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— English words —

• selective adj. Of or relating to the process of selection.
• selective adj. (Biology) Of or relating to natural selection.
• selective adj. (Of a person) choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
• selective adj. (Chiefly US, not comparable) Having the authority or capability to make a selection.
• selective adj. Of or relating to the social work approach called selectivity.

— English word, defined in French —

• selective adj. Sélectif, sélective.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• selective adj. Seletivo.

— In French —

• sélective adj. Féminin singulier de sélectif.

28 English words from 5 English definitions

approach authority Biology called capability Chiefly choosy comparable discriminating fussy Having make natural natural␣selection not Of␣a person process relating selecting selection selectivity social social␣work the to␣the when work

4 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Féminin sélectif sélective singulier

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

selectively selective␣fire selectiveness selectively␣mute selective␣memory selective␣mutism selectivenesses selective␣school selective␣yellow selective␣schools selective␣breeding selective␣advantage selective␣advantages selective␣collection selective␣distortion selective␣collections selective␣compression selective␣distortions

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

unselectively nonselectively chemoselectively photoselectively regioselectively superselectively hepatoselectively stereoselectively enantioselectively diastereoselectively ion-selective␣membrane ion-selective␣electrode ion␣selective␣electrode ion-selective␣membranes

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

unselective isoselective nonselective non-selective preselective subselective uroselective autoselective cytoselective metaselective monoselective nanoselective paraselective postselective semiselective chemoselective microselective neuroselective orthoselective photoselective regioselective superselective supraselective ultraselective atroposelective cardioselective hepatoselective immunoselective stereoselective torquoselective counterselective enantioselective phosphoselective nonregioselective diastereoselective nonstereoselective nonenantioselective

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

CTI ECT ect. ELE elec. Elec. elect -elect elective ive Ive -ive I've LEC lect -lect lect. SEL sele select Select Tiv -tive

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

cel CEL -cel cele Cele -cele ELE ELEs ITC les Les LES -les- tce TCE VIT vit.

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

cleveites electives

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

cleveite elective evictees televise

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

elective

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