cryptogram

[ UK /kɹˈɪptəɡɹˌæm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a piece of writing in code or cipher
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How To Use cryptogram In A Sentence

  • To transmit messages, the gang employed an elaborate system of codes and cryptograms — including a 400-year-old binary alphabet system devised by Sir Francis Bacon — as well as more prosaic jailhouse ruses, such as slipping notes in mop handles and under recreation yard rocks. Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives
  • Cryptogram Ridge on Mount Melbourne, Victoria Land (74°21'S, 164°42'E) has geothermal activity that supports a unique community of bryophytes, algae, and microbiota (including the only known occurrence in the Antarctic of the moss, Campylopus pyriformis) and the very rare continental occurrence of the liverwort, Cephaloziella exiliflora. Maudlandia Antarctic desert
  • 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
  • In any case, puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis.
  • The windows around wink and flash in cryptograms, a galactic console of messages coded in light, in diamonds and topazes and amber.
  • “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. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
  • 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. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
  • To see this more clearly we show the frequency histogram for a long cryptogram that was obtained using a Simple Substitution Cipher.
  • But then that cipher business -- I was fully convinced by now that it was some original kind of cryptogram -- rather pointed the other way. The Lost Valley
  • The games include crosswords, hangman and cryptogram.
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