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— English words —

• call n. A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• call n. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
• call n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• call n. (Nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• call n. A cry or shout.
• call n. A decision or judgement.
• call n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• call n. A beckoning or summoning.
• call n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• call n. (Finance) Short for call option.
• call n. (Cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• call n. (Cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (Depends on where the ball goes.).
• call n. (Uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
• call n. (Computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• call n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• call n. (Poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• call n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• call n. (Nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• call n. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
• call n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• call n. (Archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• call n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• call n. (Informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
• call n. (Law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
• call n. (In negative constructions) Need; necessity.
• call v. To use one’s voice.
• call v. (Heading, intransitive) To visit.
• call v. To name, identify or describe.
• call v. (Heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• call v. (Transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• call v. (Transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
• call v. (Transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
• call v. (Transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• call v. (Transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• call v. (Transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning…
• call v. (Yorkshire) To scold.
• call v. (Sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
• call v. (Cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
• Call prop.n. A surname.
• CALL n. Initialism of computer-assisted language learning.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • call n. Passageway.
  • call n. Corn.
  • call n. Jewish quarter.
• Chinese
  • call n. (Hong Kong Cantonese) radio call; phone call (Classifier: 個／个 c).
  • call n. (Hong Kong Cantonese) summoning of people.
  • call v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to call (With mobile phones, pagers, beepers, etc.).
  • call v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to summon people.
• Irish
  • call n. Call, need.
  • call n. Claim, right.
  • call n. Ulster form of coll (“hazel”).
• Scottish gaelic
  • call n. Verbal noun of caill.
  • call n. Loss.
  • call n. Waste.
• Welsh
  • call adj. Wise, sensible, rational.

— English words, defined in German —

• call S. Anruf.
• call V. Anrufen, telefonieren.
• call V. Rufen.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• call w. Bellen.

— English words, defined in Latin —

• call v. Clamare.
• call n.subs. Clamor.
• call n.subs. Visitatio.
• call n.subs. Telephonema.

— English words, defined in French —

• call n. Appel.
• call n. Visite.
• call n. Cri.
• call n. (Travail) Astreinte.
• call n. Décision.
• call v. Appeler.
• call v. Crier.
• call v. Invoquer.
• call v. Nommer.
• call v. (Poker) Suivre.
• call v. Donner vainqueur.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• call v. Llamar.
• call v. Convocar.
• call v. Visitar.
• call v. En juegos de cartas, apostar.
• call s. Convocatoria.
• call s. Visita.
• call s. Llamada.
• call s. Grito.
• call s. Canto.
• call s. Visita.
• call s. Demanda.
• call s. Necesidad, motivo.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• call s. Chamada telefônica.
• call s. Chamado.
• call v. Chamar.
• call v. Dar um telefonema, ligar (pelo telefone).

— English words, defined in Italian —

• call s. Chiamata.
• call s. Chiamare.

— In German —

• Call S. Wirtschaft Börse: Kaufoption.
• Call S. Anruf, Telefongespräch.

— In French —

• call n.m. (Histoire) Quartier juif, séparé de la ville chrétienne, en Catalogne.
• call n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Callage.
• call n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) (Chasse) Imitation d’un cri de gibier…

259 English words from 54 English definitions

act advance A␣game and and␣so␣on animal animals announce another Archaic assisted at␣a␣premium attempting available ball banking bar batsman became beckoning beepers being bet betting bird birds blown boat boatswain bridge call call␣birds called called␣to␣the␣bar calling call␣option Cantonese cause characteristic charge church claim Classifier client coll colloquial computer computing constructions conversation Corn course craps Cricket cry Cue Cue␣sports debate debt decision demand Depends describe description Direct distance dogs during duty early employment encourage etc event extinction finance floor for form game games given goes grabs has hazel Heading his Hong Hong␣Kong hookup horn hunt identify imitating in␣advance indirect Informal Initialism instance instrument into intransitive invitation its jacks Jewish job judgement jump jumping Kong language law lawyer lay lay␣claim learning licensed loan Loss made make make␣a␣decision many matching mate matter means meeting meeting␣with mobile mobile␣phones name Nautical necessity need negative note noun object of␣a on␣call one on␣the on␣the␣horn on␣the␣telephone operation option original other pagers paid part particular Passageway pastor people perform phone phone␣call phones pipe player point Poker port premium prepayment previously program prostitution public purposes quarter radio rational referee reference repayment requested require requires return returning right role round rule sailors same saving scold sensible serve sex shift ship short Short␣for shot shout slang social some someone sometimes so␣on speak specified sports state statement state␣of␣being subjected subprogram such such␣as summon summoning surname take take␣charge telephone tell the their the␣same time to␣the Transitive Ulster umpire Uncountable up␣for up␣for␣grabs use used usually Verbal verbally Verbal␣noun visit Vocation voice was Waste when where which whistle who whose Wise with work work␣shift year Yorkshire

18 English words from 42 foreign definitions

Appel Canada Canto Catalogne Chamar Chasse Clamor Crier Dar Donner Grito Imitation motivo Poker Quartier telefone Travail Visite

1 foreign word from 54 English definitions

made␣in

45 foreign words from 42 foreign definitions

Anglicisme Anruf Anrufen apostar Appeler Astreinte Bellen Börse Callage cartas Chamada Chamada␣telefônica Chamado Chiamata chrétienne Clamare Convocar Convocatoria cri Décision de␣la Demanda gibier Histoire Invoquer juegos juif Kaufoption ligar Llamada Llamar Necesidad Nommer pelo Rufen séparé Suivre telefonema Telefongespräch telefonieren vainqueur ville Visita Visitar Wirtschaft

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

calla call'd calli calli- calls call't Callan Callao callas callat called callee Callen caller callet Calley callid Callie call-in callin' call␣in Callis call␣on calloo callop callot callow Callow call'st call␣to Callum callup call-up call␣up callus call␣a␣go callant Callari callats callbox call␣box callboy call-boy call␣boy callees Calleja Callens callers Callery callest +503 words

4707 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

scalls scally Scally Bacalls becalls cecally ducally fecally focally incalls La␣Calle locally McAllan McCalla NoCalls recalls re-calls Scallan scalled scallie scallom Scallon scallop Scallys upcalls vocally ycalled apically ass␣calls Bacallao becalled be␣called buccally caecally catcalls cat-calls decalled ecallose emically epically escallop etically faecally fæcally fiscally glocally Hascalls laically MacAlley Macallum +4657 words

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

scall at␣call Bacall becall incall McCall NoCall on-call on␣call recall re-call upcall ass␣call catcall cat-call Hascall midcall miscall noncall outcall Pascall rascall Riccall syscall tascall vidcall basecall birdcall butt␣call chow␣call cold␣call cynicall downcall duck␣call firecall flat␣call forecall hero␣call jody␣call Jody␣call last␣call magicall musicall open␣call overcall robocall rollcall roll␣call seet␣call sick␣call +104 words

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

all ALL -all all- cal Cal cal. Cal.

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

lac Lac LAc LAC

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

calla call'd calli calli- calls call't Carll cella Cella Cilla colla Crall lilac local lo-cal scall

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

ACL alc ALC all ALL -all all- cal Cal cal. Cal. CLA CLL lac Lac LAc LAC Lal LAL Lal. LCA LCL LLC

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

ball Ball Cael Cail Cala calc calc- CALD cale calf Cali calk Calk calm Calo Caló calp cals Cals calx Caml CAML carl Carl caul cawl cell cill coll Coll coll. Coll. cull Cull dall Dall Dall. fall Fall gall Gall Gall. hall Hall Kall lall Lall mall nall Nall pall Pall Rall rall. 'sall tall wall Wall yall y'all ya'll

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

all ALL -all all- cal Cal cal. Cal. CLL

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Carll Crall

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