Word Meanings - UNCIPHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter. Sir W. Temple.

Related words: (words related to UNCIPHER)

• TEMPLED
  Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• UNCIPHER
  To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter. Sir W. Temple.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• TEMPLET
  A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. (more info) 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• DECIPHER
  1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters. 2. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• DECIPHERESS
  A woman who deciphers.
• TEMPLE
  A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
• LETTERED
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
• DECIPHERER
  One who deciphers.
• DECIPHERABLE
  Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• STEMPLE
  A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• NEWS-LETTER
  A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.