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— English words —

• salient adj. Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
• salient adj. Prominent; conspicuous.
• salient adj. (Heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
• salient adj. (Often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
• salient adj. (Obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
• salient adj. (Obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
• salient adj. (Geometry) Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
• salient n. (Military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
• salient n. (Geography) An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.

— English words, defined in German —

• salient Adj. Hervorragend, hervorspringend, hervorstechend, hervorstehend, vorspringend.
• salient S. Militärischer Brückenkopf.

— English words, defined in French —

• salient adj. Saillant.
• salient adj. Pertinent.
• salient n. Saillant.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• salient agg. (Araldica) saliente: attributo araldico che si applica agli animali rappresentati in atto di saltare…

— In German —

• salient Adj. Psychologie: auffällig, ins Auge fallend.

58 English words from 9 English definitions

angle angles any conspicuous defense Denoting Depicted elongated entity fortification Geography Geometry geopolitical geopolitical␣entity Heraldry jumping leaping leaps less less␣than line military Moving note Obsolete of␣a of␣note Often out outwardly outwards part pertinent pointing posture projecting Prominent protrusion quadruped relevant right right␣angles Shooting sovereign sovereign␣state springing springing␣out springs state subnational such such␣as system than trench two usually Worthy

3 English words from 7 foreign definitions

che ins Pertinent

22 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

agli animali applica Araldica araldico atto attributo auffällig Auge Brückenkopf fallend Hervorragend hervorspringend hervorstechend hervorstehend Militärischer Psychologie rappresentati Saillant saliente saltare vorspringend

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

salients saliently salientian salientians salient␣point salient␣points

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

isosalient nonsalient hypersalient supersalient thermosalient countersalient

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

Ali ali- alie alien Alien ent ENT -ent ent- lie Lie LIE -lie lien sal Sal SAL -sal sal- -sal-

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

EIL las LAs NEI Neil

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

alestin elastin entails Latines nailest nailset nail␣set saltine staniel stealin' tenails tselina

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

ailments alienist aliments althesin alunites angelist anilites Antilles antiself art␣lines atelines blastine canistel destinal eathlins elastins elations Elsatian entrails Galenist gelatins genitals incastle inflates inhalest insolate instable instaled insulate lankiest larnites latexins Latiners Latinise Latinxes latrines leniates lensatic Levitans Linstead litanies manliest melanist melastin mentalis nailsets nail␣sets panelist pantiles pentails +39 words

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

ailest aliens alines A-lines Altens alties altins Anstie anties Antles Eastin ELINTs Elista enlist entail Estlin inlets instal is␣late laines latens Latine Latins leints lets␣in lianes lisena listen saline Saline salite salten saltie satiné seatin' seitan Selina sentai Setian silane silent SILENT slaine slaten Slaten staine Stalin stelai Talien Ta-lien talins teasin' Teians tenail tenias tensal Teslin tineas tinsel tisane

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

saliant sapient

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