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— English words —

• leech n. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
• leech n. (Figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
• leech n. (Medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
• leech v. (Transitive, literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
• leech v. (Transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.
• leech n. (Archaic) A physician.
• leech n. (Germanic paganism) A healer.
• leech v. (Archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
• leech n. (Nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
• leech n. (Nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.
• Leech prop.n. A surname originating as an occupation, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Central franconian
  • leech adj. (Central and eastern Ripuarian) light, not heavy.
  • leech adj. (Same dialects) easy, not difficult.
  • Leech n. (Central and eastern Ripuarian, Kölsch) light.
• Limburgish
  • léëch adj. (Eupen) empty.
  • léëch v. Inflection of léëge…
• West frisian
  • leech adj. Low.
  • leech adj. Empty.
• Yola
  • leech n. Physician.

— English words, defined in French —

• leech n. Sangsue.
• leech n. (Familier) Pot de colle, personne collante.
• leech n. (Archaïsme) Médecin.
• leech v. (Médecine) Appliquer des sangsues pour soigner.
• leech v. (Plus rare) Drainer.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• leech s. Sanguijuela.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• leech s. Sanguisuga.
• leech s. (Obsoleto) medico.

84 English words from 19 English definitions

aft and annelid apply aquatic Archaic back blood blood-sucking by␣means␣of Central class cure damaged dated derived derives designed dialects difficult drain drawing eastern easy edge empty especially Eupen fashion figuratively for former from Germanic giving glass heal healer heavy Inflection Kölsch leech light literally Low means medicinally Medicine Nautical not occupation of␣a originating others paganism parasitic patient person physician profession profit rare resources Ripuarian sail Same so␣that square square␣sail sucking sucks surname that the tissue Transitive treat triangular tube vacuum vertical who without word

7 English words from 8 foreign definitions

des Drainer medico Plus Pot pour rare

15 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

Appliquer Archaïsme collante colle Familier Médecin Médecine Obsoleto personne Pot␣de␣colle Sangsue sangsues Sanguijuela Sanguisuga soigner

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

leechy leeched leechee leecher leeches Leeches leechdom leechees leechers leeching leechbook leechdoms leechings leechlike leechline leech␣line leechbooks leechcraft leechiness leechlines leech␣lines leechcrafts leechfinger leech-finger leechfingers leech-fingers Leech␣lattice Leech␣lattices

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

fleeched fleeches fleeching cowleeches fleechings fleechment cowleeching land-leeches horseleeches horse-leeches horse␣leeches water-leeches turtle␣leeches

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

fleech cowleech land-leech horseleech horse-leech horse␣leech water-leech turtle␣leech

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

ECH EEC lee Lee l'ee

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

cee CEE eel

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

chele Elche leche

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

Cheale Cheely chelae chelem chelev chelex cleché cléché Eichel elchee elchie elench eliche eschel fleche flèche fleech Heckel heckle leched lecher Lecher leches lechwe leechy lichee lychee Scheel Schlee

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

cele Cele -cele chee Chel EHEC Ehle elce elec. Elec. heel Heel HELC hele Hele lech Lech

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

beech Beech deech Geech keech Keech leach Leach Leeth Lerch letch Liech. meech Neech reech seech yeech

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

lech Lech

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