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— English words —

• catchflies n. Plural of catchfly.
• catch␣flies v. (Idiomatic) To have one’s mouth wide open for a prolonged period.
• catch␣flies v. (Theater, informal) Of an actor: to distract the audience by moving or gesturing when the focus should be elsewhere.
• catch␣flies v. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, fly.

34 English words from 4 English definitions

actor audience catch catchfly distract elsewhere figuratively fly focus for gesturing have Idiomatic idiomatically informal mouth moving Of␣an one open other other␣than period Plural prolonged see should than the Theater Used when wide wide␣open

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

sticky␣catchflies

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

ATC cat Cat CAT catch CHF flie flies ies -ies lie Lie LIE -lie lies tch TCH

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

CTA EIL hct Hct HCT sei tac TAC

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

clitfaces fecaliths

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