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VISNOMY

Definition: VISNOMY

VISNOMY

Noun

1. Face; countenance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VISNOMY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Note: Visnomy \Vis"no*my\, noun. [Contr. from physiognomy.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Rhyming with "VISNOMY"

Words rhyming with "VISNOMY" (pronounced 'Vis"no*my'): Academy, Adenotomy, Adesmy, Adynamy, Agronomy, Alchemy, Allogamy, Anatomy, Andranatomy, Androtomy, Angiotomy, Anomy, Antinomy, Aplotomy, Apogamy, Aponeurotomy, Archenemy, Army, Arrhytmy, Arteriotomy, Astronomy, Atimy, Autogamy, Autonomy, Belamy, BIGAMY, Bionomy, Blasphemy, Blosmy, Bronchotomy, Capsulotomy, Celotomy, Cephalotomy, Chalazogamy, Chasmy, Chirognomy, Chironomy, Cholecystotomy, Chondrotomy, Cirsotomy, Clammy, Cleronomy, Coenogamy, Colotomy, Craniognomy, Craniotomy, Crummy, Cystotomy, Dactylonomy, Demonomy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VISNOMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-m-n-o-s-v-y"

-1 letter: myosin, simony.

-2 letters: noisy, vinos, yonis.

-3 letters: ions, miso, mons, mony, nims, noms, nosy, vims, vino, viny, yins, yoni.

-4 letters: ins, ion, ism, ivy, mis, mon, mos, nim, nom, nos, oms, ons, sim, sin, som, son, soy, syn, vim, vis, yin, yom, yon.

-5 letters: in, is, mi, mo, my, no, om, on, os, oy, si.

 Words containing the letters "i-m-n-o-s-v-y"
 

+2 letters: viomycins.

 

+5 letters: omnivorously, voluminosity, voluminously, voluntaryism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VISNOMY


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

56 49 53 4E 4F 4D 59

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 01001001 01010011 01001110 01001111 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#83 &#78 &#79 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0053 004E 004F 004D 0059

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

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

56435348494759

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INDEX

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


  

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