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— English words —

• balk n. (Agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
• balk n. (Archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
• balk n. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when…
• balk n. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
• balk n. A sudden and obstinate stop.
• balk n. (Obsolete) An omission.
• balk n. (Sports) A deceptive motion.
• balk n. (Billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and…
• balk n. (Snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
• balk n. (Fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
• balk v. (Archaic) To pass over or by.
• balk v. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
• balk v. (Obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
• balk v. To stop, check, block.
• balk v. To stop short and refuse to go on.
• balk v. To refuse suddenly.
• balk v. To disappoint; to frustrate.
• balk v. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
• balk v. To leave or make balks in.
• balk v. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
• balk v. (Sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
• balk v. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
• Balk prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Swedish
  • balk n. A wooden or metal beam.
  • balk n. (Heraldry) a bend (diagonal band).
  • balk n. (Law) code (major section of legislation).

— English words, defined in French —

• balk n. Poutre.
• balk v. Regimber.
• Balk n.prop. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Hambleton.

— In Dutch —

• balk n. (Geometrie) een veelvlak met 6 rechthoekige zijvlakken, 8…
• balk n. (Bouwkunde) een ruimteoverspannend constructie-element waarvan…
• balk n. Geld over de balk gooien: Veel te veel geld uit even aan onnuttige dingen.
• balk n. Lange rechthoek boven- of onderaan een scherm.
• balk w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van balken.
• balk w. Gebiedende wijs van balken.
• balk w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van balken.

— In French —

• Balk n.prop. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans…
• Balk n.prop. (Géographie) Ville des Pays-Bas située dans la commune…

121 English words from 26 English definitions

action Agriculture and another Archaeology Archaic are area avoid balks ball band baulk baulk␣line beam behind bend Billiards block by␣chance caused chance check code contradiction crossbeam cue cue␣ball deceive deceptive diagonal direction disappoint disappointment earth edge engage especially excavation fastened field fishermen fishing fishing␣nets formed from frustrate go␣on heap heaped heap␣up Heraldry herring hindrance house indicate initially intentionally in␣the␣open intransitive Law leave legislation line lying lying␣behind major make metal miss motion nets Obsolete obstinate of␣a of␣an omission omit open opposition over overlook pass pass␣over piles player ploughing refuse ridge rope section shoals shore short short␣and shot shouts signals Snooker Sports squared stop stop␣short stretching sudden suddenly surname system table taken the tie tie␣beam timber together to␣go uncultivated wall when which wooden

18 English words from 12 foreign definitions

balk Bas commune dans des district een element even geld Hambleton Lange met over Pays scherm van veel

37 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

aan Angleterre balken Bij Bouwkunde boven civile constructie dingen Eerste Eerste␣persoon enkelvoud Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs Géographie Geometrie gooien inversie onderaan Paroisse Paroisse␣civile Pays-Bas persoon Poutre rechthoek Regimber située tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon uit veelvlak Ville waarvan wijs zijvlakken

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

Balke Balkh Balko balks Balks balky Balkan Balkar balked balker Balkes balkie Balkos Balkano- Balkans Balkars Balkcom balkers balkest balketh balkier balkies balkily balking balkish Balkaner Balkanic Balkaran Balkcoms balkiest balkings balkline Balkwill Balkaners Balkanian balkanise Balkanise balkanism Balkanism balkanite Balkanite balkanize Balkanize Balkanoid Balkarans balkiness balkingly balklines Balkwills balkanised Balkanised +35 words

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

unbalked bierbalks carbalkoxy carbalkoxyl Paleo-Balkan randle-balks rendle-balks subalkaline Karachay-Balkar cyberbalkanization Kabardino-Balkariya

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

bierbalk randle-balk rendle-balk

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

alk ALK alk- alk. BAL Baʻl

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

lab Lab LAB LαB Lab.

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

blak Blak

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

bakla Balke Balkh Balko balks Balks balky baulk Belka black Black blake Blake blank Blank bleak bloak Bolak bulak Kabel Kabul kalbi Kaleb kibla lo␣bak

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

abl. alb Alb. alk ALK alk- alk. bak Bak BAK BAL Baʻl BKA BLA blk Blk BLK blk. kab KAB Kal. KBA lab Lab LAB LαB Lab. lak Lak LAK LBK lka

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

back Back back- Baek Baik Bala bald Bald bale Bale Bali ball Ball balm BALs Balt Balt. bank Bank bark bask bawk belk Belk bilk bolk bulk calk Calk dalk falk Falk Kalk Palk Salk talk valk walk Walk WalK

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

alk ALK alk- alk. bak Bak BAK BAL Baʻl blk Blk BLK blk.

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

baulk

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