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— English words —

• boustrophedon adv. (Historical, calligraphy, of writing) In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left…
• boustrophedon adj. (Historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.
• boustrophedon adj. (Figuratively) Changing direction, going back and forth.
• boustrophedon n. (Historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

— English word, defined in French —

• boustrophedon n. Boustrophédon.

— In German —

• boustrophedon Adj. Bustrophedon.
• boustrophedon Adj. Die Schreibrichtung von Zeile zu Zeile wechselnd.
• Boustrophedon S. Bustrophedon.
• Boustrophedon S. Linguistik, Paläografie: in einem Text von Zeile zu Zeile…

— In French —

• boustrophédon n.m. (Linguistique) Tracé d’un système d’écriture qui change…
• boustrophédon n.m. (Poésie) Poème écrit en changeant le sens de l’écriture…

30 English words from 4 English definitions

alternate and back back␣and␣forth calligraphy changes Changing direction fashion Figuratively forth from going going␣back Historical is␣right left left-to-right lines reading right right␣on right-to-left such such␣that that that␣is the writing Written

4 English words from 7 foreign definitions

change Die sens Text

19 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

Boustrophédon Bustrophedon changeant écrit écriture einem Linguistik Linguistique Paläografie Poème Poésie qui Schreibrichtung système système␣d’écriture Tracé von wechselnd Zeile

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

boustrophedons boustrophedonic boustrophedonally boustrophedonically

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

reverse␣boustrophedon

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

Bous don Don DON don' Don. Edo EDO hed HED he'd hedon Hedon ous -ous oust PHE ROP str STR str. strop strophe TRO trop trop- trop. -trop- -troph ust UST

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

DEHP nod NOD node NODE ode Ode ODE -ode ort ORT orts ORTs POR port Port PORT Port. ports Ports rts RTs RTS Tsu

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

boustrophedons

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