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AMBS-ACE

Definition: AMBS-ACE

AMBS-ACE

Noun

1. Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ambs-ace \Ambs"-ace\, noun. [Old French expression ambesas; ambes both (fr. Latin ambo) as ace. See Ace.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: AMBS-ACE

English words defined with "AMBS-ACE": Ambes-as, Ames-ace. (references)

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Modern Translations: AMBS-ACE

Language Translations for "AMBS-ACE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

vận rủi (adversity, ames-ace, bad, reverse, unhappiness), vận đen sự vô giá trị (ames-ace). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "AMBS-ACE"

Words rhyming with "AMBS-ACE" (pronounced 'Ambs"-ace'): Ames-ace. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AMBS-ACE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ambsace.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-m-s"

-1 letter: amebas.

-2 letters: abase, abeam, acmes, ameba, beams, bemas, camas, cames, mabes, maces, samba.

-3 letters: abas, aces, acme, amas, asea, baas, bams, base, beam, bema, cabs, came, cams, casa, case, mabe, mace, macs, maes, mesa, sabe, same, scab, scam, seam.

-4 letters: aas, aba, abs, ace, ama, baa, bam, bas, cab, cam, ems, mac, mae, mas.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-m-s"
 

+1 letter: ambsaces.

 

+2 letters: ambiances, ambuscade, clambakes, crabmeats, vambraces.

 

+3 letters: amberjacks, ambulances, ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscades, cablegrams, camelbacks, carbamates, carbamides, imbalances, misbalance.

 

+4 letters: acetabulums, ambuscaders, bacteremias, blancmanges, blastematic, compassable, misbalanced, misbalances.

 

+5 letters: ambivalences, amicableness, amphisbaenic, antechambers, bicameralism, blackmailers, cabbageworms, candelabrums, chamberlains, chambermaids, elasmobranch, embarcaderos, flamboyances, semiabstract.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMBS-ACE


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

41 4D 42 53 2D 41 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001101 01000010 01010011 00101101 01000001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#66 &#83 &#45 &#65 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0042 0053 002D 0041 0043 0045

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

3547365315353739

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INDEX

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


  

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