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Definition: Heliacal |
HeliacalAdjective1. Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HeliacalSynonym: heliac (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
World | Solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heliacal |
| English words defined with "heliacal": canicular ♦ heliac, Heliacally. (references) |
| "Heliacal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heliacal" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "heliacal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شمسي (solar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слънчев (fine, solar, sunny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sluneèní (solar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hélicoïdal (helical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλιακόσ (solar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | napra vonatkozó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eliacalhay segurado (insurant). (various references) солнечный (shiny, solar, sunny, sunshiny). (various references) sunčev (solar), sunčan (shiny, sunny). (various references) helíaco. (various references) сонячний (heliac, shiny, solar, sunny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heliacal": heliacally. (additional references) | |
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"Heliacal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Halaicu, Haleakala, heliaca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "heliacal" (pronounced 'He*li"a*cal'): Altrical, Appendical, Archducal, Archical, Bancal, Biblical, Bibliothecal, Bifocal, Bocal, Bryological, Buccal, Caecal, Cal, Caracal, Cardiacal, Carpological, Catechumenical, Catholical, Causidical, Cephalocercal, Cercal, Cervical, Clergical, Cloacal, Codical, Colonical, Confocal, Cortical, Coucal, Dexterical, Diphycercal, Dipsomaniacal, Domical, Dropsical, Ducal, Duncical, Egoical, Elegiacal, Encyclopediacal, Equiradical, Extraphysical, Faecal, Fatidical, Faucal, Fecal, Filical, finical, Flaminical, FOCAL, Forinsecal, Fornical, Frenzical, Fullonical, Genethliacal, Grand-ducal, Hallucal, helical, heretical, hermitical, heterocercal, homocercal, Hylarchical, hypochondriacal, Ileocaecal, Iliacal, Impolitical, impractical, inimical, JACAL, lackadaisical, Lanifical, Largifical, Lustrical, maniacal, Meniscal, mescal, mezcal, Micrococcal, Monothecal, Mopsical, Multivocal, Mystacal, Nascal, Nasobuccal, Nonsensical, Nonvocal, Obeliscal, Oviducal, Palsical, Parfocal, Phocal, Pittacal, Podical, Political, Practical, Prejudical, Prosodiacal, Protocercal, Recto-vesical, Semihistorical, Semivocal, Simoniacal, Sinical, Subvocal, Suicidical, Superfinical, surgical, Symbological, Tetrathecal, Thecal, tical, Tincal, Truncal, Ultrazodiacal, unequivocal, Unpractical, Vesical, Vortical, Whimsical, Wraprascal, Zodiacal. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: achillea. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: challie, helical. | |
-2 letters: aecial, challa, heliac, laical. | |
-3 letters: aecia, calla, cella, celli, chela, chiel, chile, chill, ileac, ileal, laich, leach, lilac. | |
-4 letters: ache, alae, alec, call, ceil, cell, chia, each, elhi, hail, hale, hall, heal, heil, hell, hila, hill, ilea, lace, laic, leal, lech, lice, lich. | |
-5 letters: aah, aal, ace, aha, ail, ala, ale, all, cel, chi, ell, hae, hic, hie, ice, ich, ill, lac, lea, lei, lie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: achilleas, echolalia, rachillae. | |
+2 letters: alchemical, echolalias, heliacally. | |
+3 letters: aphetically, edaphically, hallucinate, melancholia. | |
+4 letters: alchemically, allelopathic, alphabetical, athletically, bathetically, calligrapher, cephalically, empathically, emphatically, hallucinated, hallucinates, heraldically, hieratically, leachability, mechanically, melancholiac, melancholias, pathetically, seraphically, theatrically, thematically. | |
+5 letters: aesthetically, alchemistical, apathetically, archeological, atheistically, authentically, calligraphers, calligraphies, graphemically, hematological, intrathecally, lamellibranch, lethargically, melancholiacs, rheumatically, schematically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6C 69 61 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-.. .. .- -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e l i a c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006C 0069 0061 0063 0061 006C |
| 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)4271787567696778 |
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