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Definitions: Reptilian |
ReptilianAdjective1. Of or relating to the class Reptilia. Noun1. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reptilian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
Synonym: ReptilianSynonym: reptile (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reptilian |
| English words defined with "reptilian": dragon ♦ firedrake ♦ Reptilian age ♦ salamander. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reptilian": Crystallins ♦ Retroviruses Type C, Mammalian. (references) |
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| "Reptilian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Reptilian" is used about 22 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) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reptilian": reptilian age. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "reptilian": reptilian-like. | |
Ending with "reptilian": non-reptilian. | |
| 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 |
reptilian | 48 |
reptilian alien | 23 |
agenda reptilian | 9 |
brain reptilian | 9 |
race reptilian | 8 |
record reptilian | 7 |
nazi reptilian | 4 |
people reptilian | 3 |
human reptilian | 3 |
conspiracy reptilian | 3 |
gizeh nazi reptilian | 2 |
2012 alien contact reptilian year | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reptilian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrëshqanor (reptile), zvarranik (reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زاحفي (reptile), زاحف (creeper, creepy), الزاحف (reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който се отнася за влечуго, който е подобен на влечуго, влечуго (reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reptilien, reptile (reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reptilien-, reptilartig (reptile), reptil (reptil, reptile), kreichtier, kreicherisch, gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερπετώδησ (reptilious), ερπετόμορφοσ, ερπετό (crawler, reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hüllõ (reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | beishteigagh (insectlike, wormlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eptilianray relativo aos répteis, réptil (crawler, reptile). (various references) de reptilã. (various references) рептилия (reptile), гад (slimy person). (various references) reptilni, gmizavac (reptile). (various references) reptil (crawler, reptile). (various references) reptil-. (various references) yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, silky, sleek, slime, soapy, suck, sucker, toady), sürüngenlerle ilgili, sürüngen (creeper, reptant, reptile, wandering), aşağılık kimse (bounder, caitiff, dastard, dirty dog, heel, jerk, louse, no good, reptile, skunk, snot, swob), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references) рептилія (creeper), що належить до рептилій, плазун (crawler, creeper, reptile, worm). (various references) lo i bò sát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reptilian": reptilians. (additional references) | |
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"Reptilian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fetilia, repition, reptilia, reptilla, reptillian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: inertial, interlap, paintier, reptilia, trapline, triplane. | |
-2 letters: airline, inertia, latrine, lintier, nitrile, painter, pantile, pertain, pintail, plainer, plaiter, planter, platier, praline, ratline, reliant, repaint, replant, retinal, trenail. | |
-3 letters: aliner, alpine, antler, aplite, arpent, enrapt, entail, entrap, inlier, larine, learnt, linear, linier, linter, nailer, nitril, palier, palter, panier, pantie, parent, patine, penial, pineal, pineta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: reptilians. | |
+2 letters: patrilineal, plaistering, planarities, planimetric, pleinairist, prelibation, replicating, replication. | |
+3 letters: antiparticle, earsplitting, experiential, interlapping, interplaying, interpluvial, livetrapping, pleinairists, pregnability, prelibations, presidential, providential, reimplanting, relationship, repetitional, replications, tripinnately, vespertilian. | |
+4 letters: amitriptyline, antiparticles, coplanarities, hypersalinity, hypervigilant, impersonality, interparticle, interplanting, interpleading, interpolating, interpolation, interpolative, interproximal, intertropical, painterliness, paternalistic, penetrability, personalistic, personalities, pictorialness, precipitantly, preindustrial, prepositional, proliferating, proliferation, pulverization, reapplication, recompilation, reduplicating, reduplication, relationships, republication, rhinoplasties, slipstreaming, spiritualness, supermilitant, temporalizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 74 69 6C 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. - .. .-.. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p t i l i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0074 0069 006C 0069 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182867578756780 |
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