Waxlike

  

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Waxlike

Definitions: Waxlike

Waxlike

Adjective

1. Having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness".

2. Resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves".

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

Date "waxlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)


Synonyms: Waxlike

Synonyms: ceraceous (adj), waxen (adj), waxy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Waxlike

English words defined with "waxlike": cape jasmine, cape jessamine, Cerolite, Chinese waxGardenia augusta, Gardenia jasminoidesJapanese waxWax insect, waxen, waxy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "waxlike": alexeyevitebaikeritecallainitegeocerite. (references)

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Anagrams: Waxlike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-l-w-x"

-1 letter: axlike.

-2 letters: alike, axile.

-3 letters: axel, axil, axle, ilea, ilex, ilka, kail, kale, lake, leak, like, lwei, wail, wake, wale, walk, weak, weal, weka, wile.

-4 letters: ail, ale, awe, awl, axe, elk, ilk, kae, kea, kex, law, lax, lea, lei, lek, lex, lie, wae, wax.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, aw, ax, el, ex, ka, la.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Waxlike


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

57 61 78 6C 69 6B 65

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)

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