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KNUBS

Definition: KNUBS

KNUBS

Noun plural

1. Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: KNUBS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bunks.

Words within the letters "b-k-n-s-u"

-1 letter: bunk, buns, busk, nubs, snub, sunk.

-2 letters: bun, bus, nub, nus, sub, sun, uns.

-3 letters: nu, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "b-k-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: bunkos, buskin.

 

+2 letters: bohunks, bumkins, bunkers, bunkoes, bunkums, busking, buskins, debunks, sunback.

 

+3 letters: buckeens, buckskin, bumpkins, bunrakus, buskined, cutbanks, runbacks, stinkbug, sunbaked, sunblock, unblocks, unbrakes.

 

+4 letters: bankrupts, baudekins, buckbeans, buckskins, bulkiness, bullnecks, bunkhouse, bunkmates, buttinski, buttinsky, debunkers, deskbound, knubbiest, numbskull, stinkbugs, sunblocks, superbank, thumbkins, unbookish, unbuckles.

 

+5 letters: buckthorns, bumpkinish, bunkhouses, cyberpunks, hunchbacks, keybuttons, kurbashing, numbskulls, subkingdom, subnetwork, superbanks, unshakable, unshakably, unsinkable, unslakable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KNUBS


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

4B 4E 55 42 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)

01001011 01001110 01010101 01000010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#78 &#85 &#66 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 004E 0055 0042 0053

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

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

4548553653

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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