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— English words —

• purl n. A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
• purl n. The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
• purl n. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or…
• purl v. To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge.
• purl v. (Knitting) To use an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc.
• purl n. A heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
• purl v. (Archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
• purl v. (Intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
• purl v. To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
• purl n. A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
• purl n. A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
• purl n. (Archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
• purl n. (Archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
• purl n. (UK, dialect) A tern.

88 English words from 14 English definitions

Ale also among and appearance Archaic beer bitter bitter␣herbs border capsize circle circles curl decorate dialect eddies eddy edge embroidered etc fall flow fluid fringe gentle gin giving gold headlong heavily heavy hem herbs Hot in␣circles Intransitive inversion inverted knitting lace liquid loops made mantle mixed motion murmuring obstructions of␣a often other particular pleat produced producing puckered regarded ribbed ribbing ripple ripples rise running silver sound spiced spices spin stitch stitches such such␣as sugar swirls tern that the tonic trimmed twist undulations upset use waved with work wormwood

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

purle purls purly purled purler purles Purley purlin purlers purlieu purline purling purlins purloin pur␣laine Purleigh purlicue purlieus purlieux purlines purlings purloins purlwise purlicues purloined purloiner purlieuman purlieumen purloiners purloining purloinings purloinment purloinments

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

spurlet spurlge Spurlin spurless spurlets spurlike spurline spurling Spurling Spurlins Spurlock unpurled spurlines spurlings Spurlings Spurlocks subpurlin subpurlins spur-leather spur␣leather unpurloined spur-leathers spur␣leathers spurlessness spurling␣pipe larpurlartism under-spur-leather under-spur-leathers

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

pur PUR URL

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

RUP

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

PLUR plur.

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

blurp Luper pluri- proul puler purle purls purly Rupel Ruple slurp

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

LPR LPU lur Lur PLU PRL Pru pul pur PUR RPL RUP ulp ULP UPL URL urp U-RP

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

burl Burl curl Curl furl gurl hurl nurl Perl pirl Pub.␣L. Puhl pull pure puri Puri puro purp purr purs Surl

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

PRL pul pur PUR URL

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