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BYSS

Definition: BYSS

BYSS

Noun

1. See Byssus, n., 1.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BYSS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Derivations: BYSS

Derivations

Words beginning with "BYSS": byssi, byssinoses, byssinosis, byssus, byssuses. (additional references)

Words ending with "BYSS": abyss. (additional references)

Words containing "BYSS": abyssal, abysses, hypabyssal, hypabyssally. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BYSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-s-s-y"

-1 letter: bys.

-2 letters: by.

 Words containing the letters "b-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: abyss, bassy, bossy, byssi.

 

+2 letters: abysms, bassly, brassy, bypass, byssus, sibyls, syboes.

 

+3 letters: abyssal, abysses, bossily, busboys, embassy, sassaby, subsidy, subways, symbols.

 

+4 letters: assembly, babysits, bashlyks, bioassay, biolyses, biolysis, blossomy, bobstays, bogyisms, brassily, busyness, bypassed, bypasses, byssuses, disobeys, hybrises, issuably, kissably, kyboshes, newsboys, passably, passerby, paystubs, possibly, postboys, rosebays, sabayons, sensibly, shopboys, sickbays, skyboxes, slyboots, soybeans, standbys, subtypes, swingbys, syllabus, symbions, symbiots.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BYSS


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

42 59 53 53

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)

-...    -.--.    ...    ...

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

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

01000010 01011001 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 0053 0053

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

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

36595353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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