Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of writing in code or cipher. Also called cryptograph.
- n. A figure or representation having a secret or occult significance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A message or writing in secret characters or otherwise occult; a cryptograph.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cipher writing. Same as cryptograph.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a piece of writing in code or cipher
Examples
“The slave hunters in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall not be far wrong in assuming that the man with the cryptogram was a fitting comrade for his fellow “capitaes do mato.””
“This isn't what you'd call a cryptogram; not much.”
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain
“They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end.”
Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
“The slave hunters in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall not be far wrong in assuming that the man with the cryptogram was a fitting comrade for his fellow _ "capitaes do mato.”
“We believe that the cryptogram is the best technology available today for ensuring the integrity of”
“But then that cipher business -- I was fully convinced by now that it was some original kind of cryptogram -- rather pointed the other way.”
““This is what is called a cryptogram, or cipher,” he said, “in which letters are purposely thrown in confusion, which if properly arranged would reveal their sense.”
“This is what is called a cryptogram, or cipher," he said, "in which letters are purposely thrown in confusion, which if properly arranged would reveal their sense.”
“The 'cryptogram' was probably written by one of the leaders of the gang, who, no doubt, supplied copies to the other members to use instead of blank paper for secret communications.”
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
“The Chinese cryptogram for crisis has the meanings of both "danger" and "opportunity.”
The Huffington Post: Anne Naylor: Keeping an Open Mind in the Current Crisis
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cryptogram’.
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Wordplay & Pun
wordplay, pound, conceit, clinch, joke, quibble, equivoque, double-entendre, quillet, calembour, carriwitchet, paranomasia and 90 more...
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Word Games
All the wonderful games I'm sure all of you love to play.
scrabble, pictionary, cryptogram, cross word puzzle, upwords, bethump'd, hangman, jotto, mornington crescent, anagrams, boggle, balderdash and 1 more...
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Quandary
pickle, conundrum, mare's nest, riddle, stumper, imbroglio, quandary, quagmire, dilemma, puzzle, enigma, arcanum and 4 more...
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Cryptography, etc.
Codes, ciphers, and other words related to secret ways of communicating. See also Keeping Secrets, a list by oroboros.
cryptography, steganography, code, cipher, substitution cipher, secret code, decoder ring, encryption, code word, code name, password, atbash and 31 more...
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crypto-, crypt-
concealed; secret
cryptogram, crypto-fascist, cryptosporidium, cryptography, cryptic
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Mystery or Puzzlement
Nouns meaning mystery or puzzlement
perplexity, occult, enigma, inscrutableness, conundrum, abstruseness, arcanum, mystification, cryptogram
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litigious semantics
ad unguem, abeyance, choleric, contentious, curmudgeonly, churlish, dictatorial, vindictive, dogmatic, truculent, mutinous, refractory and 254 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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-gram
denoting something written or recorded
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No Comeuppance!
comeuppance, ersatz, mensuration, felicitous, puissant, coccyx, groin vault, jactitation, titivate, crapulous, bibulous, lucubration and 116 more...
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at play
anagrams, pictionary, scrabble, cryptogram, backgammon, battleship, chess, clue, go, mahjong, mancala
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quandary
conundrums, posers, and baffling situations
quandary, conundrum, baffle, bewilder, snarl, closed book, perplex, imbroglio, mystify, bind, plight, brain teaser and 36 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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