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Scissor-tailed

Definition: Scissor-tailed

Scissor-tailed

Adjective

1. (of birds) having a deeply forked tail; "scissor-tailed birds".

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

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Anagrams: Scissor-tailed

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Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: dissociates, scissortail, solidarists.

-3 letters: carditises, clitorides, clitorises, cloistress, clostridia, coassisted, disclosers, dislocates, dissectors, dissociate, editorials, estradiols, idolatries, ostracised, ostracises, sacristies, serialists, socialised, socialises, socialists, socialites, sodalities, solidarist, solitaires, solitaries.

-4 letters: asteroids, clarities, classiest, cloisters, coatdress, coistrels, coistrils, colitises, crosslets, crossties, dacoities, deistical, diastoles, diastolic, disasters, discloser, discloses, dislocate, dissector, disseisor, dissocial, doleritic, drossiest, editorial, elicitors, eristical, estradiol, idealists, idiolects, idocrases, idolaters, idolisers, lacertids, lacrosses, lodestars, loricates, oralities, ostiaries, ostracise, raticides, realistic, sarodists, satirised, satirises, sciolists, scissored, sclerosis, sclerotia, sectorial, serialist, silicates, silicoses, socialise, socialist, socialite, sodalists, sodalites, solarised, solarises, solecists, solicited, solitaire, solstices, steroidal, trailside.

-5 letters: acidoses, acidosis, acridest, aoristic, articled, articles, assisted, assister, assistor, assoiled, assorted, asteroid, calories, carditis, carioles, carotids, celosias, ceratoid, cestoids, ciliated, ciliates, cissoids, citadels, cladists, classers, classier, classist, clitoris, cloister, coaliest, coarsest, coassist, coasters, coatless, coistrel, coistril, cordials, cordites, cordless, corslets, costards, costless, costlier, costrels, crassest, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, darioles, decrials, delators, dialects, dialists, diarists, diasters, diastole, dicrotal, dilaters, dilators, diorites, disaster, discases, disclose, disrates, disseats, dissects, disserts, distress, dossiers, elastics, elicitor, eristics, erotical, escolars, estriols, idealist, idiolect, idocrase, idolater, idoliser, idolises, isolated, isolates, isoleads, lacertid, lacrosse, lactoses, laicised, laicises, lardiest, lassoers, leotards, locaters, lodestar, loricate, oldsters, oralists, ossicles, radicels, radicles, raticide, realists, recitals, redcoats, redtails, rissoles, roadless, roiliest, sacrists, sadistic, saltiers, saltires, sarcoids, sarodist, satirise, scaliest, scariest, scariose, scarless, scarlets, sciolist, scissile, scleroid, scolders, sectoral, sidecars, silesias, silicate, sistroid, societal, sodaless, sodalist, sodalite, solacers, solarise, soldiers, solecist, solicits, solidest, solstice, starless, sterical, steroids, stolider, tailored, toadless, torsades, triacids, triadics, triclads.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: dictatorialnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scissor-tailed


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

53 63 69 73 73 6F 72 2D 74 61 69 6C 65 64

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

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

01010011 01100011 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010 00101101 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#105 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#114 &#45 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0069 0073 0073 006F 0072 002D 0074 0061 0069 006C 0065 0064

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

5369758585818415866775787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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