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Barbital

Definition: Barbital

Barbital

Noun

1. A barbiturate used as a hypnotic.

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



Specialty Definitions: Barbital

DomainDefinitions

Health

A long-acting barbiturate that depresses most metabolic processes at high doses. It is used as a hypnotic and sedative and may induce dependence. Barbital is also used in veterinary practice for central nervous system depression. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Barbital

Synonyms: barbitone (n), diethylbarbituric acid (n), diethylmalonylurea (n), veronal (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Barbital

Non-English Usage: "Barbital" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Turkish (barbital, barbitone).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Barbital

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

barbital

6
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Modern Translations: Barbital

Language Translations for "barbital"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

巴"妥 (barbitone). (various references)

   

Danish

  

barbital. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

barbital. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

barbitaali. (various references)

   

French

  

barbital. (various references)

   

German

  

Barbital. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βαρβιτάλη, υπνωτικό φάρμακο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

barbital. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arbitalbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

barbital, derivado do ácido barbitúrico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

barbital. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

barbital. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

barbital (barbitone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Barbital

Derivations

Words beginning with "barbital": barbitals. (additional references)

Words ending with "barbital": amobarbital, hexobarbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, secobarbital. (additional references)

Words containing "barbital": amobarbitals, hexobarbitals, pentobarbitals, phenobarbitals, secobarbitals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Barbital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babulal, Babuta, barbatum, Barbeito, Bariba, Barisal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Barbital

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-i-l-r-t"

-2 letters: atrial, barbal, lariat, latria, rabbit, tribal.

-3 letters: altar, artal, atria, brail, laari, labia, labra, libra, rabat, rabbi, ratal, riata, tabla, talar, tiara, trail, trial.

-4 letters: abba, abri, airt, alar, alba, alit, aria, aril, baal, baba, bail, bait, barb, birl, blab, blat, brat, brit, lair, lari, lati, liar, lira, raia, rail, rial, tail, tala, tali, tirl.

-5 letters: aal, aba, ail, air, ait, ala, alb, alt, arb, art, baa, bal, bar, bat, bib, bit, bra, lab, lar, lat, lib, lit, rat, ria, rib, tab, tar, til.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-i-l-r-t"
 

+1 letter: barbitals.

 

+2 letters: arbitrable.

 

+3 letters: amobarbital, bearability.

 

+4 letters: amobarbitals, attributable, hexobarbital, secobarbital.

 

+5 letters: absorbability, antibillboard, bearabilities, breathability, hexobarbitals, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, rebarbatively, secobarbitals.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Barbital


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

42 61 72 62 69 74 61 6C

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)

01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 0062 0069 0074 0061 006C

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

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

3667846875866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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