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— English words —

• leprous adj. Relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
• leprous adj. Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
• leprous adj. Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
• leprous adj. (Figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
• leprous adj. (Alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
• leprous adj. (Botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
• leprous adj. (Obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Old french
  • leprous adj. Leprous; having leprosy.
  • leprous n. A leper.

— English word, defined in French —

• leprous adj. Lépreux.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• leprous agg. Lebbroso.

50 English words from 9 English definitions

Alchemy also appearance archaic Botany Causing contaminated corrupted covered disease diseases Figuratively flaking gold having historical Immoral impure infected its known leper leprose leprosy Leprous looking manner metals Obsolete one ostracized other peeling Relating resembling scabby scales scaly scurfy shunned Similar skin some substances symptoms Synonym tainted the thin with

2 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

Lebbroso Lépreux

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

leprously leprousness

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

nonleprous

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

EPR lep LEP lepro- ous -ous pro Pro PRO pro- Pro. -pro- pro-US ROU

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

orp pel RPE UoR UOR

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

pelorus perlous per'lous sporule Sproule

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

couplers leaprous leperous overplus palouser perilous Plourdes plouters poulders poulters Poulters prebolus pre-bolus propulse proulers repulson repulsor roup␣sale sportule sporules Sproules superloo superlow superold

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

lopers Lopers louers loupes Loupes Lupers Oplers Peluso pleuro- polers poseur poules proles prouls Prouse Puleos pulers pulser purles Pursel rose␣up roules Roupes Ruples sloper souler souper souple Spoerl Sproul supero- uprose

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

leaprous leperous

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