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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Urgan A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king of the fairies and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the "curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, "I fear not sign made with a bloody hand." Then forward stepped Alice and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice signed him thrice, and the elf became "the fairest knight in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother Ethert." (Sir Walter Scott: Alice Brand, Lady of the Lake, iv. 12.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: URGAN |
| Non-English Usage: "URGAN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (rope, tether). |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
legend urgan | 4 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "URGAN": kurgan. (additional references) | |
Words containing "URGAN": kurgans. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: gaun, gaur, gnar, gran, guan, guar, rang, ruga, rung. | |
-2 letters: gan, gar, gnu, gun, nag, rag, ran, rug, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, ar, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: granum, kurgan, langur, ourang. | |
+2 letters: aground, angular, arguing, gaunter, gauntry, granule, guarani, gurnard, kurgans, languor, langurs, organum, ourangs, outrang, uneager, unguard, ungular. | |
+3 letters: abjuring, accruing, adjuring, alluring, antidrug, argentum, argonaut, argument, arousing, assuring, auguring, clangour, curating, dungaree, figurant, geranium, gourmand, graduand, grandeur, granular, granules, guaranis, guaranty, guardant, guardian, guarding, gunpaper, gurnards, harangue, infrugal, languors, manuring, maturing, nonsugar, nugatory, nutgrass, organums, origanum, osnaburg, outrange, pagurian, rigaudon, rumbaing, runagate, singular, speargun, squaring, sugaring, unargued, unarming, uncaring, uncharge, undaring, underage, ungraced, ungraded, unguards, uprating, upsprang, vanguard. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 52 47 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .-. --. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01010010 01000111 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U R G A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0052 0047 0041 004E |
| 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)5552413548 |
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