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Pentobarbital

Definition: Pentobarbital

Pentobarbital

Noun

1. A barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and anti-spasmodic.

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

Synonyms: Pentobarbital

Synonyms: pentobarbital sodium (n), yellow jacket (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pentobarbital

English words defined with "pentobarbital": pentobarbital sodium. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pentobarbital

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Barbiturates, such as mephobarbital (Mebaral) and pentobarbital sodium (Nembutal), which are used to treat anxiety, tension, and sleep disorders. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Pentobarbital

"Pentobarbital" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pentobarbital" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

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

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Expression: Pentobarbital

Expression using "pentobarbital": pentobarbital sodium. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pentobarbital

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

  pentobarbital

22

  pentobarbital sodium

7

  natrium pentobarbital

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pentobarbital

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

Chinese 

  

戊巴"妥 (Nembutal). (various references)

   

Danish

  

pentobarbital, mebumal. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pentobarbital. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pentobarbitaali. (various references)

   

French

  

pentobarbital, nembutal. (various references)

   

German

  

Pentobarbital. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πεντοβαρβιτάλη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pentobarbital. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entobarbitalpay

   

Portuguese

  

pentobarbital. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pentobarbital, nembutal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pentobarbital. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pentobarbital

Derivations

Words beginning with "pentobarbital": pentobarbitals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pentobarbital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pneobarbital. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Pentobarbital

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-t-t"

-3 letters: alteration, biparental, intraplate, obtainable, trabeation.

-4 letters: alienator, antilabor, barbitone, baritonal, battalion, natrolite, perinatal, potential, printable, rabbinate, rationale, rotatable, trainable, trilobate.

-5 letters: abattoir, ablation, aeration, airplane, alterant, antipole, antirape, atonable, atropine, attainer, barbital, bareboat, baritone, baronial, betatron, bilobate, blottier, boatable, brantail, inarable, interlap, laborite, libretto, notarial, obtainer, oriental, palatine, panbroil, parental, parietal, parlante, partible.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: pentobarbitals.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pentobarbital


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

50 65 6E 74 6F 62 61 72 62 69 74 61 6C

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101111 01100010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0074 006F 0062 0061 0072 0062 0069 0074 0061 006C

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

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

50718086816867846875866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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