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Anastalsis

Definition: Anastalsis

Anastalsis

Noun

1. Muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Antonym: peristalsis (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Anastalsis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: assailants.

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: assailant.

-2 letters: astasias.

-3 letters: assails, astasia, instals, salinas.

-4 letters: alants, asanas, aslant, assail, assais, assist, instal, lanais, lianas, nasals, nasial, saints, salina, salsas, sasins, satins, sisals, slants, snails, stains, stasis.

-5 letters: alans, alant, alias, alist, anils, anlas, antas, antis, asana, assai, atlas, lanai, lasts, liana, lints, lists, litas, nails, nasal, natal, sails, sains, saint, salsa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-n-s-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: palatialnesses.

 

+5 letters: fanaticalnesses, fantasticalness, sacramentalisms, sacramentalists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Anastalsis


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

41 6E 61 73 74 61 6C 73 69 73

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)

01000001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

A n a s t a l s i s

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0061 0073 0074 0061 006C 0073 0069 0073

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

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

35806785866778857585

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