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— English words —

• crab n. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the…
• crab n. (Uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
• crab n. A bad-tempered person.
• crab n. (In plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
• crab n. (Uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft’s nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to…
• crab n. (Uncountable, aviation) The state of an aircraft’s nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate…
• crab n. (Slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
• crab n. (Rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
• crab n. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
• crab n. (Dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
• crab v. (Intransitive) To fish for crabs.
• crab v. (Transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
• crab v. (Intransitive) To complain.
• crab v. (Transitive) To complain about.
• crab v. (Intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
• crab v. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
• crab v. (Transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order…
• crab v. (Transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
• crab v. (Obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as…
• crab v. (Rare) To back out of something.
• crab n. The crab apple or wild apple.
• crab n. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
• crab n. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
• crab n. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
• crab n. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
• crab n. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
• crab n. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
• crab v. (Obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour.
• crab v. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
• crab v. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick.
• crab n. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
• crab n. (Informal) Short for carabiner.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • crab n. Alternative form of crabbe (“crab”).
  • crab n. Alternative form of crabbe (“crabapple”).
• Romanian
  • crab n. Crab.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• crab n. (Kreeftachtigen) Brachyura krab.
• crab n. Het vlees van [1].

— English words, defined in French —

• crab n. Crabe.
• crab n. (Au pluriel) Morpion.
• crab v. Pêcher le crabe.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• crab s. Caranguejo.
• crab s. Siri.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• crab s. (Zoologia) (gastronomia) granchio.
• crab s. (Botanica) mela selvatica, melo selvatico.
• crab s. (Argano) zappe a fune di sollevamento.

192 English words from 35 English definitions

about against air aircraft Alternative America analogy anchoring and angle apple apples are aviation back back␣out bad bad-tempered bark bearing beat being bitter bitter␣bark book British camera capstan carabiner card claw clinging clinging␣to compensate complain course crab crab␣apple crab␣apples crabmeat crabs crabstick crab␣tree crustacean cudgel current Dated defect derricks dialect dock dogbane drift enemy etc fault film find find␣fault fish five fly food for force foremost form geared gearing glider has hauling having ill ill-tempered in␣a␣manner inconvenient infestation informal infraorder in␣order into Intransitive involves irritate its keeping leeward legs lice like line low machine made made␣of make manner may meat medical movable move move␣in movement move␣sideways native navigate normal nose oar object Obsolete of␣a of␣an off order out out␣of outwardly pairs person playing playing␣card plural pointed portable position powerful pubic pubic␣lice pubis publisher pushed pushed␣under rank Rare render returned rigger ropewalks rowing ruin served ships Short Short␣for sideways slang slightly something sour South South␣America species state straight straight␣line stretch surfaces surly television tempered that that␣is the this three to␣the towards Transitive tree troublesome Uncountable under unsold upwind use used War water where which wild winch windlass with wood World World␣War World␣War␣I yarn

8 English words from 10 foreign definitions

Botanica Het krab mela melo Morpion Siri van

1 foreign word from 35 English definitions

Carapa

15 foreign words from 10 foreign definitions

Argano Caranguejo crabe fune gastronomia granchio Kreeftachtigen Pêcher pluriel selvatica selvatico sollevamento vlees zappe Zoologia

141 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Crabb crabs Crabbe Crabbs crabby craber Crable crabbed crabber Crabbes crabbit crabble crabers Crabill Crables crablet crab␣oil Crabbean crabbers crabbery crabbier crabbily crabbing crabbish crabbles crab␣boil crabcake crab␣cake crab␣claw crabcore crabfish crab␣fork crabhole Crabills crabless crablets crab␣lice crablike crabling crabmeat crab␣meat crab␣puff crab's␣eye crabtree Crabtree crab-tree crab␣tree crabwalk crabwise crabwood +91 words

103 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

scrabs decrabs scraber box␣crabs mudcrabs mud␣crabs pea␣crabs scrabbed scrabble Scrabble scrabbly Scrabbly scrabers she-crabs decrabbed execrable execrably Hoff␣crabs king␣crabs lady␣crabs land␣crabs reef␣crabs rock␣crabs sand␣crabs scrabbing scrabbled scrabbler Scrabbler scrabbles Scrabster snow␣crabs werecrabs applecrabs brown␣crabs chili␣crabs decrabbing ghost␣crabs glass-crabs green␣crabs Jonah␣crabs river␣crabs scrabblers Scrabblers scrabbling Scrabblist shorecrabs shore␣crabs stone␣crabs troll␣crabs Boston␣crabs +53 words

75 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Acrab scrab decrab box␣crab mudcrab mud␣crab pea␣crab she-crab anticrab bluecrab blue␣crab Hoff␣crab king␣crab lady␣crab land␣crab reef␣crab rock␣crab sand␣crab snow␣crab werecrab applecrab brown␣crab chili␣crab ghost␣crab glass-crab green␣crab Jonah␣crab river␣crab shorecrab shore␣crab stone␣crab troll␣crab Boston␣crab catch␣a␣crab chilli␣crab edible␣crab golden␣crab hermit␣crab mantis␣crab masked␣crab oyster␣crab racing␣crab robber␣crab spider␣crab velvet␣crab calling␣crab caught␣a␣crab coconut␣crab fiddler␣crab red␣king␣crab +25 words

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CRA Rab

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

arc Arc ARC arc- bar Bar BAR bar- Bar.

7 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

BCAR BRAC carb carb- cbar CRBA RBAC

44 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acerb Acrab Barca Barça Barch B.Arch. Barco baric Baruc biarc BRACC brace Brace brach brack Brack bract Bracy Broca Čabar caber Cabra cabre cabré cabri Cabri carbo Carbo carbo- carbs carby Carib Carib. carob cbars coarb cobra COBRA CORBA Crabb crabs CRBAs rabic scrab

46 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ABC A.B.C. A.␣B.␣C. ABR abr. ACR acr- arb ARB Arb. arc Arc ARC arc- bac BAC -bac- bar Bar BAR bar- Bar. BCA B.C.A. B.␣C.␣A. BCR bra BRC cab Cab CAB car Car CAR cba CBA CBR CRA CRB Rab RAC rac- RBA RBC RCA RCB

31 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Arab CRAF crag Crai cram Cram cran Cran CRAN cran- CRAO crap CRAP CRAs crat -crat C-rat craw Craw cray Cray crib CRMB CTAB drab frab grab Grab krab NRAB trab

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

cab Cab CAB CRA CRB Rab

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

Crabb

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