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Definitions: Tainted |
TaintedAdjective1. Touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic". 2. Especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tainted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: TaintedSynonyms: besmirched (adj), corrupt (adj), damaged (adj), flyblown (adj), spotted (adj), stained (adj), sullied (adj), tarnished (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless). |
Disease | Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose. |
Imperfection | Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement. |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tainted |
| English words defined with "tainted": corked, corky ♦ Lepered. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tainted": bilgy fish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All the demons that walk the Earth, myself included, are tainted, human hybrids, like vampires. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tainted Money (1915) Addicted to Murder: Tainted Blood (1998) Tainted Love (1995) | |
Song Titles | Tainted Love (performing artist: Soft Cell) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Similarly, recent problems dealing with mercury tainted waste, and Taiwan's commitment to uphold the Basel Convention* have prompted the government to strengthen regulations prohibiting the import and export of hazardous wastes, making local treatment options more important. (references) | |
Children | Cameroon | Society tended to treat those with disabilities as tainted, and many persons felt that providing assistance is the responsibility of churches or foreign NGO's. (references) |
Economic History | Hungary | In elections tainted by fraud in 1947, the leftist bloc gained control of the government. (references) |
Bolivia | Human rights violations, which badly tainted some governments earlier in the decade, were not a problem. (references) | |
Travel | Bolivia | Even the best restaurants in the major cities may inadvertently serve tainted food. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tainted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.66% of the time. "Tainted" is used about 133 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 64.66% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.06% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.02% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tainted": become tainted. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tainted": tainted-blood. | |
Ending with "tainted": scandal-tainted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
tainted love | 371 |
love lyrics tainted | 95 |
tainted | 48 |
love manson marilyn tainted | 37 |
cell love lyrics soft tainted | 16 |
tainted thought | 14 |
tainted love soft cell | 14 |
love lyrics manson marilyn tainted | 10 |
tainted blood | 9 |
tainted love mp3 | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tainted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, turned, unsound), i kalbur (carious, carrion, corrupt, decayed, putrid, rotten, rotting, saprogenic, saprogenous, unsound). (various references) | |
Arabic | تالف (shot). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опетнен (fly-blown, maculated, smudgy, stained, sullied, tarnished). (various references) | |
Chinese | 感" (infectious, Tainting). (various references) | |
Danish | lugtpåvirkede fisk (tainted fish), lugtforurenede fisk (tainted fish), harske fisk (tainted fish), forsøg belastet af umenneskeligt formål (experimentation tainted with a dehumanising purpose), fisk,der frasorteres på grund af dårlig lugt (tainted fish). (various references) | |
Dutch | experiment bezoedeld met een dehumaniserend doel (experimentation tainted with a dehumanising purpose). (various references) | |
Finnish | pilaantunut (damaged, oily, ropy, rotten, spoiled, tainted decayed, undrinkable, unsound), epäinhimillisellä tavoitteella pilattu koe (experimentation tainted with a dehumanising purpose). (various references) | |
French | vicié, pollué, infecté, gâté, avarié. (various references) | |
German | verdorben (addled, bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, damaged, debauched, depraved, foul, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, ruined, spoiled, unsound, upset), verdarb (addled, barbarized, spoiled, vitiated, wracked). (various references) | |
Greek | πειραματισμός με απάνθρωπους σκοπούς (experimentation tainted with a dehumanising purpose). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלחי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szennyezett (contaminated, feculent, menstruous, polluted). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bonyok (flabby, soft). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腐肉 (tainted meat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふにく (tainted meat). (various references) | |
Manx | breinnit (befouled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aintedtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | putrefato (foul), podre (addle, addled, bad, foul, punk, putrid, rotten, stinking, unsound), infectado (contaminate, infect, infective), estragado (damaged, dilapidated, rotten, spoiled, spoilt, unsound), em mau estado (dilapidated, shabby, unsound). (various references) | |
Romanian | viciat (bad, corrupt, foul, polluted, vicious, vitiated), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, vicious, vitiated), alterat (adulterated). (various references) | |
Russian | испорченный (addled, corrupt, depraved, derogate, flyblown, out of order, putrid, rotten, spoilt, uncound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokvaren (addle, bad, become foul, corrupt, rotten). (various references) | |
Spanish | viciado (bad, contaminated, foul, fuggy, soupy, stale, thick), perdido (abandoned, astray, disappointed, forgiven, gotten lost, idle, irreparable, lost, missing, over plus, over sheets, overs, paper overs, plus sheets, spoils), pasado (background, bad, beyond, blocked, bygone, coating, decrepit, departed, diluted, erstwhile, ex, foretime, former, gone, gone by, high, lapsed, last, off, old fashioned, outmoded, overblown, overpast, overripe, passed, past, preterit, preterite, rotten, sleepy, stale, stoned, tacky, turned, turned on, worn, worn out), infecto (foul, infected), corrompido (corrupt, putrid, rotten), contaminado (contaminated, infected, polluted). (various references) | |
Swedish | skämd (addled, bad, corrupt, high, rotten, tained). (various references) | |
Turkish | lekeli (blotchy, clouded, dappled, mackled, maculated, smeary, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stained, stigmatic), kusurlu (culpable, defective, faulty, imperfect, inaccurate, incommensurate, incomplete, malformed, peccant), kokmuş (addle, bad, fetid, flyblown, niffy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, smelly, stinky). (various references) | |
Ukranian | що загніва". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coinquinata, coinquinatae, coinquinati, coinquinatis, coinquinatum, coinquinatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tainted": attainted, untainted. (additional references) | |
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"Tainted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taine, taintede, taited, tanited, tante, teinted, tenter, tiented, tintex, traited. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tainted" (pronounced tā"ntud) |
| 6 | t ā" n t u d | untainted. |
| 5 | -ā" n t u d | acquainted, fainted, painted, repainted, sainted, unpainted. |
| 4 | -n t u d | accented, accounted, affronted, amounted, anted, appointed, augmented, blunted, cemented, chanted, circumvented, commented, complemented, complimented, confronted, consented, contented, counted, daunted, demented, dented, disappointed, discontented, discounted, disenchanted, disjointed, disoriented, dissented, documented, enchanted, experimented, fermented, fingerprinted, flaunted, fomented, fragmented, frequented, fronted, granted, grunted, hinted, hunted, implanted, implemented, imprinted, invented, jointed, lamented, minted, misrepresented, mounted, oriented, ornamented, overrepresented, panted, patented, pinpointed, planted, pointed, presented, prevented, printed, ranted, reappointed, recanted, recounted, regimented, reinvented, relented, rented, repented, replanted, represented, reprinted, resented, scented, segmented, shunted, slanted, sprinted, stunted, supplanted, supplemented, surmounted, talented, taunted, tinted, tormented, transplanted, unaccounted, uncounted, undaunted, undercounted, underrepresented, undocumented, unprecedented, unrepresented, unwanted, unwarranted, vaunted, vented, wanted, warranted. |
| 3 | -t u d | abated, abbreviated, abdicated, abducted, abetted, aborted, abrogated, abstracted, abutted, accelerated, accentuated, accepted, acclimated, accommodated, accosted, accredited, accumulated, acquitted, acted, activated, adapted, addicted, adjudicated, adjusted, admitted, adopted, adulterated, advocated, affected, affiliated, afflicted, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, airlifted, alerted, alienated, alleviated, allocated, allotted, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, annotated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, arrested, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assaulted, asserted, assimilated, assisted, associated, assorted, attempted, attenuated, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, authenticated, automated, averted, awaited, backdated, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bifurcated, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, castigated, castrated, catapulted, celebrated, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, chlorinated, circuited, circulated, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collaborated, collected, comforted, commemorated, committed, communicated, commuted, compacted, compensated, competed, completed, complicated, computed, conceited, concentrated, concerted, concocted, conducted, confiscated, conflicted, congested, congratulated, congregated, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consecrated, consisted, consolidated, constipated, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, consummated, contacted, contaminated, contemplated, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, cooperated, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, corrupted, costed, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crenelated, crested, crusted, culminated, cultivated, darted, dated, deactivated, debated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, degenerated, dehydrated, dejected, delegated, deleted, deliberated, delighted, delineated, delisted, demonstrated, demoted, denigrated, denominated, denoted, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, depreciated, deregulated, desecrated, desegregated, deserted, designated, destructed, detected, deteriorated, detested, detonated, detracted, devaluated, devastated, deviated, devoted, dictated, differentiated, digested, dilapidated, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disassociated, disconnected, discredited, discriminated, disgusted, disintegrated, disinterested, disinvited, dislocated, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, domesticated, dominated, donated, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, duplicated, dusted, edited, educated, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elevated, elicited, eliminated, elongated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emitted, emulated, enacted, encapsulated, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, enumerated, enunciated, equated, eradicated, erected, erupted, escalated, escorted, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, evicted, eviscerated, exacerbated, exacted, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excavated, excepted, excerpted, excited, excommunicated, excoriated, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhilarated, exhorted, existed, exited, exonerated, expected, expedited, exploited, exported, expropriated, exterminated, extorted, extracted, extradited, extrapolated, extricated, extroverted, exulted, fabricated, faceted, facilitated, fainthearted, farsighted, fascinated, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, federated, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fisted, fitted, fixated, flabbergasted, flagellated, flirted, floated, flouted, fluctuated, foisted, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, formulated, fretted, frosted, frustrated, gated, generated, germinated, gifted, glaciated, gloated, glutted, graduated, grafted, grated, gravitated, greeted, guested, gusted, gutted, gyrated, halfhearted, hallucinated, halogenated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, hesitated, highlighted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, humiliated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, ignited, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impacted, imparted, impersonated, implicated, imported, impregnated, imputed, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incited, incorporated, inculcated, indebted, indicated, indicted, indited, indoctrinated, inducted, infatuated, infected, infested, infiltrated, inflated, inflected, inflicted, infuriated, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, initiated, injected, innovated, inoculated, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instigated, instituted, instructed, insulated, insulted, integrated, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, interpolated, interpreted, interrelated, interrogated, interrupted, intersected, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, introverted, inundated, invalidated, inverted, invested, investigated, invigorated, invited, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, laminated, lasted, legislated, levitated, liberated, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, liquidated, listed, litigated, located, looted, lubricated, lusted, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, mandated, manifested, manipulated, marinated, marketed, masted, masturbated, mated, mediated, medicated, melted, merited, meted, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, mitigated, moderated, modulated, molested, motivated, multifaceted, mutated, muted, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, nearsighted, necessitated, negated, neglected, negotiated, nested, netted, nominated, nonregulated, noted, objected, obligated, obliterated, obstructed, officiated, omitted, operated, opinionated, opted, orbited, orchestrated, orientated, originated, ousted, outdated, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overestimated, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overregulated, overstated, overweighted, oxygenated, parachuted, parted, participated, pasted, patted, pelleted, pelted, penetrated, perfected, perforated, permeated, permitted, perpetrated, perpetuated, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pirated, pitted, pivoted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pollinated, polluted, pontificated, populated, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, precipitated, predated, predicated, predicted, predominated, preempted, preexisted, prefabricated, premeditated, profited, prognosticated, prohibited, projected, proliferated, promoted, prompted, promulgated, propagated, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, punctuated, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, radiated, rafted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, reactivated, readjusted, readmitted, reallocated, rearrested, reasserted, rebated, rebutted, recalculated, reciprocated, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recreated, recruited, redacted, redecorated, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, reevaluated, refitted, reflected, reformulated, refrigerated, refuted, regenerated, regretted, regulated, rehabilitated, reignited, reincarnated, reinstated, reinstituted, reintegrated, reinterpreted, reinvested, reinvigorated, reinvited, reiterated, rejected, rejuvenated, related, relegated, relocated, remarketed, remitted, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, repatriated, repeated, replicated, reported, repudiated, reputed, requested, rerouted, resisted, resonated, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, resuscitated, retaliated, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverberated, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotated, rotted, ruminated, rusted, rutted, salivated, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, saturated, scapegoated, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segregated, selected, separated, serrated, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, simulated, sited, situated, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sophisticated, sorted, speculated, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, stagnated, stalemated, started, stated, stilted, stimulated, stipulated, subcontracted, subjected, subjugated, submitted, subordinated, substantiated, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suffocated, suggested, suited, superheated, supported, suspected, swatted, sweated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, targeted, tasted, tempted, terminated, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, titillated, toasted, tolerated, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, truncated, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccredited, unadjusted, unadulterated, unaffected, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompensated, uncompleted, uncomplicated, unconnected, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, undated, undefeated, underestimated, underrated, underreported, understated, undetected, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undoubted, unedited, uneducated, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unincorporated, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninitiated, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmitigated, unmolested, unobstructed, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unregulated, unrelated, unreported, unrequited, unrestricted, unsaturated, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unsophisticated, unstated, unsubstantiated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untested, untreated, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, venerated, ventilated, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attend, detain, tinted. | |
-2 letters: anted, entia, taint, teind, tenia, tinea, tined, titan. | |
-3 letters: adit, aide, ante, anti, date, dean, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, etna, idea, neat, nett, nide, nite, tain, tate, teat, tend, tent, tide, tied, tine, tint. | |
-4 letters: aid, ain, ait, and, ane, ani, ant, ate, att, den, die, din, dit, eat, end, eta, nae, net, nit, tad, tae, tan, tat, tea, ted, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, an, at, de, ed, en, et, id, in, it, na, ne, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: antidote, attained, instated, nictated, nitrated, tetanoid. | |
+2 letters: antidoted, antidotes, attainder, attainted, attending, daintiest, defatting, deratting, dietitian, dittanies, initiated, intendant, intimated, intonated, intreated, intubated, patinated, sanitated, stationed, tetanised, tetanized, transited, trepidant, tunicated, untainted. | |
+3 letters: admittance, adventitia, anecdotist, antedating, antiquated, antitrades, aquatinted, attainders, denotation, denotative, deputation, detainment, detonating, detonation, detonative, detoxicant, detracting, detraction, dietitians, dilettante, dilettanti, festinated, inaptitude, infatuated, instigated, integrated, intendants, interacted, intertidal, intimidate, itinerated, manumitted, meditating, meditation, negotiated, nictitated, orientated, outpainted, pantsuited, reattained, reinstated, straitened, tantalised, tantalized, terminated, turbinated, unadmitted, ventilated, wadsetting. | |
+4 letters: admittances, adventitial, adventitias, adventurist, anecdotists, anticathode, anticipated, antistudent, cantillated, coattending, constipated, decantation, degustation, delectation, denotations, denticulate, deportation, deputations, destination, detainments, determinant, determinate, detestation, detonations, detoxicants, detractions, detrainment, detrimental, deuterating, deuteration, devastating, devastation, dilettantes, distantness, edutainment, entertained, equidistant, extraditing, extradition, handwritten, inactivated, inadvertent, inaptitudes, indentation, infiltrated, ingratiated, ingratitude, intenerated, interdental, interstrand, intimidated, intimidates, intoxicated, italianated, meditations, outdebating, outdistance, partitioned, pentlandite, potentiated, quantitated, readmitting, reinitiated, retardation, tearstained, transmitted, trepidation, uninitiated, unmitigated, unmotivated, unsteadiest, vaticinated, wainscotted. | |
+5 letters: administrate, adulterating, adulteration, adventitious, adventurists, agglutinated, andouillette, anecdotalist, anesthetized, anticathodes, antidiabetic, antipredator, attitudinise, attitudinize, contaminated, contradicted, deactivating, deactivation, debilitating, debilitation, decantations, decapitating, decapitation, degustations, delectations, delimitation, denaturation, denticulated, deportations, deputization, destinations, determinants, determinator, detestations, detonability, detoxicating, detoxication, detrainments, detrimentals, deuterations, devastations, deviationist, dilettantish, dilettantism, disinfectant, disinfestant, disintegrate, disorientate, dissertating, dissertation, ditransitive, educationist, edutainments, euthanatized, exterminated, extraditions, fainthearted, fianchettoed, fractionated, hereditament, indentations, indoctrinate, inexactitude, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, instantiated, intercalated, intergrafted, intermediate, interplanted, interpolated, interrelated, interrogated, interstadial, interstrands, intertidally, investigated, necessitated, nonactivated, outdistanced, outdistances, pentapeptide, pentlandites, pontificated, postaccident, preadmitting, predestinate, privatdocent, privatdozent, ratiocinated, redintegrate, reintegrated, renegotiated, reorientated, retardations, scintillated, straightened, stringhalted, tradescantia, trepidations, triangulated, unattributed, uncultivated, understating, undistracted, unintegrated, unstratified, unventilated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 69 6E 74 65 64 |
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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 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i n t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006E 0074 0065 0064 |
| 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)54677580867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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