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— English words —

• curtail v. (Transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal.
• curtail v. (Transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
• curtail v. (Transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
• curtail n. (Architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

— English word, defined in French —

• curtail v. Tronquer, raccourcir.

28 English words from 4 English definitions

abridge animal Architecture as␣of check cut cut␣short duration etc figuratively in␣check keep keep␣in limit obsolete of␣a of␣an restrict scroll short shorten something step tail termination the Transitive truncate

2 foreign words from the foreign definition

raccourcir Tronquer

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

curtails curtailed curtailer curtail␣dog curtailers curtailest curtaileth curtailing curtailable curtail␣dogs curtailings curtailment curtailments

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

uncurtailed uncurtailable noncurtailment

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

ail cur curt Curt RTA tai Tai TAI tail Tail URT

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

ATR IAT LIA LIAT ruc RUC TRU Truc

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

trucial Trucial urtical

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

articuli cultivar curatial curliate curtails curvital glutaric Lucretia multiarc multicar pictural reticula ritualic rustical triaulic turrical UNCITRAL uralitic

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

'aircut citral clairt clitar Cultra curial curtal lauric litura rictal ritual Tacuri Tircul Ulrica uracil Uralic uratic

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

curtain

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

curtal

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