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Short Whist

Definition: Short Whist

Short Whist

Noun

1. A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.

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

 

Synonyms: Short Whist

Synonyms: long whist (n), whist (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Short Whist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-h-i-o-r-s-s-t-t-w"

-2 letters: shortish.

-3 letters: hottish, sottish, thirsts, trowths, whishts, whorish.

-4 letters: hoists, horsts, rowths, shirts, shorts, shotts, strows, thirst, throws, troths, trowth, tsoris, twists, whisht, whists, whorts, whosis, worsts, worths, wrists.

-5 letters: hists, hoist, horst, hosts, riots, rotis, rowth, shirt, shist, short, shots, shott, shows, shris, sorts, soths, stirs, stows, strow, swish, swith, swots, throw, tiros.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Short Whist


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

53 68 6F 72 74      57 68 69 73 74

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

    

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

01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#87 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 006F 0072 0074      0057 0068 0069 0073 0074

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

537481848625774758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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