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Panther

Definition: Panther

Panther

Noun

1. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis.

2. A leopard in the black color phase.

3. Large American feline resembling a lion.

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

"Panther" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a panther", "all", "hunt".

Date "panther" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Panther

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love or business may be canceled unexpectedly, owing to adverse influences working against your honor. But killing, or over-powering it, you will experience joy and be successful in your undertakings. Your surroundings will take on fair prospects.
If one menaces you by its presence, you will have disappointments in business. Other people will likely recede from their promises to you.
If you hear the voice of a panther, and experience terror or fright, you will have unfavorable news, coming in the way of reducing profit or gain, and you may have social discord; no fright forebodes less evil.
A panther, like the cat, seen in a dream, portends evil to the dreamer, unless he kills it. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Panther The Spotted Panther in Dryden's Hind and Panther means the Church of England full of the spots of error; whereas the Church of Rome is faultless as the milk-white hind
"The panther, sure the noblest next the hind,
And fairest creature of the spotted kind,
Ah, could her inborn stains be washed away,
She were too good to be a beast of prey."
Part 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Mac OS X

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mac OS X, the latest version of Mac OS, is an operating system for Macintosh computers from Apple that combines popular features of the traditional Macintosh user interface on top of a stable Unix operating environment. The pronunciation OS 'ten' is favored by Apple, to stress continuity with previous Macintosh operating systems. Others say OS 'ex' , both to emphasize the relationship with Unix and because of the presence of the roman numeral X in the name of the operating system.

OS X was created by combining Darwin, an open source Unix-like environment, which is based on the BSD source tree and the Mach microkernel, with a GUI, called Aqua, made by Apple Computer. The operating system saw its first commercial release in 2001.

History

See Mac OS X history.

What is today Mac OS X originally started in 1989 as NeXTSTEP, the object-oriented operating system developed by Steve Jobs' NeXT company after he was forced from Apple in 1986. After disappointing sales of the computers designed to run it, NeXTSTEP was ported to a number of other platforms in the early 1990s, but never became very popular because of the arguably high pricing that NeXT applied to its products, especially for its development tools. NeXT had justified this, saying that high prices accompany high quality, though many were not willing to take the NeXT route, beneficial or not. NeXTSTEP then underwent an evolution into OPENSTEP, which separated the object layers from the operating system below, allowing it to run with less modification on other platforms. However by this point in time a number of other companies, notably Apple, IBM and Microsoft, were claiming that they would soon be releasing similar object-oriented operating systems and development tools of their own - however some of these efforts such as Taligent did not fully come to fruition.

Coincident with these developments, by the mid-1990s Apple's own operating system had reached the limits of its single-user, co-operative multitasking architecture. A massive development effort to replace it, known as Copland, was started in 1994, but was generally realized outside of Apple to be a hopeless case due to political infighting. By 1996 Copland was nowhere near ready for release, and the effort was eventually cancelled outright. Some elements of Copland were incorporated in Mac OS 8, released in 1997.

At this point the new CEO of Apple turned to the market to look for a replacement - a modern operating system with the UI Apple users expected, and the performance and modern features needed to move the platform forward. After some time, and a publicly rancorous debate, OPENSTEP was selected as the basis and Apple purchased NeXT outright.

At first the plan was to develop a new operating system based almost entirely on OPENSTEP, with an emulator for running "classic" Macintosh applications. The result was known under the code name Rhapsody, slated for release in 1998. It was expected that developers would port their software to the considerably more powerful OPENSTEP libraries once they learned of its power and flexibility, instead, perhaps unexpectedly, the vast majority of developers told Apple that this would never occur, and that they would rather leave the platform entirely. Interestingly enough, the newer Cocoa libraries developed by Apple are almost entirely identical to the original OPENSTEP libraries, and are recently coming into greater use.

Another re-design was then started, this time promoting the original Macintosh APIs, re-written as Unix libraries, as first-class citizens of the new operating system. Another change was required by the switch from OPENSTEP's Display PostScript engine to one that was license free, known as Quartz. The resulting changes delayed the introduction of the operating system by about two years.

During this time the lower layers of the operating system, consisting of the Mach kernel and the BSD layers on top, was re-packaged and released under an open source license as Darwin. The Darwin kernel provides an extremely stable and flexible operating system which rivals many other Unix implementations, however it is unclear if it sees any real use outside the Macintosh community.

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Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar screenshot thumbnail
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Many of OS X's users consider its Aqua GUI to be the most attractive and functional in existence, which has been imitated by others; there are Aqua lookalikes for other operating systems, (e.g., mosfet liquid). Interface skins imitating the Aqua look exist for many Microsoft Windows programs, such as Winamp.

This combination of GUI and kernel has very recently become the most popular-selling Unix environment to date by sheer numbers. (Note that Mac OS X is not officially a Unix OS, as Apple has not sought The Open Group branding, as the cost of certification would make the OS prohibitively expensive.)

OS X is compatible with older Mac OS applications by using Classic, an application which allows users to run Mac OS 9.x within OS X, so that most older applications, such as the ubiquitous SimpleText, etc., run as they would under Mac OS 9.x. In addition, the Carbon APIs were added to permit legacy code to be quickly ported to run natively on both OS X and Mac OS 9.x. A fourth option for developers is to write applications in the Java platform, which OS X supports.

OS X can run many BSD or Linux software packages once compiled for the platform. Compiled binaries are normally distributed as OS X Packages; but may still require command-line configuration or compilation. Projects like Fink and DarwinPorts provide precompiled or preformatted packages for many standard packages. Apple's X11 will make it even easier to exchange packages with UNIX and Linux users.

Notable interface features

In 2001, Apple released Mac OS X version 10.0 on March 24, which brought OS X to the public awareness. It was praised for its completeness and stability at such an early point in its development (it being a total departure from previous Apple releases). Despite this, it was criticized for being slow, leading many (including Steve Jobs) to consider it an excellent beta release. In September of that year, version 10.1 was released as a free update, increasing the speed and performance of the system as well as providing missing features, such as DVD playback.

In 2002, Apple followed up with Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.2, which brought profound performance enhancements, a newer, sleeker look, and many powerful enhancements (over 150, according to Apple). Mac OS X is now the only system shipping on new Macintosh computers.

Mac OS X 10.3, Panther, was released on October 24, 2003, and in addition to providing much improved performance also incorporated the most extensive update to the user interface, Aqua. The update included as many or more new features as Jaguar did.

Versions

Software

This list includes software created for Mac OS X by Apple. All of these applications ship with the operating system.

Press release

Here, courtesy Apple Computer's press relations, is information on OS X (wikified):

...combines the power and stability of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh.

...innovative time-saving features including a new Finder and the Dock designed to help you navigate and organize your system, and give you instant access to your most frequently used applications, folders....

...built on three cutting-edge graphics technologies Quartz, OpenGL, and QuickTime...

...the foundation of Mac OS X [is] an industrial-strength, UNIX-based core operating system—called Darwin—that delivers unprecedented stability and performance...powerful, advanced features such as protected memory, preemptive multitasking, advanced memory management, and symmetric multiprocessing...

...Seamless device connectivity and industry-leading applications...

...includes powerful, easy-to-use tools for making your own movies, managing your music, and capturing photos from your digital camera. Built-in support for burning music and data CDss, playing DVD movies, and even authoring your own DVDs...

...lets you run thousands of existing Mac OS 9-compatible applications, while... Mac OS X provide[s] a foundation for great new applications.

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Panther

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Panther is the local name given to a number of large members of the cat family, commonly referred to as "big cats". Often (but not always), the word "panther" is applied to a black-colored variation of a species of big cat. Here is a breakdown of locations that use the term "panther" and to what cat species it applies to:

Panther is also a codename for the current major version of MacOS - 10.3.

This name is also given to the Panther tank, which was a famous German tank in World War II.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Panther."

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Panther (music)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

"Panther" is a speech composition as electronic sounds (electronic music), composed by Juan Maria Solare after a text by Rainer Maria Rilke ("Der Panther"). Commissioned by the "Work-Group in Theater-Dance" (Tanztheater ArbeitsGemeinschaft) from the secondary school "Herder Gymnasium", in Cologne (group conducted by Ligia Liberatori). The piece would be used for a choreography of the ensemble "Katastrophe Ballet". This composition was designed in Darmstadt and made in Cologne, in the studio of the composer, based on sound-samples of Ligia Liberatori (voice), Holger Müller-Hartmann (fagot), Gustavo Fontes (doublebass), Damian Zangger (tuba); and the voices of the pupils, in April and May 2001. [7'00"]

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Panther (music)."

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Panther tank

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Panther tank was the successor to the Panzer IV, which had been the backbone of the German Army during the first half of World War II.

The Panzer IV's invincibility had been disproven by the Red Army, by its desperate but effective resistance against the German Army during the latter's Operation Barbarossa, or the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Panther appeared in November 1942. It had a 75mm gun, which could penetrate the armor of almost all Soviet tanks. Other design features included sloped armor, torsion-bar suspension, and interleaved wheels. The armor was 80mm thick, with a 650 horsepower engine capable of speeds of up to 28 MPH. Between 1942 and 1945, when World War II ended, Germany produced over 4,800 Panther tanks.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Panther tank."

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Synonyms: Panther

Synonyms: catamount (n), cougar (n), jaguar (n), mountain lion (n), painter (n), puma (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Panther

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courage

Man, man of mettle; hero, demigod, Amazon, Hector; lion, tiger, panther, bulldog; fighting-cock; bully, fire eater.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Panther

English words defined with "panther": Pantheress, Pantherine, PardWild-cat. (references)
Specialty definitions using "panther": Domestic Poultry, Double-edged SwordReynard the Fox, Run Amuck. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Panther" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (panther), Manx (panther ).

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Modern Usage: Panther

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

'Cause he's smarter than the panther. (The Edge; writing credit: David Mamet)

Movie/TV Titles

The Pink Panther Show (1969)

Black Panther (1969)

Der Schwarze Panther (1966)

The Pink Panther (1964)

Der Schwarze Panther von Ratana (1962)

Song Titles

Pink Panther Theme, The (performing artist: Henry Mancini)

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

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Commercial Usage: Panther

DomainTitle

References

  • Panther Securities P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Danger on Panther Peak (reference)

  • Germany's Panther Tank the Quest for Combat Supremacy: Development - Modifications - Rare Variants - Characteristics - Combat Accounts (Schiffer mili (reference)

  • Panther in the Basement (Harvest in Translation) (reference)

  • Panther in the Sky (reference)

  • The Black Panther Party Reconsidered (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Panther

Photos:
Panther

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Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Panther

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Panther Creek, an image of the stream that was affected by Blackbird Mine. The creek had very good habitat but for the mine discharge. By 1960 steelhead trout and chinook salmon were extirpated from the river due to the contaminants released at Blackbird Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An image of the lower section of Panther Creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Conducting flight operations in the Virginia Capes area on 14 January 1953, "to obtain a critical evaluation of the operational suitability of canted flight decks as a primary means of operating carrier aircraft" (quoted from the original caption). Antietam had just returned to service following installation of the then-experimental angled ("canted") flight deck. A F9F "Panther" jet fighter has just left the angled deck, just forward of her midships elevator. Other planes (all jet fighters) parked on deck include F9F "Cougars" (forward), F2H "Banshees" and an FJ "Fury" (immediately forward of the ship's island). Credit: NAVY.

Captain Samuel G. Mitchell, Commanding Officer, and Commander J.D. Blitch, Executive Officer, inspecting the ship's various divisions, while she was at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 31 January 1953. Note Marine guard at left and Grumman F9F-5 "Panther" fighters parked at the bow. Planes are (left to right): Bureau #s 125275, 125471 and (probably) 125476. Credit: NAVY.

Panther Lake, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wawbeek and Upper Saranac Lake from Panther Mt. [i.e. Mountain], Adirondack Mts., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Every man, a poster at Camp Hood. Taking a cue from the Office of War Information (OWI) poster "If you talk too much, this man may die", Private Ivan A. Smith, editor of the Camp Hood Panther, Camp Hood,Texas, originated this novel method of reminding his. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lemhi County, Idaho. Bridge to a ranch across Panther Creek. Credit: Library of Congress.

Black person in native African dress carrying automatic weapon and book entitled "Black Studies"] / designed by: Emory Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

Free yourself, free the Panther 21, free the streets, free food, free housing, free medicine, free Bobby Seale, free education ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Panther

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Ocean Energy's Lion and Panther gas fields officially came into production in 1995 and the Apache/Bouygues (French) Foxtrot field (1.15 mn cubic meters/day building to 1.4 mn cubic meters/day in 2001) came on line in December 1998. A Straddle plant for the Lion gas field production came on line in late 1998 with the possibility of producing about 25,000 mt/year of LPG. The gas supplied by both companies currently goes mainly to power electrical generating plants in Côte d'Ivoire. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Panther

"Panther" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.19% of the time. "Panther" is used about 124 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
Noun (singular)99.19%12328,925
Noun (proper)0.81%1339,140
                    Total100.00%124N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Panther

The following table summarizes the usage of "panther" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PantherLast name40019,508
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Panther

"Panther" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a panther", "all", "hunt".
 
The following table summarizes names derived from the word "panther".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
PantherasMaleGreek

A panther

PantherMaleJudeo-Christian Legend

A panther

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

The following table summarizes names related to "Panther."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
PantherasMaleGreekPanther
PantherMaleJudeo-Christian LegendN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Panther

CountryName
United Kingdom

Panther Securities P.L.C.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Panther

Expressions using "panther": american panther black Panther Florida panther panther cat panther cowry Panther Creek panther lily pet panther. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "panther": panther-like.

Containing "panther": Allamuchy-Panther Valley.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Panther

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

panther

3,068

the black panther

58

black panther

2,933

panther creek

46

the pink panther

1,315

panther pic

46

florida panther

1,280

black panther pic

44

carolina panther

570

big east panther

42

black panther party

243

black new panther party

39

panther tattoo

223

panther primitive

39

panther picture

197

panther clipart

38

picture of black panther

185

pitt panther

38

panther wheels

136

panther penrith

37

the pink panther picture

132

panther martin

37

panther animal

113

pic of pink panther

36

steel panther

101

pittsburgh panther football

35

panther chameleon

93

panther rim

34

black panther tattoo

81

panther logo

33

pittsburgh panther

81

the pink panther movie

33

panther tank

62

lair panther

31

black panther cat

61

panther pink theme

31

pink panther cartoon

61

art clip panther

31

black panther animal

60

midnight panther

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Panther

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

Albanian

  

panterë (pard), xhaguar, kougar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏اليغور نمر, ‏الكوجر الأسد الأمريكي, ‏النمر (tigris). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ягуар (american tiger, jaguar), пантера (pantheress). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(leopard). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pardál, panter, levhart (leopard). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

panter (leopard), luipaard (leopard). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pantero. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یوزپلنگ . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pantteri (leopard). (various references)

   

French

  

panthère. (various references)

   

German

  

Panther. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πάνθηρας (leopard), πανθήρασ, πανθήρ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פ תר, בר"לס (cheetah), מר (leopard, tiger). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

párduc (leopard). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

pardusdýr, hlébarði. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

harimau kumbang. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pantera. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'豹 , (leopard). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くろひょう, ひょう (a council, bag counter, bale, ballot, chart, commentary, criticism, hail, label, lean on, leopard, lie heavy, list, recline on, sack, sign, straw bag, table, threat, ticket). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

표" (leopard). (various references)

   

Manx

  

panther, coogar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antherpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pantera. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

puma (carcajou, mountain cat, mountain lion), panterã, leopard (leopard), jaguar (american leopard, american tiger, jaguar), cuguar (carcajou, mountain cat, mountain lion). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

леопард (leopard), пантера (cougar). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

paindeal (a panther). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

panter. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pantera. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

panter. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pars (leopard), panter. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пантера (cougar). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Panther

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

panthera, pardus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Panther

Derivations

Words beginning with "panther": panthers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Panther" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canther, Panter, Pantja, pantler, Pantzer, pather, Pathet, patner, pensher, Penwhirn, Pethor, Pither. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Panther

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-p-r-t"

-1 letter: anther, arpent, enrapt, entrap, hapten, parent, tephra, teraph, thenar, threap, trepan.

-2 letters: antre, apter, arpen, earth, hater, heart, neath, paten, pater, peart, prate, raphe, rathe, taper, thane.

-3 letters: ante, aper, earn, eath, epha, etna, haen, haet, hant, hare, harp, hart, hate, heap, hear, heat, hent, hern, nape, neap, near, neat, pane, pant, pare.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: panthers, pentarch, perianth.

 

+2 letters: parchment, pentarchs, pentarchy, perianths, printhead, threaping.

 

+3 letters: anastrophe, antiherpes, chaptering, euphoriant, hemipteran, hierophant, homopteran, hypertonia, interphase, neuropathy, parchments, parenthood, pathfinder, pentahedra, pinfeather, preachment, preheating, printheads, repatching, transshape.

 

+4 letters: anastrophes, antiphrases, antistrophe, chiropteran, ctenophoran, enteropathy, ethnography, euphoriants, hemipterans, hierophants, homopterans, houseparent, hymenoptera, hypertonias, hypocentral, interparish, interphases, lycanthrope, metanephric, metanephroi, metanephros, misanthrope, nephropathy, neuropathic, openhearted, orthopteran, parentheses, parenthesis, parenthetic, parenthoods, partnership, pathfinders, pentahedral, pentahedron, pentarchies, phalanstery, pinfeathers, platyrrhine, preachments, retinopathy, senatorship, shinplaster, snapshooter, stenography, straphanger, thunderclap, traineeship, transhipped, transshaped, transshapes, tryptophane, upgathering, xiphisterna.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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