Saltire

Definition: Saltire

Saltire

Noun

1. A cross with diagonal bars of equal length.

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

Date "saltire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Etymology: Saltire \Sal"tire\, noun. [French expression sautoir, from Late Latin expression saltatorium sort of stirrup, from the Latin expression saltatorius saltatory. See Saltatory, Sally, verb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Saltire

Crosswords: Saltire

Books

• Four points of a saltire; the poetry of Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill, Stuart MacGregor (reference)

• National Express Group PLC and Saltire Holdings Ltd. : (reference)

• SALTIRE PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

• The Saltire Scottish Song Book (reference)

• The Saltire Two-Part Scottish Song Book: 15 Traditional Scottish Songs for Two Voices with Piano Accompaniment, Suitable for Adults & Children Male & (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

French

sautoir, croix en sautoir, croix de Saint-André, croix de Bourgogne. (various references)

Manx

salteer. (various references)

Pig Latin

altiresay.(various references)

Swedish

andreaskors. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "saltire": saltires. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: realist, retails, saltier, slatier, tailers.

-1 letter: airest, alerts, alters, ariels, artels, estral, laster, lister, liters, litres, ratels, relist, resail, retail, retial, sailer, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serial, slater, staler, stelai, stelar, striae, tailer, talers, terais, tilers, trails, trials.

-2 letters: airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artel, aster, astir, earls, irate, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, litas, liter, litre, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, reals, relit, retia, rials, riels, riles, rites, serai, seral, setal, sitar, slate, slier, stair, stale, stare, steal, stela, stile, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, tarsi, teals, tears, telia, terai, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, trail, trial, tries.

-3 letters: ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, alts, ares, aril, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, lest, lets, liar, lier, lies, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, rite, sail, sale, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sial, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stir, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tars, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tsar.

-4 letters: ail, air, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, els, era, ers, eta, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tel, tie, til, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, ti.

+1 letter: articles, ateliers, blastier, dilaters, earliest, entrails, frailest, glariest, lamister, lardiest, larkiest, latrines, leariest, librates, literals, marliest, marlites, misalter, pilaster, plaister, plaiters, ratlines, realists, realties, recitals, redtails, retinals, retrials, saltiers, saltires, stalkier, starlike, sterical, talliers, tertials, trailers, trenails, uralites.

+2 letters: aerialist, aerolites, aeroliths, allergist, amitroles, arterials, beastlier, bleariest, brawliest, brutalise, cartelise, cisternal, clarinets, clarities, crawliest, darkliest, detailers, drawliest, elaterids, elaterins, entailers, eristical, estradiol, estuarial, filatures, filtrates, forestial, frailties, ghastlier, glairiest, gnarliest, hairstyle, herbalist, horsetail, idolaters, inflaters, installer, integrals, interlaps, interlays, internals, intervals, laborites, lacertids, laetriles, lamisters, larcenist, laterites, laterizes, lazurites, levirates, liberates, ligatures, literates, literatus, litharges, livetraps, loricates, marbliest, materials, materiels, misalters, mislearnt, misrelate, nearliest, oralities, orientals, paltriest, parietals, particles, pearliest, pearlites, periplast, pilasters, plaisters, pretrials, psalteria, psaltries, quartiles, realistic, realities, reinstall, relations, relatives, remittals, requitals, reslating, retailers, retailors, retinulas, rolamites, royalties, ruralites, saintlier, saprolite, sclerotia, sectorial, serialist, seriately, serotinal, snarliest, solitaire, stairwell, statelier, sterilant, steroidal, strobilae, tailleurs, tailraces, terminals, thirlages, trailless, trailside, tramlines, traplines, treenails, triangles, triazoles, triplanes, triskelia, trivalves, varietals, verbalist, versatile, verticals, violaters, welfarist.

+3 letters: adulteries, aerialists, afterlives, alacrities, algebraist, alienators, aliterates, allegorist, allergists, allethrins, allosteric, altimeters, argillites, arterioles, asteroidal, bairnliest, brambliest, brutalised, brutalises, brutalizes, cabriolets, calibrates, cartelised, cartelises, cartelizes, cartilages, centralise, centralism, centralist, circulates, clavierist, crackliest, crystalize, curtailers, curtilages, decaliters, dekaliters, disenthral, disrelated, earthliest, earthlings, easterlies, editorials, elaterites, elutriates, epistolary, estradiols, federalist, flatliners, flatteries, fortalices, generalist, granulites, graticules, hairstyles, harlotries, herbalists, hilarities, horsetails, hysterical, idolatries, illustrate, implanters, installers, interclass, interlaces, interlards, interplays, intervales, isothermal, lacustrine, larcenists, laticifers, lavatories, legislator, lethargies, liberalist, liberators, limewaters, linecaster, literacies, literalism, literalist, literators, litterbags, lubricates, luxuriates, meliorates, militaries, militarise, millstream, misaltered, misrelated, misrelates, molarities, moralities, natrolites, naturalise, neorealist, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, outlawries, paltriness, periosteal, periplasts, plaistered, plastering, polarities, psalteries, psalterium, rationales, recitalist, reflations, regalities, reimplants, reinflates, reinstalls, relativism, relativist, replicates, reptilians, resaluting, retailings, retaliates, retrievals, revictuals, revitalise, revivalist, rijsttafel, ritualizes, ruralities, sailboater, saltarelli, saprolites, sclerotial, scrawliest, secularist, secularity, semestrial, senatorial, serialists, shmaltzier, shrievalty, slathering, slipstream, solitaires, solitaries, sparkliest, spermatial, sphalerite, sprawliest, stabilizer, stairwells, starveling, staurolite, stealthier, sterically, sterilants, stragglier, strandline, streamline, stridulate, strippable, surrealist, tailenders, tailgaters, tailwaters, testicular, thimerosal, titularies, totalizers, trailerist, trailheads, treadmills, treillages, trialogues, tribulates, triennials, trihedrals, triticales, trivialise, tularemias, tutelaries, varletries, verbalists, vestibular, victualers, waterlines, welfarists, zealotries, zoolatries.

+4 letters: admiralties, aeroelastic, alabastrine, algebraists, aliteracies, allegorists, alleviators, alliterates, allometries, allopatries, allosteries, allotropies, altarpieces, alterations, altimetries, ameliorates, amoralities, antileprosy, antirealism, antirealist, antislavery, apicultures, aquarellist, arabilities, arrestingly, articulates, artilleries, artillerist, assertively, astrologies, avicultures, bilgewaters, birthplaces, blacklister, bristletail, brutalities, cantilevers, carnalities, carnallites, cartelising, cartularies, centralised, centralises, centralisms, centralists, centralizes, chiralities, chlorinates, citronellas, clarinetist, clavierists, clericalist, clofibrates, credentials, crystalized, crystalizes, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, curtainless, defoliators, deliberates, delineators, derailments, desalinator, disenthrall, disenthrals, disparately, disrelation, drillmaster, earthlights, earthliness, elastomeric, electuaries, eliminators, elucidators, elutriators, erasability, eristically, erythrismal, establisher, eternalizes, everlasting, exhilarates, explicators, externalise, externalism, extralities, federalists, fibrillates, fluoridates, fluorinates, formalities, fragilities, frugalities, gallantries, galleryites, garrulities, generalists, gracilities, graptolites, hinterlands, illiterates, illustrated, illustrates, immortalise, imperialist, infiltrates, inscrutable, insertional, intercensal, intercostal, interisland, interlayers, interleaves, internalise, interplants, interpleads, intersexual, ipsilateral, irrealities, lacerations, lactiferous, lateralizes, laureations, legislators, legislature, leptospiral, liberalists, liberations, lighterages, linearities, linecasters, literalisms, literalists, literalizes, literalness, literations, literatures, littermates, magisterial, martingales, materialise, materialism, materialist, maternalism, mayoralties, meliorators, memorialist, meroblastic, militarised, militarises, militarizes, millstreams, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, mortalities, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, neorealists, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralizes, normalities, obliterates, obstetrical, orientalism, orientalist, oversalting, palletizers, palmistries, parliaments, participles, paternalism, paternalist, peristalses, peristalsis, peristaltic, peristomial, personalist, personality, plaistering, planarities, planimeters, plasterings, plasticizer, pleinairist, pluralities, pratincoles, primalities, profligates, quarterlies, quatrefoils, rascalities, rationalise, recitalists, reestablish, regimentals, regionalist, registrable, regulations, reinstalled, relativisms, relativists, relativizes, relaxations, relegations, relocations, replicators, residential, restabilize, restimulate, reticulates, reusability, revalidates, revelations, revitalised, revitalises, revitalizes, revivalists, rickettsial, rijsttafels, sailboaters, salinometer, salubrities, satirizable, schmaltzier, scrabbliest, scraggliest, searchlight, secretarial, secularists, seminatural, semitrailer, sempiternal, severalties, shinplaster, slipstreams, specularity, sphalerites, spirochetal, splattering, sporulative, stabilizers, starvelings, staurolites, straggliest, straitlaced, strandlines, strategical, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, stridulated, stridulates, subinterval, subliteracy, subliterary, subliterate, subterminal, superlative, surrealists, surveillant, symmetrical, tantalizers, taradiddles, tarnishable, terrestrial, tetralogies, tetraploids, theatricals, thermalizes, thimerosals, timberlands, timepleaser, tolerations, tourmalines, trailerings, trailerists, trailerites, trampolines, tranquilest, transalpine, transiently, translative, triathletes, trigeminals, triliterals, tripletails, triplicates, trisyllable, trivialised, trivialises, trivializes, ulcerations, ultrafiches, ultrasimple, unclarities, unrealistic, unrealities, ventilators, verbalistic, versatilely, versatility, vibratoless, victuallers, voluntaries, vorticellas, vulgarities, wattlebirds, wildcatters, windlestraw, wolframites.

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