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— English words —

• hoist v. (Transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by…
• hoist v. (Transitive, sports, often figurative) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
• hoist v. (Transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
• hoist v. (Intransitive) To be lifted up.
• hoist v. (Transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
• hoist v. (Transitive, slang) To steal.
• hoist v. (Transitive, slang) To rob.
• hoist n. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
• hoist n. The act of hoisting; a lift.
• hoist n. The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position…
• hoist n. The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
• hoist n. The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.

— English words, defined in French —

• hoist n. Palan, treuil.
• hoist n. (Vexillologie) Extrémité d’un drapeau la plus proche du mât.
• hoist v. Hisser, pendre, treuiller.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• hoist v. Erguer, elevar.

66 English words from 12 English definitions

act aft air and as␣opposed␣to celebration code computing construct crane desired device elevate elevation especially extract figurative flag flogged flying fore fore␣and␣aft from highest historical hoisting into Intransitive its level lift lifted loop main mast of␣a often opposed optimization part position prize pulley raise rob sail ship similar slang someone sports state steal such such␣as the theory topsail to␣the Transitive triangular trophy up␣to vertical victory when

2 English words from 4 foreign definitions

Hisser plus

11 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

drapeau elevar Erguer Extrémité mât Palan pendre proche treuil treuiller Vexillologie

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

hoists hoisted hoister hoisters hoisteth hoisting hoistman hoistmen hoistway hoistable hoistaway hoistings hoistless hoistroom hoistways hoistaways hoist␣frame hoistrooms hoist␣bridge hoist␣frames hoist␣bridges hoist␣the␣white␣flag hoist␣by␣one's␣own␣petard hoist␣on␣one's␣own␣petard

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

echoists rehoists unhoists uphoists echoistic rehoisted unhoisted uphoisted buckhoists buck-hoists buck␣hoists machoistic rehoisting skip␣hoists unhoisting uphoisting Hills␣hoists Hills␣Hoists safety␣hoists machoistically

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

echoist rehoist unhoist uphoist buckhoist buck-hoist buck␣hoist skip␣hoist Averrhoist Hills␣hoist Hills␣Hoist safety␣hoist

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

hoi ist Ist IST -ist is't OIs OIS

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

TSI

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

histo histo- hoits shito

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

Chiots dhotis dotish Fohist histio- Histon hi-tops Hitson hits␣on hobits hoists holist hops␣it hostie hotski howsit how's␣it isthmo- khotis kothis lithos Mohist no␣shit oh,␣shit pithos Shinto Shintō shipot Shipot shit␣on short␣i shotai Sothic Sothis sticho- thiols thoils tochis tofish tonish torshi toyish twoish Votish whosit

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

hist Hist hist- hist. hits HITs hoit host hots HOTs isot iths ITOs ITSO Ohis oths Otis Shio shit shot sith SITO sito- Sohi Soth SOTI thio- this This Thos. Tios tish Tish Tois tosh Tosh TOSH Tosi Tsoi

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

boist foist heist Heist hoast hoise hoism horst Horst hoyst joist moist Moist roist zoist

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

hist Hist hist- hist. hoit host

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

holist

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