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Definitions: Nuisance |
NuisanceNoun1. Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "a bit of a bother". 2. A bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nuisance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Nuisance \Nui"sance\, noun. [from Old English expression noisance, Old French noisance, nuisance, from the Latin expression nocentia guilt, from nocere to hurt, harm; akin to necare to kill. Cf Necromancy, Nocent, Noxious, Pernicious.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | Element influence which involves an appreciable risk for health, well-being. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | English (pain in the ass), Italian (rompiballe). (references) |
Slang | Pain in the ass. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: NuisanceSynonyms: annoyance (n), bother (n), botheration (n), pain (n), pain in the ass (n), pain in the neck (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil | Noun: evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to. |
Pain | Annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener; bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague, pest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nuisance |
| English words defined with "nuisance": Abatable, Abator ♦ busy, busybodied ♦ Common nuisance ♦ interfering ♦ meddlesome, meddling ♦ nuisance tax, nuisance value, Nuisancer ♦ officious ♦ Private nuisance, Public nuisance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nuisance": attractive nuisance ♦ BABY, BELL ♦ Choice of Relatives, controlled emptying ♦ enclosed emptying ♦ Invasive species ♦ Magic Rings, malicious call trace, moderate nuclear risk ♦ operations supervisor ♦ Right-to-farm laws ♦ smoke zone ♦ vending-enterprises supervisor, VENDING-STAND SUPERVISOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nuisance": Noxious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nuisance" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (nuisance). |
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Screenplays | Oh, for God's sake, does anyone wait to put an end to this nuisance. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) A nice girl like Vicki and Public Nuisance Number One. (A Star Is Born; writing credit: William A. Wellman; Robert Carson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nazty Nuisance (1943) General Nuisance (1941) Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) The Nuisance (1933) | |
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 | Phragmites, or common reed - although scenic, can be invasive nuisance species.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Phragmites, or common reed - although scenic, can be invasive nuisance species.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | If we decide to donate blood, most of us would like to control when we donate it-and to whom. So mosquitoes are an outdoor nuisance to be avoided, as are biting flies, ticks, and chiggers. We ward all of them off with deet, a strong repellant that ARS discovered 40 years ago. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | The smoke nuisance.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
| The smoke nuisance.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The evolution of the sandwich. From a New York nuisance to a Coney Island attraction.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Emile Zola | Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. |
Plautus | No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Made a damn nuisance of hisself. |
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Health | In many states aerial spraying may be available in certain locations as a means to control nuisance mosquitoes. (references) | |
In an otherwise healthy person, chronic diarrhea may be a nuisance problem, or, for someone who has a weak immune system, a life-threatening illness. (references) | ||
More than just a seasonal nuisance, pollen allergy is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States, affecting about 10 percent of the population. (references) | ||
Business | Strict regulations on health foods are often a nuisance for foreign firms wishing to enter the Korean market. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ireland | The Constitution provides citizens with the right to "assemble peaceably and without arms"; however, it also allows the State to "prevent or control meetings" that are calculated to breach the peace or to be a danger or nuisance to the general public. (references) |
Economic History | Albania | Foreign firms and institutions have also been subject to nuisance lawsuits aimed at receiving a cash settlement. (references) |
Panama | U.S. companies have reported that corruption in Panama is more of a nuisance than an absolute prerequisite to doing business. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nuisance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Nuisance" is used about 977 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.28% | 970 | 7,515 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.51% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 977 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nuisance": a private nuisance ♦ be a nuisance ♦ commit nuisance ♦ Common nuisance ♦ make a nuisance of oneself ♦ nuisance minefield ♦ nuisance tax ♦ nuisance value ♦ private nuisance ♦ public nuisance. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nuisance": nuisance-free, nuisance-value. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nuisance | 29 | abatement nuisance | 4 |
public nuisance | 11 | call nuisance | 4 |
nuisance sonore | 10 | nuisance wildlife | 4 |
attractive nuisance | 9 | nuisance pet | 4 |
bird nuisance | 8 | noise nuisance | 4 |
law nuisance | 8 | nuisance translucence | 4 |
bat nuisance | 7 | nuisance barking | 3 |
barking dog nuisance | 7 | nuisance pigeon | 3 |
dog nuisance | 7 | law nuisance public | 3 |
neighbor nuisance | 6 | aquatic nuisance species | 2 |
nuisance sonores | 6 | nuisance vehicle | 2 |
nuisance private | 5 | barking dog eliminate nuisance | 2 |
call nuisance phone | 5 | california cat law nuisance trap | 2 |
nuisance animal | 5 | nuisance rabbit | 2 |
cat nuisance | 5 | deer nuisance | 2 |
abatement act neighborhood nuisance texas | 4 | nuisance goose | 2 |
nuisance tree | 4 | nuisance ordinance | 2 |
crow nuisance | 4 | ||
nuisance ordinance | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "nuisance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri i bezdisur (gadfly), ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, intricacy, mess, mix, moil, muddle, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss), telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضايقة (annoyance, bothering, discomfort, harassing, harassment, irritation, molestation, teasing, vexation), إزعاج (annoyance, annoying, bother, botheration, discomfort, disquiet, disruption, disturbance, harassing, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, loudness, mischievousness, molestation, movement, offence, patter, trouble), شخص ضار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неудобство (awkwardness, disadvantage, discomfiture, discomfort, inconvenience, trouble, uneasiness), нередност (disturbance, irregularity), неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, mischief, packet, plague, rub, scrape, shame, spot, trouble, vexation), неприятно нещо (bastard, trial), неприятен човек (hedgehog, rasper, tick, undesirable, wart), нарушение на обществения ред (affray, rout), напаст (adversity, curse, menace, pest, plague, scourge, terror), безобразие (crying shame, shame), беля (decorticate, exfoliate, mischief, packet, pare, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, skin, trouble), досадно нещо (trial, vexation), досаден човек (bromide, incubus, intruder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 讨厌 (Nasty, Obnoxious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neplecha (devilment, mischief, pest), nepříjemnost (aggravation, annoyance, inconvenience, mishap, trouble, unpleasantness), neřád (brat, varmint), zlořád (plague), protiva (beast, blighter, horror, nark, nasty, pig, pill, reverse, set off), obtíž (annoyance, difficulty, rub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | plage (aggravate, annoy, plage), gene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hinderlijke verontreiniging,onaangename verontreiniging, hinder (abashment, embarrassment, perplexity, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مایه تصدیع خاطر, مایه رنجش , ازار (Annoyance, Disservice, Hindrance, Hurt, Torment, Trade, Train, Trouble), اذیت (Annoyance, Harm, Hindrance, Inconvenience, Mischief, Tease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vahinko (damage, harm, injury, loss, misadventure, misfortune), haitta (detriment, disadvantage, drawback, handicap, harm, injury, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nuisance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Belästigung (annoyance, harassment, inconvenience, irritation, molestation, molesting, persecution, pestering, trouble), plage (bother, curse, devil, harassment, infliction, menace, pest, plage, plague, scourge, toil, trouble, vexation, worriment), Beeinträchtigung (damage, derogation, detracting, detraction, disturbance, handicap, harm, impairment, interference, prejudice, reduction, restriction, spoiling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όχληση (ground level concentration, ground level concentration of polluants, immission, vexation), μπελάσ (trouble, worry), φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fracas, fuss, hassle, hob, pother, rowdiness, trouble), ενόχληση (annoyance, bother, disturbance, failure, harassment, hassle, importunity, inconvenience, infestation, moil, molestation, operating trouble, peeve, trouble, vexation), οχληρά κατάστασις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפ'ע (hazard, hurdle, obstacle, target), מטר" (bother, drag, inconvenience, vexation), "טר"" (annoyance, bother, harassing, harassment), טר"ן (bore, bother, heckler, pest, terror, troublesome person), טר"" (bother, concern, discomfort, distress, hassle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kár (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, expense, harm, ill, impairment, injury, loss, mischief, mischievousness, pity, toll, tort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gangguan (bother, derangement, disruption, disturbance, harassment, hindrance, interruption, irritation, vexation), berabe (bad luck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | noia (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, dullness, ennui, molestation, tedium, trouble), uggia (boredom, crabbedness, ennui, fretfulness, grumpiness, moroseness), seccatura (annoyance, bore, bother, drag, trouble, worriment), seccatore (blighter, bore, bother, gad-fly, wimp), scocciatura (bore), scocciatore (pest), rompiscatole, rogna (itch, mange, scab, scabies, stinker), piaga (fester, sore, weal, welt), ossessione (compulsion, obsession), molestia (harassment, molestation, trouble), impiccio (fix, hindrance, mess, scrape), impiastro (bore, plaster, poultice), fastidio (ado, annoyance, anxiety, bother, harassment, sorrow, trouble, vexation, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 厄介物 (encumbrance), 人泣かせ (annoyance), ニトロ基 (mnemonic, new, new academism, new adult, new age, new city, new jazz, New Jersey, New Journalism, New South Wales, new wave, New Zealand, Newcastle, newcomer, news, news analyst, news group, news source, news value, newscaster, news-feed, newsletter, newsmagazine, news-reader, newsroom, news-server, news-spool, news-station, news-system, new-wave, NG, nihil, nihilism, nihilist, nihilistic, Nina Ricci, nitro group, nuclear family), 困り者 (good-for-nothing, scapegrace, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ニューサンス , ひとなかせ (annoyance), "まりもの (good-for-nothing, scapegrace, trouble), やっかいもの (burden, dependent, encumbrance, hanger-on, parasite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불쾌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | boireyder (annoyer, tease, teaser, troubler, worrier), boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, care, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disrupt, disruption, distract, distraction, disturb, embarrass, embarrassment, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uisancenay nocividade (malignant, noxiousness), transtorno (derangement, moil, overturn, trouble), pepita (prill), incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, cumbrous, discomfort, dreadful, heavy-laden, importune, incommodious, inconvenience, inconvertible, intrusive, left-hander, meddler, muff, nagging, pesky, plaguy, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing, worrisome), estorvo (abashment, check, cloggyness, deterrent, embarrassment, encumbrance, hamper, liability, obstacle, obstruction, perplexity, preventions, trammels, withholdment), condição imprópria, chatice (bore), aborrecimento (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, caliber, calibre, ennui, inconvenience, phew, resentment, satiety, tedium, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation, weariness). (various references) neplãcere (disgust, displeasure, harassment, inconvenience, trouble, upset), pacoste (blight, calamity, curse, cuss, hanger-on, offence, pain, pest, pestilence, plague), om supãrãtor, om enervant, om cicãlitor, faptã condamnabilã, comportare necuviincioasã, comportare indecentã, belea (adversity, affliction, bother, embarrassment, jam, mess, mishap, pest, scrape, tribulation, trouble), bãtaie de cap (botheration, mess, pain). (various references) неприятный человек (ugly customer), неприятность (bete noire, mess, plague, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation), досада (annoyance, chagrin, disappointment, discontent, exasperation, ire, pinprick, pique, rasp, vexation). (various references) neprilika (hassle, inconvenience, pickle, plight, predicament, trouble), neprijatnost (unpleasantness), smetnja (cumber, disturbance, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, jam up, perturbation, set back, setback). (various references) daño (bruise, damage, dynamite, eradication, harm, hazard, hurt, injury, jeopardy). (various references) plågoris (pest, scourge), obehag (annoyance, discomfort, inconvenience, malaise, unpleasantness). (various references) การรบกวน (bother, chafe, molestation, nag). (various references) sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), sıkıcı tip (bore, boring person, drag, dryasdust, mope, non-person, pill), rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, malaise, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), belâ (affliction, bore, calamity, curse, damnation, darned, evil, ill, misfortune, pest, plague, rock, scourge, tribulation, trouble), baş belâsı (a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the side, annoyance, bother, confounded, headache, hellbender, old man of the sea, pain in the neck, pestilent, pestilential, stiff, tease, tough, troublemaker, troublesome). (various references) нудна людина (bore, plodder, prosaist, prose, proser), незручність (awkwardness, discomfort, discommodity, inconvenience, uneasiness), непри"мність (contretemps, disagreement, displeasure, mess, plague, trouble, ungratefulness, vexation), прикрість (affliction, annoyance, awkwardness, disappointment, grief, ire), порушення громадського порядку, перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall), досада (annoyance, chagrin, heartburning, pinprick, pique, vexation), докучлива людина (barnacle, molester), докучливий предмет. (various references) mối l m rầy, mối l m phiền toái, mối l m phiền, mối gây thiệt hại, mối gây khó chịu. (various references) plag (plague), pla (bore, pestilence, plague), casbeth (aversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nocere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nuisance": nuisances. (additional references) | |
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"Nuisance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Niuean, niueans, nuiance, nuiscance, nuisence, nuissance, nusance, nusiance, nusience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nuisance" (pronounced nuw"suns) |
| 4 | -s u n s | absence, acquiescence, adolescence, beneficence, convalescence, essence, evanescence, innocence, licence, license, luminescence, obsolescence, phosphorescence, quintessence, reconnaissance, reminiscence, reticence, senescence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: canines, encinas, nancies, nuances. | |
-2 letters: acinus, canine, cannie, casein, encina, ennuis, inanes, incase, incuse, insane, nances, nuance, sienna, uncase, unciae, usance. | |
-3 letters: acnes, anise, cains, canes, cause, cines, ennui, inane, incus, nance, nines, saice, sauce, scena, senna, since, sunna, unais, uncia, usnea. | |
-4 letters: aces, acne, ains, anes, anis, anus, asci, cain, cane, cans, case. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: insurance, nuisances, unceasing. | |
+2 letters: enunciates, incunables, insurances, luminances, uncanniest. | |
+3 letters: annunciates, coinsurance, consanguine, encapsuling, enunciators, inductances, insouciance, nucleations, nunciatures, paunchiness, quinacrines, raunchiness, reinsurance, renunciates, uncanniness, unceasingly, unmasculine. | |
+4 letters: anilinctuses, anticonsumer, antinucleons, coinsurances, concubinages, continuances, counterstain, crenulations, encrustation, enucleations, enunciations, fancifulness, fecundations, illuminances, inconsumable, innumeracies, insouciances, neurasthenic, noninsurance, redundancies, reinsurances, repugnancies, subtenancies, uncinariases, uncoalescing, unsanctioned. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 75 69 73 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- .. ... .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01110101 01101001 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N u i s a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0075 0069 0073 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| 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)4887758567806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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