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— English words —

• fire n. (Uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• fire n. (Countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• fire n. (Countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• fire n. (Uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of…
• fire n. (Countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• fire n. (Countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• fire n. (Uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
• fire n. (Countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
• fire n. (Astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
• fire n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• fire n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• fire n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• fire n. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
• fire n. Red coloration in a piece of opal.
• fire adj. (Slang) Amazing; excellent.
• fire v. (Transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
• fire v. (Transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• fire v. (Transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• fire v. (Transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• fire v. (Transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
• fire v. (Transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
• fire v. (Intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
• fire v. (Astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
• fire v. (Transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
• fire v. (Transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• fire v. (Intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• fire v. (Transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• fire v. (Transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of…
• fire v. (Transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• fire v. (Intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• fire v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• fire v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• fire v. (Transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• fire v. (Transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
• fire v. (Intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• FIRE n. (Finance) Acronym of financial independence and early retirement.
• FIRE n. (Economics, business) Acronym of finance, insurance and real estate: a class of businesses.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Asturian
  • fire v. Third-person singular present indicative of firir.
• Bavarian
  • fire adv. Ahead, forward (direction away from the speaker).
• Crimean tatar
  • fire n. Shrinkage, loss.
  • fire n. Scrap.
• Danish
  • fire v. To lower something fixed to a rope or something similar.
• Danish - Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • fire num. Four.
• Irish
  • fíre adj. Genitive singular feminine of fíor, comparative degree of fíor.
  • fíre n. Genitive singular of fíor.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • fire v. To lower (a flag).
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • fire v. To slacken, ease.
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • fire v. To lower (e.g. a flag).
• Old irish
  • fíre adj. Genitive singular feminine of fír.
• Romanian
  • fire n. Plural of fir.
  • fire n. Essence, substance, nature.
  • fire n. Character, temper, disposition.
  • fire n. Mind.
• Turkish
  • fire n. Wastage.
  • fire n. Outage.
  • fire n. Shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease.
  • fire n. Turnover.
  • fire n. Ullage.
  • fire n. Leakage.
  • fire n. Waste, tret, deficiency.

— English words, defined in German —

• fire S. Feuer.
• fire S. Brand.
• fire S. Schusswaffengebrauch.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• fire n. Vuur.

— English word, defined in Latin —

• fire n.subs. Incendium.

— English words, defined in French —

• fire n. Feu.
• fire n. (Dénombrable) Incendie.
• fire v. (États-Unis) Licencier (pour une faute grave), virer, renvoyer, balancer.
• fire v. Tirer.
• fire v. (Programmation) Déclencher un évènement, par exemple un trigger.
• fire v. (Vieilli) Embraser.
• fire interj. (Militaire) Feu !
• fire interj. Au feu !

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• fire s. Fuego.
• fire s. Incendio.
• fire s. Hoguera.
• fire s. Fogata.
• fire v. Disparar.
• fire v. Despedir.
• fire v. Echar.
• fire v. Desemplear.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• fire s. Fogo.
• fire s. Incêndio.
• fire s. (Reino Unido⚠) fogão.
• fire v. Disparar, atirar.
• fire v. Despedir, demitir.
• fire v. Queimar.
• fire v. Atear fogo, incendiar.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• fire s. (Fisica) (chimica) fuoco.
• fire s. Incendio.
• fire s. Focolare.
• fire s. Sparare.
• fire s. Accendere.
• fire s. Buttare fuori, licenziare.

253 English words from 60 English definitions

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10 English words from 34 foreign definitions

balancer Brand exemple feu fogo grave par pour trigger Unis

42 foreign words from 34 foreign definitions

Atear atirar Au␣feu chimica Déclencher demitir Dénombrable Despedir Disparar Echar Embraser États États-Unis évènement faute Feuer Fisica Focolare fogão Fuego fuoco fuori Hoguera incendiar Incendie Incêndio Incendium Licencier Militaire par␣exemple Programmation Queimar Reino Reino␣Unido renvoyer Schusswaffengebrauch Tirer une Unido Vieilli virer Vuur

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

fired firee firer fires firey fire␣ax firees firers firest fireth fire␣up fireys fire␣air fire␣ant firearm fire␣arm fire␣axe firebar firebay fire␣bay firebed firebox fire␣box fireboy firebug firecan firedog fire␣dog fired␣up firefan firefly fire-fly firefox Firefox firehot firelet firelit firelog fireman firemen fire-new fire␣off fire␣out firepan firepit fire␣pit firepot fireset fires␣up Firetop +664 words

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

cofired co-fired cofires co-fires enfired enfires refired refires unfired unfires all-fired bin␣fires bonfired bonfires dryfired dry-fired dry␣fired dryfires dry-fires dry␣fires fen␣fires gasfired gas-fired gas␣fires gunfires misfired misfirer misfires nonfired oil-fired outfired outfires pinfires prefired pre-fired prefires pre-fires rimfires saffires takfired autofired autofires backfired backfires back␣fires balefires bonefires bone-fires bone␣fires bumpfired bump-fired bump␣fired +173 words

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

afire cofire co-fire enfire on␣fire refire unfire all-fire bin␣fire bonfire dryfire dry-fire dry␣fire fen␣fire foxfire fox-fire fox␣fire gas␣fire gunfire misfire nonfire outfire pinfire prefire pre-fire red␣fire rimfire saffire set␣fire synfire antifire autofire backfire back␣fire balefire blue␣fire bonefire bone-fire bone␣fire brimfire bumpfire bump-fire bump␣fire burnfire bushfire bush␣fire campfire camp␣fire cold␣fire cookfire +236 words

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

fir FIR ire IrE IRE Ire.

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

Eri. rif Rif RIF

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

fier Fier -fier Frie refi reif rief rife

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

afire Arfie brief Efird efrit faire FBIer Fedir feria Feria ferie fermi Fermi Ferri ferri- fiber fibre Fieri Fiero fiers fiery fifer Fifer filer Filer finer Finer fired firee firer fires firey firie Fiser fiver Fiver fixer Fizer flier Freia freit frice fried Fried Friel frier Frier fries Fries frine -frine +26 words

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

EFI eir EIR erf Eri. Fei fer FER f***er fie fir FIR Fri IEF -ier Ife IFR ire IrE IRE Ire. IRF ref Ref REF Ref. rei RFE RFI rie Rie RIE rif Rif RIF

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

aire Aire -aire cire dire Eire Éire fare fere fice FICE FIDE fife Fife fike Fike file File filé fine Fine firk firm firn FIRO firs FIRs firy fise Fite five Five fixe fore Fore fore- fure gire Gire hire Hire lire mire Mire N.Ire. sire tire vire wire Wire

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

fie fir FIR ire IrE IRE Ire.

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

faire fibre firee firie

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