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Definition: Rainless |
RainlessAdjective1. Lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rainless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: eye of the storm (geography), quiet rainless centre, storm eye. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rainless |
| English words defined with "rainless": Chili salpeter ♦ Showerless ♦ thirsty. (references) |
| "Rainless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rainless" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rainless": quiet rainless centre ♦ rainless season. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "rainless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references) | |
Arabic | شح الأمطار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired). (various references) | |
Czech | bez deštì. (various references) | |
Finnish | sateeton, poutainen. (various references) | |
French | sans pluie. (various references) | |
German | regenlos. (various references) | |
Greek | άβροχοσ (rainfall). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'רי" (dry season, rainless season). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esõtlen. (various references) | |
Italian | senza pioggia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空梅雨 (dry rainy season, rainless tsuyu). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | からつゆ (dry rainy season, rainless tsuyu). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainlessray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem chuva (fine), seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jeroboam, parching, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped). (various references) | |
Russian | засушливый (arid, droughty, dry). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez kiše. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin lluvia (dry), seco (barren, curt, dead, dried, dry, hacking, parched, sere, sharp, short, short-spoken, tired). (various references) | |
Swedish | regnfattig (droughty). (various references) | |
Turkish | kurak (arid, droughty, dry, thirsty). (various references) | |
Ukranian | недощовий, посушливий (droughty, dry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "rainless": brainless. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rainless": brainlessly, brainlessness, brainlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Rainless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gailness, grainless, Iriandeses, railess, railless, Railnews, Rainses, Rayless, rindless, ringless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rainless" (pronounced 'Rain"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless, Bushless, Careless, Chaffless, Chainless, Changeless, Chapeless, Chapless, Chargeless, Charmless, Chartless, Checkless, Cheerless, Chiefless, Christless, Churchless, Claimless, Clankless, Clawless, Clerkless, Cloudless, Cloyless, Coatless, Combless, Conceitless, Contentless, Corruptless, Costless, Couchless, Countless, Craftless, Creedless, Crestless, Crimeless, Crownless, Cubless, Curbless, Curdless, Cureless, Dateless, Dauntless, Deathless, Debtless, Deceitless, Decreaseless, Deedless, Defenseless, Delightless, Denseless, Depthless, Desertless, Designless, Desireless, Devoutless, Dewless, Diskless, Disputeless, Distrustless, Divorceless, Dogeless, Doorless, Dreamless, Driftless, Drinkless, Drossless, Ductless, Dureless, Dustless, Earless, Easeless, Edgeless, Effectless, Endless, Eventless, Exceptless, Excuseless, Exhaustless, Expenseless, Extremeless, Eyeless, Fadeless, Faithless, Fameless, Fangless, Faultless, Fearless, Feckless, Feetless, Fenceless, Fineless, Finless, Fireless, Firmless, Flameless, flawless, Fleckless, Fleeceless, Fleshless, Floorless, foamless, Fogless, Foldless, foodless, footless, forceless, Fordless, Forkless, formless, Fraudless, Freightless, FRIENDLESS, Frightless, Fringeless, Frockless, Frontless, Frostless, Frothless, Frounceless, fruitless, Fumeless, Funuless, Gainless, Gameless, Gateless, Gaudless, Germless, Ghostless, Glebeless, godless, Goldless, Goodless, graceless, Grapeless, Graspless, grassless, Graveless, Griefless, groundless, Guardless, Guideless, guileless, guiltless, Gustless, hairless, handless, hapless, harmless, hatless, Haveless, Hazeless, headless, Healthless, heartless, heatless, Hedgeless, heedless, Heelless, Heirless, Helmless, helpless, Herbless, Hingeless, Hireless, Hiveless, homeless, Hoodless, Hoofless, hopeless, hornless, Horseless, Hostless, HOUSELESS, hueless, Humpless, Hurtless, Importless, Irresistless, Itchless, Jointless, joyless, juiceless, Kindless, Kingless, Knightless, Knotless, Lampless, landless, lawless, leafless, Leaveless, legless, lidless, lifeless, lightless, limbless, lipless, listless, Lockless, lossless, loveless, luckless, Lungless, Lustless, Makeless, Maneless, Manless, matchless, mateless, meatless, Mightless, mindless, mirthless, Mistrustless, Moistless, moonless, Mouthless, Museless, Nailless, Nameless, Napless, Nathless, nerveless, Nightless, Noiseless, Noseless, Noteless, Oarless, Offenseless, Opposeless, Painless, Paintless, Palpless, Paneless, Pangless, Passless, Pathless, Peaceless, Peerless, Phaseless, Phraseless, Pieceless, Pithless, Placeless, Plagueless, Plaintless, Planless, Plantless, Pledgeless, Pluckless, Plumeless, Pointless, Poleless, Praiseless, Prayerless, Pretenseless, Priceless, Prideless, Priestless, Princeless, Proofless, Pulseless, Quenchless, rayless, Reachless, Realmless, Rechless, reckless, Reclaimless, Recureless, Redeless, Redressless, Reedless, regardless, Reinless, relentless, Reliefless, remorseless, Renownless, Repentless, Reproachless, Repulseless, Reputeless, resistless, resourceless, Respectless, Responseless, restless, Resultless, Retchless, Returnless, Revengeless, Reverseless, Rewardless, rhymeless, Rhythmless, ribless, Rightless, Rindless, roadless, Rockless, roofless, Roomless, rootless, Ruleless, Rumpless, rustless, Sackless, Sailless, Saltless, sapless, Sateless, scaleless, Scapeless, Scarless, Scathless, scentless, Schismless, seamless, Searchless, Seatless, seedless, Seemless, selfless, senseless, sexless, Shadeless, shameless, shapeless, Sheathless, Shieldless, shiftless, Shipless, Shirtless, shoeless, Shoreless, Shredless, Shroudless, Shrubless, Shunless, Sickless, sightless, sinless, Skinless, Slakeless, sleepless, sleeveless, Smileless, Smockless, smokeless, Snowless, Sockless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: airless, aliners, arsines, nailers, renails, resails, sailers, salines, serails, serials, silanes. | |
-2 letters: aisles, aliens, aliner, alines, anises, ariels, arisen, arises, arsine, elains, larine, lasers, lassie, learns, lianes, linear, liners, nailer, raises, rassle, renail, resail, resins, rinses, sailer, saline, sanies, sansei, sarins, sarsen, serail, serais, serial, serins, silane, sirens, snails, snares, snarls. | |
-3 letters: airns, aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, earls, earns, elain, elans, isles, lairs, lanes, lares, laris, laser, lases, leans, learn, lears, lenis, liane, liars, liens, liers, liner, lines, liras, nails, nares, naris, nears, rails, rains, raise, rales, ranis, rases, reals, reins, renal, resin, rials, riels, riles, rinse, risen, rises, sails, sains, sales, saner, sanes, sarin, saris, sasin, seals, sears, sensa, serai, seral, serin, sials, sines, siren, sires, sisal, slain, slier, snail, snare, snarl. | |
-4 letters: ails, ains, airn, airs, ales, anes, anil, anis, ares, aril, arse, earl, earn, ears, elan, eras, erns, ilea, ires, isle, lain, lair, lane, lari, lars, lase, lass, lean, lear, leas, leis, lens, less, liar, lien, lier, lies, line, lins, lira, lire, nail, near, ness, nils, rail, rain, rale, rani, rase, real, rein, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rins, rise, sail, sain, sale, sals, sane, sans, sari, seal, sear, seas, seis, sels, sera, sers, sial, sine, sins, sire, sirs, sris. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, air, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, are, ars, ass, ear, els, ens, era, ern, ers, ess, ins, ire, lar, las, lea, lei, lie, lin, lis, nae, nil, ran, ras, rei, res, ria, rin, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, sen, ser, sin, sir, sis, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: brainless, earliness, frailness, islanders, larkiness, mislearns, sensorial, signalers, snarliest. | |
+2 letters: arsenicals, baseliners, bleariness, installers, interclass, larcenists, linearises, normalises, paltriness, planishers, reanalysis, reinstalls, ringhalses, shearlings, signallers, sterilants, universals, urinalyses. | |
+3 letters: airlessness, blandishers, brainlessly, caressingly, centralises, centralisms, centralists, cordialness, cranesbills, curtainless, darlingness, disenthrals, earlinesses, earthliness, frailnesses, generalises, generalists, glaringness, gracileness, languishers, larkinesses, liberalness, linecasters, literalness, lyricalness, mineralises, nailbrushes, naturalises, necessarily, neorealisms, neorealists, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, personalise, personalism, personalist, plasterings, radicalness, reassailing, recessional, rosemalings, sailplaners, sanderlings, sensorially, serialising, shinplaster, starvelings, strandlines, streamlines. | |
+4 letters: anglerfishes, antirealisms, antirealists, beggarliness, blearinesses, circularness, clarinetists, cowardliness, criticalness, desalinators, digressional, dilatoriness, disenthralls, disrelations, everlastings, expressional, externalises, externalisms, familiarness, fatherliness, generalships, hairlessness, inseparables, insularities, intercostals, internalises, ironicalness, literariness, literateness, mannerliness, marlinspikes, masterliness, materialness, maternalisms, mistranslate, narcolepsies, orientalisms, orientalists, overanalysis, paltrinesses, paternalisms, paternalists, personalised, personalises, personalisms, personalists, personalizes, personalties, planispheres, pleasantries, pleinairisms, pleinairists, precessional, processional, professional, rationalises, rationalness, reassembling, reassuringly, recessionals, regionalisms, regionalists, reliableness, salinometers, salutariness, secularising, shinplasters, singularizes, solitariness, streamliners, subintervals, surveillants, towardliness, tranquilness, transfusible, undesirables, universalism, universalist, variableness, verticalness, wearifulness, windlestraws. | |
+5 letters: admirableness, airlessnesses, aldosteronism, antipleasures, antislaveries, brainlessness, clarinettists, compressional, comradeliness, congressional, considerables, containerless, cordialnesses, darlingnesses, dastardliness, desirableness, earthlinesses, exemplariness, fiberglassing, foolhardiness, fraternalisms, generalissimo, glaringnesses, glasspapering, gracilenesses, hilariousness, illiberalness, industrialise, insalubrities, instrumentals, interstadials, irascibleness, irritableness, isoprenalines, laboriousness, liberalnesses, literalnesses, lucrativeness, lyricalnesses, maladroitness, malversations, marlinespikes, mercantilisms, mercantilists, mercurialness, microanalyses, millionairess, mineralogists, miserableness, mistranslated, mistranslates, niggardliness, nonuniversals, painterliness, passionflower, personalising, personalistic, personalities, phalansteries, pictorialness, practicalness, processionals, professionals, progressional, radiationless, radicalnesses, reclassifying, reescalations, relationships, rhinoplasties, ribonucleases, salmonberries, sensorineural, singularities, slipstreaming, somersaulting, spiritualness, sportsmanlike, stickhandlers, surveillances, traditionless, transmissible, unassertively, unearthliness, universalisms, universalists, universalizes, universalness, unnecessarily, veritableness, versatileness, vibrationless, voluntariness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 69 6E 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .. -. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a i n l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0069 006E 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267758078718585 |
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