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Scute

Definition: Scute

Scute

Noun

1. Large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle.

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

Etymology: Scute \Scute\, noun. [Latin expression scutum shield, buckler. See Scudo.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: Scute

Etymologies containing "scute": Scudo. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scute

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.
 
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scute

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

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Modern Translations: Scute

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

Albanian

  

stendë (board, hoarding, rack, scutum, stall, stand up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pikkely (flake, scale, squama). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utescay

   

Portuguese

  

rótula (ball, knee cap, knell, lattice, patella, scutum), escudete (escutcheon, scutum). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

щиток (corymb, dashboard, mail, scutum, shinguard). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

štit (scutum, shield). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escudo (achievement, arms, badge, buckle, Buckler, coat of arms, crest, escudo, escutcheon, scutum, sheave, shield). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Scute

Derivations

Words beginning with "scute": scutella, scutellar, scutellate, scutellated, scutellum, scutes. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Scute"

Words ending with "ute": Cute, Skute, Spute. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Scute

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutes.

Words within the letters "c-e-s-t-u"

-1 letter: cues, cute, cuts, ecus, scut, sect, suet.

-2 letters: cue, cut, ecu, sec, set, sue, use, uts.

-3 letters: es, et, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: acutes, cestus, chutes, cruets, cruset, cuesta, culets, curets, cutest, cutesy, cuteys, cuties, educts, eructs, rectus, recuts, scutes, truces, tusche.

 

+2 letters: acetous, acquest, acutest, becrust, becurst, buckets, butches, caestus, centums, cluster, contuse, coquets, costume, coteaus, couters, crudest, crusets, crusted, cuestas, cullets, curates, curites, curtest, curtesy, curtsey, curvets, cuspate, cutches, cutesie, cutises, cutlers, cutlets, cutters, cutties, cuttles, deducts, dulcets, encrust, eustacy, faucets, hutches, icterus, ictuses, justice, luetics, mutches, nutcase, precuts, rectums, relucts, scouted, scouter, scutage, scutate, scutter, scuttle, subject, subsect, sulcate, suspect, teacups, tectums, touches, tuckers, tuckets, tusches.

 

+3 letters: acquests, actuates, acuities, autecism, auxetics, becrusts, butchers, cactuses, cajeputs, calumets, captures, catechus, cathouse, caudates, centaurs, centrums, cerusite, cestuses, chateaus, chestful, chestnut, chetrums, chuffest, chunters, chutnees, chutneys, cistuses, citreous, citruses, closeout, clotures, clouters, clusters, clustery, clutches, clutters, coituses, commutes, computes, confutes, conquest, construe, contused, contuses, costumed, costumer, costumes, costumey, couldest, coulters, counters, countess, counties, couplets, courters, courtesy, couthest, coutures, covetous, crewcuts, croquets, crudites, cruelest, crumpets, crustier, crustose, crutches, cuittles, culottes, cultches, cultures, cultuses, culverts, cuppiest, cuprites, curdiest, curettes, curliest, currents, curtness, curtseys, curtsied, curtsies, curviest, cushiest, cuspated, custodes, customer, cuteness, cutesier, cuticles, cutinise, cutlases, cutlines, cutovers, cutpurse, cuttages, cuvettes, destruct, duckiest, ductless, ductules, educates, eductors, encrusts, esculent, eucrites, eustatic, executes, factures, fructose, furcates, gauchest, grutches, huckster, jesuitic, juiciest, justices, ketchups, lacteous, lectures, lecythus, lettuces, leucites, linecuts, locustae, luckiest, muckiest, muscadet, muscatel, mustache, nautches, noctules, nutcases, octuples, osculate, outcaste, outcomes, outcries, outcurse, outfaces, outpaces, outraces, outscore, overcuts, picquets, pictures, piecrust, putsches, quickest, quickset, quitches, racquets, recounts, recruits, recusant, resculpt, restruck, rictuses, sauciest, scouters, scouther, sculpted, scutages, scutched, scutcher, scutches, scutella, scutters, scuttled, scuttles, seascout, secateur, securest, security, selcouth, smutched, smutches, soutache, spectrum, sprucest, strucken, stuccoed, stuccoer, stuccoes, subacute, subcaste, subcutes, suberect, subjects, subsects, suitcase, sulcated, suricate, suspects, touchers, traduces, trounces, truckers, truckles, tunicles, unchaste, uncrates, utricles, yuckiest.

 

+4 letters: abductees, accouters, accoutres, actuaries, acutances, acuteness, aeroducts, aqueducts, arcatures, aspectual, autecisms, autocades, autoecism, awestruck, becrusted, beechnuts, bluecoats, blueticks, bounciest, bunchiest, caestuses, canulates, capturers, carburets, cassoulet, castoreum, cathouses, causative, cauteries, ceanothus, ceintures, cementums, centuples, centuries, cerusites, cerussite, cetaceous, chanteuse, chaquetas, chaunters, checkouts, chestfuls, chestnuts, chubbiest, chuffiest, chummiest, chunkiest, cinctures, cliquiest, closeouts, closetful, cloudiest, cloudlets, clubbiest, clumpiest, clumsiest, clunkiest, clustered, coequates, combusted, commuters, computers, conceptus, confuters, conquests, construed, construes, consulate, consulted, consulter, continues, copulates, coquettes, coruscate, costumers, costumery, costumier, cotqueans, cotrustee, countless, countries, courantes, courteous, courtesan, courtiers, courtside, couthiest, creatures, cretinous, critiques, croupiest, croustade, cruddiest, crudities, cruellest, cruelties, crumbiest, crummiest, crustacea, crustiest, crustless, cubatures, cuddliest, cultigens, cumulates, curatives, curbstone, cursedest, curtesies, curtseyed, cuspidate, custodies, customers, customise, customize, cutaneous, cutesiest, cutinised, cutinises, cutinizes, cutlasses, cutleries, cutpurses, cutwaters, deathcups, decussate, destructs, diuretics, documents, duecentos, dustcover, ecumenist, educators, eductions, electrums, encaustic, encrusted, enuretics, eructates, esculents, eucalypts, eustacies, eutectics, euthenics, evacuants, evacuates, executers, executors, facetious, faculties, fractures, fructoses, fruticose, heuristic, housecoat, hucksters, icteruses, incrusted, incubates, inductees, injustice, intercuts, jaculates, jounciest, junctures, lecturers, luteciums, maculates, moustache, muscadets, muscatels, muscovite, mustached, mustaches, nectarous, neuritics, neurotics, nocturnes, nucleates, obfuscate, obscurest, occulters, oceanauts, octopuses, octuplets, osculated, osculates, outcapers, outcastes, outcheats, outchides, outcursed, outcurses, outcurves, outdances, outechoes, outmuscle, outprices, outrances, outscheme, outscored, outscores, outvoices, paucities, peculates, persecute, piecrusts, plectrums, pluckiest, pouchiest, poultices, prosecute, pubescent, pumicites, punchiest, punctures, quicksets, quickstep, quiescent, raucities, recusants, reductase, reductors, reinducts, resculpts, resurrect, reticules, retouches, rufescent, rusticate, sacculate, sauceboat, scouthers, scripture, scrutable, sculpture, scummiest, scurfiest, scurviest, scutcheon, scutchers, scutellar, scutellum, scuttered, scuzziest, seascouts, secateurs, seduction, seductive, sequacity, setaceous, smutchier, soutaches, spacesuit, spectrums, speculate, spruciest, staunched, stauncher, staunches, stenchful, stricture, structure, stuccoers, subcastes, subcenter, subducted, subjacent, subjected, subsector, substance, succedent, succinate, succulent, suctioned, suffocate, suitcases, supercity, supercute, suricates, suspected, tenacious, tinctures, toreutics, touchiest, traducers, transduce, trauchles, trouncers, truancies, truckages, trucklers, truncates, tubercles, tuckahoes, tufaceous, tumescent, tunicates, tuppences, turmerics, ulcerates, unclothes, uncreates, underacts, undercuts, unhitches, unlatches, unscathed, unscented, unstacked, unteaches, uppercuts, urticates, vacuities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scute


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

53 63 75 74 65

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

01010011 01100011 01110101 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#117 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0075 0074 0065

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

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

5369878671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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