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Definition: Testicle |
TesticleNoun1. One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Testicle \Tes"ti*cle\, noun. [Latin expression testiculus, diminutive of testis testicle, probably the same word as testis witness, as being witness to manhood. Compare to Test witness.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | The male gonad where, in adult life, spermatozoa develop; the testis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | English (ball, nut), Hungarian (tök), Turkish (tas,ak). (references) |
Slang | Ball, nut. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TesticleSynonyms: ball (n), ballock (n), bollock (n), egg (n), nut (n), orchis (n), testis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Testicle |
| English words defined with "testicle": Coilon, Cremaster ♦ Dowset ♦ Hydatid of Morgagni ♦ orchiopexy ♦ Parorchis ♦ Sarcocele, Semicastrate, Spermary, spermatic cord ♦ Testiculate, tunica albuginea testes ♦ undescended testicle ♦ Vasa deferentia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "testicle": inguinal orchiectomy ♦ stage I testicular cancer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "testicle": Epididymis ♦ Mesorchium ♦ Orchitis, Orchotomy ♦ ridgeling. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, ah, yes Andrewthe testicle with legs. (Anger Management; writing credit: David Dorfman) Holy testicle, Tuesday! (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Tom Shadyac) If you say Ferris Bueller, you lose a testicle. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) By the way, his testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're interested. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) An eye's worth half a testicle. (The Footy Show; writing credit: Soraya Mire) | |
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 | Line drawing showing lateral view of a testicle.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Control slide of Nichol's strain of T. pallidum from a rabbit testicle, and stained by fluorescent antibody technique; magnification 54X. The rate of primary, and secondary syphilis in the U.S. declined by 89.2 percent from 1990 to 2000.Credit: CDC. |
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| "Testicle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Testicle" is used about 32 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) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (common) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "testicle": undescended testicle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "testicle": testicle-grabbing. | |
| 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 |
testicle | 900 |
testicle pain | 161 |
testicle cancer | 138 |
testicle festival | 132 |
swollen testicle | 99 |
testicle picture | 61 |
big testicle | 61 |
kicking testicle | 59 |
undescended testicle | 54 |
woman kicking testicle | 49 |
enlarged testicle | 43 |
testicle lump | 43 |
sore testicle | 41 |
large testicle | 40 |
testicle size | 39 |
pain in testicle | 39 |
girl kicking testicle | 38 |
donation testicle | 33 |
low hanging testicle | 32 |
kick testicle | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "testicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vezë (egg, ovum), koqe (ball), herdhe (gonad), bole (ball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خصية (spermary, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тестис (testis), тестикул (spermary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 睾丸 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | varle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | testikel (didymus, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | testikel (testis), teelbal (didymus, orchis, testis), orchis (orchis, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | testiko, kojono. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تخم (Egg, Fry, Kernel, Oosperm, Seed, Semen, Zygote(Tic)), خصیه , خایه , بیضه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kives (animelles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | testicule (testes, testicles, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hoden (balls, testes, testicles, testis), hode (testis), testikel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όρχις (didymus, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אשך (gonad), ביצ" (egg, lump, ovum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | here (lounger, stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | buah pelir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | testicolo (didymus, testis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 精巣 , コウ丸 (ball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいそう (be dressed up, cleaning, full dress, political strife, time, uniform, wear rich clothes, years), コウまる (ball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불알. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | maggle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esticletay testículo (didymus, testis). (various references) яичко (testes, testis). (various references) magairle, magairlean. (various references) testis. (various references) testículo (didymus, testis). (various references) testikel. (various references) ลูกอั"ฑะ (knackers, nadds, nadgers, testis). (various references) testis (spermary, spermatic, stone, testis), taşak (rocks, testis), haya (spermary, stone, testis), erbezi (gonad, spermary, testis). (various references) я"чко. (various references) caill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | testiculis, testis. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | muska-s. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "testicle": testicles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "testicle" (pronounced te"stikul) |
| 6 | -s t i k u l | acoustical, ecclesiastical, egotistical, logistical, mystical, statistical. |
| 5 | -t i k u l | alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, critical, dialectical, elliptical, fanatical, geopolitical, heretical, hypercritical, hypocritical, identical, mathematical, nonpolitical, optical, pharmaceutical, problematical, sabbatical, tactical, theoretical, uncritical, vertical, viatical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, graphical, gynecological, helical, historical, hysterical, icicle, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, lyrical, magical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, technical, technological, teleological, theatrical, theological, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: telestic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: sectile. | |
-2 letters: elects, elites, listee, select, settle, stelic, titles. | |
-3 letters: ceils, celts, cesti, cetes, cites, clits, elect, elite, islet, istle, leets, sleet, slice, steel, stele, stile, stilt, teels, teles, telic, tiles, tilts, title. | |
-4 letters: cees, ceil, cels, celt, cete, cist, cite, clit, eels, else, etic, ices, isle, lees, leet, leis, lest, lets, lice, lies, list, lite, lits, sect, seel, sett, sice, silt, site, slit, stet, teel, tees, tele, tels, test, tets, tics, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tits. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, cis, eel, els, ice, its, lee, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sec, see, sei, sel, set, sic, sit, tee, tel, tet, tic, tie, til, tis, tit. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: celestite, telestics, testicles. | |
+2 letters: celestites, intellects, ticketless. | |
+3 letters: aesthetical, atelectasis, centiliters, dictyostele, felicitates, gesticulate, hectoliters, licentiates, littlenecks, reticulates, sectilities, selectivity, telecasting, tricolettes. | |
+4 letters: belletristic, centralities, coleopterist, cuttlefishes, delectations, destructible, dictyosteles, elasticities, erectilities, ethicalities, gesticulated, gesticulates, heteroclites, intercalates, intercluster, postelection, recultivates, restrictedly, selectionist, sextuplicate, telocentrics. | |
+5 letters: acetonitriles, aesthetically, antielectrons, coleopterists, destructively, electricities, electrologist, electrostatic, ellipticities, enterocolitis, gesticulative, incontestable, intellections, intellectuals, intercultures, intersocietal, letterspacing, postepileptic, rearticulates, recapitulates, resectability, restrictively, reticulocytes, selectionists, selectivities, sextuplicated, sextuplicates, stereotypical, tetracyclines, verticalities. | |
| 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 65 73 74 69 63 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . ... - .. -.-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e s t i c l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471858675697871 |
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