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Epicranium

Definition: Epicranium

Epicranium

Noun

1. The muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium.

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

Etymology: Epicranium \Ep`i*cra"ni*um\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Epi-, and Cranium.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: Epicranium

English words defined with "epicranium": Epicranial. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Epicranium

"Epicranium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epicranium" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "Epicranium"

Words rhyming with "epicranium" (pronounced 'Ep`i*cra"ni*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Epicranium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-p-r-u"

-2 letters: manicure, urinemia, urinemic.

-3 letters: campier, caprine, carmine, cranium, cumarin, empiric, imperia, mincier, minicar, numeric, panicum, pemican, primine, pumicer, puranic, uraemic.

-4 letters: acumen, aecium, airmen, aminic, anemic, anuric, apercu, apneic, camper, carmen, carnie, cerium, cinema, crinum, curiae, encamp, euripi, iceman, impair, impure, irenic, manure, marine, mincer, murein, murine, neumic, panier, pianic, pincer, pinier, pneuma.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: pericranium, unempirical.

 

+2 letters: epicureanism.

 

+3 letters: epicureanisms, republicanism, supercriminal.

 

+4 letters: republicanisms, supercriminals.

 

+5 letters: computerization.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Epicranium


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

45 70 69 63 72 61 6E 69 75 6D

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)

01000101 01110000 01101001 01100011 01110010 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#112 &#105 &#99 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0070 0069 0063 0072 0061 006E 0069 0075 006D

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

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

39827569846780758779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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