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— English words —

• carbuncle n. (Archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
• carbuncle n. (Pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin…
• carbuncle n. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • carbuncle n. A carbuncle (garnet or other precious stone).
  • carbuncle n. Material similar to carbuncle.
  • carbuncle n. (Pathology) A carbuncle; a large abscess.
• Old french
  • carbuncle n. Carbuncle (deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone).

— English words, defined in French —

• carbuncle n. (Minéralogie) Escarboucle (Vieilli).
• carbuncle n. (Nosologie) Anthrax.
• carbuncle n. (Héraldique) Escarboucle.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• carbuncle s. Absceso.
• carbuncle s. Carbúnculo.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• carbuncle s. (Araldica) raggio di carbonchio.

39 English words from 7 English definitions

abscess Archaic boil building cabochon carbuncle colored cut dark dark␣red deep draining especially eyesore fiery garnet large larger Material more one onto openings other Pathology precious precious␣stone pus red similar skin stone than the ugly unpopular usually when with

1 English word from 6 foreign definitions

Anthrax

10 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

Absceso Araldica Carbúnculo Escarboucle Héraldique Minéralogie Nosologie raggio raggio␣di␣carbonchio Vieilli

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

carbuncled carbuncles

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

escarbuncles

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

escarbuncle

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

arb ARB Arb. bun Bun BUN car Car CAR carb carb- CLE NCL unc UNC uncle

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

bra BRAC nub RAC rac-

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

carbuncled carbuncles crunchable

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

caruncle

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

carbunkle

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

caruncle

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