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VERMETUS

Definition: VERMETUS

VERMETUS

Noun

1. Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Vermetus \Ver*me"tus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression vermis worm.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: VERMETUS

English words defined with "VERMETUS": GougeshellTubulibranchiataVermetidWorm-shell. (references)

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Rhyming with "VERMETUS"

Words rhyming with "VERMETUS" (pronounced 'Ver*me"tus'): Afflatus, Ailantus, Alto-stratus, Amotus, Asphaltus, Attritus, Benedictus, Boletus, Cactus, Cognatus, Conatus, Conspectus, Cumu-cirro-stratus, Delectus, Detritus, fetus, Gymnotus, ictus, Inflatus, Lacertus, Leptus, Literatus, Mallotus, meatus, Notus, Pectus, Pericarditus, Plutus, Productus, Prospectus, Pruritus, Quietus, rectus, rictus, Salaeratus, Sanctus, Scorbutus, singultus, Situs, status, Subsultus, tinnitus, Victus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VERMETUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-m-r-s-t-u-v"

-1 letter: vesture.

-2 letters: estrum, everts, merest, meters, metres, mustee, muster, resume, retems, retuse, revest, revets, revues, turves, vermes, verset, verste, vertus.

-3 letters: emeus, ester, evert, meets, meres, meter, metes, metre, mures, muser, muter, mutes, reest, remet, reset, retem, reuse, revet, revue, serum, serve, sever, steer, stere, strum, teems, terms, terse, trees, trues, veers, verse, verst, verts, vertu.

-4 letters: emes, emeu, emus, erst, ever, eves, meet, mere, mete, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, rees, rems, rest, rete, rets, revs, rues, rums, ruse, rust, ruts, seem, seer, seme, sere, smut, stem, stum, suer, suet, sure, teem, tees, term, tree, true, user, veer, vees, vert, vest, vets.

-5 letters: eme, ems, emu, ere, ers, eve, met, mus, mut, ree, rem, res, ret, rev, rue, rum, rut, see, ser, set, sue, sum, tee, use, uts, vee, vet.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-m-r-s-t-u-v"
 

+2 letters: volumeters.

 

+3 letters: presumptive, venturesome.

 

+4 letters: countermoves, misadventure, multiservice, outmaneuvers, vermiculites, volunteerism.

 

+5 letters: adventuresome, misadventures, overdocuments, overstimulate, presumptively, subgovernment, venturesomely, volunteerisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VERMETUS


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

56 45 52 4D 45 54 55 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)

01010110 01000101 01010010 01001101 01000101 01010100 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#82 &#77 &#69 &#84 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 0052 004D 0045 0054 0055 0053

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

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

5639524739545553

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INDEX

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


  

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