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SHONKINITE

Specialty Definition: SHONKINITE

DomainDefinition

Mining

A dark-colored syenite composed chiefly of augite and alkali feldspar, and possibly containing olivine, hornblende, biotite, and nepheline. Its name, given by Weed and Pirsson in 1895, is derived from Shonkin, the Indianname for the Highwood Mountains of Montana. (references)

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

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Anagrams: SHONKINITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-k-n-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: thionines.

-2 letters: inhesion, inkstone, kinetins, thionine, thionins.

-3 letters: ethions, hinnies, histone, hokiest, honkies, inkiest, inosite, intines, intones, kinetin, nektons, tension, thionin, tonnish.

-4 letters: eikons, enokis, ethion, ethnos, honest, honkie, inions, intine, intone, ionise, kinins, kithes, koines, nekton, ninths, nitons, nonets, seniti, sennit, sonnet, stinko, tennis, tenons, theins, thinks, tokens, tonish, tonnes.

-5 letters: eikon, enoki, eosin.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-k-n-n-o-s-t"
 

+5 letters: cholecystokinin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHONKINITE


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

53 48 4F 4E 4B 49 4E 49 54 45

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 01001000 01001111 01001110 01001011 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 004F 004E 004B 0049 004E 0049 0054 0045

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

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

53424948454348435439

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