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VOLACIOUS

Definition: VOLACIOUS

VOLACIOUS

Adjective

1. Apt or fit to fly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Volacious \Vo*la"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression volare to fly.]. (Websters 1913)

Rhyming with "VOLACIOUS"

Words rhyming with "VOLACIOUS" (pronounced 'Vo*la"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, Dicacious, Disgracious, Edacious, Efficacious, Extispicious, Fallacious, Feracious, Ferocious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, Incapacious, inefficacious, Ingracious, injudicious, Inofficious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VOLACIOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-o-s-u-v"

-3 letters: caulis, cavils, clavus, coulis, oscula, ovisac, social, violas, visual, vocals.

-4 letters: aulic, aviso, calos, cauls, cavil, clavi, coals, coils, colas, cools, laics, locos, locus, louis, oculi, olios, ovals, ovoli, salic, salvo, silva, sulci, ulvas, vails, vials, viola, viols, vocal, voila.

-5 letters: ails, also, asci, avos, calo, caul, ciao, coal, coil, cola, cols, cool.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-o-s-u-v"
 

+1 letter: olivaceous, violaceous.

 

+2 letters: voraciously.

 

+3 letters: vacuolations.

 

+4 letters: carnivorously, cavernicolous, convulsionary, vulcanologies, vulcanologist.

 

+5 letters: cocultivations, vulcanologists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VOLACIOUS


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

56 4F 4C 41 43 49 4F 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 01001111 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 004C 0041 0043 0049 004F 0055 0053

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

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

564946353743495553

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INDEX

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


  

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