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Sorbefacient

Definition: Sorbefacient

Sorbefacient

Adjective

1. Inducing or promoting absorption.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Sorbefacient \Sor`be*fa"cient\, adjective. [Latin expression sorbere to suck in, absorb faciens, present participle of facere to make.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Sorbefacient

Synonym: absorbefacient (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Sorbefacient

Language Translations for "sorbefacient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

emilmeyi kolaylaştırıcı madde, emilmeyi kolaylaştırıcı, emdirici. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Sorbefacient"

Words rhyming with "sorbefacient" (pronounced 'Sor`be*fa"cient'): Abortifacient, Allicient, Beneficient, Calorifacient, Calorificient, Deficient, Delirifacient, inefficient, insufficient, Liquefacient, Maleficient, nonproficient, Omniscient, Parturifacient, rubefacient, self-sufficient, Sensifacient, Stupefacient, sufficient, Tumefacient, Unsufficient. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sorbefacient

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: baronetcies, benefactors.

-2 letters: benefactor, fornicates, iceboaters, interfaces, refections.

-3 letters: anoretics, bacterins, baritones, bonifaces, boracites, briefcase, cabernets, carotenes, cenobites, centiares, cisternae, creatines, creations, erections, esoterica, factories, fireboats, firestone, fornicate, fractions, frenetics, iceboater, infecters, infectors, interface, iterances, nectaries, neoterics, obeisance, obtainers, reactions, refection, reinfects, reobtains, resection, secretion, taborines.

-4 letters: absenter, acerbest, acetones, aconites, aerobics, ancestor, anoretic.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: enforceabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sorbefacient


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

53 6F 72 62 65 66 61 63 69 65 6E 74

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)

01010011 01101111 01110010 01100010 01100101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#114 &#98 &#101 &#102 &#97 &#99 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0072 0062 0065 0066 0061 0063 0069 0065 006E 0074

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

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

538184687172676975718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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