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Leased

Definition: Leased

Leased

Adjective

1. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers; "a chartered plane"; "the chartered buses arrived on time".

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

Date "leased" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)



Synonyms: Leased

Synonyms: chartered (adj), hired (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: unchartered (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leased

English words defined with "leased": actual evictionDemisableHong Kongland, Landlordism, Leasable, lease, lettingrentalsublease, subletTenementaryunoccupied, untenanted. (references)
Specialty definitions using "leased": ACCOUNTANT, PROPERTY, Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, area leasedChartered Ship, check viewer, CHRISTMAS-TREE CONTRACTOR, co-location, common ordering procedure, crew bossdata transfer requested, dedicated access lines, dedicated channel, dedicated line, dedicated port, Demon Internet Ltd., Duplex High Speed DataENGINEER-IN-CHARGE, STUDIO OPERATIONS, EUnet Ltd.field technician, FTShigh speed serial interface, high speed synchronous serial interfaceleased channel port, leased circuit, leased connection, leased facility, leased fee, leased line, leased line network, leased network, leased property, Leasing Act MineralsMANAGER, CUSTOMER SERVICES, MANAGER, MACHINERY-OR-EQUIPMENT, RENTAL AND LEASING, MANAGER, PROPERTYnetwork information serviceone-stop-ordering, open-end leasepart-time leased circuit, phosphate lands, point of presence, private leased line, private-wire circuit, production area, purchase optionRJ-11safe deposit box, Section 533 grants, SERVICE SUPERVISOR, LEASED MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, SHEP, SUPERVISOR, CHRISTMAS-TREE FARMtax escalation clause, tax participation clause, telegraph service, telegraphic serviceusable bit rateV.34. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Leased

DomainTitle

Books

  • Economic Analysis of Mandatory Leased Channel Access for Cable Television (reference)

  • How to Manage Your Contingent Workforce: Part-Timers, Temps, Leased Employees, and Independent Contractors (reference)

  • Leased Lines in Europe: Too Little, Too Late [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • No Risk Ranching: Custom Grazing on Leased Land (reference)

  • Philatelic gazetteer of Manchoukuo and Kwantung Leased Territory, South Manchuria Railway Zone (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Leased

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Leased

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The POLAR DUKE, a vessel that crushes ice with a strengthened hull. This was a leased Norwegian vessel.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Lieutenant Budd Christman flying leased Bell 206 in Bering Sea coming in for landing on SURVEYOR.Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Leased Bell 206 flying in support of seal studies in Bering Sea.Credit: Flying With NOAA.

MERMAID deployed from support ship Aloha-- commercial sub leased for science.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Photographed by her builders, Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, circa 1910. This craft was leased by the Navy on 28 April 1917 and commissioned on 30 May 1917 as USS Alacrity (SP-206). She was returned to her owner on 28 April 1919.Credit: NAVY.

Underway during World War I. Built in 1916 by Ludders Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut, this motor boat was leased by the Navy on 10 September 1917. Following World War I service, she was returned to her owner on 19 February 1919.Credit: NAVY.

Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased to private industry to bring payroll to Brookhaven, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress.

General store, Hammond Ranch, Chicot, Arkansas. This house is leased by FSA (Farm Security Administration) and subleased to their client.Credit: Library of Congress.

McCone County, Montana. Sheep grazing on land leased from the railroad.Credit: Library of Congress.

Garfield County, Montana. Rock formations on sheep grazing land leased from the railroad.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Leased

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

C&W offers PSTN, telex, telegraph, leased line, X.25 and paging. (references)

Nearly 20% of these companies have changed the types of leased equipment. (references)

Sometimes, a lease company will forcibly take repossession of leased property. (references)

Civil Liberties

Botswana

In March after BTA threatened a lawsuit, the BTC agreed to provide the leased lines. (references)

Nepal

Television time on the government-owned television station also is leased to private producers. (references)

Botswana

In December 2000, the BTA ordered the BTC to make leased lines available equally to private ISP's and Botsnet. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Recently Biman leased two Airbus A310-300 aircraft. (references)

Poland

Most of the former state farms are now leased to farmer tenants. (references)

Netherlands

In the leased line services area, KPN is also still the dominant carrier. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

A government-run health care center had operated on the site since 1973. The Church claims that it has a freehold title to the land, while the Government claims that the land is leased. (references)

IRELAND

The market for leased lines and other data transmission services was progressively liberalized earlier in the 1990s. Telecom Eireann was publicly floated on the Dublin and New York stock exchanges in May 1999, under its new name "Eircom." As part of privatization, Eircom sold off the state-owned cable network, "Cablelink" to "Ntl," an Anglo-U.S. firm, which is presently launching a raft of telecommunications services ranging from an extension of the cable network to the provision of next generation internet facilities. (references)

PAKISTAN

Under the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services, Pakistan made commitments to provide market access and national treatment for all local, domestic long distance and international basic voice telecommunications services and private leased circuit services as of January 1, 2004. E-mail, Internet, electronic information services, data communication network services, trunk radio services, cellular mobile telephone services, audiotex, voice mail and card-pay services, close user group for banking operations, international satellite operators for domestic data communication, paging services, vehicle tracking system and global mobile personal communication systems are now open for 100 percent foreign ownership at the onset of the investment, which has to be reduced to 60 percent within five years. (references)

Trade

Russia

Currently, less than five percent of imported equipment is leased. (references)

Norway

If a leased asset is financed from foreign funding, a license is required from the Bank of Norway. (references)

Ireland

Processing, sorting, grading, or repackaging of the goods may take place within the zone, and buildings may be leased or built. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Leased

"Leased" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.54% of the time. "Leased" is used about 279 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)50.54%14126,682
Lexical Verb (past tense)31.18%8735,390
Adjective (general or positive)17.56%4948,677
Noun (proper)0.36%1339,140
Noun (common)0.36%1339,140
                    Total100.00%279N/A

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

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Expressions: Leased

Expressions using "leased": area leased leased channel port leased circuit leased connection leased facility leased fee leased line leased line network leased network leased property private leased line. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "leased": leased-line.

Ending with "leased": pre-leased, re-leased, sub-leased, us-leased.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leased

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

leased line

92

leased

22

corproate housing leased

13

leased car

12

leased vehicle

8

leased line connection

7

leased employee

7

buy car leased

7

land leased

6

leased line modem

5

net leased

5

leased line uk

5

condominium leased

4

leased motel

4

access leased

3

government housing leased

3

leased nnn properties sale

3

leased funds

3

cars.com leased

3

bank guarantee leased

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leased

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

Arabic 

  

‏مؤجر (hired, lessor, letter, rented). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

взет под наем, даден под наем. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

出租. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pronajmutý. (various references)

   

Danish

  

lejet grund (leased land, leased site, rented land, rented site), leaset facilitet (leased facility), leaset fastlinienet (leased line network), lejet fastlinienet (leased line network), lejet kredsløb (leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit, private leased line, private line, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), lejet linie (private leased line, private line), lejet vogn (hired wagon, leased car), lukket brugergruppe (dial selective signaling, dial selective signalling, private leased line, private line), lukket kredsløb (closed circuit, closed cycle, collapsed loop, private leased line, private line), lejet facilitet (leased facility), kontraktareal vandet fra kanal (area leased), dedikeret linje (private leased line, private line), fast forbindelse (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), dedikeret forbindelse (private leased line, private line), dediceret kredsløb (private leased line, private line), dedikeret port (dedicated port, leased channel port), deltidslejet kredsløb (part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), deltidslukket kredsløb (part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), eget net (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), ejendom til udleje (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), fast kredsløb (leased line), forpagtet areal (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), forpagtet jord (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), dediceret kanal (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), koncessioneret linie (leased line), udlejningsejendom (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), permanent leaset jordbaseret forbindelse (permanently leased terrestrial circuit), port for lejet kredsløb (dedicated port, leased channel port), specialiseret netværk (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), forpagtningsobjekt (object leased). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

toegewezen kanaal (allocated channel, dedicated channel, leased line, private line), gebied dat volgens contract water aan een kanaal onttrekt (area leased), gehuurde aansluiting (dedicated port, leased channel port), gespecialiseerd net (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), huurhuis (hired house, house to let, leased property, leasehold house, rental building, rented house, tenement house), huurlijn (dedicated channel, leased circuit, leased connection, leased facility, leased line, private line, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit, private-wire circuit), huurlijnennet (leased line network), huurlijnennetwerk (leased line network), huurwagen (hired wagon, leased car), pachtgrond (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), Activa in huurkoop (Leased assets), privé-lijn (private leased line, private line), verpachte spoorlijn (leased line), toegewezen netwerk (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), toepassingsgericht netwerk (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), uurlijn (leased circuit, part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), vast gehuurde ether-of kabelverbinding (permanently leased terrestrial circuit), vaste lijn (private leased line, private line), vaste telefoonlijn (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), vaste verbinding (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), verhuurd of verpacht onroerend goed (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), verhuurd terrein (leased land, leased site, rented land, rented site), pachtobject (object leased). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vuokraobjekti (object leased), vuokramaa (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land, rented land), vuokrakiinteistö (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), vuokrajohto (leased circuit, leased line, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), vuokra-alue (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), osa-aikavuokrajohto (leased circuit, part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), kiinteät johdot (leased line), kiinteä yhteys (dedicated channel, leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private line, private-wire circuit), kiinteä toiminne (leased facility), kiinteä linja (dedicated channel, leased facility, leased line, private line), erityisyhteysportti (dedicated port, leased channel port). (various references)

   

French

  

loué. (various references)

   

German

  

verpachteten, verpachtete, gemietet (rented), geleast. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μερικά μισθωμένο κύκλωμα (leased circuit, part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), "ίκτυο εδεικού σκοπού (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), αποκλειστική θύρα (dedicated port, leased channel port), αποκλειστική πόρτα (dedicated port, leased channel port), αποκλειστικό κανάλι (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), επίγειο κύκλωμα που μισθώνεται σε μόνιμη βάση (permanently leased terrestrial circuit), ενοικιασθείσα έκταση (leased land, leased site, rented land, rented site), ειδικό δίκτυο (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), δίκτυο μισθωμένων γραμμών (leased line network), προσοδοφόρο ακίνητο (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), όχημα νοικιασμένο (hired wagon, leased car), μισθωμένο κύκλωμα (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit, private-wire circuit), μισθωμένη ευκολία (leased facility), μισθωμένη γραμμή (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), μισθωμένη σύνδεση (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), ιδιωτική μισθωμένη γραμμή (private leased line, private line), ιδιωτική γραμμή (inter PBX line, interswitchboard line, inter-switchboard line, private leased line, private line, tie trunk, tie-line), έκτασις με σύμβασιν λήψεως ύδατος εκ διώρυγος (area leased), παραχωρηθείσα γραμμή (leased line). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חכור (hired). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bérelt (hired, rented). (various references)

   

Italian

  

linea in appalto (leased line), linea affittata (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), linea dedicata (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), linea in concessione (leased line), linea privata (inter PBX line, interswitchboard line, inter-switchboard line, private leased line, private line, tie trunk, tie-line), linea privatizzata (private leased line, private line), linea data in concessione (leased line), terreno affittato (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land, leased site, rented land, rented site), canale dedicato (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), carro noleggiato (hired wagon, leased car), casa d'affitto (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), circuito affittato (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), circuito affittato a tempo parziale (leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit), circuito telefonico affittato ad intervalli prestabiliti (part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), circuito telefonico affittato in permanenza (leased circuit, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), immobili a reddito (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), rete di linee affittate (leased line network), area affittata (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), superficie con concessione d'acqua (area leased), terreno in affitto (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), superficie affittata (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), risorsa dedicata (leased facility), rete riservata (leased line network), oggetto dell'affitto (object leased), rete dedicata (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), circuito terrestre affittato in permanenza (permanently leased terrestrial circuit). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

借地 (leased land), 借り地 (leased land), 専"回線 (leased line, private circuit, private line). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゃくち (leased land, small plot of land), せ"ようかいせ" (leased line, private circuit, private line), かりち (leased land). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

임대계약 (lease, Leasing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easedlay

   

Portuguese

  

linhas alugadas (leased facility), linha privada (inter PBX line, interswitchboard line, inter-switchboard line, private leased line, private line, tie trunk, tie-line), linha alugada (leased line), terreno arrendado (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), circuito alugado (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), circuito alugado temporariamente (leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit), circuito telefónico alugado permanente (leased circuit, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), circuito telefónico alugado temporariamente (part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), circuito terrestre alugado numa base permanente (permanently leased terrestrial circuit), canal dedicado (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), superfície com concessão de água (area leased), vagão alugado (hired wagon, leased car), objecto do contrato de arrendamento (object leased), ponto de acesso dedicado (dedicated port, leased channel port), rede de linhas alugadas (leased line network), rede dedicada (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), rede especializada (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), imóvel de rendimento (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

арендованный (leasehold). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

iznajmljen, izdat u zakup. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

línea privada (inter PBX line, interswitchboard line, inter-switchboard line, private leased line, private line, tie trunk, tie-line), línea alquilada (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), línea especializada (private leased line, private line), líneas de conexión fija (leased facility), línea arrendada (leased line), canal especializado (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), canal reservado (dedicated channel, leased line, private line), circuito arrendado temporalmente (leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit), circuito telefónico alquilado permanentemente (leased circuit, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), circuito telefónico alquilado temporalmente (part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit), cosa arrendada (object leased), terreno arrendado (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), red especializada (dedicated network, leased network, leased-line network), terreno alquilado (leased land, leased site, rented land, rented site), vagón alquilado (hired wagon, leased car), superficie arrendada (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), objeto del arrendamiento (object leased), puerto dedicado (dedicated port, leased channel port), red de líneas especializadas (leased line network), enlace terrestre arrendado permanentemente (permanently leased terrestrial circuit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uthyrd fastighet (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), uthyrd förbindelse (leased circuit, leased line, private wire circuit, private wire telephone circuit), utarrenderad jord (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), temporärt uthyrd förbindelse (leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit), hyrt ledningsnätverk (leased line network), hyrt hjälpmedel (leased facility), hyrd resurs (leased facility), hyrd linje (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), hyrd ledning (leased line), fast uppkopplad förbindelse (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), fast förbindelse (leased circuit, leased connection, leased line, private-wire circuit), förhyrd förbindelse (leased line), arrendeställe (object leased), arrenderad mark (area under tenancy, leased area, leased land), arrenderad areal (area leased). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Leased

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

conducta, conducto, conductum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Leased

Derivations

Words ending with "leased": displeased, pleased, released, rereleased, subleased, unleased, unpleased. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Leased" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laise, leasd, leasee, leasen, Leaze, leied, leise, leize, Lemayev, lensed, Lepasset, lesedi, leyasu, liase, liease, lsase, lyase, peased. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Leased"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "leased" (pronounced lē"st)
4l ē" s tfleeced, least, policed, released.
3-ē" s tbeast, ceased, deceased, decreased, East, feast, greased, increased, ne, northeast, pieced, priest, southeast, yeast.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Leased

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sealed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-s"

-1 letter: aedes, dales, deals, deles, eased, easel, lades, lased, leads, lease.

-2 letters: alee, ales, dale, dals, deal, dees, dele, dels, ease, eels, elds, else, lade, lads, lase, lead, leas, lees, sade, sale, seal, seed, seel, sled.

-3 letters: ads, ale, als, dal, dee, del, eds, eel, eld, els, lad, las, lea, led, lee, sad, sae, sal, sea, see, sel.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, as, de, ed, el, es, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-s"
 

+1 letter: aediles, allseed, beadles, dealers, defleas, delates, deleads, elapsed, elodeas, leaders, leashed, measled, pleased, sepaled, sleaved.

 

+2 letters: abseiled, albedoes, allseeds, ashlered, beladies, beldames, beslaved, cadelles, cleansed, dalesmen, dateless, dealates, debacles, declares, declasse, deflates, deglazes, delaines, delayers, deleaves, demersal, deplanes, desalted, desalter, desolate, detassel, devalues, emeralds, enslaved, escalade, fadeless, federals, flaxseed, hanseled, headless, idealess, idealise, lakeside, leadiest, leadless, leadsmen, leewards, limeades, pedestal, pleaders, pleiades, realised, relapsed, released, repleads, resaddle, resailed, rescaled, resealed, reslated, sedately, selvaged, sendable, sepalled, shedable, sidereal, slavered, somedeal, squealed, tasseled, teaseled, treadles, unleased, unsealed, weaseled.

 

+3 letters: adversely, aldehydes, assembled, beardless, beclasped, bedabbles, bedazzles, bedplates, blueheads, calenders, coalesced, coleaders, danegelds, datelines, deadliest, deadlines, deathless, declarers, declassed, declasses, decretals, deferrals, defilades, deflaters, delegates, delicates, depilates, desalters, desirable, desolated, desolater, desolates, detailers, detassels, devisable, displease, dreamless, educables, elaterids, elevateds, enclasped, endleaves, endosteal, endplates, enfilades, ensilaged, ensnarled, equalised, escaladed, escalader, escalades, escalated, escaloped, esplanade, flaxseeds, freeloads, gradeless, handseled, hanselled, headlines, idealised, idealises, idealizes, idealless, lakesides, lavenders, leadscrew, leasehold, leeboards, legalised, lemonades, lespedeza, medievals, megadeals, metalised, misleader, misleared, oeillades, oleanders, opalesced, overlades, parsleyed, pedalfers, pedaliers, pedestals, pedlaries, penalised, plastered, pleasured, reclasped, rehandles, reloaders, remolades, resaddled, resaddles, resaluted, resampled, shadeless, sheldrake, skedaddle, slabbered, slackened, slandered, slanderer, slathered, spanceled, speedball, spendable, steelhead, steelyard, subleased, swellhead, tasselled, teaselled, treadlers, treadless, unleashed, unpleased, vendables, weaselled, wellheads.

 

+4 letters: adhesively, adolescent, adulterers, adulteress, adulteries, agendaless, alderflies, alexanders, algaecides, allemandes, ascendable, ascendible, assertedly, baldnesses, balladeers, banderoles, bandoleers, bedlamites, bedraggles, berascaled, blasphemed, bluebeards, breadlines, cartelised, celandines, chandelles, cheerleads, clepsydrae, daredevils, deadliness, dealership, dealfishes, decaliters, decalogues, decennials, declaimers, decollates, deescalate, defalcates, defaulters, defeasible, defoliates, dekaliters, delegacies, delegatees, delegators, delftwares, delicacies, delineates, desalinate, desalinize, descramble, deshabille, desirables, desolately, desolaters, despicable, detasseled, detestable, detestably, devaluates, diableries, displeased, displeases, disrelated, elatedness, elucidates, encapsuled, endorsable, escadrille, escaladers, escalloped, espadrille, espaliered, esplanades, everglades, federalese, federalism, federalist, feudalizes, fieldfares, foreladies, gladnesses, goldenseal, handleless, handselled, handwheels, headliners, heraldries, idealities, idealizers, idealogies, idealogues, launderers, leadenness, leaderless, leadership, leadscrews, leaseholds, legislated, leopardess, lespedezas, linearised, lowercased, madeleines, madrilenes, magdalenes, marbleised, measuredly, mediaevals, mesodermal, misaltered, mislabeled, misleaders, mislearned, mispleaded, misrelated, newsdealer, overpedals, oversalted, overscaled, palletised, paloverdes, pedestaled, petalodies, plaistered, quadplexes, reassailed, regardless, repleaders, rereleased, romeldales, saddlebred, saddleless, saddleries, saddlesore, saddletree, screenland, semifeudal, serialised, serialized, sexualized, sheldrakes, shellacked, sidesaddle, skedaddled, skedaddler, skedaddles, slanderers, sleepyhead, spancelled, spectacled, speculated, speedballs, splattered, spreadable, stalemated, steelheads, steelyards, stepladder, swellheads, tailenders, telecasted, threadless, ultradense, wholesaled.

 

+5 letters: addressable, adolescence, adolescents, adrenalines, adulterates, adultnesses, aerosolized, aldosterone, allegorised, bandleaders, barrelheads, belatedness, bestialized, blandnesses, bubbleheads, buffleheads, calenderers, caramelised, castellated, centralised, chandeliers, chandleries, clandestine, condensable, convalesced, credentials, dailinesses, damselflies, dealerships, deathlessly, debilitates, decalcifies, decathletes, decelerates, decimalizes, deerstalker, deescalated, deescalates, deferrables, deflagrates, delaminates, delectables, delegations, deliberates, delineators, delocalizes, demodulates, demoralizes, depolarizes, depopulates, derailleurs, derailments, deregulates, desacralize, desalinated, desalinates, desalinized, desalinizes, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, describable, desexualize, deshabilles, desperately, destabilize, detasseling, detasselled, devitalizes, devocalizes, dilettantes, disablement, disassemble, discernable, disentailed, disentangle, dislikeable, dispensable, displeasure, doublespeak, dreamlessly, durableness, edulcorates, elasticized, emasculated, endosteally, escadrilles, espadrilles, established, expendables, fairleaders, federaleses, federalisms, federalists, federalizes, feudalities, fiddleheads, forestalled, freeloaders, generalised, goaltenders, goldenseals, heulandites, interpleads, laundresses, laundrettes, leaderships, learnedness, leaseholder, letterheads, liberalised, loggerheads, loudspeaker, medievalism, medievalist, mineralised, mislabelled, neutralised, newsdealers, overhandles, pedestaling, pedestalled, pediculates, persuadable, predicables, psychedelia, reassembled, redisplayed, reescalated, reinstalled, relandscape, relatedness, relaxedness, replastered, residential, revalidates, revitalised, ringleaders, saddlebreds, saddletrees, salesladies, scleroderma, screenlands, scutellated, secularised, secularized, sensualized, severalfold, shareholder, sidesaddles, skedaddlers, slaughtered, slaveholder, sleepwalked, sleepyheads, sloganeered, spacewalked, specialised, specialized, speedballed, stakeholder, steamrolled, stepladders, stonewalled, streamlined, swellheaded, tessellated, turtleheads, unassembled, uncoalesced, underglazes, undervalues, undesirable, vaudevilles, vesiculated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Leased


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

4C 65 61 73 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0073 0065 0064

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

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

467167857170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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