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— English words —

• gavel n. (Historical) Rent.
• gavel n. (Obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
• gavel n. (Historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder’s death…
• gavel v. (Transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
• gavel n. A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block…
• gavel n. (Metonymically, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
• gavel n. A mason’s setting maul.
• gavel v. To use a gavel.
• gavel n. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
• gavel n. (Scotland, archaic, architecture) A gable.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Swedish
  • gavel n. (Architecture) a gable, a short wall of a building.

— English words, defined in French —

• gavel n. Marteau (De magistrat, de commissaire-priseur, etc.).
• gavel v. Marteler.
• gavel n. Rente, usure.

64 English words from 11 English definitions

according according␣to against and archaic architecture as␣a␣whole block building bundle chairman chiefly committee courtroom death distribute divide estate form gable gavel grain heap Historical holder interest into judge legal legal␣system mallet mason maul Metonymically money not Obsolete of␣a old on␣the passed Rent Saxon Scotland setting short small sounding struck system tenure the tied tied␣up to␣the Transitive use used Usury wall Welsh which whole wooden

4 English words from 3 foreign definitions

commissaire etc Rente usure

5 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

commissaire-priseur magistrat Marteau Marteler priseur

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

gavels gaveled gavelet gavelets gaveling gavelled gaveller gavelman gavelmen gavelock gave␣lie␣to gavelkind gavellers gavelling gaveloche gavelocks gavelkinds gaveloches gavelkinder gavelinellid gavelkinders gavel-to-gavel gavel␣to␣order gavelinellids

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

disgavels disgavelled disgavelling

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

disgavel gavel-to-gavel

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

ave 'ave ave. Ave. avel Gav gave vel

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

eva Eva EVA eva' lev LEV lev- Lev. leva Leva vag

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

glave

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

Galvez gavels glaive glaver glaves Gleave gravel Gravel g␣value lavage lovage maglev vagile Veglia volage

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

avel egal eval EVGA Gael gale Gale gave geal lage lave leag Lega leva Leva vale Vale veal Veal vega Vega vela Vela

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

cavel favel gabel Gamel Gaver Gawel gazel Havel javel navel Pavel ravel Ravel

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

avel Gael gave

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

gravel Gravel

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