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PREOCULAR

Definition: PREOCULAR

PREOCULAR

Adjective

1. Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.

Noun

1. One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"PREOCULAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: oracular, peculiar, peculiars.


Rhyming with "PREOCULAR"

Words rhyming with "PREOCULAR" (pronounced 'Pre*oc"u*lar'): Acapsular, Acetabular, Acicular, Acutangular, Adminicular, Alar, Alular, Anangular, Annular, Antisolar, Apicular, Apolar, Appendicular, Arbuscular, Areolar, Astragalar, Astylar, Auricular, Avicular, Avuncular, Axillar, Biangular, Bicapsular, Bicycular, Bifilar, Biglandular, Bilocular, bimolecular, Bimuscular, bipolar, Birectangular, Bivalvular, Bolar, Branular, Burglar, Calycular, Canicular, Cannular, Carbuncular, Cellar, Cellular, Circumpolar, Clancular, Clausular, Clavicular, Condylar, Consular, Cornicular, Corpuscular, Coticular. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PREOCULAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: opercular.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-p-r-r-u"

-1 letter: opercula, procural.

-2 letters: caroler, copulae, copular, coruler, coupler, parlour, peroral, procure.

-3 letters: apercu, carpel, carper, carrel, coaler, colure, copula, corral, couple, croupe, crural, culpae, cupola, curare, curler, larrup, ocular, oracle, parcel, parlor, parole, parrel, parure, placer, pleura, pourer, recoal, recoup, repour, uprear, uproar.

-4 letters: caper, carer, carle, carol, ceorl, claro, clear, clour, copal, coper.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-p-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: operculars, procedural, procurable, pronuclear.

 

+2 letters: procedurals, reproachful.

 

+3 letters: precariously, procedurally.

 

+4 letters: counterplayer, precopulatory, prosecutorial, reproachfully.

 

+5 letters: counterplayers, overparticular, supramolecular, ultraprecision.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PREOCULAR


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

50 52 45 4F 43 55 4C 41 52

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)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01001111 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#79 &#67 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 004F 0043 0055 004C 0041 0052

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

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

505239493755463552

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INDEX

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


  

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