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ADPRESS

Definition: ADPRESS

ADPRESS

Transitive verb

1. See Appressed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Adpress \Ad*press"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression adpressus, past participle of adprimere.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: ADPRESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: spaders, spreads.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: aspers, drapes, padres, parsed, parses, passed, passer, prases, rasped, repass, spader, spades, spared, spares, sparse, spears, spread.

-2 letters: apers, apres, apses, arses, asper, assed, dares, dears, drape, dress, padre, pards, pared, pares, parse, pases, passe, pears, prase, presa, press, raped, rapes, rased, rases, rasps, reads, reaps, sades, sards, sears, spade, spaed, spaes, spare, spars, spear.

-3 letters: aped, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, asps, daps, dare, dear, ears, eras, pads, pard, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peds, rads, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, reds, reps, sade, saps, sard, sear, seas, sera, sers, spae, spar, spas, sped.

-4 letters: ads, ape, are, ars, asp, ass, dap, ear, eds, era, ers, ess, pad, par, pas, pea, ped, per, pes, rad, rap, ras, red, rep, res, sad, sae, sap, sea, ser, spa.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ar, as, de, ed, er, es, pa, pe, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: aspersed, despairs, repassed, respades.

 

+2 letters: airspeeds, appressed, bespreads, diaspores, dispersal, dispraise, dispreads, feldspars, handpress, misparsed, pantdress, paradises, paradoses, pederasts, persuades, rapeseeds, rapidness, respreads, rhapsodes, scorepads, spandrels, spraddles, spreaders, superadds, surpassed, underpass.

 

+3 letters: ampersands, bedspreads, clepsydras, dapperness, depressant, despairers, desperados, disappears, disparages, dispensary, dispersals, dispersant, dispraised, dispraiser, dispraises, disrepairs, dissipater, eavesdrops, forepassed, leopardess, misphrased, outspreads, overpassed, persuaders, ponderosas, pressboard, redisplays, rhapsodies, sandpapers, sandpipers, spadeworks, spearheads, spermatids, spikenards, stampeders, superroads, therapsids, transposed, trespassed, upwardness.

 

+4 letters: caryopsides, crispbreads, dealerships, depressants, desperadoes, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, disapproves, disparagers, disparities, dispatchers, dispersants, displeasure, dispraisers, dissipaters, espadrilles, handpresses, headsprings, hydrospaces, imparadises, jeopardises, landscapers, leaderships, overspreads, pantdresses, parasitised, pasteboards, pasteurised, pederasties, pedestrians, pediatrists, peroxidases, praesidiums, preassigned, predeceases, pressboards, pyranosides, radarscopes, rapidnesses, readerships, rhapsodizes, scorpaenids, spearfished, spreadsheet, springheads, stepladders, stewardship, strappadoes, superboards, supersedeas, transshaped, underpasses, unsurpassed, wardenships, wingspreads.

 

+5 letters: basidiospore, cardsharpers, comradeships, dappernesses, depositaries, depravedness, desipramines, desperations, disapprovers, dispensaries, dispensatory, displeasures, draftsperson, glasspapered, handypersons, leopardesses, loudspeakers, pasturelands, personalised, preadmission, preassembled, preparedness, prussianised, prussianized, quadricepses, relandscapes, scolopendras, slipstreamed, spatterdocks, spreadsheets, standpatters, stewardships, superabounds, superhardens, superstardom, swordplayers, transponders, transshipped, upwardnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADPRESS


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

41 44 50 52 45 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)

01000001 01000100 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#80 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0050 0052 0045 0053 0053

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

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

35385052395353

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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