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Definition: WANION |
WANIONNoun1. A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. |
Date "WANION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Etymology: Wanion \Wan"ion\, noun. [Probably for Old English waniand waning, present participle of wanien; hence, used of the waning of the moon, supposed to be an unlucky time. See Wane.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: WANION |
| Etymologies containing "WANION": Waniand. (references) |
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Words beginning with "WANION": wanions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WANION" (pronounced 'Wan"ion'): Adfluxion, Affixion, Affluxion, Annexion, Antecommunion, Anteflexion, Anthelion, Aphelion, Brunion, Circumflexion, Commixion, Communion, Complexion, Connexion, Crucifixion, Deflexion, Defluxion, Discomplexion, Disfashion, Disopinion, Disunion, Dominion, Effluxion, Excommunion, Fanion, flexion, fluxion, Franion, Gorgoneion, Implexion, inflexion, Influxion, Innixion, intercommunion, Mandilion, Menaion, Misfashion, Misopinion, Noncommunion, Nonunion, Onion, Parhelion, Pommelion, Postcomminion, Postilion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, refashion, retroflexion. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: anion. | |
-2 letters: anon, naoi, nona, wain, wino. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, awn, inn, ion, nan, naw, now, own, wan, win, won. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, aw, in, na, no, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: wanions. | |
+2 letters: wagoning, womaning. | |
+3 letters: antiwoman, jawboning, kinswoman, narrowing, waggoning, wantoning, weaponing, womankind. | |
+4 letters: jawbonings, landowning, nationwide, outfawning, outgnawing, rawinsonde, snowmaking, windowpane, womanising, womanizing, workingman. | |
+5 letters: allowancing, coxswaining, downgrading, downloading, downplaying, downscaling, forewarning, landownings, pawnbroking, postweaning, rawinsondes, snowballing, unhallowing, wainscoting, windowpanes, womanliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 4E 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000001 01001110 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A N I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 004E 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)573548434948 |
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