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VERECUND

Definition: VERECUND

VERECUND

Adjective

1. Rashful; modest.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Verecund \Ver"e*cund\, adjective. [Latin expression verecundus, from vereri to feel awe.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: VERECUND

English words defined with "VERECUND": Verecundious, Verecundity. (references)
Etymologies containing "VERECUND": Verecundious. (references)

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Rhyming with "VERECUND"

Words rhyming with "VERECUND" (pronounced 'Ver"e*cund'): Cund, Iracund, rubicund, Secund. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VERECUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-r-u-v"

-1 letter: decurve.

-2 letters: curved, decern, endure, enured, nerved, reduce, vender, vendue.

-3 letters: ceder, cered, creed, crude, cured, curve, deuce, dunce, educe, ender, endue, enure, nerve, never, nuder, revue, undee, under, venue.

-4 letters: cede, cere, crud, cued, curd, cure, curn, deer, dene, dere, dree, duce, dune, dure, durn, ecru, erne, even, ever, need, nerd, neve, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde, veer, vend.

-5 letters: cee, cud, cue, cur, dee, den, dev, due, dun, ecu, end, ere, ern, eve, nee, rec, red, ree, rev, rue, run, urd, urn, vee.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-r-u-v"
 

+1 letter: uncovered.

 

+2 letters: undercover.

 

+3 letters: overcounted, unconverted, underactive, unperceived, unrecovered.

 

+4 letters: circumvented, countermoved, overconsumed, overdocument, underachieve, undiscovered.

 

+5 letters: countervailed, overabundance, overcautioned, overdocuments, overeducating, overeducation, reductiveness, underachieved, underachiever, underachieves.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VERECUND


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

56 45 52 45 43 55 4E 44

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)

01010110 01000101 01010010 01000101 01000011 01010101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#85 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 0052 0045 0043 0055 004E 0044

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

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

5639523937554838

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INDEX

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


  

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