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MENUITIS

Specialty Definition: MENUITIS

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Menuitis /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP environment, for the rest of us. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: MENUITIS

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Direct Anagrams: mutinies.

Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: minuets, minutes, mistune, mutines, unities.

-2 letters: imines, intime, minuet, minute, mutine, seniti, tenuis, unites, unties.

-3 letters: emits, etuis, imine, inset, intis, items, menus, metis, miens, mines, minis, mints, minus, mites, mitis, munis, mutes, neist, neums, nisei, nites, senti, smite, stein, stime, suint, suite, times, tines, tunes, unite, units, unmet, unset, untie.

-4 letters: emit, emus.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-n-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: humanities, immunities, impunities, miniatures, seminudity, trienniums.

 

+3 letters: bituminizes, communities, diminutives, ecumenicist, einsteinium, illuminates, mediastinum, meitneriums, mundanities, neuroticism, pneumonitis, subminister, thingummies, unanimities, untimeliest.

 

+4 letters: cementitious, disguisement, ecumenicists, einsteiniums, equanimities, evolutionism, impetiginous, inhumanities, interstimuli, luminosities, miniaturizes, miseducating, miseducation, mountainside, multiengines, neuroticisms, phillumenist, premunitions, reductionism, resubmitting, seminudities, simultaneity, subminiature, subministers, uniformities, unmoralities, untimeliness, xiphisternum.

 

+5 letters: ambitiousness, antisubmarine, communalities, computerising, consumeristic, disfigurement, disguisements, ecumenicities, eudaemonistic, evolutionisms, feuilletonism, guesstimating, hemodilutions, immunochemist, impecuniosity, importunities, incombustible, instrumenting, intermixtures, interstimulus, masculinities, mensurability, minicomputers, miseducations, misevaluating, misevaluation, misfunctioned, moribundities, mountainsides, phillumenists, pneumonitides, reductionisms, restimulating, restimulation, supermilitant, superminister, tumorigenesis, unassimilated, unnilpentiums, unreminiscent, ventriloquism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MENUITIS


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

4D 45 4E 55 49 54 49 53

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)

01001101 01000101 01001110 01010101 01001001 01010100 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#78 &#85 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 004E 0055 0049 0054 0049 0053

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

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

4739485543544353

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