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— English words —

• fly n. (Zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
• fly n. (Non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
• fly n. Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
• fly n. (Fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
• fly n. (Weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the…
• fly n. (Swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
• fly n. (Obsolete) A witch’s familiar.
• fly n. (Obsolete) A parasite.
• fly n. (Preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
• fly n. (Finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
• fly v. (Intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
• fly v. (Transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
• fly v. (Transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
• fly v. (Intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
• fly v. (Intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
• fly v. (Intransitive) To proceed with great success.
• fly v. (Intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
• fly v. (Transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
• fly v. (Transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
• fly v. (Intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
• fly n. (Obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
• fly n. An act of flying.
• fly n. (Baseball) A fly ball.
• fly n. (American football) Short for fly route.
• fly n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
• fly n. (India, obsolete) The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
• fly n. (Often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers…
• fly n. The free edge of a flag.
• fly n. The horizontal length of a flag.
• fly n. (Weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
• fly n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• fly n. (Nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• fly n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
• fly n. Short for flywheel.
• fly n. (Historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation…
• fly n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
• fly n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• fly n. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• fly n. (Printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• fly n. (Printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
• fly n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
• fly n. (Cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
• fly v. (Intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
• fly adj. (Slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
• fly adj. (Slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
• fly adj. (Slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
• fly n. (Rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
• Fly prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish
  • fly n. Airplane.
  • fly v. (Archaic) to flee.
  • fly v. (Archaic) to shun.
  • fly v. (Archaic) to hand, give.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • fly v. To fly.
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • fly n. Plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft.
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • fly v. (Intransitive) to fly (to travel through air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with…
  • fly v. (Transitive, ergative) to cause to fly: to transport via air or the like.
  • fly v. (Intransitive) to run, move fast.
  • fly v. (Intransitive, chiefly about farm animals) to be in heat, rutting.
  • fly adj. Very steep.
  • fly n. A very steep cliff.
  • fly v. (Intransitive) to escape; flee; run away.
  • fly v. (Transitive) to escape from.
  • fly adv. (Colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the word forbanna.
  • fly n. Small (flying) insect.
  • fly n. (Fishing) bait.
  • fly n. Specks.
  • fly n. Mountain plateau.
  • fly n. Sump.
  • fly adj. Tepid.
• Scots
  • fly adj. (Slang, chiefly Doric) sneaky.
• Swedish
  • fly v. To flee, to run away, to escape.
  • fly v. To pass, to go by (of time).
• Westrobothnian
  • fly v. To send, to hand.

— English words, defined in German —

• fly S. Zoologie: Fliege.
• fly S. Deckblatt.
• fly S. Überzelt.
• fly S. Hosenschlitz.
• fly V. Fliegen.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• fly w. Vliegen.
• fly w. Een hoge bal slaan met honkbal.
• fly n. (Tweevleugeligen) vlieg.
• fly bijv. (Straattaal) slim.
• fly bijv. (Straattaal) mooi, knap (van een persoon).

— English words, defined in French —

• fly n. Mouche (insecte).
• fly n. (Pêche à la ligne) Mouche (imitation d’insecte).
• fly v. (Intransitif) Voler dans les airs.
• fly v. (Intransitif) Prendre l’avion.
• fly v. (Transitif) Faire voler dans les airs.
• fly n. Ouverture située à l’avant d’une tente.
• fly n. Braguette.
• fly n. (Vexillologie) Extrémité d’un drapeau la plus éloignée du mât.
• fly n. (Baseball) Chandelle, ballon.
• fly v. (Baseball) Frapper une chandelle.
• fly adj. (Argot) (Rare) Bien habillé. Beau.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• fly v. Volar.
• fly v. Huir, escapar.
• fly v. Pilotear.
• fly s. Zoología. Mosca.
• fly s. Bragueta, marrueco.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• fly s. Mosca.
• fly s. Trajetória.
• fly s. Voo.
• fly v. Voar.
• fly v. Fugir.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• fly s. (Zoologia) mosca.
• fly s. Volare.

— In Dutch —

• fly bijv. (Straattaal) met een aantrekkelijk uiterlijk.

— In French —

• fly n.f. (Québec) Braguette.

324 English words from 73 English definitions

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24 English words from 35 foreign definitions

airs à␣la Argot avant ballon Baseball Beau Bien chandelle dans een Faire imitation knap les met Mosca Mouche plus Québec Rare slim van Volar

50 foreign words from 35 foreign definitions

aantrekkelijk à␣la␣ligne avion bal Bragueta Braguette dans␣les Deckblatt drapeau éloignée escapar Extrémité Fliege Fliegen Frapper Fugir habillé honkbal Hosenschlitz Huir insecte Intransitif ligne marrueco mât mooi mosca Ouverture Pêche Pêche␣à␣la␣ligne persoon Prendre située slaan Straattaal tente Trajetória Transitif Tweevleugeligen uiterlijk une Vexillologie vlieg Vliegen Voar Volare voler Voo Zoología Zoologie

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

flye Flye flys Flys flyby fly-by fly␣by flyer flyes Flyes fly-in flyin' Flynn Flynt flype flyte fly␣ash fly-ass fly-box fly␣box flyboy fly-boy flybys flyers flyest flyeth flying fly-ins fly␣low flyman flymen flymph flynet Flynts flyoff fly␣off flyout fly␣out flyped flypes flyrod fly-rod fly␣rod flysch Flysch flyted flytes Flythe flytip fly-tip +410 words

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

O'Flynn O'Flynns triflyl reflying unflying upflying blue␣flyer dayflying fur-flying highflyer high-flyer high␣flyer no-fly␣list no␣fly␣list no-fly␣zone nonflying non-flying outflying unflyable blue␣flyers Deaflympic flag-flying go␣fly␣a␣kite highflyers high-flyers high␣flyers highflying high-flying kiteflying kite␣flying microflyer no-fly␣lists no␣fly␣lists no-fly␣zones overflying paraflying sailflying shoofly␣pie shoo-fly␣pie take␣a␣flyer took␣a␣flyer butterflyer Deaflympian Deaflympics fly-in␣fly-out in␣like␣Flynn Mickey␣Flynn microflyers shoofly␣pies shoo-fly␣pies +161 words

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

afly befly defly no-fly offly oxfly refly upfly urfly apefly awl-fly barfly bar␣fly bat␣fly bee␣fly big␣fly bobfly botfly bot␣fly buffly chefly dayfly deafly dogfly dry␣fly eggfly eye␣fly gadfly halfly hop␣fly jarfly let␣fly liefly mayfly medfly muffly Muffly naffly naifly naïfly orl␣fly outfly owlfly pop␣fly purfly riffly ruffly sac␣fly sawfly selfly +245 words

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

afly Alfy FGly flay Flay fley Floy flye Flye flys Flys fmly fyle Fyle lyfe SFYL

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

fl Fl FL fl. Fl. F/L fy FY -fy lf LF ly Ly LY -ly ly- yf YF YL -yl

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

Aly bly Bly cly Ely fay Fay FCY fey Fey Fla FLA Fla. FLC fld FLD fld. FLE FLG FLK FLN Flo flo' FLQ FLR FLs FLS FLT flt. flu 'flu foy Foy fry Fry FRY Fty. fwy fwy. Gly gly- ily ILY -ily kly Kly Mly 'oly ply rly RLY sly Sly vly

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

fl Fl FL fl. Fl. F/L fy FY -fy ly Ly LY -ly ly-

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

FGly flay Flay fley Floy fmly

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