Filibusterer

  

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Filibusterer

Definition: Filibusterer

Filibusterer

Noun

1. A legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Filibusterer

Synonym: filibuster (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Filibusterer

Language Translations for "filibusterer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Filibuster. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Filibusterer

Derivations

Words beginning with "filibusterer": filibusterers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Filibusterer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: filibuster.

-3 letters: bisulfite, blurriest, blusterer, bristlier, brutifies, butleries, filterers, liberties, refilters, rifleries, surfeiter, terrifies, tilburies.

-4 letters: belfries, bluesier, blurters, briefers, briefest, bruiters, burliest, burriest, feistier, ferities, ferrites, ferrules, fieriest, filberts, filister, filterer, flirters, flirtier, flurries, fruiters, fruitier, furriest, fusileer, fusilier, reburies, refilter, refuters, reifiers, subtiler, sultrier, surefire, terrible, triflers, trilbies, ubieties, utiliser.

-5 letters: befrets.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: filibusterers.

 

+4 letters: irrefutabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Filibusterer


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

46 69 6C 69 62 75 73 74 65 72 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006C 0069 0062 0075 0073 0074 0065 0072 0065 0072

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

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

407578756887858671847184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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