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Definition: Endorphin |
EndorphinNoun1. A neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Opioid peptides derived from beta-lipotropin. Endorphin is the most potent naturally occurring analgesic agent. It is present in pituitary, brain, and peripheral tissues. (references) |
Medicine | Opioid peptides derived from beta-lipotropin. Endorphin is the most potent naturally occurring analgesic agent. It is present in pituitary and brain, and in peripheral tissues. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Endorphin |
| English words defined with "endorphin": enkephalin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Endorphin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (endorphin). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Endorphin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endorphin" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "endorphin": alpha-Endorphin, beta-endorphin, enkephalin-endorphin, gamma-Endorphin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
endorphin | 102 |
beta endorphin | 6 |
endorphin rush | 5 |
pro endorphin | 5 |
endorphin test | 3 |
endorphin release | 3 |
autism endorphin | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "endorphin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | endorfin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | endorfine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | endorfiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | endorphine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | endorphin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδορφίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | endorfine, endorfina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | エンドルフィン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endorphinay endorfina. (various references) endorfina. (various references) endorfin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "endorphin": endorphins. (additional references) | |
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"Endorphin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endirphin, endmorphin, endophin, endorheic, endorphen, endorphine, endotrophic, indorphin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "endorphin" (pronounced endô"rfun) |
| 5 | -ô" r f u n | morphin, orphan. |
| 3 | -f u n | acetaminophen, deafen, dolphin, Griffon, hyphen, ibuprofen, muffin, often, paraffin, siphon, soften, stiffen, syphon, tamoxifen, toughen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-n-n-o-p-r" | |
-2 letters: hordein, nephron, phonied, phonier. | |
-3 letters: dehorn, dinero, dinner, dopier, endrin, ephori, heroin, hinder, hoiden, honied, horned, ironed, opined, orpine, period, phoned, pinder, pinned, pinner, ponder, ponied. | |
-4 letters: diner, donne, doper, drone, ephod, ephor, heron, hider, hired, honed, honer, hoped, hoper, horde, inned, inner, irone, opine, orpin, pedro, penni, phone, pined, pinon, poind, pored, pride, pried, prion, prone, redip, redon, renin, repin, rhino, riped, ripen, roped. | |
-5 letters: deni, dine, dire, doer, done, dope, dore, dorp, drip, drop, heir, herd, hern, hero, hide, hied, hind, hire, hoed, hoer, hone, hope, horn, inro, ired, iron, neon, nerd, nide, nine, node, nodi, noir, none, nope, nori, ohed, oped, open, pein, pend, peon, peri, phon, pied, pier, pine, pion, pirn, pond, pone, pore, porn, prod, redo, rein, rend, repo, ride, rind, ripe, rode, rope. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-n-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: endorphins. | |
+3 letters: philodendron. | |
+4 letters: comprehending, dinitrophenol, landownership, philodendrons. | |
+5 letters: dinitrophenols, landownerships. | |
| 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 72 70 68 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.. --- .-. .--. .... .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d o r p h i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 006F 0072 0070 0068 0069 006E |
| 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)398070818482747580 |
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