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— English words —

• scratch v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
• scratch v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
• scratch v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• scratch v. (Of a surface) to get such scratches.
• scratch v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• scratch v. (Music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while…
• scratch v. (Billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• scratch v. (Billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• scratch v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
• scratch v. (Transitive, intransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
• scratch v. To dig or scrape (a person’s skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
• scratch v. (Swimming, athletics) To announce one’s non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger…
• scratch n. A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• scratch n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• scratch n. (Sports).
• scratch n. (Meiosis) An injury.
• scratch n. (Slang) Money.
• scratch n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• scratch n. (In the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels…
• scratch n. (Now historical) A scratch wig.
• scratch n. (Music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• scratch n. Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
• scratch adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• scratch adj. Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation.
• scratch adj. (Computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• scratch adj. (Sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without…
• Scratch prop.n. (Programming) A free educational visual programming language developed by the Massachusetts Institute…
• Scratch prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Polish
  • scratch n. (Cycling, music, tennis) Alternative spelling of skrecz.

— English words, defined in French —

• scratch adj. Qui consiste de travaux préliminaires, incomplets, à l’état d’ébauche.
• scratch adj. Qui est assemblé avec hâte, fait promptement ou construit avec les matériaux à disposition, avec peu…
• scratch adj. (Informatique) Qui concerne la structure des données ou le moyen d’enregistrement relié à une machine…
• scratch adj. (Sport) Qui est d’un niveau suffisamment élevé pour jouer sans handicap, c’est-à-dire qui peut jouer…
• scratch n. Égratignure.
• scratch v. Gratter.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• scratch s. Rasco, araño.
• scratch v. Arañar, rascar.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• scratch v. Coçar.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• scratch s. Graffio.
• scratch s. (Musica) scratch.

— In Dutch —

• scratch w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van scratchen.
• scratch w. Gebiedende wijs van scratchen.
• scratch w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van scratchen.

— In French —

• scratch n.m. (Sport) Système de classement mixte dans le cyclisme, la…
• scratch n.m. (Vieilli) (Sport) Ligne de départ d’une course indiquée…
• scratch n.m. (Musique) Procédé utilisé en musique, principalement dans…
• scratch n.m. (Jeux vidéo) Système de bonus utilisé dans les jeux vidéo.
• scratch n.m. Velcro.
• scratch ono.m. Bruit de l’arrachement de quelque chose de collé.

— In Italian —

• scratch s. (Forestierismo) (musica) suono graffiante prodotto con la…

204 English words from 29 English definitions

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28 English words from 21 foreign definitions

bonus Bruit chose con course dans des dire disposition données ébauche est fait handicap les machine mixte musique niveau pour Rasco sans scratch Sport structure travaux van Velcro

69 foreign words from 21 foreign definitions

Arañar araño arrachement assemblé avec avec␣hâte Bij c’est-à-dire classement Coçar collé concerne consiste construit cyclisme dans␣les départ Eerste Eerste␣persoon Égratignure élevé enkelvoud enregistrement état Forestierismo Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs graffiante Graffio Gratter hâte incomplets indiquée Informatique inversie jeux jeux␣vidéo jouer Ligne Ligne␣de␣départ matériaux moyen musica persoon peu peut préliminaires principalement Procédé prodotto promptement quelque quelque␣chose qui rascar relié scratchen suffisamment suono Système tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon une utilisé vidéo Vieilli wijs

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

scratchy scratch␣by scratched scratcher Scratcher scratches scratchie scratchin' scratchers Scratchers scratchest scratcheth scratch␣hit scratchier scratchies scratchily scratching scratchiti scratch-off scratch␣out scratchpad scratch␣wig scratchable scratchback scratchband scratchcard scratch␣card scratch␣hits scratchiest scratchings scratchitti scratchless scratchlike scratch-made scratch␣made scratchmark scratch-offs scratchpads scratch␣race scratchsome scratch␣team scratch␣that scratchweed scratch␣wigs scratchwork scratchbacks scratchbands scratchboard scratchbrush scratch-built +47 words

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

rescratched rescratches unscratched catscratches prescratched rescratching backscratched backscratcher back␣scratcher backscratches headscratcher head-scratcher head␣scratcher unscratchable backscratchers back␣scratchers backscratching booty␣scratcher headscratchers head-scratchers head␣scratchers head-scratching head␣scratching microscratches nanoscratching nonscratchable pork␣scratching tight␣scratches booty␣scratchers cat-scratch␣fever cat␣scratch␣fever head-scratchings head␣scratchings pork␣scratchings chicken␣scratches cat␣scratch␣disease

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

bescratch rescratch catscratch Old␣Scratch Sam␣Scratch backscratch from␣scratch nanoscratch up␣to␣scratch microscratch tight␣scratch chicken␣scratch no␣great␣scratch come␣to␣the␣scratch

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

ATC CRA crat -crat C-rat cratch rat Rat RAT 'rat ratch SCR scr. SCr. scrat tch TCH

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

arc Arc ARC arc- arcs ARCs CTA hct Hct HCT RCs RCS R/Cs tar Tar TAR

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

catchers characts cratches scratchy

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

arcsch ARTCCs charts crasht cratch scatch starch trachs

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

scranch scritch

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

cratch scatch

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