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— English words —

• pellicle n. A thin skin or film.
• pellicle n. A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.
• pellicle n. Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.
• pellicle n. The skin of a mushroom cap.
• pellicle n. (Mycology) The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.
• pellicle n. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.
• pellicle n. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.
• pellicle n. (Optics) A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

52 English words from 8 English definitions

adhesion and beam beam␣splitter cap certain coating cover culture Cuticle easily emulsion film for forms growth hard improving layer life life␣forms liquid meat membrane mushroom Mycology of␣a off often only on␣the on␣the␣surface Optics outer outermost peels peels␣off photographic photosensitive plastic protective proteins skin smoked splitter surface that that␣is the thin used viscid

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

pellicles

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

CLE ell Ell ELL 'e'll ICL ICLE -icle lic Lic LIC lic. Lic. pel pell Pell

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

CIL cill ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill. Ille LCI lep LEP

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

pellicles pellicule

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

pellicule

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