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LUMACHELLE

Specialty Definition: LUMACHELLE

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Mining

A. A compact, dark-gray or dark-brown limestone or marble, composed chiefly of fossil mollusk shells, and characterized by a brilliant iridescence or chatoyant reflection from within. Syn:fire marbl b. Any accumulation of shells (esp. oysters) in stratified rocks. Etymol: French, coquina, oyster bed, from Italian lumachella, little snai. (references)

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

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Anagrams: LUMACHELLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-l-l-m-u"

-3 letters: cellule.

-4 letters: allele, almuce, cellae, chelae, hallel, heaume, macule, mallee, mullah.

-5 letters: ahull, allee, almeh, camel, cella, chela, haulm, hemal, leach, leech, lehua, mache, macle, mulch, mulla, ulema.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LUMACHELLE


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

4C 55 4D 41 43 48 45 4C 4C 45

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 01010101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#77 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 004D 0041 0043 0048 0045 004C 004C 0045

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

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

46554735374239464639

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