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Definitions: Elaboration |
ElaborationNoun1. Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail: "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed". 2. The result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique". 3. An interpretation that provides additional information. 4. Marked by elaborately complex detail. 5. Developing in intricate and painstaking detail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elaboration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | The elaboration of a declaration is the process by which the declaration achieves its effect(such as creating an object); this process occurs during program execution. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ElaborationSynonyms: amplification (n), elaborateness (n), enlargement (n), expansion (n), intricacy (n), involution (n), refinement (n), working out (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completion | Elaboration; finality; completeness. |
Improvement | Reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair; (restoration); recovery. |
Preparation | Ripening; Verb: maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elaboration |
| English words defined with "elaboration": amplification ♦ Development theory ♦ elaborately, embellishment, embroidery ♦ higher ♦ in an elaborate way, intricately ♦ Malassimilation ♦ naked ♦ Plasmogen ♦ raw ♦ serviceable, sketch, study. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elaboration": demoscene ♦ farcical comedy ♦ gasket for joints ♦ Heart ♦ joint ring ♦ Self Psychology. (references) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I could not attempt great elaboration of detail, in the working out of character within such limits. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This relatively wide variation can usually be explained by the degree of elaboration of the product. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | Guyana needs new investment--although the amount and pace of investment will depend greatly on the further elaboration of government policies toward foreign investment. (references) |
Mexico | CNA is the federal government agency responsible for the supply of potable water and for the elaboration of environmental standards for water discharges and water quality for urban and rural including agricultural zones. (references) | |
Political Economy | COSTA RICA | Solvents and chemical precursors used in the elaboration of illegal drugs are carefully regulated. (references) |
Women | Guatemala | The National Women's Forum, a group formed in 1997 to promote women's issues, actively participated in the elaboration of the plan and contributed proposals in each of the prioritized areas. (references) |
Worker Rights | El Salvador | The Committee developed a strategy proposal and project proposals, which it submitted to the IPEC office for further elaboration. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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| "Elaboration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Elaboration" is used about 289 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) | 100% | 289 | 17,124 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "elaboration": over-elaboration. | |
| 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 |
elaboration likelihood model | 8 |
elaboration | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "elaboration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhvillim (development, evolution, growth, make, making, nurse, occurrence, operation, progress, prosecution, treatment), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, dust, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), saktësi (accuracy, definition, exactitude, exactness, justness, minuteness, nicety, preciseness, precision, sensibility, soundness, veracity), përpunim (development, formation, manipulation, manufacture, operation, processing, recovery, refinement, rehash, treatment). (various references) | |
Arabic | تفصيل (description, detailing, indentation, specification), تحسين (amelioration, amendment, improvement, perfection, refinement), تعقيد (complexity, complication, intricacy, involvement, perplexity), إعداد (arranger, concoction, enrollment, planning, preamble, preparation, primer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уточняване (particularization), разработка (amplification, development, operation, treatment), разработване (amplification, exploitation, shakedown), изработване (output, working out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 阐述. (various references) | |
Czech | zpracování (manufactory, treatment). (various references) | |
Danish | elaborering. (various references) | |
Dutch | uitwerking (effect). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچیدگی (Clubfoot, Compiexity, Crank, Intricacy, Plexus), جزءیات (Detail). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksityiskohtainen valmistelu. (various references) | |
French | élaboration. (various references) | |
German | ausarbeitung (amplification, composition, developement, development, draft, drawing up, expansion, formulation, preparation, working out). (various references) | |
Greek | επεξεργασία (beneficiation, conditioning, conversion, dressing, finish, milling, preparation, processing, retouching, revision, those operations which transform the concentrates produced by treatment and other dispersable wastes into forms suitable for transport and/or storage and/or disposal, treatment, working), επεξήγηση (gend, illustration, inscription). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכלול (improvement, perfection), פתוח (developing film, development, expansion, open, receptive), פרוט יתר, עבו" (adaptation, arrangement, cultivated, cultivation, prepared, processing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részletesség (circumstantiality), részletes kidolgozás, részletekben való elmélyülés, megmunkálás (fashioning, finishing, finishing off, forming, get-up, machining, moulding, refining, roughing, second working, shaping, surface-planning, turning), kiformálás, kidolgozottság, kidolgozás (development, finishing, getting up, get-up, shaping, working out, workmanship), kellő alakba öntés, gondos alaposság, feldolgozás (assimilation, processing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | elaborasi. (various references) | |
Italian | elaborazione (immediate processing, processing, program run, programme run, real time processing, real-time processing, run). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 敷衍 (amplification, expatiation), 斧鑿 (chisel and ax, lucubration), 布衍 (amplification, expatiation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふさく (chisel and ax, crop failure, lucubration, poor crop), ふえ" (amplification, divorce, expatiation, unrealized marriage). (various references) | |
Manx | troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, influence, labour, motion, operate, operation, performance, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utdypning, utarbeidelse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elaborationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | elaborar (finish, formulate, labor, labour, make, make out, prepare), elaboração (concoction, elan, formulation, preparation, processing). (various references) | |
Romanian | elaborare. (various references) | |
Russian | уточнение (qualification, rectification), совершенствование (development, enhancement, perfecting, perfection), развитие (cultivation, development, evolution, germination, growth), тщательность (exactness, nicety, thoroughness), тщательная разработка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razrađivanje, detaljno izlaganje. (various references) | |
Spanish | elaboración (build up, making, preparation, processing). (various references) | |
Swedish | elaborering, omsorgsfullt utarbetande. (various references) | |
Turkish | dikkatle hazırlanma, detay (circumstance, detail), ayrıntı (circumstance, detail, nicety, particular), özen (application, assiduity, attention, care, jealousy, pains, painstaking, solicitude, thought). (various references) | |
Ukranian | старанність (accuracy, alacrity, application, assiduity, diligence, exactness, goodwill, heartiness, impressment, nicety, painstaking, particularity, sedulity, thoroughness), старанна розробка, удосконалення (perfectibility, perfecting, perfection, refinement), переробка (adaptation, alteration, readjustment, recast, remake, revision). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thảo tỉ mỉ, sự thảo kỹ lưỡng, sự sản ra, sự sửa soạn công phu, sự l m công phu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elaboration": elaborations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elaboration": overelaboration. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elaboration": overelaborations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elaboration" (pronounced ula'berā"shun) |
| 9 | u l a' b er ā" sh u n | collaboration. |
| 7 | -a' b er ā" sh u n | aberration. |
| 6 | -b er ā" sh u n | corroboration, deliberation, liberation, reverberation. |
| 5 | -er ā" sh u n | acceleration, admiration, adoration, agglomeration, alteration, amelioration, aspiration, cogeneration, coloration, commemoration, confederation, configuration, conglomeration, consideration, cooperation, corporation, deceleration, declaration, decoration, degeneration, desperation, discoloration, enumeration, evaporation, exaggeration, exasperation, exhilaration, exoneration, expiration, exploration, federation, figuration, generation, inauguration, incarceration, incorporation, inspiration, laceration, maturation, moderation, nonproliferation, operation, perforation, perspiration, preparation, proliferation, reconfiguration, reconsideration, recuperation, redecoration, refrigeration, regeneration, reincorporation, reinvigoration, reiteration, remuneration, reparation, respiration, restoration, saturation, separation, toleration. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, abomination, abrogation, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, altercation, amalgamation, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogitation, cohabitation, collectivization, colonization, colorization, combination, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, coordination, coronation, correlation, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, decentralization, decertification, decontamination, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elation, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evocation, exacerbation, examination, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhortation, exhumation, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, explanation, explication, exploitation, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, incantation, incapacitation, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfirmation, recreation, recrimination, rectification, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refutation, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reinterpretation, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: alienator, antilabor, baritonal, rationale, trainable. | |
-3 letters: ablation, abortion, aeration, atonable, baritone, baronial, boltonia, brantail, inarable, laborite, lobation, notarial, oblation, obtainer, oriental, rational, relation, reobtain, taborine, tailbone. | |
-4 letters: abalone, abelian, aeolian, aerobia, aileron, airboat, alation, alienor, antbear, baronet, biotron, bloater, borneol, bornite, elation, eobiont, labiate, latrine, librate, loonier, niobate, notable, oration, orbital, ortolan, ratable, ratline, reboant, reliant, retinal, retinol, taborin, toenail, trenail, triable. | |
-5 letters: abater, abator, abelia, ablate, aboral, aerial, albeit, albino, albite, aliner, antiar, antler, antral, aortae, aortal, arable, areola, aroint, atonal, atoner, atrial, bailer, bailor, baiter, banter, barite, berlin, binate, blooie, boatel, boater, boiler, bolero, boleti, bolter, bonier, bonita, bonito, bootie, borane, borate, boreal, enroot, entail, entoil, eolian, etalon, labret, lanate, lariat, larine, latino, latria, learnt, librae, linear, linter, loaner, lobate, loiter, looter, lotion, nailer, narial, neroli, nobler, norite, obelia, oblate, obtain, oolite, oorali, orient, oriole, ornate, rabato, ratine, ration, ratlin, ratoon, realia, rebait, rebato, reboil, reboot, reloan, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retina, retool, rialto, riblet, robalo, taenia, tailer, tailor, talion, tarnal, tenail, terbia, tineal, toiler, tolane, tonier, tooler, tribal, trinal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: elaborations. | |
+2 letters: apportionable, observational. | |
+3 letters: retinoblastoma. | |
+4 letters: decarboxylation, observationally, overelaborating, overelaboration, recombinational, retinoblastomas. | |
+5 letters: decarboxylations, overelaborations, retinoblastomata, tracheobronchial. | |
| 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)45 6C 61 62 6F 72 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. .- -... --- .-. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l a b o r a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0061 0062 006F 0072 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3978676881846786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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