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Definition: Engaging |
EngagingAdjective1. Attracting or delighting; "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "engaging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: EngagingSynonym: piquant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel. |
Pain | Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Engaging Kid (1913) Engaging Peter (2002) | |
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 | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of ...Credit: NASA. |  | The Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument was designated by President Clinton in January 2000. The monuments remote open, undeveloped area and engaging scenery is located on the edge of the Grand Canyon.Credit: Bette Ariel. |
 | Lithograph by Closson Blake, after a painting by W.F. Halsall, depicting the two ironclads engaging at close range.Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving after a sketch by H. Holtz, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the U.S. Navy gunboats Estrella, Calhoun, Arizona and Clifton (listed clockwise from lower right) engaging the Confederate gunboat J.A. Cotton off Butte a la Rose, Louisiana, on 20 April 1863. Confederate Fort Burton (shown at left) was captured on the same day.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Pencil sketch by an unidentified artist, depicting the ship engaging Confederate batteries on Sullivans Island, Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War. A note on the artwork states that Patapsco had a red top to her smokestack. Collections of the Library of Congress.Credit: NAVY. |  | As a most engaging grin overspread his features, whispered, try the next sentry, he's easy.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S.S. Oregon, engaging shore batteries at Santiago.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Patapsco engaging Sullivans Id. Batteries.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Corvettes Cumberland and Sarataga engaging rebel steamer Jamestown--off Newport News.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of evicted sharecroppers from the Dibble plantation. Were legally evicted the week of January 12, 1936. The plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union they were engaging in.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
William M. Thackeray | The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | If he were to be very alert in engaging Jane Fairfax now, it might augur something. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other, because neither of them was currently a particularly engaging sight, and nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The Matrix Model provides a framework for engaging stimulant abusers in treatment and helping them achieve abstinence. (references) | |
Parents and teachers can help XXY boys develop the ability to express themselves through solicited dialogue engaging them in conversation through a series of questions. (references) | ||
Drug users who enter and continue in treatment reduce activities that can spread disease, such as sharing injection equipment and engaging in unprotected sexual activity. (references) | ||
Business | The best way to enter the Ecuadorian PVC market is engaging a local distributor or sales representative with a good knowledge of the market. (references) | |
High price might discourage the buyer from engaging in any trade discussions--even discouraging interest in what advantages the products offer. (references) | ||
However, many consultants recommend that foreign leasing companies for their own safety should obtain a license before engaging in any cross-border "financial lease" of equipment to a Russian lessee. (references) | ||
Children | Hungary | Severe penalties exist under the law for those persons convicted of engaging in such acts. (references) |
Botswana | Increasing numbers of children, mostly believed to be orphans, were observed begging or engaging in prostitution in urban areas. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Of the more than 300 children surveyed, 82 percent reported that they had started engaging in prostitution within the past year. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | The Government also deported foreign Muslim clerics it suspected of engaging in political activities. (references) |
Bulgaria | In July 1999, Al-Nashif had been expelled from Bulgaria for being a threat to national security and engaging in illegal religious activity. (references) | |
Uganda | The charges followed the paper's publication of photos of secondary school students engaging in sexual behavior at a party in a public park. (references) | |
Economic History | Costa Rica | Engaging a qualified lawyer is strongly advised. (references) |
Azerbaijan | UUB is currently prohibited from engaging in lending operations. (references) | |
Syria | We recommend engaging the services of a local attorney for this purpose. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | Security force personnel have been fined under civil statutes for engaging in torture. (references) |
Indonesia | Police and army personnel also routinely respond to attacks on soldiers by engaging in indiscriminate violence against bystanders. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The woman with whom he was convicted of engaging in adultery was sentenced to 100 lashes, but the sentence was postponed because she was pregnant. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Japan | The Ainu continue to face societal discrimination while engaging in an uphill struggle against complete assimilation, although Ainu-language newspapers, radio programs, and academic programs studying Ainu culture have increased since 1997. In March the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) noted that the country "has not taken sufficient steps to address the issue of discriminatory treatment of Koreans and Ainu living in" the country. (references) |
Minorities | Trinidad and Tobago | The reports led to criticism of racism by the local press, and in 1997 Parliament passed three laws prescribing license revocation for establishments found guilty of engaging in discriminatory practices. (references) |
Political Economy | Vietnam | AmCham members are very active, engaging in frequent meetings and other activities in support of U.S. commercial interests. (references) |
Political Rights | Syria | Such restrictions include a prohibition against engaging in political activity, the denial of passports, and a bar on accepting government jobs and some other forms of employment. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On March 7, the High Representative responded to the HDZ campaign by removing the Croat member of the BiH Joint Presidency and HDZ party president, Ante Jelavic, from office for engaging in unconstitutional activities. (references) | |
Uganda | During the week of June 11, while addressing an FM radio audience, Museveni accused Winnie Babihuga, incumbent Rukungiri women's M.P. and Besigye supporter, of engaging in election malfeasance, suggesting that she and others could be arrested; Babihuga was not reelected. (references) | |
Trade | Tunisia | THE TUNISIAN DINAR IS NOW CONVERTIBLE FOR CURRENT ACCOUNT TRANSACTIONS; COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS ENGAGING IN FOREIGN TRADE CAN APPLY TO THE CENTRAL BANK FOR A CONVERTIBLE CURRENCY ACCOUNT. (references) |
Switzerland | The new law also requires banks to announce any acquisition or sale of its shares by a major shareholder (minimum 10 percent of capital or voting rights) to the FBC (shareholders engaging in such activity must notify the bank). (references) | |
Ecuador | Among the major Ecuadorian banks engaging in international business are Banco del Pacifico, Filanbanco, and Banco del Pichincha, but the operations in these banks have being reduced dramatically because credit lines are scarce. (references) | |
Travel | Brazil | Business visa holders are prohibited from engaging in gainful employment. (references) |
Yemen | Yemenis have been engaging in commerce for millennia and have refined the art of negotiation. (references) | |
Women | Georgia | Women's NGO's took an active role in the 1999 parliamentary election and the October by-elections, engaging candidates in discussions about issues of concern. (references) |
Worker Rights | Qatar | Workers are prohibited from engaging in collective bargaining. (references) |
Seychelles | IOT claimed that the workers were engaging in prostitution, and they were returned to Madagascar. (references) | |
Cuba | These provisions were directed primarily at persons engaging in organized smuggling of would-be emigrants. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free -- The subject engaging them was she. "I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear. "I will not stay," she said, with a pout, "To hear my character lied about!" Gopete Sherany |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Tom Brokaw | That young man who was so articulate, I went out to a university, they didn't know that I was coming, it was graduation day. I was able to just walk onto the campus and start engaging them in conversation. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In execution of the authority given by the Legislature measures have been taken for engaging some artists from abroad to aid in the establishment of our mint. |
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| "Engaging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.06% of the time. "Engaging" is used about 436 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 (-ing form) | 91.06% | 397 | 14,057 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.94% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Total | 100.00% | 436 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "engaging": contact engaging or separating force ♦ Engaging and disengaging ♦ Engaging and disengaging gear ♦ Engaging and disengaging machinery ♦ engaging gear ♦ engaging or separating force ♦ engaging smile ♦ engaging speed. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "engaging": re-engaging. | |
| 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 |
engaging student | 4 |
enemy engaging | 3 |
engaging | 2 |
engaging family | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "engaging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), i hirshëm (attractive, charming, delightful, fancy, graceful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), ممتع (delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, gratifying, interesting, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun), ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мил (agreeable, amiable, benign, comfortable, cute, darling, dear, genial, good, kind, likable, likeable, lovable, mil, nice, sweet), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 参与 (Engage, Engaged, Participate, Participated, participating, Participation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sympatický (congenial, likable, likeable, winsome), podmanivý (bewitching, suggestive, winning), příjemný (agreeable, congenial, dulcet, enjoyable, good, jolly, neighborly, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winning, winsome), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, charming, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | endeligt uarbejdsdygtig (incapacitated from engaging in gainful employment), paa vigespor er togenes hastighed nedsat til koersel med begraenset hastighed inden de bringes til stilstand paa opbremsningsstraekningen (on the reserve siding, the speed is reduced to running at sight before engaging the section where the train has to brake to a stop), indsætnings-og udtrækningskraft (contact engaging or separating force, insertion or withdrawal force), indrykningsgaffel (engaging lever), indrykningsarm (engaging lever), ind-og udkoblingskraft (connector mating and unmating force, engaging or separating force), indgangsrum (engaging chamber), indfangningshastighed (engaging speed), håndtag for indgreb (engaging lever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verbindingskamer (engaging chamber), vangsnelheid (engaging speed), op het opstelspoor wordt de snelheid van de trein tot voorzichtig rijden teruggebracht voordat de trein de sectie bereikt waar met normale remming gestopt moet worden (on the reserve siding, the speed is reduced to running at sight before engaging the section where the train has to brake to a stop), koppelingshandgreep (engaging lever), instelhandel (engaging lever), arbeidsongeschikt (disabled, incapacitated from engaging in gainful employment, medically incapable of work, medically retired, unable to work through sickness or disability, unfit for work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liittimen liitäntä-tai irrotusvoima (connector mating and unmating force, engaging or separating force), kytkentävipu (engaging lever), kytkemisvipu (engaging lever), koskettimen liitäntä-tai irrotusvoima (contact engaging or separating force, insertion or withdrawal force), kiinniottonopeus (engaging speed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | engageant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verpflichtend (binding, committing, compulsory, mandatory, obligating), einstellend (collimating, enroling, enrolling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπαθητικόσ (likable, nice, sympathetic), ευχάριστοσ (agreeable, congenial, consonant, convivial, cosy, cozy, delectable, gladsome, groovy, jaunty, piquant, pleasant, pleasing, satisfactory), ελκυστικόσ (attractive, buxom, catching, desirable, inviting, prepossessing, taking, winning, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vonzó (alluring, appealing, attractive, desirable, enticing, fetching, magnetic, seductive), rokonszenves (appealing, likable, likeable, prepossessing, taking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avvincente (absorbing, charming, compelling, endearing, engrossingly, fascinating, riveting), attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), affascinante (bewitching, charming, enchanting, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, intriguing, lovely, prepossessing, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "事 (following, pursuing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅうじ (chief priest of temple, cross, crossed, cruciform, following, pursuing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manx | doaieagh (civil, civil as person, decent, even, good-humoured, likeable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | engagingay combate (action, battle, brush, combat, fight, fighting, fray, joust, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, set to, struggle), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interests paid on, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references) cuceritor (conquering, conqueror, swaggering, Victor), captivant (absorbing, captivating, charming, engrossing, exciting, fascinating, gripping, thrilling), aspectuos (neat, showy). (various references) обаятельный (charming, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing, winsome), зацепляющийся, привлекательный (alluring, appealing, attractive, beguiling, catching, cuddly, cunning, dinky, enticing, fetching, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking, pretty, quaint, snazzy, well-favoured, well-looking, winsome). (various references) privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, sexy, toothsome, winning, winsome). (various references) maravilloso (amazing, blissful, Dandy, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, stunning, well done, whimsical, wonderful, wondrous), atractivo (affinity, allure, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome). (various references) näpen (pretty). (various references) เป็นที่"ึง"ู"ใจ. (various references) sempatik (caring, congenial, likable, likeable, lovable, outgoing, sympathetic), kavrama (apperception, apprehension, bite, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, conception, digestion, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, understanding, uptake), birbirine geçen, alımlı (attractive, charming, comely, endearing, fetching, prepossessing), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty), привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome). (various references) lôi kéo, giọng nói (gruff, gruffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "engaging": engagingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "engaging": disengaging, reengaging. (additional references) | |
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"Engaging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enangan, Engadin, Engai. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "engaging" (pronounced engā"jing) |
| 6 | -n g ā" j i ng | disengaging. |
| 5 | -g ā" j i ng | gauging. |
| 4 | -ā" j i ng | aging, enraging, paging, raging, staging, waging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | acknowledging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, dislodging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, enlarging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-g-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: ganging, nagging. | |
-2 letters: ageing, egging, gaeing, gaging. | |
-3 letters: aggie, aging, inane. | |
-4 letters: agin, gaen, gage, gain, gane, gang, gien, giga, nine. | |
-5 letters: age, ain, ane, ani, egg, eng, gae, gag, gan, gen, gie, gig, gin, inn, nae, nag, nan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-g-i-n-n" | |
+2 letters: engagingly, gangrening, reengaging. | |
+3 letters: disengaging. | |
+4 letters: agglutinogen, congregating. | |
+5 letters: agglutinogens. | |
| 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 67 61 67 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. --. .- --. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n g a g i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0067 0061 0067 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3980736773758073 |
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