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DIPHTHERA

Specialty Definition: DIPHTHERA

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Literature

Diphthera The skin of the goat Amalthe'a on which Jove wrote the destiny of man. Diphtheria is an infectious disease of the throat so called from its tendency to form a false membrane. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DIPHTHERA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-h-i-p-r-t"

-2 letters: airthed, diptera, partied, pirated, pithead, raphide.

-3 letters: airted, dearth, depart, diaper, dither, hadith, haired, harped, hatred, hearth, heptad, hither, paired, pardie, parted, petard, pirate, pithed, prated, redipt, repaid, rhaphe, tephra, teraph, thread, threap, tirade, trepid.

-4 letters: adept, aider, aired, airth, aphid, apter, atrip, dater, deair, death, depth, derat, drape, dript, earth, ephah, hared.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-h-i-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: diphtheria.

 

+2 letters: diphtherial, diphtherias.

 

+3 letters: hydropathies, lithographed.

 

+4 letters: hermaphrodite.

 

+5 letters: headmastership, hermaphrodites, hermaphroditic, hydrotherapies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIPHTHERA


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

44 49 50 48 54 48 45 52 41

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)

01000100 01001001 01010000 01001000 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#80 &#72 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0050 0048 0054 0048 0045 0052 0041

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

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

384350425442395235

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