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— English words —

• buttress n. (Architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
• buttress n. (By extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
• buttress n. (Botany) A buttress-root.
• buttress n. (Climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
• buttress n. (Figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
• buttress v. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
• buttress v. (Figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• buttress n. Draagbalk, latei, ligger, schoorbalk, schraagpijler, steunbalk, steunbeer, stut, stutbalk.
• buttress w. Overgankelijk stutten.

— English words, defined in French —

• buttress n. Appui.
• buttress v. Appuyer, accoter.

36 English words from 7 English definitions

against another Anything Architecture as␣if Botany brick built buttress buttress-root by␣extension Climbing evidence extension feature Figurative from jutting mountain out physically prominently prop rock root serves someone something stone strengthens structure supplying support supports that with

3 English words from 4 foreign definitions

Appui ligger stut

11 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

accoter Appuyer Draagbalk latei Overgankelijk schoorbalk schraagpijler steunbalk steunbeer stutbalk stutten

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

buttressed buttresses buttressing buttressless buttresslike buttress-root buttress-roots

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

unbuttressed flying␣buttresses

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

flying␣buttress

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

but But but- butt Butt ess ESS -ess Ess. res RES Res. -ress tres tress Tress TTR Utt

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

ert ERT RTT ser SER ser. SERT SSE tub

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

betrusts

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

Brusattes burstiest burstlets Butterses robustest rustbelts rust-belts rust␣belts substrate

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

bestrut betrust Burtses busters butters Butters Buttses Strubes Stubers subtest sub-test Sutters tutress usterts

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

buttless Buttreys

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