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— English words —

• floss n. A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
• floss n. Raw silk fibres.
• floss n. The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants…
• floss n. Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
• floss n. (Britain) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
• floss n. A body feather of an ostrich.
• floss n. A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of…
• floss v. To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
• floss v. (Slang, African American Vernacular English) To show off, especially by exhibiting one’s wealth or talent.
• floss v. To perform the floss dance move.
• floss n. (UK) A small stream of water.
• floss n. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths…
• floss n. (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
• FLOSS n. (Computing) Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Luxembourgish
  • Floss n. River.
  • Floss n. Fin, flipper.
• Swedish
  • floss n. (Slang) Alternative form of flos (“money”).

— English words, defined in French —

• floss n. Bourre, production de certains insectes (ver à soie) et plantes comme le coton, le maïs, etc.
• floss n. Fil dentaire, ellipse de dental floss.
• floss v. Se nettoyer les interstices entre les dents avec du fil dentaire.
• FLOSS n. (Informatique) Ensemble des logiciels libres et à code source ouvert.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• floss v. Usar hilo dental.
• floss s. Hilo dental.
• floss s. Hilo de seda.
• floss s. Fibras de seda o similar.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• floss s. Fio dental.

— In German —

• floss V. 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fließen.
• floss V. 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fließen.

— In Dutch —

• floss n. Draadje waarmee men de ruimte tussen de tanden kan reinigen.

— In French —

• floss n.m. (Métallurgie) Fonte coulée en gâteaux.
• floss n.m. (Anglicisme) (Danse) Mouvement de danse contemporaine consistant…

118 English words from 17 English definitions

Abbreviation African African␣American Alternative American and Any are area arms around back between body Britain candy candy␣floss certain clean clenched clenched␣fists common common␣rush Computing corncob cotton cotton␣candy covering dance dance␣move dancer downy each each␣other earths England English especially etc exhibiting feather fibres Fin fists flipper floating floss Fluid form free from furnace gaps glass having husks inside iron Juncus libre like loose material money move move␣in Northern not of␣an off one open open␣source ostrich other oxides parallel perform phrase plants produced puddling Raw Raw␣silk repeatedly River rush Scotland show show␣off silk silky Slang small software source spun Spun␣sugar strands stream sugar swings talent teeth that the their thread used used␣to using Vernacular vitrification water wealth which with wound

29 English words from 14 foreign definitions

code consistant coulée dental dental␣floss dents des ellipse Ensemble entre etc fil floss Fonte gâteaux Hilo interstices kan les libres men ouvert Person production similar Singular source ver Verbs

1 foreign word from 17 English definitions

flos

39 foreign words from 14 foreign definitions

Aktiv Anglicisme avec Bourre certains code␣source comme contemporaine coton danse dentaire Draadje Fibras fil␣dentaire Fio Fio␣dental fließen hilo hilo␣dental Indikativ Informatique insectes logiciels logiciels␣libres maïs Métallurgie Mouvement nettoyer plantes Präteritum reinigen ruimte seda soie tanden tussen Usar ver␣à␣soie waarmee

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

flossy Flossy flossed flosser flosses Flossie flossers flossier flossily flossing flossable floss␣hole flossible flossiest flossings flosslike floss␣pick floss-silk floss␣silk floss␣holes flossiness floss␣picks floss-silks floss␣silks flossy␣pork

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

unflossy reflossed reflosses unflossed nonflosser reflossing nonflossers candyflosses candy␣flosses dental␣flosses

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

refloss ass␣floss butt␣floss meat␣floss pork␣floss candyfloss candy␣floss fairyfloss fairy␣floss dental␣floss Persian␣fairy␣floss

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

Flo flo' LOs LOS los' loss oss OSs OSS 'oss

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

olf sol Sol SOL -sol Sol. S.O.L. SSO

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

flossy Flossy Folses fossil Fossil S.␣of␣Sol. solfas sol-fas

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

fols. foss Foss FOSS LFOs lofs loss LSOs olfs OLSs SLOs SOFs sols Sols SOLs

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

Closs Fliss flobs flocs floes flogs floos flops FLOPs FLOPS flors flosh flows gloss gloss- Kloss Ploss

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

foss Foss FOSS loss

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