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DISCOLITH

Definition: DISCOLITH

DISCOLITH

Noun

1. One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Discolith \Dis"co*lith\, noun. [Greek expression round plate -lith.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: DISCOLITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-h-i-i-l-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: holistic.
	-2 letters: coldish, colitis, coltish, distich, dithiol, doltish, histoid, litchis, lithoid, solicit, thiolic.
	-3 letters: chilis, cloths, dhotis, dicots, distil, holist, idiots, lichis, lichts, litchi, lithic, lithos, oldish, solidi, stolid, thiols.
	-4 letters: child, chili, chits, clits, clods, cloth, clots, coils, colds, colts, dhoti, dicot, diols, disci, disco, ditch, doits, dolci, dolts, hilts, hoist, holds, holts.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-h-i-i-l-o-s-t"
	+4 letters: clavichordist.
	+5 letters: clavichordists, hedonistically.
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Alternative Orthography: DISCOLITH

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

44 49 53 43 4F 4C 49 54 48

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 01010011 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0043 004F 004C 0049 0054 0048

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

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

384353374946435442

INDEX

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

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