Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Screak

Definitions: Screak

Screak

Verb

1. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.

2. Utter a harsh abrupt scream.

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



Synonyms: Screak

Synonyms: creak (v), screech (v), skreak (v), skreigh (v), squawk (v), squeak (v). (additional references)

Top     



.

Crosswords: Screak

English words defined with "screak": Screaked, Screaking. (references)

Top     

Modern Translations: Screak

Language Translations for "screak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kuis, angullin (squeak, whimper, whine, yelp). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скърцам (creak, grate, groan, scrape, scratch, squeak), скрибуцам (creak, rasp, scroop), викам зловещо, викам пронизително, зловещ вик. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pronikavì vřískat, kvièet (squeak, squeal). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

صدای ناهنجار(صدای ترمزشدیدماشین), صدای گوشخراش ایجادکردن . (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκούζω (hoot, scream, screech, shriek, squawk, yell), οξεία κραυγή (scream, screech, shriek, squeak, squeal). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sikolt (screech, shriek, to scream, to shriek, to squall, to yell, yell). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pelukan (caress), menciut (be narrow minded, become narrow, tighten). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakscray

   

Portuguese

  

ranger (chatter, Chirk, creak, dodder, gnash, gnat, grate, gride, grind, grit, jar, scroop), guinchar (Chirk, screech, ululate), chiar (crank, creak, grate, gridiron, grumble, histology, jar, peek, peep, scroop, simmer, sizzle, squeak, whir). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scârţâit (creak, creaky, crunch, rasping, scrape, scraping, scratch, squeak, squeaky), scârţâi (creak, crunch, groan, jar, rasp, scrape, scratch, squeak). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пронзительно скрипеть. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrisnuti (scream, screech, shriek, squawk, squeal), škripati (bleep, crackle, creak, grate, gride, grit, rasp, scrape, scroop, squeak). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chirrido (chirp, chirrup, creak, scrape, scraping, scratch, screaming, screech, squeak). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скрип (creak, gride, scrape, squeak), вереск (whimper). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiếng rít lên, tiếng ken két (gride). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations: Screak

Derivations

Words beginning with "screak": screaked, screaking, screaks, screaky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: Screak

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crakes, creaks, sacker.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-r-s"

-1 letter: acres, asker, cakes, cares, carks, carse, crake, creak, escar, eskar, races, racks, rakes, recks, saker, scare, serac.

-2 letters: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arks, arse, cake, care, cark, cars, case, cask, ears, eras, kaes, keas, race, rack, rake, rase, reck, recs, sack, sake, sark, scar, sear, sera.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ark, ars, ask, car, ear, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, ras, rec, res, sac, sae, sea, sec, ser, ska.

-4 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, ka, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-r-s"
 

+1 letter: backers, calkers, cankers, dackers, hackers, jackers, lackers, packers, rackers, rackets, repacks, reracks, restack, retacks, sackers, screaks, screaky, slacker, smacker, stacker, tackers.

 

+2 letters: backrest, brackens, brackets, cacklers, casework, caulkers, clackers, comakers, corkages, crackers, crackles, crankest, crankles, croakers, earlocks, grackles, hacklers, keramics, keycards, knackers, prepacks, restacks, retracks, screaked, shackler, slackers, smackers, stackers, tacklers, trackers, whackers.

 

+3 letters: airchecks, archdukes, attackers, awestruck, backfires, backrests, brockages, cankerous, capeworks, capmakers, caretakes, carmakers, caseworks, cookwares, corncakes, cracknels, cracksmen, crankcase, crankiest, creakiest, croakiest, ecofreaks, firebacks, haversack, havockers, heartsick, hijackers, horseback, icemakers, jackeroos, jackscrew, laceworks, laverocks, mackerels, mavericks, muckrakes, packagers, packhorse, ransacked, ransacker, reattacks, rejackets, restacked, retackles, rockabies, rockabyes, sapsucker, screaking, shacklers, shortcake, sidetrack, skyjacker, thwackers, trackages, trackless, trackside, truckages, unpackers, wisecrack, wreckages.

 

+4 letters: afterdecks, aftershock, amberjacks, artichokes, backbiters, backlasher, backrushes, backslider, backstreet, backstroke, backwaters, barrackers, benchmarks, blackeners, blockaders, breadstick, canebrakes, caretakers, carjackers, caseworker, checkmarks, chickarees, corncrakes, cornflakes, crackliest, crankcases, crankiness, creakiness, dockmaster, dreadlocks, flackeries, friedcakes, fruitcakes, goatsucker, graywackes, greenbacks, hackamores, haversacks, horsebacks, jackassery, jackscrews, kiloparsec, knackeries, lackluster, muckrakers, nicknamers, pacemakers, packhorses, paperbacks, parbuckles, quackeries, racetracks, racketeers, racketiest, ragpickers, rainchecks, ramshackle, ransackers, reichsmark, repackages, restacking, retropacks, rickettsia, rudbeckias, salesclerk, sapsuckers, saucerlike, shortcakes, sidetracks, silverback, skyjackers, skyscraper, superflack, tackifiers, taperstick, tracksides, waterbucks, wisecracks, workplaces.

 

+5 letters: aftershocks, airsickness, awestricken, backcrossed, backcrosses, backhanders, backlashers, backpackers, backscatter, backslapper, backsliders, backstabber, backstreets, backstretch, backstrokes, blackhearts, blacklister, blackwaters, breadsticks, bricklayers, bushwhacker, cakewalkers, cankerworms, caretakings, carsickness, caseworkers, cockatrices, cockchafers, cockroaches, cornerbacks, dockmasters, goatsuckers, hackberries, hammerlocks, icebreakers, jackhammers, kickstarted, kiloparsecs, lacklusters, linebackers, lumberjacks, matchmakers, microquakes, nutcrackers, packthreads, peacemakers, prepackages, quacksalver, racewalkers, reichsmarks, repackagers, rickettsiae, rickettsial, rickettsias, safecracker, salesclerks, sidetracked, silverbacks, skyscrapers, sockdolager, spacewalker, spatterdock, stagestruck, superflacks, tapersticks, tracklayers, traffickers, truckmaster, turtlebacks, watchmakers, wisecracked, wisecracker.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Screak


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

53 63 72 65 61 6B

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    .    .-    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0065 0061 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

536984716777

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.