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Lactifuge

Definition: Lactifuge

Lactifuge

Noun

1. Any agent that reduces milk secretion (as given to a woman who not breast feeding).

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

Etymology: Lactifuge \Lac"ti*fuge\, noun. [Latin expression lac, lactis, milk fugare to expel.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: Lactifuge

Language Translations for "lactifuge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

actifugelay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Lactifuge"

Words rhyming with "lactifuge" (pronounced 'Lac"ti*fuge'): Febrifuge, subterfuge, Vermifuge. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lactifuge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-l-t-u"

-2 letters: cageful, fatigue.

-3 letters: aculei, aiglet, atelic, augite, facile, faucet, fecial, fecula, fetial, futile, gelati, glutei, ligate, luetic.

-4 letters: acute, agile, aglet, aulic, calif, cleat, cleft, clift, culet, culti, cutie, eclat, facet, fault, fecal, fetal, filet, flite, flute, fugal, fugle, gault, glace, guile, guilt, ileac, legit, lutea, tegua, telia, telic, tical, utile.

-5 letters: ague, alec, alef, alif, alit, cafe, cage, calf, cate, caul, ceil, celt, cite, clag, clef, clit, clue, cuif, cult, cute, egal, etic, etui, face, fact, fail, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fice, fila, file, flag, flat, flea, flic, flit, flue, fuci, fuel, gait, gale, gate, gelt, geta, gift, gilt, glia, glue, glut, gulf, iglu, ilea, lace, laic, late, lati, leaf, left, lice, lief, lieu, life, lift, lite, litu, luce, luge, lute, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, tufa, tule.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-l-t-u"
 

+2 letters: centrifugal.

 

+3 letters: centrifugals.

 

+4 letters: centrifugally.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lactifuge


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

4C 61 63 74 69 66 75 67 65

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)

01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01100110 01110101 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#102 &#117 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0063 0074 0069 0066 0075 0067 0065

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

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

466769867572877371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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