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— English words —

• canker n. (Phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
• canker n. A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
• canker n. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
• canker n. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
• canker n. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
• canker n. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
• canker n. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse’s foot, characterized by separation of the horny…
• canker n. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
• canker v. (Transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
• canker v. (Transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
• canker v. (Intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
• canker v. (Intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Scots
  • canker n. Bad temper.
  • canker v. (Archaic) To become bad-tempered, to fret, to worry.

— English words, defined in French —

• canker n. Aphte.
• canker n. Chancre.

88 English words from 14 English definitions

about affect affecting and Anything Archaic as␣if avian away bad bad-tempered become birds birds␣of␣prey buds canker cankerworm caused characterized collection consume corrode corrodes corroding corrupt corrupts dead decay destroys disease diseased dog dog␣rose doves eat eat␣away especially foot fret gangrenous gradual grow grub horny horse incurable infect Intransitive kind kind␣of leaves marked mineral mouth obstinate of␣a often oxidized parrots Phytopathology plant pollute poultry prey region rose rusty separation sloughing spreading such temper tempered that the tissue Transitive Trichomonas ulcer ulcers venomous waste waste␣away which wild with worm worry

1 English word from 2 foreign definitions

Chancre

1 foreign word from 2 foreign definitions

Aphte

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

cankers cankery cankered canker␣fly cankering cankerous cankeredly cankerlike canker␣rash canker␣sore cankerworm cankerwort canker␣flies canker␣sores cankerworms cankerworts cankeredness

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

encankers encankered uncankered encankering black␣cankers

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

encanker black␣canker

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

anker can Can CAN Can. Ker ker-

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

NAC

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

nacker Neckar

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

Anacker bracken Bracken cankers cankery cankred clanker cranked cranker crankle Francke Karenic knacker Lackner penrack rancked snacker

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

acker Acker ancré anker caker caner caren Caren Carne Cerna crake Crake crane Crane crank Crank creak Crean crena Kacer karen Karen Kārēn knare Krane nacre nacré naker Nérac nerka rance Rance ranck Ranck ranke recan

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

banker Banker Cacker calker cancer Cancer canner Canner canoer canter Canter cauker cawker conker danker Danker ganker hanker janker lanker Manker panker ranker Sanker tanker wanker yanker

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

anker caker caner

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

clanker cranker

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