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— English words —

• houri n. (Islam) A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
• houri n. (By extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Finnish
  • houri v. Third-person singular past indicative of houria.
  • houri v. Present active indicative connegative of houria.
  • houri v. Second-person singular present imperative of houria.
  • houri v. Second-person singular present active imperative connegative of houria.
• Mandarin
  • hòurì rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 後日.

— English word, defined in French —

• houri n. Houri.

— In Dutch —

• houri n. Houri# verouderde spelling of vorm van hoeri tot 1955.

— In French —

• houri n.f. Créature céleste qui, selon le Coran, sera dans le paradis…
• houri n.f. (Par extension) Femme esclave de harem, odalisque.
• houri n.f. (Sens figuré) Femme très attrayante.
• houri n.m. (Marine) Espèce de chasse-marée, qui fait la pêche dans…

36 English words from 7 English definitions

active Any beautiful By␣extension connegative dwell enjoyment extension faithful for form Hanyu Hanyu␣Pinyin imperative indicative Islam nymph of␣a Paradise past person Pinyin present reading Second Second␣person Second-person␣singular singular supposed the Third Third␣person Third-person␣singular virgin voluptuous woman

17 English words from 6 foreign definitions

chasse chasse-marée Coran dans extension fait Femme harem Houri Marine odalisque Par Sens sera spelling tot van

18 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

attrayante céleste Créature esclave Espèce Espèce␣de figuré hoeri marée paradis Par␣extension pêche qui selon Sens␣figuré très verouderde vorm

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

houris houries Hourigan Hourihan Hourigans Hourihans

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

Khouris phouria chourico chouriço phourion abhouring chouricos chouriços Fakhouris authourity authourize authourizes authourities

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

Khouri Fakhouri

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

Hou HOU hour our 'our -our uri Uri URI

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

iru IRU

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

houris Khouri Rouzhi

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

hori hour Ihor -iour rohu

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

bouri houre hours Kouri louri Nouri

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

hori hour

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