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Definitions: TETTER |
TETTERNoun1. A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Transitive verb1. To affect with tetter. |
Date "TETTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TETTER |
| English words defined with "TETTER": Dartrous ♦ Honeycomb tetter ♦ Moist tetter ♦ Scaly tetter ♦ Tarsal tetter, Tetter berry, Tettered, Tettering, Tetterous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TETTER": Vitiligo. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "TETTER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tetter | Last name | 170 | 45,162 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "TETTER": Honeycomb tetter ♦ moist tetter ♦ scaly tetter ♦ Tarsal tetter ♦ Tetter berry ♦ tetter eating. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TETTER": Tetter-totter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TETTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sëmundje me krurje, kruarje (itch, scratching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المرض الجلدي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | екзема (eczema), лишеи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nakazit lišejem, lišej (impetigo), kožní vyrážka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éruption cutanée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκζεμα (eczema), λειχήν (lichen, ringworm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sömör (cracked heel, grapes, herpes, lichen, ringworm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kudis (mange, rash, scabies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ettertay tinha (ringworm, scald-head, tinea), herpes (herpes, herring), eczema (eczema, edacious). (various references) экзема (eczema), лишай (dartre, herpes, lichen, shingles). (various references) frìde (a tetter, animalcule). (various references) kožna bolest. (various references) temriye (barber's itch, lichen), bir cilt hastalığı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TETTER": tetters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: rete, tree, tret. | |
-3 letters: ere, ree, ret, tee, tet. | |
-4 letters: er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: strette, tetters. | |
+2 letters: attester, betatter, tattered, tittered, titterer, tottered, totterer. | |
+3 letters: attesters, betatters, bitterest, frettiest, prettiest, quartette, reattempt, remittent, restitute, rottenest, stuttered, stutterer, tiltmeter, titterers, totterers, treatment, twittered, wattmeter. | |
+4 letters: aftertaste, betattered, betterment, butteriest, featurette, interstate, jitteriest, littermate, operettist, quartettes, reattempts, restituted, restitutes, retreatant, stutterers, teetotaler, tetrameter, thirteenth, tiltmeters, treatments, triacetate, triathlete, tricolette, typesetter, wattmeters. | |
+5 letters: aftertastes, betattering, betterments, bittersweet, curettement, entreatment, entrustment, featurettes, intermitted, intermitter, interstates, leatherette, litterateur, littermates, operettists, photosetter, reattempted, reattribute, reinstitute, reoutfitted, restatement, retentivity, retreatants, retrofitted, rottenstone, shergottite, skitteriest, startlement, steamfitter, stonecutter, streetlight, stretchiest, teetotalers, teetotaller, testatrices, testatrixes, tetrameters, tetravalent, thirteenths, trendsetter, triacetates, triathletes, tricolettes, typesetters, typewritten. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 45 54 54 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)- . - - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E T T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052 |
| 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)543954543952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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