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— English words —

• gill n. (Animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
• gill n. (Of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
• gill n. (Mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears…
• gill n. (Animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
• gill n. (Figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
• gill n. (Spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool…
• gill v. To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
• gill v. (Transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
• gill v. (Intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
• gill n. A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
• gill n. (Archaic, Britain) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
• gill n. (Britain) rivulet.
• gill n. (Britain) ravine.
• gill n. A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
• gill n. A female ferret.
• gill n. (Obsolete) a promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton.
• gill n. (Obsolete) a prostitute.
• gill v. (Obsolete) To act as a prostitute.
• Gill prop.n. A diminutive of the male given names Giles, Julian, or William, of medieval usage.
• Gill prop.n. A diminutive of the female given name Gillian, variant of Jill.
• Gill prop.n. A Scottish and Northern English habitational surname from Old Norse for someone who lived near a gill.
• Gill prop.n. A Scottish and Irish surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], an alternate…
• Gill prop.n. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
• Gill prop.n. A locale in the United States.
• Gill prop.n. A surname from Punjabi from ਗਿੱਲ.
• Gill n. (Soccer) Someone connected with Gillingham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Icelandic
  • gíll n. Parhelion, mock sun, sun dog.
• Irish
  • gill n. Vocative/genitive singular of geall (“pledge, security; wager, bet; gage, challenge; palm, prize; supremacy;…
• Scots
  • gill n. A measure of liquid equivalent to one-fourth of a mutchkin or three quarters of an Imperial gill, about…
  • gill n. A vessel with a capacity of one gill.
  • gill v. To drink, tipple.
  • gill n. A narrow valley with steep sides, a gully.
• Scottish gaelic
  • gill n. Vocative/genitive singular of geall, nominative/dative plural of geall (“bet, wager”).
• Swedish
  • -gill suff. In accordance with a rule.
  • -gill suff. Which is as it should be; orderly.

— English words, defined in French —

• gill n. Branchie.
• gill n. (Mycologie) Lamelle.
• Gill prén. Prénom féminin.

— In French —

• gill n.m. (Industrie textile) Appareil ou machine qui mélange différents…

197 English words from 35 English definitions

about accordance act alternate anatomy and Animal animals approximately aquatic Archaic beak bears become below bet breathing Britain but cap capacity catch challenge chin cleaning closely Club coach combs connected cover dative diminutive divide dog drink English entangled equivalent etc fan female ferret fiber Figuratively fish flap flax flesh fleshy folds Football for for␣someone fourth fowl frame from Gaelic gage genitive Giles gill gill␣cover Gillian Gillingham gillnet gills gill␣slit given given␣name given␣names gully gutting habitational half hangs harlot holding Imperial In␣accordance␣with Intransitive in␣turn Irish Jill jug Julian liquid lived locale male measure measuring measuring␣jug medieval mock mock␣sun modern mushroom mutchkin Mycology name names narrow near nominative Norse Northern Northern␣English Obsolete of␣a of␣an Old Old␣Norse one one␣fourth on␣the orderly organ originating other palm Parhelion part patronymic pins pint player pledge plural prize promiscuous prostitute Punjabi quarter quarter␣of quarters radial ranged ravine regionally remove ribbons rivulet rule Scottish Scottish␣Gaelic security should sides singular slit Soccer someone Spinning spirits States steel steep sun sun␣dog supremacy surface surname that the three three␣quarters timber tipple transferred Transitive transporting turn two two-wheeled under underside United United␣States usage valley variant varying vessel Vocative wager wanton wattle wheeled which who William wine with woman wool

3 English words from 4 foreign definitions

machine mélange textile

9 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

Appareil Branchie différents féminin Industrie Lamelle Mycologie Prénom qui

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

Gille gills Gills gilly Gilly Gillam Gillan gilled Gillen Giller Gillet Gilley gillie Gillie Gillin Gillon Gillot Gillow Gillum Gillys gill-ale Gillams Gilland Gillans Gillard Gillatt Gillean Gillens Gillers Gillets Gillett Gilleys Gillham Gilliam gillian Gillian Gillick gillied gillies Gillies gilling Gilling Gillins gillion Gilliss Gillman Gillmor gillnet Gillock Gillons +113 words

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

Bagillt magilla Magills megilla Megills sigilla argillan argillic Cargills gingilli Langille magillas McGillis megillah megillas megillot Mongillo nargilly pedgills sigillic sigillum sixgills ungilled argillans argillics argillite argillous bluegills gagillion Hartgills Langilles mcgillite megillahs megilloth Mongillos nongilled orgillous pedgilled pugillare Scargills scungilli sigillary sigillate sigilless Sturgills Trudgills argillites argillitic aspergilla aspergilli +123 words

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

Magill McGill Megill Ashgill Cargill Cowgill Lowgill Low␣Gill pedgill sixgill bluegill Bullgill doing␣ill Hartgill Scargill Sturgill Trudgill aspergill aspergill- flirt-gill greengill pronggill sevengill falling␣ill Fothergill louping-ill louping␣ill Massengill Massingill Pettengill Pettingill Threadgill brittlegill Pickersgill Invercargill

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

Gil GIL ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill.

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

lig lig.

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

Galli Gille gills Gills gilly Gilly glial golli grill Guill Illig

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

Gil GIL gli- Ilg ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill. LGI lig lig. lil Lil li'l lil' li'l' LLG

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

bill Bill cill dill Dill fill Fill gall Gall Gall. gell Gell gila Gila gild Gile GILF gilo GILs gilt girl Girl goll Goll gull Gull hill Hill jill Jill kill Kill lill Lill mill Mill nill Nill Oi'll pill Pill rill sill Sill till Till 'till vill Vill. will Will zill

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

Gil GIL ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill.

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

grill Guill

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