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SHOSHONITE

Specialty Definition: SHOSHONITE

DomainDefinition

Mining

A trachyandesite composed of olivine and augite phenocrysts in a groundmass of labradorite with alkali feldspar rims, olivine, augite, a small amount of leucite, and some dark-colored glass. Shoshonite grades into absarokite with an increase in olivine and into banakite with more sanidine. Its name, given by Iddings in 1895, is derived from the ShoshoneRiver, WY. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SHOSHONITE

Specialty definitions using "SHOSHONITE": banakite. (references)

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Anagrams: SHOSHONITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: histones, isotones.

-3 letters: ethions, histone, hotness, isotone, nosiest, sithens, soonest, soothes, stonish.

-4 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, ethion, ethnos, heists, hoises, hoists, honest, insets, noesis, noises, nooses, noshes, onsets, ossein, otiose, setons, shiest, shines, shoots, shotes, snoots, sonsie, soothe, sooths, steins, stenos, stones, theins, thesis, tonish, toshes.

-5 letters: eosin, ethos, heist, hents, hests, heths, hints.

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

+4 letters: ethnohistories, photofinishers, photosynthesis.

 

+5 letters: anthroposophies, ethnohistorians, phosphoproteins, photosynthesize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHOSHONITE


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

53 48 4F 53 48 4F 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)

...    ....    ---    ...    ....    ---    -.    ..    -    .

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

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

01010011 01001000 01001111 01010011 01001000 01001111 01001110 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 004F 0053 0048 004F 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)

53424953424948435439

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3. Orthography
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