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Definition: Vatican |
VaticanNoun1. The residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Vatican" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Vatican \Vat"i*can\, noun. [Latin expression Vaticanus, mons, or collis, Vaticanus, the Vatican hill, in Rome, on the western bank of the Tiber: compare to the French expression Vatican, Italian Vaticano.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of the vatican, signifies unexpected favors will fall within your grasp. You will form the acquaintance of distinguished people, if you see royal personages speaking to the Pope. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Vatican The palace of the Pope: so called because it stands on the Vatican Hill. Strictly speaking, the Vatican consists of the Papal palace, the court and garden of Belvidere, the library, and the museum. "The sun of the Vatican sheds glory over the Catholic world."- The Times. The thunders of the Vatican. The anathenias of the Pope, which are issued from the Vatican. The Council of the Vatican. The twenty-first General or OEcumenical Council. It commenced in 1869, Pius IX. being Pope. (See Councils.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Often the term Holy See is defined as the office or jurisdiction of the Pope. It may also be defined as the head of the Roman Catholic church, including the Pope. By this latter definition, the Holy See continues to exist when the papacy is vacant after the death or resignation of the Pope. During such vacancies the Catholic Church and the Vatican City are governed oligarchically by the College of Cardinals. The Holy See is recognized as having legal personality under international law.The Holy See is legally distinguishable from the Vatican City, which is a territory over which the Holy See has sovereignty: some treaties the Holy See is a party to in itself, other treaties it is a party to in respect of the Vatican City.
However, the foreign embassies are credited to the Holy See and not to the Vatican State.
Generally, the Holy See as a party to a treaty reflects the interests of the Roman Catholic church, while Vatican City is generally only party to treaties which are not of general significance, e.g., treaties regarding co-operation with Italy.
Apart from Rome the episcopal see of Mainz is also called a holy see.
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The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati Pontificii, "States of the Church") comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope.
Origins
Originally the term covered only those lands that made up the Patrimonium Sancti Petri (literally: St. Peter's patrimony), the private property of the Church. But from 754 Church control became more explicit, especially over the Duchy of Rome. After gaining territories and taking contested lands, the Church held them to avoid having to rely on external support that could limit the Pope's actions.
The Roman Catholic Church had been allowed to hold and transfer property only since 321. The private property grew greatly through the donations of the pious and the wealthy; the Lateran Palace was the first significant donation, a gift of Emperor Constantine I. Other donations soon followed, mainly in Italy around Syracuse, Palermo, Ravenna, and Genoa and also around Rome, but also on Sicily, in France, Africa, and in the East among other areas. Large gifts became less common after the 600s because economic and political conditions had changed. The Pope had become the largest landowner in Italy, a privilege that brought with it certain political issues and pressures.
Existence
The Papacy became a supporter of the Byzantine rulers over the Lombards, but also moved to protect the population of its territories, raising a Roman militia. The popular support for the Papacy in Italy enabled various Popes to defy the will of the emperor in Constantinople, marked in 715 by the election of Pope Gregory II. Nevertheless the Pope and the Exarch still strove to control the rising power of Lombardy in Italy, however the Papacy was taking a ever larger role in defending Rome, usually through diplomacy, threats and bribery. The Papacy's efforts served to focus Lombard aggrandizement on the Exarch and Ravenna.
When the Exarchate finally fell in 751, the Lombard threat to the Pope was neutralized by the support of Pepin the Short, who sent armies into Italy in 754 and 756. Pepin won back the conquered territories but gifted them all to Pope Stephen II rather than between the Pope and the Emperor. In 781 Charlemagne codified the regions over which the Pope would be temporal sovereign, the Duchy of Rome was key but the territory was expanded to include Ravenna, the Pentapolis, parts of the Duchy of Benevento, Tuscany, Corsica, Lombardy etc. and a number of Italian cities. The security of the states was initially guaranteed by the Frankish empire, a condition that was sometimes exploited.
During the Renaissance the papal territory expanded greatly, notably under Pope Innocent III and Pope Julius II. The Pope became one of Italy's most important secular rulers as well as the head of the Church. Much of the territory was only nominally controlled by the Pope, and most of the papal states were ruled by minor princes. Control was always contested, indeed it took until the 16th Century for the Pope to have any genuine control over all his territories, at which point the Pope's temporal power started to decline. Because of the weak control of the area the Papal States became one of the most lawless and poorest parts of Italy.
Condemned as Despotism
Despite endless invasions, intrigues and internal politicking the Papal States survived into the 19th Century (in 1860 the territory covered 41,500 km²). The rise of Italian nationalism was the key factor. So also widespread allegations of human rights abuses against individual Jews and their community, with the Papal States being compared in public debates by leaders such as future British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to oriental despotism.
Rome: From Papal States to Italian Capital
The Papal states took a severe blow in the revolutions of 1848-49, in which Pope Pius IX was temporarily overthrown and a Roman Republic declared. The final end did not come until their unilateral annexation (often described in Italian history books as a 'liberation') by Victor Emmanuel in 1870, (see Pope Pius IX). The Papacy did not accept the loss. The Pope, whose previous residence, the Quirinal Palace had become the royal palace of the Kings of Italy, withdrew in protest into the Vatican, where he lived as a self-proclaimed 'prisoner', refusing to leave or to set foot in St. Peter's Square, and ordering Catholics on pain of excommunication not to participate in elections in the new Italian state.
However the new Italian control of Rome did not wither, nor did the Catholic world come to the Pope's aid, as Pius IX expected. By the 1920s, the papacy abandoned its demand for a return of the Papal States and signed the Lateran Treaty (or Concordat with Rome) of 1929, which created the Holy See and Vatican City.
An example of the contested ownership of the Papal states can be seen in the following. Ancona was a Papal state 1137-1149, 1355-1797, 1802-1805, and 1814-1860. Bologna was a Papal state 1274-1401, 1403-1411, 1412-1416, 1420-1428, 1429-1438, 1506-1511, 1512-1796, and 1814-1859. Rimini was a Papal state 754-758, 769-774, 777-1063, 1122-1157, 1209-1275, 1278-1288, under Papal influence from 1290, under direct control 1331-1334, 1509-1522, returned to the Papacy in 1528, under Papal control 1528-1796, 1796-1797, 1814-1815, 1815-1831, 1831-1848, 1849-1860
See also: Donation of Constantine, Italian unification
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The State of the Vatican City is the smallest independent country in the world (both in area and in population), a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy. "The Vatican" is the home of the Pope, and forms the territory of the Holy See, the central authority of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican City includes the Vatican Hill (mons vaticanus), whose name antedates Christianity, and the Vatican Fields north of the hill, upon which St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican Museums are built.
Santa Sede
Stato della Citta del Vaticano
(In Detail) National motto: None Official language Latin
(Italian is most common)Pope John Paul II Area
- Total
- % waterRanked 194th
0.44 km²
NegligiblePopulation
- Total (2000)
- DensityRanked 194th
890
2023/km²Independence
- DateLateran treaties
February 11, 1929Currency Euro¹ Time zone UTC +1 National anthem Inno e Marcia Pontificale Internet TLD .VA Calling Code 379 (1) Prior to 1999: Vatican lira History
Main article: History of the Vatican CityIt is supposed that this originally uninhabited part of Rome (the ager vaticanus) had always been considered sacred, even before the arrival of Christianity. In 326 the first church was built on the supposed site of the tomb of Saint Peter, and from then on the area started to become more populated.
Popes in their secular role gradually extended their control over neighbouring regions and through the Papal States ruled a large portion of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when most of the territory of the Papal States was seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy.
In 1870, the Pope's holdings were further circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed. Disputes between a series of "prisoner" popes and Italy were resolved on February 11, 1929 by three Lateran treaties (also known as the Concordat), which established the independent state of the Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a new concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain of the earlier treaty provisions, including the primacy of Roman Catholicism as the Italian state religion.
Politics
Main article: Politics of the Vatican CityThe Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life by those Cardinalss under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the Sistine Chapel).
The term "Holy See" refers to the composite of the authority, jurisdiction, and sovereignty vested in the Pope and his advisers to direct the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. As the "central government" of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See has a legal personality that allows it to enter into treaties as the juridical equal of a state. The Pope delegates the internal administration of the Vatican City to the Pontifical Commission for the State of the Vatican City. The legal system is based on canon, or ecclesiastical, law; if canon law is not applicable, the laws of the city of Rome apply.
As an independent state, the Vatican has the right to send and receive diplomatic representatives, including foreign embassies, which are located in the Italian part of Rome due to the very limited territory of the state. This means, that Italy hosts its own Embassy of Italy.
Geography
Main article: Geography of the Vatican CityThe Vatican City is situated on the Vatican Hill in the northwestern part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river. Its borders (3.2 km in total, all with Italy) closely follow the city wall constructed to protect the Pope from outside attack. The situation is more complex at the famous St. Peter's Square in front of the St. Peter's Basilica, where the correct border is the middle of the round area surrounded by Bernini's columns. It is the smallest sovereign state in the world (108.7 acres). In addition to Vatican City the State includes certain extra-territorial properties in Italy belonging to the Holy See (Major Basilicas, Curial and diocesan offices, Castel Gandolpho). The Pope is the Head of State, though he governs through the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City. The Gubernator manages the day to day affairs of the State.
Its climate is naturally much the same as Rome's; a temperate, mediterranean clime with mild, rainy winters from September to mid-May and hot, dry summers from May to September.
Economy
Main article: Economy of the Vatican CityThis unique, noncommercial economy is supported financially by contributions (known as Peter's Pence) from Roman Catholics throughout the world, the sale of postage stamps, coins and tourist mementos, fees for admission to museums, and the sale of publications. The incomes and living standards of lay workers are comparable to, or somewhat better than, those of counterparts who work in the city of Rome.
Demographics
Main article: Demographics of the Vatican CityAlmost all of Vatican City's 890 citizens live inside the Vatican's walls. The Vatican citizenry consists mostly of clergy, including high dignitaries, priests, nuns, as well as the famous Swiss Guard, a voluntary military force. There are also about 3,000 lay workers who comprise the majority of the Vatican work force, but who reside outside the Vatican.
The official language is Latin, the otherwise extinct language that originated in Rome and has remained in use in the Roman Catholic Church. Italian and, to a lesser extent, other languages are generally used for most conversations, publications and broadcasts.
Culture
Main article: Culture of the Vatican CityThe Vatican City is itself of great cultural significance. Buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica or the Sistine Chapel are home to what is considered some of the most beautiful art in the world, which includes works by artists such as Botticelli, Bernini and Michelangelo. It also has a large and valuable library and the collections of the Vatican Museums are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance.
Miscellaneous topics
- Communications in the Vatican City
- Transportation in the Vatican City
- Military of the Vatican City
- Foreign relations of the Vatican City
External Links
- The Holy See - Official website of the Holy See
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Since long before the founding of Christianity, one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome has been called the Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons). It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum.It has for some centuries been the locus of the headquarters of the Holy See and, since 1929, that of the State of the Vatican City.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| VA | English | Vatican City | Geography |
| VA | French | Le Vatican | Geography |
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Synonym: VaticanSynonym: Vatican Palace (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Churchdom | Popedom; the Vatican, the apostolic see; religious sects. |
Malediction | Noun: malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation. |
Temple | Parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe; Vatican; bishop's palace; Lambeth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vatican |
| English words defined with "Vatican": Achille Ratti, Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti ♦ Church of Rome, Citta del Vaticano ♦ Ex cathedra ♦ Old Catholic ♦ Papal infallibility, Pius XI ♦ Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church ♦ Sistine chapel ♦ The Apollo Belvedere ♦ Vatican City, Vatican Palace ♦ Western Church. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Vatican": ANGELO, Apollo Belvidere ♦ Babes ♦ Jerome ♦ LAOCOON ♦ Muses ♦ RAPHAEL ♦ Total. ♦ Vaticanus, Codex. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vatican" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (the Vatican, Vatican). |
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Screenplays | Call the Vatican. See if something is missing (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) Hey Pope, why don't you go build yourself a new gym at the Vatican. (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) Yeah I'll break into the Vatican with you. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) I've been, yes to the Vatican. (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose) | |
Lyrics | Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did in an attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass, to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy, but I feel that if they really want to sell the product, in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms (The Vatican Rag; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) Doin' the Vatican Rag (The Vatican Rag; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Procès au Vatican (1952) The Holy Year at the Vatican (1950) À l'ombre de Vatican (1922) No. 1 Pope Leo XIII in Vatican Garden (1898) Vatican Air Two (1998) | |
Song Titles | Vatican Rag, The (performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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 | Figure 1. A plastic Secchi disk of recent origin. This disk is lowered in the water until it disappears from sight. The depth at which it disappears is a measure of the water's transparency. Father Angelo Secchi devised this method in 1865 and tested it aboard the Vatican vessel IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE. Several models were tested of different colors. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Caption: Pope Pius Xi with Ediphone Made Especially for Him; Vatican City; Unknown Date; {29.320/91} (jpg). |
 | Double-handled urn, detail of urn pedestal, and two kylix kraters in the Vatican Palace, probably in the Etruscan Museum, Rome. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Notable religious gathering--Pope Pius receives ecclesiastical congregation and tribunal of cardinals at Vatican. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Panoramic view of Vatican Gardens, Rome. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Vatican Garden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rome from Vatican Observatory. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Vatican spirals downward: A vi" by KS Keefe Commentary: "Spiral stairway in new Vatican visitors Center Vatican City, Italy." | "Rome - Vatican - San Pietro" by Rc Pause Commentary: "Rome - San Pietro - Vatican <br> <br>feb03." |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi | The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. |
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Business | There is no Vatican representative in China. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Croatia | Restitution to the Catholic Church is regulated by a 1998 concordat with the Vatican. (references) |
Kuwait | The Papal Nuncio resides in Kuwait City and also represents Vatican interests in the other Gulf States and Yemen. (references) | |
Central African Republic | Radio Notre Dame, which is owned and operated by the Catholic Church, also broadcasts; it receives funding from the Vatican. (references) | |
Economic History | The Holy See | Work force: 3,000 lay workers (reside outside the Vatican). (references) |
The Holy See | Almost all of Vatican City's 870 citizens live inside the Vatican's walls. (references) | |
The Holy See | Radio Vatican, the official radio station, is one of the most influential in Europe. (references) | |
Political Economy | China | In some regions with high concentrations of Catholics, relations between the Government and the underground church loyal to the Vatican remained tense. (references) |
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| "Vatican" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vatican" is used about 415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 415 | 13,635 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Vatican": l'État de la Cité du Vatican ♦ le Vatican ♦ state of the Vatican City ♦ Thunders of the Vatican ♦ Vatican City ♦ Vatican Council ♦ Vatican Palace. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Vatican": vatican-italian, vatican-loyal. | |
Ending with "Vatican": Hungary-vatican, post-vatican, pre-vatican, pro-vatican, Soviet-vatican. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vatican | 2,409 | inside the vatican | 20 |
vatican city | 391 | vatican 2 | 19 |
vatican museum | 202 | vatican history | 18 |
vatican city hotel | 69 | secret vatican | 17 |
vatican ii | 62 | vatican city picture | 17 |
vatican city italy | 54 | vatican gift shop | 16 |
vatican news | 52 | document of vatican ii | 16 |
vatican art | 47 | mason vatican | 15 |
site vatican web | 42 | vatican council ii | 14 |
assassin vatican | 34 | tour vatican virtual | 14 |
architecture vatican | 33 | st peter vatican | 14 |
vatican library | 33 | home page vatican | 14 |
vatican picture | 30 | vatican coin | 12 |
vatican radio | 29 | treasure vatican | 12 |
tour of vatican | 25 | vatican flag | 11 |
exhibit houston vatican | 24 | vatican stamp | 11 |
exhibit vatican | 23 | harry potter vatican | 11 |
city map vatican | 21 | bank vatican | 11 |
second vatican council | 21 | houston vatican | 10 |
rome and the vatican | 20 | vatican gift | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "Vatican"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Vatikaan (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Albanian | Vatikan. (various references) | |
Arabic | الفاتيكان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Ватикана. (various references) | |
Chinese | 梵帝岡 . (various references) | |
Czech | Vatikán, Papežský Palác V Øímì. (various references) | |
Danish | Vatikanstaten (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City, Vatican City State), VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City), Pavestolen (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City, Vatican City State). (various references) | |
Dutch | Vaticaan (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Vatikano (the Vatican), vatikana. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقررسمی پاپ درروم , واتیکان , دربارپاپ . (various references) | |
Finnish | Vatikaani (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City), VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City), Pyhä istuin (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City). (various references) | |
French | Vatican (the Vatican). (various references) | |
German | Vatikan (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Greek | Βατικάνο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Vatikán (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Irish | Cathair na BhatacÚine (Vatican City). (various references) | |
Italian | Vaticano (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City), Città del Vaticano (Vatican City). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backhand, backing, backless, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex), バズーカ砲 (bachelor, battered child, bazooka, butter, butter sauce, buttercream, butterfly, buzz session, clattering noise, flapping, rattling, thud), 法王庁 , 教皇庁 (Holy See). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バチカンきゅうでん, バチカン , きょうこうちょう (Holy See), ほうおうちょう. (various references) | |
Manx | Ard-Valley yn Phaab (Vatican City). (various references) | |
Papiamen | Vatikano (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aticanvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaticano (the Vatican). (various references) | |
Russian | ватикан (vatican city), Ватикан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vatikan. (various references) | |
Spanish | Vaticano. (various references) | |
Swedish | vatikanen. (various references) | |
Turkish | Vatikan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Ватикан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Va-ti-can, toà thánh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Vatican" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Vaisman, Vodicka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Vatican" (pronounced 'Vat"i*can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Anti-American, Anti-Gallican, Barracan, Basilican, Cancan, Cassican, Cooncan, Copernican, Dellacruscan, Flucan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Malacostracan, Maracan, Mechoacan, Mexican, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Pan-American, Pan-Anglican, Pecan, Pelican, Publican, Puplican, Rubican, SCAN, Spheniscan, toucan, Tucan, Vulcan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: atavic, vacant. | |
-2 letters: actin, antic, avant, avian, vatic, vinca. | |
-3 letters: acta, anta, anti, cain, cant, tain, vain, vina, vita. | |
-4 letters: act, ain, ait, ana, ani, ant, ava, can, cat, nit, tan, tav, tic, tin, vac, van, vat, via. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: cavatina, cavatine, vacating, vacation. | |
+2 letters: avocation, cavatinas, caveating, covariant, vacations, vaccinate, vaticinal, vicariant. | |
+3 letters: activating, activation, advocating, advocation, avocations, cavitating, cavitation, evacuating, evacuation, excavating, excavation, inactivate, vacationed, vacationer, vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinator, vaticinate, vicariants, vocational. | |
+4 letters: activations, advocations, autoclaving, avocational, captivating, captivation, carminative, cavitations, clairvoyant, covariation, evacuations, excavations, inactivated, inactivates, revaccinate, vacationers, vacationing, vacationist, vaccinating, vaccination, vaccinators, vacillating, vacillation, vacuolation, vandalistic, vaticinated, vaticinates, vaticinator, vulcanisate, vulcanizate. | |
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