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— English words —

• sail n. (Nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the…
• sail n. (Nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
• sail n. (Uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
• sail n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
• sail n. (Dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
• sail n. (Nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
• sail n. The blade of a windmill.
• sail n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
• sail n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
• sail n. (Fishing) A sailfish.
• sail n. (Paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids.
• sail n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
• sail v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled…
• sail v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
• sail v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
• sail v. (Intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
• sail v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
• sail v. (Intransitive) To move briskly but sedately.
• sail v. (Card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
• SAIL n. Acronym of snow avalanche impact landform.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Basque
  • sail n. Area.
• Irish
  • sail n. Dirt, dross, impurity.
  • sail n. Stain, defilement.
  • sail n. Willow (any of various trees or shrubs in the genus Salix).
  • sáil n. (Anatomy, of shoes) heel.
  • sáil n. (Golf) heel of a club.
  • sáil n. Heeltap (of liquor).
  • sáil adj. Easy, restful, comfortable.
  • sáil adj. Fond of ease and comfort.
  • sáil adj. Self-indulgent, voluptuous.
• Luxembourgish
  • Sail n. Pillar, column.
• Norman
  • saïl n. (Guernsey, chemistry) salt.
• Old irish
  • sáil n. Inflection of sál (“heel”)…
• Saterland frisian
  • Sail n. Sail.
• Scottish gaelic
  • sàil n. Heel.
  • sàil v. Put heels on (Shoes etc.).
• Volapük
  • sail n. (Nautical) sail.
• Welsh
  • sail n. Base, basis, foundation.

— English words, defined in German —

• sail V. Intransitiv: segeln, fahren, reisen.
• sail V. Transitiv: etwas segeln, steuern.
• sail S. Eine Reise auf einem Segelschiff; die Segelfahrt.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• sail n. Zeil.
• sail w. Zeilen.

— English words, defined in French —

• sail n. (Navigation) Voile.
• sail v. (Navigation) Naviguer à la voile.
• sail v. Voler.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• sail s. Vela de un barco o bote.
• sail v. Navegar.
• sail v. Zarpar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• sail s. Vela (pano que se prende ao mastro de uma embarcação).
• sail v. Velejar.

— In French —

• Sail n.fam. Nom de famille.
• SAIL n.prop. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

— In Portuguese —

• sail s. Óleo de pescado, gordura da sardinha e outros peixes.

158 English words from 38 English definitions

Acronym across action air Anatomy and any Anything Area arranged as␣if attached avalanche Base basis begin blade boat briskly but Card Card␣games cards causes certain chemistry club column comfort comfortable concept conning conning␣tower craft Dated deal deal␣out defilement dinosaurs Dirt distance dorsal drive driven dross ease Easy especially etc fabric fish Fishing floating Fond for forward found foundation found␣on from games genus Golf gracefully Guernsey harnessed heel heels Heeltap impact impelled impelling impurity indulgent Inflection Intransitive kind landform like liquor man man␣of␣war move Nautical occurring of␣a on␣the organ out outward Paleontology piece Pillar plural Portuguese Portuguese␣man-of-war power projection Put resembling restful ride sail sailboat sailfish sailing sailing␣vessel sails Salix salt sedately Self Self-indulgent set set␣sail ship shoes shrubs siphonophores snow spine Stain structure submarine submarines substance such such␣as such␣that surface swim synapsids that the them this through topside tower transitive transport travel trees trip uncountable upon use various vessel voluptuous voyage war water waterfowl Willow wind windmill wing

16 English words from 16 foreign definitions

à␣la Artificial auf bote die Eine Intelligence Laboratory Navigation Nom outros pano que Stanford Vela voile

29 foreign words from 16 foreign definitions

barco einem embarcação etwas fahren famille gordura Intransitiv mastro Navegar Naviguer Nom␣de␣famille Óleo peixes pescado prende Reise reisen sardinha segeln Segelschiff steuern Transitiv uma Velejar Voler Zarpar Zeil Zeilen

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

sail'd saile sails SAILs saily sailby sail-by sail␣by sailed sailer Sailer sailes sailin' sailor Sailor sailers Sailers Sailesh sailest saileth sailfin sailing sailors Sailors sailour sailray sailable sailboat sail␣coat sailduck sail␣fine sailfins sailfish sailings sailless saillike sail␣loft sailorly sailours sail-plan sailpunk sailrays sailroom sailship sail␣sign sailwear sailyard sail-yard sailyarn sailboard +90 words

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

assaile assails besaile besails mesails resails assailed assailer assailes besailed besailes daysails dunsails lugsails outsails resailed skysails Sts'Ailes topsails trysails unsailed vessails wassails absailing assailant assailers assailest assaileth assailing besailing daysailed daysailer daysailor drag␣sails foresails gaffsails gaff␣sails grisaille headsails mainsails moonsails nonsailor outsailed oversails parasails reassails resailing ringsails staysails stunsails +113 words

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

asail absail assail besail by␣sail Losail Lusail mesail resail daysail dunsail lugsail outsail set␣sail skysail topsail Topsail trysail vessail wassail drag␣sail foresail full␣sail gaffsail gaff␣sail headsail mainsail make␣sail moonsail oversail parasail reassail ringsail sets␣sail staysail stunsail windsail wingsail aftersail after-sail Age␣of␣Sail crowd␣sail drift␣sail lightsail light␣sail smoke␣sail solar␣sail spritsail storm␣sail turbosail +24 words

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

ail sai

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

IAs IAS LIA lias Lias LIAs

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

ails Alis Ilsa Isla lais Lais Lasi lias Lias LIAs Lisa LISA sial SiAl

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

Ailes aisle Alais Alcis Aldis Alesi alias Alics Alids alifs Aligs alims ALIPs Alisa alish Alsip amils anils asail asili Aslin bails Bails basil Basil BASIL Blais Blasi Cails dials Dials Dilsa Elias eLISA ELISA fails Fails Galis Gilas glias hails Hails hilsa is␣all Islam Islām Isola jails jalis kails Kails +69 words

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

ail ais Ais AIs AIS A.I.s Ali ali- als Als ALs ALS al's Asi ASI a-Si A.S.I. A.␣S.␣I. asl ASL a/s/l IAL -ial IAs IAS ILs ILS Isa ISA is-a Isa. ISL isl. lai Lai las LAs LIA lis LIS LSA LSI sai sal Sal SAL -sal sal- -sal- Sia SIA sil Sil SIL SLA SLI

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

bail Bail Cail Dail fail Fail Gail hail Hail jail kail Kail Lail mail nail Nail Oail pail rail Sahl Saia saic SAIC said Said Saïd saie saif Saif saim sain Sain sais Sais Saïs Saiz 'sall SAML SASL saul Saul scil. skil SMIL soil tail Tail vail Vail wail zail

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

ail sai sal Sal SAL -sal sal- -sal- sil Sil SIL

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

sabil shail skail smail Smail snail stail

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