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— English words —

• recoil n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• recoil n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• recoil n. (Firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• recoil n. An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
• recoil v. (Intransitive) To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• recoil v. (Intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• recoil v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• recoil v. (Of a firearm) To quickly push back when fired.

— English words, defined in German —

• recoil S. Physik: Gegenreaktion, die auftritt, wenn eine Masse beschleunigt wird.
• recoil V. Zurückzucken, zurückspringen, zurückweichen, zurückziehen.

— English words, defined in French —

• recoil n. Recul (d’une arme à feu).
• recoil v. Reculer.
• recoil v. Se retirer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• recoil v. Recular.
• recoil v. Retroceder.
• recoil s. Retroceso.
• recoil s. Culatazo.

53 English words from 8 English definitions

after astonishment back back␣when beat before condition disgust each energy escapement especially falling falling␣back firearm Firearms fired from function has having horror intransitive now Obsolete Of␣a opponent pull pull␣back push push␣back quickly rare rebound Recoil recoiled recoils retire retreat scape scape-wheel shooter shrinking slightly starting state the to␣the transmitted wheel when which withdraw

4 English words from 9 foreign definitions

die feu Masse retirer

19 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

arme arme␣à␣feu auftritt beschleunigt Culatazo eine Gegenreaktion Physik Recul Recular Reculer Retroceder une wenn wird zurückspringen zurückweichen zurückziehen Zurückzucken

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

recoils recoiled recoiler recoilers recoiling recoil␣pad recoilings recoilless recoilment recoil␣pads recoilingly recoilments recoil␣start recoil␣starts recoillessness recoilless␣rifle recoilless␣rifles

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unrecoiling

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

nonrecoil subrecoil antirecoil counterrecoil counter-recoil

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

COI coil Coil eco ECO eco- oil rec rec.

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

CER IoC IOC

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

coiler

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

bricole calorie cariole citoler coalier coilers coilier collier Collier Coralie corbeil Corbeil Coriell Corniel cortile creolin dociler Licerio licorne loricae nerolic orbicle peloric policer recoils urceoli

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

ceorl Cerio Cielo Cloer Clore Coile Coler Corle Creil crile El␣Rio eolic Leroi LeRoi Le␣Roi Loire Lorie oiler oleic Orcel oriel Oriel Recio relic reoil

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

reboil recoal recoin recool

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

reoil

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