneticists, deconstructive, disconcertment, eccentricities, electrocutions, electroosmotic, electrostatics, microcassettes, reconstructive, submetacentric, trichothecenes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TECTRICES


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

54 45 43 54 52 49 43 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)

01010100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000011 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0043 0054 0052 0049 0043 0045 0053

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

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

543937545243373953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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