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SLUSH PIT

Specialty Definition: SLUSH PIT

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Mining

An excavation dug near a drill to form a reservoir in which the returns from a borehole are collected and stored. Also called drill sump, mud pit,sludge pit, slush pond, sump. (references)

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

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Photo Album: SLUSH PIT

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Oil field worker, probing in slush pit, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slush pit of oil well, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oil draining from tanks into slush pit. Slick, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Anagrams: SLUSH PIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-l-p-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: spilths.

-2 letters: situps, spilth, splits, tulips.

-3 letters: hilts, hilus, hists, lisps, lists, lusts, phuts, pilus, piths, plush, pulis, ships, shist, shuls, shuts, silts, situp, situs, slips, slipt, slits, slush, sluts, spilt, spits, split, suits, sushi, tulip, uplit.

-4 letters: hilt, hips, hiss, hist, hits, huts, lips, lisp, list, lits, litu, lush, lust, phis, phut, pish.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-l-p-s-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: plushiest, sulphites.

 

+3 letters: pilothouses, spherulites.

 

+4 letters: lectureships, polystichous, upholsteries.

 

+5 letters: laureateships, phillumenists, triumphalisms, triumphalists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SLUSH PIT


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

53 4C 55 53 48      50 49 54

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

    

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

01010011 01001100 01010101 01010011 01001000 00100000 01010000 01001001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#85 &#83 &#72 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0055 0053 0048      0050 0049 0054

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

53465553422504354

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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