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VERTICILLASTER

Definition: VERTICILLASTER

VERTICILLASTER

Adjective

1. A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Verticillaster \Ver`ti*cil*las"ter\, adjective. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression verticillus whirl aster star.]. (Websters 1913)

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Rhyming with "VERTICILLASTER"

Words rhyming with "VERTICILLASTER" (pronounced 'Ver`ti*cil*las"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater, Cremaster, Culter, Cutter, daughter, Dentiroster, Diaster, Disembitter, Disimbitter, Dunter, Embetter, Enaunter, Encloister, Enfester, Enfetter, Enshelter, Ester, feuter, Flawter, Forgetter, Forster, Fouter, Frater, Fretter, Getter, Glyster, goiter, goitre, Goter, Grammaticaster, granddaughter, helter-skelter, Hemipter, Heteropter, hitter, Homopter, Horopter, Huxter, hymenopter, Imbitter, Imitater, Impester, Incenter, Incloister, Infilter, Instanter, Interchapter, Interpilaster, Intromitter, Iter, Jetter, jotter, Jowter, kelter, knitter, LAUGHTER, Lepidopter, Lester, loiter, Longiroster, Magister, mater, matter, Mesogaster, Micraster, Misalter, Misenter, Mismeter, Natter, Neuropter, Nitter, Nutter, Oleaster, Olivaster, Omitter, Orthocenter, Outflatter, Overflutter, Overmaster, Overpester, Oxter, Oyster, Paraunter, Pentecoster, Permitter, Pester, Pewter, Phenicopter, Philister, Phycomater, Phylacter, Physeter, Piaster, Pinaster, Pineaster, Poulter, Powter, Pressiroster, Protureter, Psalter, Pseudohalter, Quarter, Quartter, Quitter, Rapter, ratter, rebutter, Recenter, Recurviroster, Reiter, Remitter, Rhinaster, Rhipipter, roster, Santer, scienter, scoter, Scutter, Self-slaughter, semester, sinter, Sitter, Skelter, Slatter, slitter, Souter, Sowter, Spelter, Spilter, splatter, splitter, spotter, Strutter, Stylaster, submitter, supplanter, tam-o'-shanter, teeter, Tenuiroster, thereafter, thysanopter, Toscatter, totter, transmitter, Trichopter, trimester, trochanter, trotter, Twinter, Uncloister, Unfetter, Unshutter, Unsister, ureter, Walter, Whetter, Xyster, Yester, Zoster. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VERTICILLASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-l-r-r-s-t-t-v"

-2 letters: verticillate.

-3 letters: artilleries, artillerist, illiterates, recitatives, restrictive, trailerites, triliterals.

-4 letters: clatterers, clavierist, craterlets, illiterate, irrelative, literacies, literalist, railleries, recitalist, recitative, relativist, retractile, retrievals, revitalise, tertiaries, trailerist, trailerite, travellers, triliteral, triticales, varletries, veracities.

-5 letters: arriviste, arteritis, careerist, cartelise, catteries, cavillers, celestial, cellarers, cellarets, cervelats, clarities, clatterer, craterlet, crevalles, eristical, illatives, irritates, iterative, laetriles, laterites, lateritic, levirates, leviratic, levitates, literates, litterers, liveliest, raclettes, ravellers, realistic, realities, recallers, relatives, retailers, retrieval, rillettes, rivalries, satellite, scatterer, statelier, streetcar, terrellas, tirrivees, traceries, travelers, traveller, triticale, varieties, veritates, versatile, verticals, verticils.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VERTICILLASTER


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

56 45 52 54 49 43 49 4C 4C 41 53 54 45 52

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 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#82 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 0052 0054 0049 0043 0049 004C 004C 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

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

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

5639525443374346463553543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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