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SQUIRRELCIDE

Specialty Definition: SQUIRRELCIDE

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Squirrelcide n. [common on Usenet's comp.risks newsgroup.] (alt. `squirrelicide') What all too frequently happens when a squirrel decides to exercise its species's unfortunate penchant for shorting out power lines with their little furry bodies. Result: one dead squirrel, one down computer installation. In this situation, the computer system is said to have been squirrelcided. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: SQUIRRELCIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-l-q-r-r-s-u"

-2 letters: ridiculers, squirreled.

-3 letters: ridiculer, ridicules.

-4 letters: cliquier, curdlers, curseder, decriers, decuries, descrier, esquired, leisured, queriers, reducers, reliques, required, requires, ridicule, sclereid, scurried, scurrile, slurried, squirrel.

-5 letters: ceilers, cirques, clerids, cliqued, cliques, crueler, cruised, cruiser, curdier, curdler, curdles, curlers, curlier, curried, curries, deciles, decrier, decries, deicers, derries, desirer, duelers, durries, eluders, esquire, leisure, liquids, queried.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SQUIRRELCIDE


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

53 51 55 49 52 52 45 4C 43 49 44 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 01010001 01010101 01001001 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001100 01000011 01001001 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#81 &#85 &#73 &#82 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#67 &#73 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0051 0055 0049 0052 0052 0045 004C 0043 0049 0044 0045

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

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

535155435252394637433839

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