The word is in the Wiktionary

9 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• pilus n. A hair.
• pilus n. (Microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
• pilus n. (Biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Estonian
  • pilus n. Inessive singular of pilu.
• Polish
  • Piluś prop.n. A masculine surname.
  • Piluś prop.n. A feminine surname.
• Thompson
  • píłuš n. Speckled trout.

— English word, defined in French —

• pilus n. (Biologie) Pilus.

— In French —

• pilus n.m. (Biologie) Appendice se situant à la surface de la paroi…

29 English words from 7 English definitions

appendage bacteria bacterial biochemical Biochemistry cell feminine found found␣on functions hair hairlike has Inessive many masculine Microbiology on␣the pilu protein several singular Speckled Speckled␣trout surface surname that the trout

3 English words from 2 foreign definitions

à␣la Pilus surface

5 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

Appendice Biologie de␣la paroi situant

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

mespiluses snowy␣mespiluses

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

spilus mespilus pseudopilus snowy␣mespilus hyperpseudopilus

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

lus Lus LUs PIL pilu

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

lip LIP lip- Sul ULIP

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

pulis Pulis pusil ULIPs

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

epulis julips lim␣sup lipsum lupins piculs pikuls Pikuls pilaus pileus pilous pilums pi-plus pi␣plus pipuls poilus pugils pupils silt␣up sipful slipup slip-up slip␣up spilus suppli supplì tulips Tulips uplist upsila

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

ipus lips Lips LIPs lisp Lisp LISP Lisu Lius LPUs LPUS LSPI Luis pils PILs pilu plus PUIs puli Puli puls slip SPUI ULIP ulps ULPs ULSI

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

hilus milus palus PICUs piles Piles pilis pills pilum pinus pious Pirus Polus

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

pils PILs pilu plus

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

pilaus pileus pilous pilums pi-plus pi␣plus poilus

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