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— English words —

• pestle n. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
• pestle n. (Archaic) A constable’s or bailiff’s staff; so called from its shape.
• pestle n. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
• pestle v. (Transitive) To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• pestle n. (Gereedschap) stamper (bij een vijzel), vijzelstamper.

— English words, defined in French —

• pestle n. Pilon, instrument dont on se sert pour piler quelque chose dans un mortier.
• pestle v. Piler.

33 English words from 4 English definitions

and animal Archaic as␣in bailiff bone called club constable crush especially from grind headed its leg mortar of␣a of␣an pestle pig pound round rub shape shaped staff stick The things Transitive used with

10 English words from 3 foreign definitions

chose dans dont een instrument mortier piler Pilon pour stamper

7 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

bij Gereedschap quelque quelque␣chose sert vijzel vijzelstamper

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

pestled pestles

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

micropestles mortars␣and␣pestles

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

micropestle mortar␣and␣pestle knight␣of␣the␣pestle knights␣of␣the␣pestle

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

est Est EST -est est. Est. pes Pes PEs PES pest Pest STL TLE

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

elt ELT elts ELTs LTs LTS sep Sep SEP Sep. tse Tse TSE

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

steple

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

apelets bepelts clepest eelpots Elspeth epistle Epistle Étaples helpest leapest leptose opelets pealest peelest peglets pelites pellets pelmets pelters peltest Peltzes pentels pestled pestles petless petrels pettles Pletzes poselet respelt septile septole Speitel spelted spelter spettle steeple Steeple steeply stempel Stempel stemple Stemple steples Teeples temples Temples -teplase

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

Estep Leeps LEEPs leets Leets Lepes peels peets Peets pelts Pelts petes sleep sleet slept speel speet spelt steel Steel steep stele stelè stélé Teels teeps teles Teles tepes Tepes

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

nestle Nestle pestre pettle pistle Postle

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