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LICHTEN

"LICHTEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Lichen, Lichens, Lighten.


Specialty Definition: LICHTEN

DomainDefinition

Literature

Lichten Belonging to the lich-ground or cemetery. In Chichester, just outside the city walls on the east, are what the common people call the lightnen or liten schools, a corruption of lichten schools, so termed because they stand on a part of the ancient Saxon lich-acre. The spelling usually adopted for these schools is "litten." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: LICHTEN

Non-English Usage: "LICHTEN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (empty, shine), German (thin, weigh).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LICHTEN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lichten

9

giessen lichten metallen

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LICHTEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: client, ethnic, lectin, lentic, lichen.

-2 letters: chiel, chile, chine, cline, elint, ethic, inlet, letch, licht, lithe, niche, telic, tench, thein, thine.

-3 letters: ceil, celt, cent, chin, chit, cine, cite, clit, elhi, etch, etic, heil, hent, hilt, hint, inch, itch, lech, lent, lice, lich, lien, line, lint, lite, nice, nite, then, thin, tile, tine.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: ethnical, lecithin, letching.

 

+2 letters: chatelain, chelating, chelation, ethylenic, fletching, lecithins, lunchtime, neolithic, schnitzel, technical, thylacine, touchline, unethical, vetchling.

 

+3 letters: anthelices, beclothing, chatelaine, chatelains, chelations, chlorinate, clothespin, endolithic, ethnically, ethnologic, fetchingly, fletchings, hatcheling, helminthic, inchoately, lunchtimes, nonethical, reclothing, schnitzels, technicals, telephonic, thylacines, touchlines, unathletic, vetchlings, xenolithic.

 

+4 letters: calisthenic, candlelight, cephalothin, chanticleer, chatelaines, chlorinated, chlorinates, clothesline, clothespins, coltishness, cultishness, entelechies, ethicalness, flichtering, hallucinate, hatchelling, hectoringly, helicopting, interschool, intrathecal, lecithinase, methicillin, multiethnic, nonathletic, pitchblende, polytechnic, stickhandle, technically, technologic, technophile, thermocline, untechnical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LICHTEN


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

4C 49 43 48 54 45 4E

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)

01001100 01001001 01000011 01001000 01010100 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#67 &#72 &#84 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0043 0048 0054 0045 004E

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

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

46433742543948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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