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Definition: Endocentric |
EndocentricAdjective1. Grammar; fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents--as "three blind mice"--which serves as a noun. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: exocentric (adj). (additional references) |
| 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 |
endocentric exocentric structure | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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"Endocentric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endocytic, enthocentric. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: conceited, concenter, concerned, concerted, concreted, connected, connecter, contender, endocrine, internode, noncredit, recondite, reconnect. | |
-3 letters: centroid, cicerone, codirect, conceder, concerti, concrete, corniced, cretonne, croceine, doctrine, erection, incenter, indecent, indenter, indentor, intender, interned, necrotic, neotenic, neoteric, occident, oriented, recoined. | |
-4 letters: centner, centred, centric, cerotic, cicoree, codeine, coerced, coerect, cointer, concede, conceit, concent, concern, concert, connect, contend, cordite, cornice, coterie, credent, crocein, crocine, ctenoid, dentine, deontic, docetic, donnert, eccrine, ecocide, encoder, encored, endnote, enteric, enteron, enticed, enticer, erodent, interne, intoned, intoner, noticed, noticer, orectic, recited, tenoned, tenoner, ternion, tierced. | |
-5 letters: cenote, center, centre, cerite, cicero, cinder, citron, codein, coedit, coerce, coined, coiner, conine, conned, conner, corned, cornet, cortin, credit, cretic, cretin, deceit, decent, decern, decoct, deicer, denier, denote, dentin, dieter, dinero, dinner, direct, docent, donnee, dotier, edenic, editor, encode, encore, endite, endrin, entice, entire, erotic, indene, indent, intend, intern, intone, intron, ironed, neoned, nereid, nocent, noetic, nordic, norite, notice, orcein, oreide, orient, recent, recite, recode, recoin, redone, reedit, reined, rennet, rented, retied, retine, rident, rioted, rodent, tender, tendon, tenner, tenrec, teredo, tierce, tiered, tinder, tinned, tinner, tonier, tonner, triced, triene, trined, triode. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: nonaccredited. | |
+3 letters: deconsecrating, deconsecration, disconcertment, interconnected. | |
+4 letters: counterevidence, deconcentrating, deconcentration, deconsecrations, disconcertments, noncertificated. | |
+5 letters: counterevidences, deconcentrations, deuterocanonical. | |
| 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 6E 64 6F 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.. --- -.-. . -. - .-. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d o c e n t r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 006F 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3980708169718086847569 |
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