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Definitions: Taint |
TaintNoun1. The state of being contaminated. Verb1. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation". 2. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "taint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Haint, Taint. Haint is used indiscriminately for haven't and hasn't. Taint is used for tisn't. Their use is indicative of an entire lack of culture. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: TaintSynonyms: contamination (n), cloud (v), corrupt (v), defile (v), infect (v), sully (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disinfect (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
Discourtesy | Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible). |
Disease | Taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. |
Disrepute | Tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur. |
Tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel; (punish). | |
Imperfection | Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side. |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Taint |
| English words defined with "taint": Corruption of blood ♦ Flyblow ♦ gamey, gamy ♦ high ♦ Jacobinize ♦ Quitch ♦ stained glass ♦ Tainting, Taintless, Tainture, To blow upon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "taint": Baptism of Christ, boar taint, bone taint ♦ Haint ♦ Scarification. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "taint": Tainture, Tant. (references) |
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Clever | His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.'' (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Taint (1914) Taint (1994) | |
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René Descartes | . . . of all the sciences known as yet, Arithmetic and Geometry alone are free from any taint of falsity or uncertainty. |
Samuel Butler | Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sewer is the taint which the city has in her blood. |
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Human Rights | Albania | The courts accuse the police of failing to provide the solid investigation and evidence necessary to prosecute successfully, and the police allege that corruption and bribery taint the courts. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice. |
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James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption. |
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| "Taint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.17% of the time. "Taint" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.17% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 19.51% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.32% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "taint": boar taint ♦ bone taint ♦ free from taint ♦ not free from the taint of corruption. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "taint": taint-proof. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
taint | 92 |
lick taint | 7 |
cork taint | 3 |
septet skeriks syncopated taint | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "taint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references) | |
Albanian | turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, turpitude), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, vitiation, warp, wrecking), njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma), moleps (contaminate, foul, infect, pollute), kalbje (caries, decay, putrefaction, rot), infeksion (infection). (various references) | |
Arabic | لوث (bedaub, befoul, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), لطخ (bedaub, besmear, blot, blotch, blur, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, tarnish), تلوث (become defiled, contamination, dirtiness, dirty, foul, impurity, infection, pollution, soil, stain, tarnish), تحلل (break down, disintegration, molder, moldiness, moulder, mouldiness), عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale), عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, unclad, uncovered), جرثومة (embryo, germ, microbe, sperm, virus), أصبح معدي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | следа от нещо лошо, развалям се (addle, conk, fail, go bad, turn, turn off, turn sour), зараза (contagion, contamination, infection, virus), замърсявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, foul up, pollute, vitiate), покварявам (corrupt, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvert), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, ulcer), позорно петно, петънце (mote, speck, speckle, spot), петно (attaint, blob, blot, blotch, dab, daub, defilement, flaw, fleck, mottle, note, offset, reflection, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, stigma, sully, tarnish). (various references) | |
Chinese | 污點 (stain), 污" (Pollute, Polluted, Polluting, Pollution). (various references) | |
Czech | zpùsobit zkažení, zhanobit (desecrate, violate), zamořit (contaminate, infest, overrun, plague), skvrna (blob, blot, blotch, blur, carbuncle, fleck, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spatter, speck, splash, spot, stain, tarnish), poskvrnit (befoul, dapple, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), pošpinit (besmirch, blemish, defile, soil, spatter, stain, tarnish, thumb), otrávit (disgust, empoison, envenom, frustrate, pip, poison), nákaza (contagion, infection, pestilence, virus), kazit se (decay, go bad, putrefy). (various references) | |
Danish | misfarvning af knoglen (bone taint), arvelig belastning (hereditary taint). (various references) | |
Dutch | bederf (corruption, decay, depravation, diseases(of wine), spoilage(of wine)). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malboniĝo (corruption, decay, depravation). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Vitiate), ملوث کردن (Deflower, Infect, Ntaminate, Pollute), لکه دارکردن (Blame, Blemish, Brand, Denigrate, Foul, Smear, Soil, Speck, Stain, Stigmatize, Sully, Tarnish), لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Blur, Dirt, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain), عیب (Blot, Defect, Gall, Vice), الوده شدن (Sully), رنگ کردن (Colony, Dye, Paint). (various references) | |
Finnish | tahrata (dirty, smear, soil, stain), tahra (blemish, blot, daub, flaw, macula, macule, smear, spot, stain), saastutus (contamination), saastuttaa (contaminate, infect, pollute, to contaminate, to infest), saasta (filth, impurity), häpeäpilkku (blot, stain). (various references) | |
French | trace, vicier, souillure, souiller, s'infecter, se polluer, pourrir, infection, gâter, entacher, décomposition, corruption, corrompre. (various references) | |
German | verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, set off, smear, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, spot, stain, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck). (various references) | |
Greek | κηλίδα (blemish, blot, blur, bruise, bruising, macula, macule, moil, mottle, patch, slick, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain), μόλυσμα (inoculum), μιαίνω (contaminate, pollute), μολύνω (contaminate, defile, foul, infect, pollute, to contaminate, to infest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאלח (contaminate, infect), לז"ם (contaminate, grime, infect, pollute), ל"כתים (smirch, stain, stigmatize, tarnish), ל"כפיש (bedraggle, smirch, sully), לטמא (contaminate, defile), "ופי (blemish, fault, flaw, impurity, insult, scorn, slur, smirch), רבב (slur, smudge, speckle, stain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | romlottság (corruption, corruptness, depravation, depravity, perversion, perversity), megfertõzés (pollution), megfertõz (contaminate, infect, poison, pollute, vitiate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | noda (blot, ignominy, macula, spot, stain, tarnish), menodai (besmirch, blemis, blot, disfigure, tarnish). (various references) | |
Italian | tara (defect, discount, tare, tare weight, unladen weight), marchio (badge, brand, crest, earmark, logo, make, Mark, monogram, stamp, time, trademark), macchia (blemish, blob, blot, blotch, brush, brushwood, dab, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, Dot, fleck, macula, macule, maquis, Mark, patch, rough, scrub, shading, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stroke, thicket), infezione (an attack and investment by microscopic organisms or viruses(if on living tissue, by pathogens)as distinct from infestation, contage, contamination, infection), infettarsi, guastare (damage, derange, fail, Mar, ruin, soil, spoil, warp), corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, debauch, deprave, pervert, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce). (various references) | |
Manx | breinnid (dirtiness, foetidness, foulness, rancidity, rankness), breinnaghey (become smelly, befoul, foul, go off, go off as milk, putrefy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainttay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | viciar (addict, debauch, spoil, vitiate), nódoa (blur, fleck, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, staining, tarnish), manchar (befoul, besmirch, blemish, blight, blotch, blur, dirty, discoloration, discoloured, fleck, foul, Fox, maculate, pollute, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, stain, sully), mancha (blemish, bloom, blot, blotch, blur, Brindle, cloud, dapple, defilement, dimming, flaw, fleck, Guidon, marking ink, reproach, scar, shading, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, staining, tarnish), mácula (blot, defilement, scar, smirch, spot, stain), infectar (diseased, infect, inoculate), defeito (aberration, abuse, blemish, blister, blot, bug, defect, defect in wood, deficiency, degrade, error, failing, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, malformed, mistake, shortcoming, vice, weakness), corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, vitiate), contaminar-se, contaminar (attaint, contaminate, infect, inoculate, to contaminate, to infest, vitiate), apodrecer (decay, fester, molder, moulder, putrefy, rot, to decay, to moulder, to rot). (various references) | |
Romanian | vicia (debauch, infect, vitiate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, vitiate, wreck), spurca (besmear, besmirch, defile, desecrate, dirty, smear, smirch, soil, vitiate), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, tarnish, ulcer), infecta (attaint, canker, contaminate, corrupt, infect, poison, rankle), depravare (corruption, debauchery, degradation, depravation, depravity), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, vitiate), corupţie (bribery, corruption, corruptness, depravity, rottenness, soil, venality), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, distort, forge, spoil), întina (desecrate). (various references) | |
Russian | налет (bloom, deposit, foray, fur, hint, hold up, incrustation, raid, scurf, stick-up), пятно (attaint, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, patch, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma), позор (attaint, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, shamefulness, stigma). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uprljati (become dirty, begrime, defile, dirty, draggle, foul, smirch), pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, tamper), mrlja (attaint, blot, dab, fleck, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain), ljaga (blemish, discredit, plague spot, smirch, stain, stigma). (various references) | |
Spanish | putrefacción (corruption, decay, depravation, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, rottenness), deterioración (corruption, decay, depravation, deterioration). (various references) | |
Swedish | fläck (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, fleck, flick, Mark, mottle, patch, slur, smear, smirch, speck, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, stain), besmitta (contaminate, infect). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้"่างพร้อย, ทำให้มีรอยเปื้อน, รอยเปื้อน (grime, smear, smudge, smutch), มีรอยเปื้อน, มีมลทิน (sully), จุ""่างพร้อย. (various references) | |
Turkish | yozlaşma (degeneracy, degeneration, devolution, dry rot, gangrene, graft, retrogression), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, tarnish), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, vice), kokuşmak (go bad, putrefy, rot), kokuşma (putrefaction), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), hastalık bulaştırmak, bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, transmit, twine), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, turn, turn sour, upset), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, undoing, upset), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, disturbance, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, unsoundness, upset), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), ahlâkını bozmak (demoralize, deprave). (various references) | |
Ukranian | наліт (boost, furring, odor, odour, raid, tang, tinct), зараза (contagion, infection, virus, zymosis), заражатися, заражати (canker, contaminate, infect, poison), загниватися, примішувати, порок (blur, defect, evil, sin, vice, wickedness), пляма (blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, macula, maculation, slur, smear, smirch, splash, spot, stain, star). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết xấu, vết bẩn (tarnish), vết ô uế dấu vết của bệnh di truyền, sự l m suy đ"i vết nhơ, sự l m hư hỏng (depravation), sự l m bại hoại (debauchery), sự l m đ"i bại, dấu hiệu của sự nhiễm bệnh mùi hôi thối, điều xấu di truyền. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inficio infeci infectum, macula, maculaberis, maculant, maculasti, maculat, maculata, maculatam, maculatum, maculatur, maculatus, maculaverunt. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | geblandan. (various references) |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | teinter. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | teynten. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taint": tainted, tainting, taintless, taints. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "taint": attaint. (additional references) | |
Words containing "taint": attainted, attainting, attaints, certainties, certainty, mountaintop, mountaintops, uncertainties, uncertainty, untainted. (additional references) | |
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"Taint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atin, atiny, atipt, atnt, baint, caint, laint, qaint, raint, Shiant, tabit, tacin, tagin, taind, taine, taino, tains, Tainsh, tainty, taiot, Taitz, tani, tanid, Tanita, tante, tanti, tanto, tantu, taon, tauno, taunti, taunty, thint, tian, tiana, Tiano, tiantic, tient, tiento, tinit, toait, toint, traint, trint, twant, tzit, waint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "taint" (pronounced tā"nt) |
| 3 | -ā" n t | acquaint, complaint, constraint, faint, feint, paint, quaint, repaint, restraint, Saint. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: titan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: anti, tain, tint. | |
-2 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, att, nit, tan, tat, tin, tit. | |
-3 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attain, intact, lattin, mattin, taints, tanist, titans, titian, titman. | |
+2 letters: antifat, antipot, antitax, attains, attaint, batting, catmint, catting, distant, dittany, fatting, hatting, instant, instate, intrant, intreat, iterant, lattins, matting, mattins, nattier, nattily, nictate, nitrate, patient, patting, ratting, satinet, stating, station, taction, tainted, tanists, tantivy, tantric, tarting, tasting, tatting, tauting, tertian, tetanic, titania, titanic, titians, titrant, transit, vatting. | |
+3 letters: abetting, abutting, anisette, antiatom, anticity, anticult, antidote, antileft, antiriot, antirust, antismut, antistat, antitank, antitype, antsiest, aquatint, astatine, attained, attainer, attaints, attiring, attuning, autunite, banditti, battings, battling, blatting, botanist, catmints, chatting, citation, dilatant, dotation, dratting, entastic, equitant, estating, excitant, faintest, fetation, flatting, gnathite, gnattier, habitant, hesitant, incitant, initiate, instants, instated, instates, interact, intimate, intonate, intranet, intrants, intreats, intubate, irritant, latinity, litigant, lutanist, martinet, mattings, militant, mutating, mutation, nastiest, natality, natation, nativist, nativity, nattiest, naturist, nictated, nictates, nitrated, nitrates, nitrator, notating, notation, nutating, nutation, nystatin, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, outpaint, pantsuit, patients, patinate, pittance, platting, potation, quantity, rattling, reattain, retirant, rotating, rotation, rutilant, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, scatting, slatting, spatting, stannite, starting, stations, stotinka, straiten, strontia, swatting, taciturn, taconite, tactions, tainting, tangiest, tanistry, tantalic, tattings, tattling, taunting, tawniest, taxation, tenacity, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, tetanize, tetanoid, thionate, tinplate, titanate, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanite, titanium, titanous, tithonia, titrants, toasting, tonality, totaling, toxicant, traction, transits, transmit, treating, triptane, tunicate, uintaite, urticant, visitant, volitant, wattling. | |
+4 letters: abstinent, actuating, actuation, admitting, agitating, agitation, allotting, anatomist, anisettes, annuitant, anorthite, antarctic, antiatoms, antidotal, antidoted, antidotes, antidraft, antielite, antiparty, antipasti, antipasto, antipathy, antiquate, antiquity, antirusts, antistate, antistick, antistory, antitheft, antitoxic, antitoxin, antitrust, antitumor, antitypes, antiwhite, aquatints, argentite, assistant, astatines, atonalist, atonality, attaching, attacking, attainder, attainers, attaining, attainted, attending, attention, attentive, attesting, attorning, attrition, auntliest, austenite, authentic, autunites, battalion, battening, battering, battiness, botanists, brattling, carnotite, catatonia, catatonic, cattiness, certainty, citations, crepitant, daintiest, defatting, deratting, dictating, dictation, dietitian, dilatants, disputant, distantly, distraint, dittanies, dotations, emittance, entertain, estaminet, excitants, facetting, fantasist, fantastic, fattening, fattiness, festinate, fetations, flotation, garotting, gavotting, gazetting, gestating, gestation, gnathites, gnattiest, gustation, guttation, habitants, imitating, imitation, impatient, important, incitants, infatuate, infestant, initiated, initiates, initiator, injectant, inpatient, insatiate, instanter, instantly, instating, instigate, integrate, intendant, interacts, intestacy, intestate, intimated, intimater, intimates, intonated, intonates, intranets, intreated, intricate, intrigant, intubated, intubates, irritants, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, jauntiest, lactating, lactation, latticing, litigants, lutanists, magnetite, manicotti, martinets, maternity, mattering, matutinal, mentalist, mentality, mentation, militants, ministate, mutations, natations, natatoria, nativists, natrolite, nattering, nattiness, naturists, negotiant, negotiate, nictating, nictitate, nitrating, nitration, nitrators, nonartist, notations, novitiate, nutations, nystatins, obstinate, orientate, ostinatos, outacting, outdating, outeating, outpaints, outrating, paintiest, palpitant, panettoni, pantheist, pantsuits, partition, patenting, paternity, patienter, patiently, patinated, patinates, pattering, pectinate, pittances, plaintext, potations, potential, prattling, protistan, quaintest, quittance, quotation, rattening, rattlings, reattains, reinstate, resistant, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, rotations, saltation, sanitated, sanitates, satanists, satiating, satiation, scantiest, sententia, siltation, situating, situation, slattings, splatting, squatting, staminate, stannites, startling, stational, stationed, stationer, sterilant, stimulant, straitens, striating, striation, strontias, syntactic, tableting, tacitness, taconites, tactician, taintless, tangliest, tantalise, tantalite, tantalize, tantivies, tanzanite, tarantism, targeting, tarnation, tastiness, tattering, tattiness, tattooing, tautening, taxations, tearstain, tenanting, tentative, terminate, tetanised, tetanises, tetanized, tetanizes, thatching, thionates, threating, throating, thwarting, timpanist, tinplates, titanates, titanisms, titanites, titaniums, tithonias, titrating, titration, totalling, toxicants, tractions, tradition, transfixt, transient, transited, transmits, trepidant, triathlon, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, truanting, tuitional, tunicated, tunicates, turbinate, twangiest, twattling, tympanist, uintahite, uintaites, ultrathin, unhatting, unstating, untainted, urticants, ventifact, ventilate, visitants, vitiating, vitiation, withstand, yattering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 69 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467758086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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