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Definitions: Elicit |
ElicitVerb1. Call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy". 2. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant". 3. Derive by reason; "elicit a solution". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elicit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ElicitSynonyms: arouse (v), draw out (v), educe (v), enkindle (v), evoke (v), extract (v), fire (v), kindle (v), provoke (v), raise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke. |
Discovery | Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter. |
Extraction | Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate. |
Manifestation | Indicate; (direct attention to); disclose; elicit; a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elicit |
| English words defined with "elicit": advance, approach, attract ♦ catechism, colossal ♦ discovery, draw ♦ Elicitate, Eliciting, excite ♦ feeler, fetch ♦ leading ♦ maieutic method ♦ overture ♦ prodigious, pull ♦ rhetorical ♦ Socratic method, stupendous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elicit": asbestos longjohns, ASCIIbonics ♦ CLAIMS ADJUDICATOR ♦ director, broadcast, DIRECTOR, RADIO, DIRECTOR, STAGE ♦ floor plan adjuster ♦ Haptens ♦ INVESTIGATOR, DEALER ACCOUNTS ♦ jail keeper ♦ Precipitins ♦ Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Receptors, Phencyclidine ♦ SENIOR ENLISTED ADVISOR, Sensory Thresholds, Sex Attractants, SKIP TRACER ♦ 'Snooze ♦ SUPERVISOR, SPECIAL EDUCATION ♦ Tombusviridae ♦ UTILIZATION COORDINATOR ♦ Yu-Shiang Whole Fish. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Elicit" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (coax, draw, elicit, entice, forth, pull out). |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Kutapressin can elicit allergic reactions. (references) | |
Common bacteria typically elicit antibodies, while viruses and fungi stimulate T cells. (references) | ||
Because patients' shower baths often elicit agitation, the study focused on this routine event. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | Authorities viewed the program as improper because of the organizers' efforts to advertise the event and to elicit a response from the crowd during remarks. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | Upcoming privatizations in the power and banking sectors will likely elicit strong interest from U.S. firms. (references) |
Chad | Judicial authorities are widely assumed to be subject to influence and legal clerks often obstruct procedures in order to elicit bribes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Police routinely use force to elicit confessions; however, there were fewer reports of torture by police during the year. (references) |
Philippines | According to a CHR report, those arrested (including a 13-year-old child) were subjected to beatings intended to elicit confessions. (references) | |
Botswana | There were reports that police sometimes beat persons and used intimidation techniques in order to obtain evidence or elicit confessions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Australia | Although the government can elicit support from the ALP for some legislation, the Democrats are more likely to compromise as they did in joining the Government on introducing the goods and services tax ("GST) one of the most significant tax reform measures in recent Australian history. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | Ongoing electricity outages and water rationing may elicit further demonstrations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Elicit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.71% of the time. "Elicit" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.71% | 207 | 21,147 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.02% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
butt elicit | 7 |
elicit | 4 |
bbw elicit | 2 |
elicit toplist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elicit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), i nxjerr. (various references) | |
Arabic | إستنبط (contrive, devise, educe, evolve, formulate, frame, work out), إستخرج (educe, evolve, excavate, extract, lever, mine, quarry, read out, shake), أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ظهر للعيان (emerge, unfold). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), изтръгвам (extort, get, milk, pull out, rip out, root from, snatch, tear out, uproot, wrench, wrest, yank), извличам (derive, distil, drag out, draw, educe, excerpt, exhaust, extract, milk, recover). (various references) | |
Chinese | 得出 (Elicited, Eliciting). (various references) | |
Czech | zjistit (ascertain, average, chase up, detect, determine, establish, find, find out, read, tell), získat (acquire, cajole, capture, carry off, come by, conciliate, drum up, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), vyloudit, vylákat (bring out). (various references) | |
French | extraire, tirer, provoquer, obtenir, mettre jour, foire sortir, arracher. (various references) | |
German | entlocken (coax out of, extract, to elicit, worm out of). (various references) | |
Greek | αποσπώ (abstract, break off, detach, distract, extort, extract, pluck, pry, pull, second, tease out, unfix, wean 1, wean 2, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תרים (get him to contribute), ל"פיק (bring out, derive, extract, issue, output, send forth), ל"ובב (cause to speak, draw someone out, induce to speak). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kivesz (get out, make out, pull out, take out, to draw out, to except, to expel, to rent, to scour away, to take out, to unclench, to unclinch), kisüt (ran, run, think up, to fuzz out, to render, to run). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengeluarkan (educe, excrete, expel, secrete). (various references) | |
Italian | suscitare (arouse, cause, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, provoke, rouse), ricavare (borrow, come to, deduce, earn, extract, gain, get, make a profit, obtain), provocare (arouse, bring on, cause, challenge, defy, dispose, incite, induce, invite, operate, produce, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, spark, stir, wake, work), dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduce, deduct, gather, induce, infer), cavar fuori. (various references) | |
Manx | tayrn magh (drag out, draw out, evoke, extract, extraction, pluck out, pull out, rip out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal), feddyn magh (ascertain, ascertainment, determine, dig out, discover, discovery, invent, invention, seek out). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lokke fram. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elicitay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extrair (bows, couch, drag out, draw, drew, educe, excerption, extract, lug, poker, pull, pump, take out, winkle out), traquinas (elysium, frolic, frolicsome, monkey, petulant), deduzir (abate, abstract, articulate, collect, deduce, derive, educe, gather, imply, knock out, poke about, recoup, retrench). (various references) | |
Romanian | smulge (carry away, draw out, extirpate, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), obţine (achieve, acquire, attain, coax, come by, find it easy to, get, obtain, poll, procure, realize, secure, take, whip). (various references) | |
Russian | извлекать (abstract, derive, extract, extracted, extracting, retrieve, uncompress, withdraw). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izmamiti (entice, scrounge, tap, wangle, wheedle, winkle out). (various references) | |
Spanish | sonsacar (draw out, pump, steal, tease out, wheedle), provocar (bring, draw, drive, fuel, goad, goad on, incite, induce, needle, nettle, promote, provoke, set up, throw up, touch off, trigger, whip), obtener (achieve, acquire, attain, bring off, come by, derive, earn, extract, get, get in, have, jump on, land, obtain, poll, procure, receive, secure, take out). (various references) | |
Swedish | framlocka (draw forth), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call forth, call up, cause, develop, engender, evoke, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall, set up). (various references) | |
Turkish | tepkiye neden olmak, tepki göstermek, meydana çıkarmak (bring to light, catch out, dig up, nail, reveal, show), aydınlatmak (brighten, charge, civilize, clear, clear up, clue, dissolve, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, flash, flash on, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, let daylight into smth., light, light up, lighten, post, rake up, set light to, shine upon, solve, unravel), öğrenmek (ascertain, come to know, get to know, get wise to, hear, imbibe, inform oneself of smth., learn, make acquainted with, make oneself acquainted with, master, school oneself to, study, wise up to, wit), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) | |
Ukranian | робити висновок (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, educe, gather, infer), виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, evince, evolve, exert, find, show, uncover, vent), добитися (compel, succeed, win), допитатися. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | eliciendum, elicit, elicuit, eruam, eruamini, eruaris, eruas, eruat, eruatis, erue, eruebamque, eruens, eruent, eruentur, eruere, erueret, eruerit, eruero, eruerunt, erues, eruet, erui, eruimus, eruisset, eruissetis, eruisti, eruit, eruite, eruti, erutus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Amelge gala kai estai bouturon ean de ekpiezhV mukthraV exeleusetai aima ean de exelkhV logouV exeleusontai kriseiV kai macai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui autem fortiter premit ubera ad eliciendum lac exprimit butyrum et qui vehementer emungitur elicit sanguinem et qui provocat iras producit discordias |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Who forsothe strongli thresteth tetes, to drawen out mylc, threstith out buttere; and who hugeli smyteth, drawith out blod; and who terreth wrathis, bringeth forth discordis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 33 |
| Bulgarian | Защото както , като се бие мляко, изважда се масло, И като се блъска нос, изважда се кръв, Така и, като се подбужда гняв, изкарва се крамола. |
| Cebuano | Kay ang pagbatil sa gatas nagadala ug mantekilya, Ug ang paglubag sa ilong nagapagula sa dugo; Busa ang pagpugos sa kaligutgut nagadala ug pakig-away. |
| Chinese | 搖 牛 奶 必 成 奶 油 . 扭 鼻 子 必 出 血 . 照 樣 、 激 動 ' 氣 必 起 爭 端 。 |
| Croatian | Kad se mlijeko metÄe, izlazi maslac; kad se nos pritisne, poteèe krv; kad se srdžba potisne, dobiva se spor. |
| Danish | \30:32\Thi Tryk på Mælk giver Ost, Tryk på Næsen Blod og Tryk på Vrede Trætte. |
| Dutch | Want de drukking der melk brengt boter voort, en de drukking van den neus brengt bloed voort, en de drukking des toorns brengt twist voort. |
| Finnish | Sillä maitoa pusertamalla saa voin, nenää pusertamalla saa veren, ja vihoja pusertamalla saa riidan. |
| French | Car la pression du lait produit de la crème, La pression du nez produit du sang, Et la pression de la colère produit des querelles. |
| German | Wenn man Milch stößt, so macht man Butter daraus; und wer die Nase hart schneuzt, zwingt Blut heraus; und wer den Zorn reizt, zwingt Hader heraus. |
| Haitian Creole | Si ou bat lèt, l'ap fè bè. Si ou frape yon moun sou men l', l'ap senyen. Si ou nan pouse dife, ou nan gwo kont. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab, kalau engkau mengocok susu, kau menghasilkan mentega. Kalau engkau memukul hidung orang, keluarlah darah. Kalau engkau menimbulkan kemarahan, kau terlibat dalam pertengkaran. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena air susu ditumbuk menjadi mentega dan hidung ditumbuk keluar darah dan amarah digalakkan menjadikan perkelahian. |
| Italian | poiché, sbattendo il latte ne esce la panna, premendo il naso ne esce il sangue, spremendo la collera ne esce la lite. |
| Korean | 대 을 으 면 뻐 터 가 되 " 를 비 틀 면 " 가 나 " 것 같 이 노 를 격 동 하 면 다 툼 이 남 이 니 라 |
| Maori | He pono hoki ki te hurihia te waiu ka puta mai he pata, a ki te kowiria te ihu ka puta mai he toto: waihoki ki te akina te riri ka puta he whawhai. |
| Modern Greek | "ιοτι οστις κτυπα το γαλα, εκβαλλει βουτυρον· και οστις εκθλιβει την ρινα, εκβαλλει αιμα· και οστις ερεθιζει οργην, εξαγει μαχας. |
| Norwegian | For trykk på melk gir smør, og trykk på nese gir blod, og trykk på vrede* gir trette. # <* enn mere å egge den vrede.> |
| Portuguese | Como o espremer do leite produz queijo verde, e o espremer do nariz produz sangue, assim o espremer da ira produz contenda. |
| Rumanian | cqci baterea laptelui dq smkntknq, scqrpinarea nasului dq sknge, wi stoarcerea mkniei dq certuri. |
| Russian | ПФПНХ ЮФП, ЛБЛ У'ЙЧБОЙЕ НПМПЛБ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ НБУМП, ФПМЮПЛ Ч ОПУ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ ЛТПЧШ, ФБЛ Й ЧПЪ'ХЦ"ЕОЙЕ ЗОЕЧБ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ УУПТХ. |
| Spanish | Ciertamente el que bate la leche sacará mantequilla; el que con fuerza se suena la nariz sacará sangre, y el que provoca la ira causará contienda. |
| Swedish | Ty såsom ost pressas ut ur mjölk, och såsom blod pressas ut ur näsan, så utpressas kiv ur vrede. ---- |
| Thai | เพราะเมื่อกวนน้ำนมก็ไ"้เนยเหลว เมื่อบีบจมูกก็ไ"้โลหิต และเมื่อกวนโทโสก็ไ"้การวิวาท |
| Ukrainian | Бо збивання молока да" масло, і да" кров вдар по носі, тиск же на гнів да" сварку. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elicit": elicitation, elicitations, elicited, eliciting, elicitor, elicitors, elicits. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elicit": felicitate, felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation, felicitations, felicitator, felicitators, felicities, felicitous, felicitously, felicitousness, felicitousnesses, felicity, helicities, helicity, infelicities, infelicitous, infelicitously, infelicity. (additional references) | |
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"Elicit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alicit, ebiscite, edicit, eeikish, eleatic, elecit, elic, elicia, elicite, elicitr, elict, Eligio, eliki, ellic, ellicit, ellicite, elohim, ilecit, ilicet, ilicis, ilicit, jelincic, Leicht, Leixit, Lerici, slicit, Telebit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elicit" (pronounced uli"sut) |
| 6 | u l i" s u t | solicit. |
| 5 | -l i" s u t | complicit, explicit, illicit, implicit. |
| 3 | -s u t | Basset, corset, cosset, deficit, dulcet, facet, faucet, knesset, Lancet, russet, tacit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: licit, telic. | |
-2 letters: ceil, celt, cite, clit, etic, lice, lite, tile. | |
-3 letters: cel, ice, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, tic, tie, til. | |
-4 letters: el, et, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: ciliate, elicits, fictile, pelitic. | |
+2 letters: ciliated, ciliates, ecliptic, elicited, elicitor, elliptic, enclitic, eolithic, explicit, felicity, felsitic, helicity, idiolect, lecithin, leucitic, limnetic, lithemic, perlitic, pyelitic, scilicet, silicate, verticil, zeolitic. | |
+3 letters: anticline, chilliest, citizenly, clarities, cliffiest, clingiest, cliquiest, colitises, deciliter, declivity, deistical, dialectic, doleritic, ecliptics, eliciting, elicitors, enclitics, epileptic, eristical, etiologic, explicits, fictively, genitalic, homiletic, identical, idiolects, implicate, inelastic, inflicted, inflicter, insectile, italicise, italicize, laciniate, lateritic, laticifer, lecithins, leviratic, melanitic, militance, neolithic, niccolite, pearlitic, pleuritic, realistic, reliction, sciential, sectility, sickliest, silicates, socialite, solicited, sticklike, tailpiece, tricklier, triticale, verticils, videlicet, witchlike. | |
+4 letters: acetanilid, actinolite, afflictive, alacrities, anticlines, antipolice, bimetallic, bioethical, calamities, capitalise, capitalize, celerities, cellulitis, centiliter, centillion, childliest, citrulline, civilities, clavierist, cliometric, clitorides, clitorises, colpitises, conciliate, crinkliest, deciliters, dialectics, dielectric, dilemmatic, diphyletic, docilities, egoistical, elasticity, elliptical, endolithic, enticingly, epiblastic, epicuticle, epiglottic, epileptics, epitomical, erectility, eremitical, ethicality, eulogistic, excitingly, explicitly, facilitate, facilities, felicitate, felicities, felicitous, helicities, helminthic, homiletics, idealistic, idiolectal, illiteracy, imbecility, implicated, implicates, inactively, incidental, indelicate, indictable, indirectly, inexplicit, infelicity, inflecting, inflection, inflective, inflicters, inflictive, isoplethic, italicised, italicises, italicized, italicizes, jesuitical, laticifers, legalistic, legitimacy, lexicality, licentiate, licentious, lipsticked, literacies, localities, lucidities, lysimetric, megalithic, melanistic, melismatic, microliter, militances, multicurie, multigenic, multipiece, niccolites, novelistic, participle, philatelic, plasticine, plasticize, plebiscite, polemicist, politicise, politicize, politicked, politicker, politicoes, postexilic, prickliest, recitalist, relictions, salacities, septicidal, socialites, solecistic, solicitude, specialist, speciality, stenciling, tailpieces, theistical, tholeiitic, tremolitic, trickliest, triplicate, triticales, ultimacies, umbilicate, unciliated, uricotelic, velocities, ventriculi, victimless, vocalities, xenolithic. | |
+5 letters: acclimatise, acclimatize, acclivities, acetanilide, acetanilids, actinolites, actualities, alchemistic, aliteracies, applicative, atheistical, athleticism, bellicosity, bibliotheca, bidialectal, bimetallics, bioelectric, biometrical, bisectional, calisthenic, callosities, capitalised, capitalises, capitalized, capitalizes, carnalities, cartelising, cartelizing, catholicize, causalities, celebrities, centiliters, centillions, certifiable, certifiably, chiralities, circinately, circulative, citrullines, clarinetist, clavierists, clericalist, climacteric, cliometrics, cloistering, clonicities, coevalities, cognitively, colinearity, colligative, conciliated, conciliates, conflictive, credibility, credulities, crocidolite, cyclicities, declination, declivities, declivitous, deficiently, deistically, dereliction, dialectical, diametrical, dielectrics, dilatancies, directional, directorial, diverticula, domiciliate, ductilities, duplicative, duplicities, eclecticism, educability, efficiently, egotistical, eidetically, elasticized, electrician, electricity, electrified, electrifies, elicitation, ellipticals, ellipticity, elucidating, elucidation, elucidative, enigmatical, epicuticles, epithalamic, epithetical, equinoctial, eristically, etiological, exclusivist, exclusivity, explicating, explication, explicative, facelifting, facilitated, facilitates, factitively, felicitated, felicitates, felicitator, feudalistic, fiddlestick, flichtering, geanticline, geopolitics, gracilities, helicopting, heliometric, heliotropic, homiletical, identically, illicitness, implicative, inceptively, incidentals, incipiently, incredulity, inductively, inflections, inoculative, interfacial, interlacing, interracial, intervallic, intricately, invectively, isoelectric, justiciable, kinematical, kinetically, lecithinase, licentiates, lickspittle, linecasting, loquacities, lubricative, lubricities, maledicting, malediction, meiotically, melioristic, mentalistic, methicillin, microliters, militancies, mimetically, multiclient, multiethnic, nematicidal, neologistic, ostrichlike, participles, peculiarity, penicillate, peristaltic, perithecial, placidities, planimetric, plasticines, plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizes, plebiscites, pleiotropic, polemicists, politicised, politicises, politicized, politicizes, politickers, precritical, princeliest, publicities, quitclaimed, rascalities, recitalists, rectifiable, rectilinear, replicating, replication, replicative, rickettsial, scintillate, sectilities, selectivity, singlestick, socialities, solicitudes, specialists, specialties, spherulitic, stencilling, tactilities, telekinetic, triplicated, triplicates, tropicalize, umbilicated, unclarities, unrealistic, unsolicited, uricotelism, valediction, verbalistic, vermiculite, verticality, viniculture, viticulture. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 69 63 69 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01000101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l i c i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0069 0063 0069 0074 |
| 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)397875697586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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