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— English words —

• layup n. (Basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
• layup n. (Colloquial) A relatively easy task.
• layup n. The state of being laid up.
• layup n. (Rail transport, countable or uncountable) A track used to store train cars.
• layup n. (Rail transport) A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
• layup n. (Materials science) The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form…
• lay-up n. (Basketball) Alternative form of layup.
• lay␣up v. (Transitive) To store; to put by.
• lay␣up v. (Transitive) To disable or incapacitate; to confine to bed.
• lay␣up v. (Transitive) To take out of active service.
• lay␣up v. (Intransitive) To go out of active service.
• lay␣up v. (Transitive, basketball) To make a layup with (a basketball).
• lay␣up v. (Intransitive, golf) To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure…

— English word, defined in French —

• layup n. (Basket-ball) Layup.

— In French —

• layup n.m. (Anglicisme) (Basket-ball) Double-pas en faisant rebondir…

89 English words from 13 English definitions

active active␣service a␣few agent alternate Alternative and applying as␣to away backboard ball banks basketball bed being binding binding␣agent car cars close close␣range Colloquial confine countable deliberately disable easy feet few form from further golf go␣out hole incapacitate Intransitive laid laid␣up layers layup leave make material Materials Materials␣science necessary of␣a off often out out␣of overnight process put put␣by Rail Rail␣transport range relatively science secure service shooter shot sitting sitting␣in so␣as so␣as␣to state state␣of␣being storage store take take␣out task than the To␣go track train Transitive transport uncountable used used␣to which with

5 English words from 2 foreign definitions

ball Basket Double Layup pas

5 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

Anglicisme Basket-ball Double-pas faisant rebondir

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

layups lay-ups lay␣up␣in␣lavender

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

play␣up␣to play␣upon␣words reverse␣layups play␣up␣Old␣Gooseberry

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

clay␣up play␣up reverse␣layup

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

ayu Ayu ayup ay␣up lay Lay yup YUP

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

puy puya PuYa

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

Pauly uplay

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

clay␣up lays␣up layups lay-ups Pauley plaguy play␣up unplay uplays

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

ayup ay␣up laup Palu paly paul Paul play pula Pula puya PuYa pyal pyla ULPA upla Yalu yaul yaup

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

gay␣up lap␣up pay␣up

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

ayup ay␣up laup

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

lays␣up

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