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Headfish

Definition: Headfish

Headfish

Noun

1. Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters.

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

Synonyms: Headfish

Synonyms: mola (n), ocean sunfish (n), sunfish (n). (additional references)

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Derivations: Headfish

Derivations

Words beginning with "headfish": headfishes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Headfish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-h-i-s"

-1 letter: deafish.

-2 letters: fashed, fished, hashed.

-3 letters: aides, ashed, aside, dashi, deash, defis, fades, hades, hafis, heads, hides, ideas, sadhe, shade, sheaf, shied.

-4 letters: aide, aids, dahs, dais, dash, deaf, defi, dies, dish, edhs, fade, fads, fash, feds, fehs, fids, fish, hade, haed, haes, hahs, hash, head, hehs, hide, hied, hies, idea, ides, sade, sadi, safe, said, seif, shad, shah, shea, shed, side.

-5 letters: ads, aid, ais, ash, dah, die, dis, edh, eds, efs, fad, fas, fed, feh, fid, fie, had, hae, hah, has, heh, hes, hid, hie, his, ids, ifs, sad, sae, sea, sei, sha, she, shh.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-h-h-i-s"
 

+2 letters: headfishes.

 

+5 letters: handkerchiefs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Headfish


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

48 65 61 64 66 69 73 68

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#102 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0066 0069 0073 0068

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

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

4271677072758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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