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— English words —

• fossil n. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
• fossil n. (Paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites…
• fossil n. (Linguistics) A fossil word.
• fossil n. (Figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
• fossil n. (Figuratively) An extremely old or outdated person.
• Fossil prop.n. A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • fòssil n. Fossil.
  • fòssil n. (Linguistics) fossil word.
• Danish
  • fossil adj. Fossil (noun modifier), fossilised (UK), fossilized.
  • fossil n. Fossil.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • fossil adj. Fossilised (UK), fossilized, or fossil (noun modifier: e.g. fossil fuels).
  • fossil n. A fossil (fossilised remains of an animal or plant).
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • fossil adj. Fossilised (UK), fossilized, or fossil (noun modifier).
  • fossil n. A fossil (as above).
• Swedish
  • fossil adj. Fossil.
  • fossil n. A fossil.

— English word, defined in French —

• fossil n. Fossile.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• fossil s. Fósil.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• fossil agg. Fossile.
• fossil s. Fossile.

— In German —

• fossil Adj. Von Gegenständen oder Stoffen: aus der erdgeschichtlichen…
• Fossil S. (Oft versteinertes oder ausgegrabenes) Zeugnis vergangenen…

— In Portuguese —

• fóssil adj. Que se extrai da terra.
• fóssil adj. (Paleontologia) restos de seres vivos ou vestígios de atividade…
• fóssil adj. (Figurado) antiquado.
• fóssil s. (Paleontologia) todo e qualquer vestígio identificável, corpóreo…
• fóssil s. (Figurado) indivíduo retrógrado, de hábitos ultrapassados.

47 English words from 16 English definitions

above ancient animal Any Anything burrows city coprolites county county␣seat evidence extinct extremely Figuratively fossil fossil␣fuels fossilised fossilized fossil␣word fuels imprints including life Linguistics mineralized modifier noun noun␣modifier of␣an old Oregon outdated Paleontology person plant preserved remains seat shells small States the United United␣States Wheeler Wheeler␣County word

7 English words from 11 foreign definitions

der Oft Que restos seres terra todo

25 foreign words from 11 foreign definitions

antiquado atividade aus ausgegrabenes corpóreo erdgeschichtlichen Figurado Fósil Fossile Gegenständen hábitos indivíduo oder Paleontologia qualquer retrógrado seres␣vivos Stoffen ultrapassados vergangenen versteinertes vestígio vivos Von Zeugnis

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

fossils fossiled fossilate fossil␣car fossildom fossilify fossilise fossilism fossilist fossility fossilize fossilogy fossil␣oil fossilated fossilates fossil␣fool fossil␣fuel fossilhood fossilised fossilises fossilists fossilized fossilizer fossilizes fossillike fossil␣word fossilating fossil␣fools fossil␣fuels fossilified fossilifies fossilising fossilizers fossilizing fossilogies fossilogist fossilology fossil␣resin fossil␣water fossil␣words fossilifying fossilisable fossilizable fossilogical fossilogists fossil␣record fossil␣waters fossiliferous fossilisation fossilization +10 words

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

subfossils bodyfossils body␣fossils cast␣fossils megafossils mesofossils mold␣fossils nanofossils chemofossils dubiofossils ichnofossils index␣fossils macrofossils microfossils nannofossils trace␣fossils unfossilised unfossilized living␣fossils nonfossilized palynofossils prefossilized pseudofossils subfossilized technofossils magnetofossils semifossilized unfossilizable unfossiliferous nonfossiliferous non-fossiliferous prefossilization

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

nonfossil non-fossil subfossil bodyfossil body␣fossil cast␣fossil megafossil mesofossil mold␣fossil nanofossil semifossil chemofossil dubiofossil ichnofossil index␣fossil macrofossil microfossil nannofossil trace␣fossil living␣fossil palynofossil pseudofossil technofossil magnetofossil

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

fos FOs -fos fos- F/Os -fos- foss Foss FOSS oss OSs OSS 'oss ossi- sil Sil SIL SSI S.S.I.

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

ISS lis LIS liss Liss LISS SOF SSO

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

Filosas Flossie folists fossils self-iso slofies

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

filos Filos Fliss floss FLOSS foils FOILs silos Sofis soils Solis

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

dossil FOSSie

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