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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | White sand with large spheroidal masses of calciferous sandstone called sand ballers or giants' marbles, some being 3 to 6 ft (approx. 1 to 2 m) in diameter. (Possibly a variant of "bollars," a dialect form ofboulders.). (references) |
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Lyrics | Them ballers gonna ball (Playas Gon' Play; performing artist: 3LW) For the club is full of ballers i'ma come up on (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) The club is full of ballers (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) Ballers wanna ball (Feelin' On Yo Booty; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Ballers (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Words ending with "BALLERS": broomballers, fastballers, fireballers, footballers, knuckleballers, softballers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: balers, baller, blares, blears, labels. | |
-2 letters: abler, ables, arles, baler, bales, balls, bares, baser, bears, bells, blare, blase, blear, braes, earls, label, lares, laser, lears, rales, reals, saber, sable, sabre, seral. | |
-3 letters: able, albs, ales, alls, arbs, ares, arse, bale, ball, bals, bare, bars, base, bear, bell, bels, blae, brae, bras, earl, ears. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ballsier, barbells, brailles, labelers, liberals, relabels, rubellas. | |
+2 letters: balloters, bargellos, beadrolls, brucellas, fireballs, harebells, labellers, reliables, resalable, screwball, subcellar, umbrellas. | |
+3 letters: balladeers, balladries, ballerinas, barrelfuls, barrelsful, caballeros, coralbells, cranesbill, curveballs, fastballer, greaseball, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, reclosable, releasable, relishable, resealable, resolvable, screwballs, softballer, subcellars. | |
+4 letters: ballplayers, banderillas, bankrollers, barcarolles, bellyachers, blacklister, brainlessly, brilliances, bristletail, brocatelles, butterballs, collarbones, cranesbills, fastballers, fibrillates, fireballers, footballers, glassblower, greaseballs, labiovelars, landlubbers, liberalised, liberalises, liberalisms, liberalists, liberalizes, liberalness, neoliberals, pallbearers, pleasurable, pleasurably, portabellas, portabellos, radiolabels, recyclables, softballers, subaerially, subcellular, subdermally, subparallel, subumbrella, syllabaries, tetherballs, trisyllable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4C 4C 45 52 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .-.. . .-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A L L E R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004C 004C 0045 0052 0053 |
| 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)36354646395253 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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