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Definitions: Roaring |
RoaringAdjective1. Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids". 2. Loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss. Adverb1. Extremely; "roaring drunk". Noun1. A deep prolonged loud noise. 2. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roaring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: RoaringSynonyms: booming (adj), deafening (adj), earsplitting (adj), flourishing (adj), palmy (adj), prospering (adj), prosperous (adj), thriving (adj), thunderous (adj), thundery (adj), bellow (n), bellowing (n), boom (n), holla (n), holler (n), hollering (n), hollo (n), holloa (n), roar (n), thunder (n), yowl (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Prosperity | Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours. |
Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend. | |
Success | Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Roaring |
| English words defined with "roaring": Blore, Boation, booming ♦ Cinchonism ♦ flashing, flourishing ♦ Ground sea ♦ palmy, prospering, prosperous ♦ Rhonchial fremitus, Roaring boy, Roaringly ♦ thriving, To blow great guns ♦ Vocal fremitus, vroom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "roaring": Autolycus ♦ DAMME BOY ♦ ROARING BOY, Roaring Boys, Roaring Forties, Roaring Game, ROARING TRADE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "roaring": Coranach ♦ Fremitus ♦ Rhonchial ♦ Wrawl. (references) |
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Lyrics | Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chicago in the Roaring 20's (1968) King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) The Roaring 20's (1960) Roaring City (1951) Son of Roaring Dan (1940) | |
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 | Rough weather in the Roaring 40's south of Australia OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | (left-right) Roaring Springs Ranch manager Stacy Davies, Secretary Babbitt, Elaine Zielinski, and Governor Kitzhaber at Big Indian Gorge overlook. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |
 | Stacie Davies, the manager of Roaring Springs Ranch, and Secretary Bruce Babbitt at Big Indian Gorge overlook. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |  | Hugh oil gusher at Mooringsport, La. A monstrous column of roaring flame, Star Oil Co. Loucke no. 3, on fire since Aug. 7, 1913 ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roaring River Falls, Kings' River Canyon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Among the cypress trees, Roaring Brook. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roaring Rock, York Beach, Me. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A battery of 1,000 and 2,000 pound furnaces roaring threats to the Axis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A view in the Island of Jamaica, of the spring-head of Roaring River on the estate of William Beckford esqr. / drawn on the spot, and painted by George Robertson ; engraved by James Mason. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The roaring success, George H. Broadhurst's latest farce, What happened to Jones. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Lions roaring and growling. | | Bear growling and roaring. |
| Tiger roaring. | | Mountain lion roaring. |
| Tiger roaring. | | Mountain lion roaring. |
| Bear roaring. | | Lion roaring. |
| Jaguars roaring. | | Lions roaring. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | But before Ma ate, she put the big round wash tub on the stove and started the fire to roaring. |
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Health | Tinnitus (a ringing, roaring, or hissing sound in one or both ears) may also occur. (references) | |
Maskers do not make tinnitus go away, but they make the ringing or roaring seem softer. (references) | ||
This kind of hearing loss may be accompanied by tinnitus, an experience of sound like ringing, buzzing or roaring in the ears or head, which may subside over time. Hearing loss and tinnitus may be experienced in one or both ears, and tinnitus may continue constantly or intermittently throughout a lifetime. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Jamaica | At 2:00 a.m. on July 26, a demolition team escorted by police destroyed the homes of 17 squatters who had built illegally on Roaring River government land near Steer Town, St. Ann parish. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Roaring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.39% of the time. "Roaring" is used about 356 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60.39% | 215 | 20,643 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.65% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.27% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 356 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "roaring". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Goath | N/A | Biblical | His roaring |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "roaring": be in roaring health ♦ in roaring health ♦ rip roaring ♦ roaring boy ♦ Roaring Branch ♦ roaring drunk ♦ roaring forties ♦ Roaring Gap ♦ Roaring River ♦ Roaring Spring ♦ Roaring Springs ♦ the roaring game. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "roaring": rip-roaring. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "roaring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ulëritës (howler, howling, roarer, screaming, screechy), ulërimë (boom, howl, roar, scream, screech, ululation, wow), i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), gjëmim (blare, boom, clap, grumble, peal, roar, rumble, thunder, whang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قاصف (thunderous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страшно (almighty, fearfully, infernally, miserably, terribly, terrifically), ужасно (almighty, awfully, cruelly, damn, damnably, damned, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, remarkably, shocking, terribly, terrifically, thundering, to death), рев (bawl, bluster, cry, hoot, howl, rave, roan, roar, squall, trumpet, yell), тътен (roar, roll), шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), кипящ (ebullient, yeasty), гръмогласен (loud, loudmouthed, openmouthed, sidesplitting, vociferous), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), задух (asthma, constriction, fug, suffocation), бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 叫聲 (barking, braying, yelling), '" (Barked, Barking, Bayed, Baying, Growled, growling, howler, Roared, snarled, Snarling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rámusící, bouřlivý (blustery, boisterous, choppy, effervescent, fierce, franetic, gusty, loud, rapid, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, tumultuous, uproarious, wild), řvoucí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strubepipning (unsound roaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cornage (unsound roaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hinkukurkku (unsound roaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rugissement, ronflant, hurlement, cornage (unsound roaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwunghaft (flourishing), brüllend (bellowing, blaring, blatant, blatantly, uproarious, uproariously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βρυχώμενοσ (roarer), χρονία συρίττουσα αναπνοή (unsound roaring), φλοίσβοσ (plashing), θορυβώδησ (blusterous, boisterous, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, rambunctious, roisterous, rumbustious, uproarious, windy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מ" (groaning, growling, moaning, rattle, shrieking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ordítozó (clamorous), kehesség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gerosokan (seething). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ruggente, bolsaggine (broken windedness, emphysema, pursiness, short-windedness, unsound roaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 轟然 , 殷殷たる (bellowing, booming, pealing, reverberating), 殷々たる (bellowing, booming, pealing, reverberating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | い"い"たる (bellowing, booming, pealing, reverberating), "うぜ" (arrogant, haughtiness, haughty, pride, proud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 포효 (roar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | garveigagh (bellow, bellowing), freaynagh (billowy, foaming, overflowing, raging, surging, turbulent), buirrooghys, buirrooghid (vociferation), buirrooghey (bellowing, boom, burst, burst of sound, growl, growling, low, roar, rumble, thundering, thundering of sea, vociferate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oaringray rugidor, rugido (bellow, roar, rut), ribombante (thundering), vociferador (mouthy, vociferous), urro (roar), pulmoeira (unsound roaring), enfisema pulmonar crónico (unsound roaring), bramido (howl, roar), berro (bawl, bellow, low, roar, shout, warble, yell, yowl), atroador (thunderous), asma (asthma, wheeziness). (various references) vuiet (din, hubbub, hum, noise, roar, rumble, sough), vâjâitor, urlet (howl, roar, yell, yowl), strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, halloo, hoop, hoot, hue, outcry, roar, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), hohotitor, hohotit, freamãt (bustle, commotion, hum, lisp, murmur, quiver, riot, rioting, riotousness, rush, rustle, rustling, sough, stir, storm, thrill, tremor, tumult, uproar, vibration, whir), excelent (a1, best, capital, champion, clinking, consummate, crack, excellent, excellently, exquisite, fine, first rate, golden, great, noble, passing, special, splendid, that's capital, tiptop, topping), duduit, de o veselie zgomotoasã, clocotitor (boiling, eddying, foaming, hot, resounding, ringing, seething, tireless, tumultuous, whirling). (various references) шумный (hilarious, knock about, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, robustious, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), запал (fuse, fuze, heaves, portfire, vent, venthole), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references) g rthaich (crying). (various references) rikanje (bell), koji urliče, koji riče, koji buči, buran (boisterous, inclement, rackety, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous), bučanje. (various references) rugiente, rugido (bellow, rave, raving, roar), huelfago (unsound roaring), clamoroso (clamorous, howling, miserable, noisy, uproarious). (various references) rytande (roar), struppipning (unsound roaring). (various references) uğultu (boom, buzzing, clatter, howl, hum, humming, ping, roar, singing, sough), uğuldayan, uğuldama (humming, roar, sough, whistling), kapış kapış satılan, kükreyen, kükreme (roar), hararetli (aboil, aglow, burning, dithyrambic, excited, fervent, fevered, glowing, heated, in a glow, perfervid, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, warm), gürleyen (booming, fulminant, thunderous), gürleme (booming, clap, grumble, peal, roar, rolling, rumble, thundering), gürültülü kahkaha (belly lough, guffaw, hee haw, shout of laughter), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), gümbürtü (booming sound, clap, clash, plump, roll, rumble), fanatik (devotee, energumen, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, red-hot, rooter, zealot), çok iyi (alpha plus, bang up, banner, bully, celestial, cool, elegant, great, hell of, highly, jolly good, nicely, no mean, some, that's cool, thumbs up, two thumbs up, very good, very well). (various references) розгульний (bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic), ревіння (bellow, blubber, howl, howling, rave), шумний (clamant, clamorous, hilarious, loud, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, oral, rackety, shrill, slap bang, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), процвітаючий (auspicious, flourishing, prosperous). (various references) tiếng gầm tiếng nổ đùng đùng, om sòm (mobbish, noisy, rakety, riotous, robustious, vociferant, vociferous), nhộn nhịp; thịnh vượng, ầm ĩ (loud, loudly, robustious, rumbustious). (various references) rhuadwy, rhuad (roar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fragosus, fremitum, fremitus, gemitibus, gemitu, gemitum, gemitus, mugitu, murmur, murmuris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 15 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Leo rugiens et ursus esuriens princeps impius super populum pauperem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A leoun rorende, and a bere hungrende, an vnpitous prince on a pore puple. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maingon sa usa ka leon nga nagangulob, ug sa usa ka oso nga nagasarasay, Ingon niana ang usa ka dautan nga punoan ibabaw sa usa ka kabus nga katawohan. |
| Croatian | Lav koji rièe i gladan medvjed: takav je opak vladalac siromašnu narodu. |
| Danish | En brølende Løve, en grådig Bjørn er en gudløs, som styrer et ringe Folk. |
| Dutch | De goddeloze, heersende over een arm volk, is een brullende leeuw, en een beer, die ginds en weder loopt. |
| Finnish | Kuin muriseva leijona ja ahnas karhu on kurjan kansan jumalaton hallitsija. |
| French | Comme un lion rugissant et un ours affamé, Ainsi est le méchant qui domine sur un peuple pauvre. |
| German | Ein Gottloser, der über ein armes Volk regiert, das ist ein brüllender Löwe und gieriger Bär. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jahat yang berkuasa atas orang yang berkekurangan, seperti singa yang mengaum atau beruang yang menyerang. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti singa mengaum, dan seperti beruang berpusing-pusing, demikianlah peri kelakuan seorang penghulu yang jahat atas orang-orang miskin. |
| Italian | Leone ruggente e orso affamato, tale è il malvagio che domina su un popolo povero. |
| Maori | ¶ E rite ana ki te raiona e hamama ana, ki te pea e kopikopiko ana, te tangata kino e kingi ana ki te iwi rawakore. |
| Norwegian | En brølende løve, en omfarende bjørn, slik er en ugudelig hersker over et fattig folk. |
| Portuguese | Como leão bramidor, e urso faminto, assim é o ímpio que domina sobre um povo pobre. |
| Rumanian | Ca un leu care rqcnewte wi ca un urs flqmknd, awa este cel rqu care stqpknewte peste un popor sqrac. - |
| Russian | лБЛ ТЩЛБАЭЙК МЕЧ Й ЗПМП"ОЩК НЕ"ЧЕ"Ш, ФБЛ ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩК ЧМБУФЕМЙО ОБ" 'Е"ОЩН ОБТП"ПН. |
| Swedish | Lik ett rytande lejon och en glupande björn är en ogudaktig furste över ett fattigt folk. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roaring": roaringly, roarings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "roaring": outroaring. (additional references) | |
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"Roaring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Orsabrin, rarings, rarint, roabing, roading, roarming, rogari, rorting, Rotaprint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "roaring" (pronounced rô"ring) |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, boring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, ignoring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: garron, oaring, onagri, origan, raring. | |
-2 letters: argon, garni, giron, gnarr, gonia, grain, groan, groin, noria, orang, organ, rigor. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, gain, girn, giro, gnar, gran, grin, inro, iron, naoi, noir, nori, orra, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, roan, roar. | |
-4 letters: ago, ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, goa, gor, ion, nag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: armoring, arrowing, garrison, orangier, razoring, roarings. | |
+2 letters: abhorring, armouring, cairngorm, carroming, corrading, farrowing, garrisons, garroting, grosgrain, harboring, harrowing, marrowing, mortaring, narrowing, orangerie, organiser, organizer, parroting, prorating, roaringly. | |
+3 letters: arborizing, arrogating, arrogation, cairngorms, corralling, corrigenda, costarring, denigrator, fairground, forbearing, forearming, forwarding, garrisoned, garrotting, grosgrains, harbouring, integrator, interorgan, irrigation, orangeries, organisers, organizers, originator, outroaring, outwarring, overdaring, overrating, perorating, portraying, programing, ramrodding, readorning, rearousing, reboarding, reorganize. | |
| 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 6F 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- .- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o a r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52816784758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian; Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic; Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Jood, Hebreeus, Israeliet, hebraishte, يهودي, عبري, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, العبرية, Hebréu, иврит, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, староеврейски език, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejka, hebrejec, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, hebraiskt, juutalainen, hébreu, Hebrieusk, hebräisch, hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברית, עברי, zsidó, héber, izraelita, Eabhrais, ebraico, ebreo, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", Ewagh, Ew, Ewnish, hudiu, hebraico, hebreu, ebrèu, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврейский, еврей, древнееврейский, древнееврейский язык, Eperu, hibru, hebreo, dyu, Myahudi, Yahudi, hebreiska, hebreisk, jude, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, іврит, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ, Hebraeg, Hebreaidd, for Hebrew; Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Indonesies, indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, Indonesiu, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亚语, 印度尼西亞語 , indonéský, indonéština, indonésan, indoneser, Indonesisch, Indisch, Indonesiër, indonesiskt, indonesialainen, indonésien, Yndonesysk, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, インドネシア語 , インドネシア", 인도네시아, Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, Indtasisian, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, indones, Indonesyo, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійський, індонезійська мова, індонезійка, người In-ddô-nê-xi-a tiếng In-ddô-nê-xi-a, for Indonesian; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; korean, كوري شمالي, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean; gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manský, manština, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, Manninish, Manninagh, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man dili, man adası, менський діалект, менський, for manx; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Roemeen, rumun, Rumanu, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Romanyan, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, rumenskt, romanialainen, roumain, Roemeensk, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, romanés, român, румын, румынский, rumunski, rumunski jezik, rumano, rumänsk, румунська мо |
