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— English words —

• dyke n. (Historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
• dyke n. A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
• dyke n. (Dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
• dyke n. (Dialect) Any watercourse.
• dyke n. (Dialect) Any small body of water.
• dyke n. (Obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
• dyke n. (Now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
• dyke n. An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
• dyke n. (Obsolete) A city wall.
• dyke n. (Now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
• dyke n. (Dialect) Any fence or hedge.
• dyke n. An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
• dyke n. (Figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
• dyke n. A beaver’s dam.
• dyke n. (Dialect) A jetty; a pier.
• dyke n. A raised causeway.
• dyke n. (Dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
• dyke n. (Geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the…
• dyke v. (Transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
• dyke v. (Transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
• dyke v. (Transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
• dyke v. (Transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
• dyke v. (Transitive) To scour a watercourse.
• dyke v. (Transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
• dyke n. (Slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
• dyke n. (Slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
• Dyke prop.n. A village in Lincolnshire, England.
• Dyke prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Scots
  • dyke n. A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
  • dyke n. A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, used as a fence between…
  • dyke n. A hedge.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• dyke n. (Historisch) (waterbeheer) sloot (als grens tussen twee grondstukken).
• dyke n. (Waterbeheer) een waterkering, dijk tussen land en water.
• dyke n. (Waterbeheer) een watergang.
• dyke n. (Lhbt) (spreektaal) (pejoratief) een lesbische vrouw met mannelijke trekken.

— English words, defined in French —

• dyke n. (Géologie) Dyke.
• dyke n. (Histoire) Fossé long et étroit creusé dans la terre, ou bien muret de pierres, pour marquer une frontière.
• dyke n. (Sens figuré) Obstacle, difficulté.
• dyke n. (Par extension) (Dialecte) Barrière, haie.
• dyke n. (Dialecte) jetée, quai.
• dyke n. Digue.
• dyke n. Fossé (pour drainer l’eau).
• dyke n. Barrage de castor.
• dyke n. Gouine.
• Dyke n.prop. (Géographie) Village d’Écosse situé dans le district de Moray.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• dyke s. (Gergale) (volgare) donna omosessuale.

— In French —

• dyke n.m. (Géologie) (Anglicisme) Lame de roche magmatique qui s’est…
• Dyke n.prop. (Géographie) Village d’Écosse situé dans le district de Moray.

133 English words from 31 English definitions

above against and Any Australia barrier beaver behavior between body body␣of␣water boundary but butch causeway chiefly city city␣wall conduct create creation dam defecate derogatory Dialect difficulty dig dirt ditch dry dry␣stone dry␣stone␣wall dug dug␣into earth earthwork embankment enclosure England entrench faced fault fence fibers field Figuratively filled filling fissure flooding formed forming from garden Geology ground hedge heterosexual Historical hollow igneous impediment into intransitive intrusive inundation jetty land lavatory lesbian Lincolnshire long loosely low marker masculine mining mound narrow navigable non non-heterosexual now Obsolete of␣a offensive often one originally outhouse particularly pier place planting prevent protective raise raised rising rising␣above river rivers rock Scotland scour sea serve serving slang small sometimes steep stone stone␣wall stratum surname surround the topped traits Transitive turf urinate used usually village wall water watercourse with within woman wood

31 English words from 17 foreign definitions

als Barrage castor dans Digue district donna drainer Dyke eau een est extension Fossé grens Lame land long met Moray Obstacle Par pour roche Sens sloot twee Village vrouw water watergang

42 foreign words from 17 foreign definitions

Anglicisme Barrière bien creusé Dialecte difficulté dijk Écosse étroit figuré frontière Géographie Géologie Gergale Gouine haie Histoire Historisch jetée lesbische Lhbt magmatique marquer muret omosessuale ou␣bien Par␣extension pejoratief pierres quai qui roche␣magmatique Sens␣figuré situé spreektaal terre trekken tussen une volgare waterbeheer waterkering

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

dyked dykes Dykes dykey Dykema dykery dykedar dykedom dykelet Dykeman Dykemas dyke␣out Dykeses dyked␣out Dykehead dykehood dykelets dykeling Dykemans dykes␣out dykelings dykephobia

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

bi-dykes undyked Updykes boydykes Nordykes vandyked Vandyken vandykes Vandykes bulldyker bulldykes bull␣dykes fail␣dykes klondyked klondyker klondykes Vandykens bulldykers klondykers diesel␣dykes morphadykes morphodykes troglodykes leatherdykes Vandyke␣brown big␣dyke␣energy designer␣dykes Vandyke␣browns

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

bi-dyke Updyke boydyke Dogdyke Fosdyke Mardyke Nordyke vandyke Vandyke bulldyke bull-dyke bull␣dyke fail␣dyke fill-dyke klondyke Ozendyke Wansdyke Cartsdyke King's␣Dyke Offa's␣Dyke Thorndyke Devil's␣Dyke diesel␣dyke Gilberdyke morphadyke morphodyke Schoondyke troglodyke Winterdyke Jost␣van␣Dyke Laisterdyke leatherdyke designer␣dyke finger␣in␣the␣dyke February␣fill-dyke fingers␣in␣the␣dyke Little␣Jost␣van␣Dyke Ryther␣cum␣Ossendyke

One word in word (Word found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DYK

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

KYD

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

E.D.␣Ky.

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

CD␣key decky deeky dukey dyked dykes Dykes dykey Dymek fyked Kayde Keady Keddy keyed kyked kynde skyed yiked yoked yuked

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

dek dey Dey DKE dye Dye d'ye DYK EDK KDE ked KED key Key KYD kye Kye yed ye'd

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

byke Dake deke Deke dike Dike Dikê Dikē doke Doke duke Duke dyce Dyce dyde DYKs dyky Dyle dyne fyke Fyke hyke kyke lyke Lyke pyke Pyke syke tyke Tyke Wyke

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

DKE dye Dye d'ye DYK

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