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— English words —

• respite n. A brief interval of rest or relief.
• respite n. (Law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
• respite n. (Law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
• respite n. (Musical theatre) A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
• respite v. (Transitive) To delay or postpone (an event).
• respite v. (Transitive) To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.

— English word, defined in German —

• respite S. Unterbrechung einer Tätigkeit zur Erholung.

— English words, defined in French —

• respite n. Répit ; pause, repos, trêve.
• respite n. Sursis.

40 English words from 6 English definitions

allow appearance beyond brief court death delay dialogue especially event extra extra␣time from fulfil granted interval jury Law musical Musical␣theatre obligation otherwise period person postpone proper relief reprieve rest sentence short some spoken sung term the theatre through time Transitive

2 English words from 3 foreign definitions

pause repos

8 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

einer Erholung Répit Sursis Tätigkeit trêve Unterbrechung zur

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

respited respites respite␣care respiteless

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

unrespited

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

esp ESP esp. ITE -ite pit PIT res RES Res. resp RESP resp. respit SPI spit SPIT spite

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

ETI iPS IPs IPS PSE ser SER ser. tip TIP tips TIPs TIPS

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

Pieters speerit spreite

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

crepiest crêpiest Depriest derpiest destripe emptiers Epirotes epistler expirest firestep fire␣step hip␣trees impester parietes peeriest peitrels peltries Perettis perkiest perlites perviest pesterin' petaries piercest poetiser poetries poëtries preedits preexist preëxist pre-exist prestige pretties Prevites priested receipts repinest repliest reptiles rep-tiles respited respites restripe ripenest speerits spherite spirelet spreiten spreites steepier +6 words

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

Eisert espier esprit Estrie Peirse peries perite pester pestre peters Peters Peter's Petrie Pierse pierst Pitres Preeti preset pre-set Presti Pretes priest Priest resite respit reties retips re-tips ripest Seiter serpet sitrep Speier sprite Sprite stripe Teresi tripes

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

despite raspite respire respits restite

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

resite respit

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