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— English words —

• foliation n. (Botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
• foliation n. (Publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
• foliation n. (Codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
• foliation n. (Botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
• foliation n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
• foliation n. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
• foliation n. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
• foliation n. (Geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers…
• foliation n. (Topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but…

— In French —

• foliation n.f. (Botanique).
• foliation n.f. (Géologie) Ségrégation des minéraux d’une roche en couches…

75 English words from 9 English definitions

act also amalgam and are arranged as␣in beating being book Botany bud but by␣means␣of coating Codicology crystalline dimension disposed divided each enrichment etc foil foils folios forming Geology given glasses into lamina layers leaf leaves looking looking␣glasses lower making manifold manner manuscript means metal numbering of␣a of␣an one opening ornaments pages pagination plate plates possessed process property publishing quatrefoils quicksilver rocks set some submanifolds than the thin tin tin␣foil Topology trefoils which with within young

3 English words from 2 foreign definitions

couches des roche

5 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

Botanique Géologie minéraux Ségrégation une

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

foliations

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

defoliations exfoliations refoliations prefoliations superfoliations oblique␣foliations pseudoexfoliations

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

defoliation effoliation exfoliation refoliation prefoliation superfoliation chemexfoliation overexfoliation microexfoliation oblique␣foliation pseudoexfoliation

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

-ation FOL fol. folia IAT ion Ion -ion LIA LIAT Oli tio Tio tion -tion

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

ail ILO ita ITA lof NOI noit OIt OIT Oita Ōita tai Tai TAI tail Tail

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

floriation foliations

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

footnail

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

filiation

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