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Rain Shower

Definition: Rain Shower

Rain Shower

Noun

1. A brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted by a brief shower".

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

Synonym: Rain Shower

Synonym: shower (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rain Shower

English words defined with "rain shower": drizzlemizzleshower. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rain shower": MedardRain. (references)

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Modern Translations: Rain Shower

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

German

  

Regenschauer (convective rainfall, rainstorm, shower). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zápor (downpour, drencher, driving rain, flurry, gust of rain, pelt, pour, rain, shower, volley), felhõszakadás (cloud-burst, downpour, drencher, pour, rainstorm, waterspout). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

白雨 , にわか雨 (complacent smile), 俄雨 , 俄か雨 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

にわかあめ, はくう. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainray owershay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pé d'água (gust, shower, spill). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chubasco (cloudburst, rainfall, shower, squall), chapetón, chaparrón (cloudburst, downfall, downpour, scud, shower, spate), aguacero (cloudburst, downpour, rainfall, shower). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rain Shower

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

imber, imber, ymber, ymber. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Rain Shower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-o-r-r-s-w"

-1 letter: ironwares.

-2 letters: ironware, warhorse.

-3 letters: erasion, harries, harrows, hernias, heroins, hoarier, hoarsen, hoarser, hornier, horsier, inshore, ironers, narrows, reshown, senhora, serrano, showier, sierran, snowier, wahines, warison, warners, warrens, washier, wearish, whiners, worries.

-4 letters: ahorse, airers, answer, ariose, arisen, arrows, arseno, arshin, arsine, arsino, ashier, ashore, harrow, hawser, hernia, heroin, herons, hirers, hoarse, honers, hosier, ironer, irones, narrow, newish, norias, nosher, nosier, nowise, owners, raiser, rasher, rawins, rawish, reason, resawn, reshow, resown, rewash, rewins, rhinos, rinser, rosier, rowans, rowens, rowers, senhor, senior, senora, shairn, sharer, shiner, shoran, shower, shrine, sierra, sirrah, snarer, snorer, soarer, sorner, wahine, wanier, warier, warner, warren, washer, weason, whenas, whiner, whines, whirrs, whores, winoes, wirers, wisher, worsen, worser.

-5 letters: aeons, airer, airns, anise, arise, arose, arris, arrow, arson, ashen, earns, enows, eosin, hairs, hanse, hares, hawse, hears, heirs, herns, heron, heros, hirer, hires, hoars, hoers, hoise, honer, hones, horas, horns, horse, hosen, howes, irone, irons, nares, naris, nears, noirs, noise, noria, noris, ohias, ornis, orris, osier, owner, owsen, rains, raise, ranis, rares, raser, rawer, rawin, rears, reins, reran, resaw, resin, resow, rewan, rewin, rewon, rheas, rhino, rinse, risen, riser, roans, roars, rosin, rowan, rowen, rower, saner, sarin, sawer, senor, serai, serin, serow, sewan, sewar, share, sharn, shawn, shear, shewn, shier, shine, shire, shirr, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, shown, shrew, sinew, siren, sirra, snare, snore, sonar, sorer, sowar, sower, swain, sware, swear, swine, swore, sworn, wains, wairs, wanes, wares, warns, weans, wears, weirs, whens, whine, whins, whirr, whirs, whore, whose, wines, winos, wirer, wires, wirra, wiser, wisha, worse, wrens, wrier, wries.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-o-r-r-s-w"
 

+3 letters: airworthiness.

 

+4 letters: roadworthiness.

 

+5 letters: airworthinesses, crashworthiness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rain Shower


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

52 61 69 6E      53 68 6F 77 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010010 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0069 006E      0053 0068 006F 0077 0065 0072

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

526775802537481897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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