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— English words —

• shark n. (Ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton…
• shark n. (UK, university slang) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity…
• shark v. (Rare) To fish for sharks.
• shark v. (UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with…
• shark n. Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
• shark n. (Informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
• shark n. (Informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
• shark n. (Informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
• shark n. (Informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
• shark n. (Sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
• shark v. (Obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
• shark v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
• shark v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
• shark v. (Obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Albanian
  • shark n. Shepherd’s vest.
  • shark n. Shell (of certain fruits like nuts, hazel, chestnut etc).
  • shark n. Skin (that covers the seed of certain fruits like peach, grape, prunes etc).
  • shark n. Snake skin.

— English words, defined in German —

• shark S. Der Haifisch, Hai.
• shark S. Derb::eine skrupellose, hinterlistige Person.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• shark w. Onovergankelijk sharks jagen.
• shark w. Onovergankelijk bedriegen, oplichten.
• shark w. Onovergankelijk bedotten, beetnemen.
• shark w. Overgankelijk, (verouderd) door bedrieglijke middelen verkrijgen.
• shark n. (Vissen) haai.
• shark n. (Spreektaal), (informeel) bedrieger, fraudeur, gannef, leperd, misleider, oplichter.
• shark n. (Spreektaal), (informeel) woekeraar.
• shark n. (In het gokspel) een persoon die veinst onbekwaamheid om geld te winnen van anderen.
• shark n. (US) genie.

— English words, defined in French —

• shark n. (Zoologie) Requin, squale.
• shark n. Escroc, filou.
• shark n. Canaille, gredin.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• shark s. Ictiología. Tiburón.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• shark s. Tubarão.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• shark s. (Zoologia) pescecane, squalo.

101 English words from 18 English definitions

activity ambulance ambulance␣chaser amoral and bad business cartilaginous certain chaser chestnut Compare covers covertly derogatory engage engaged especially etc example exploits extortion feigns fish for for␣example fraud fresher from fruits games gather good grape group has hazel Ichthyology in␣business indiscriminately ineptitude Informal intransitive lawyer lies like live money not nuts Obsolete obtain Of␣a others peach person petty pick play player poker pool practice predatory prunes Rare relentless resolute scaleless seed sexual sharks Shell Shepherd shifts skeleton skin slang sleazy Snake Someone Sports steal stratagems student superorder swindle that the thief through trickery university university␣student usury very very␣good vest who win with

15 English words from 17 foreign definitions

Canaille Der die door een Escroc gannef geld genie Hai het Person Requin sharks van

40 foreign words from 17 foreign definitions

anderen bedotten bedriegen bedrieger beetnemen Derb eine filou fraudeur gokspel gredin haai Haifisch hinterlistige Ictiología informeel jagen leperd middelen onbekwaamheid Onovergankelijk oplichten oplichter Overgankelijk persoon pescecane skrupellose Spreektaal squale squalo Tiburón Tubarão veinst verkrijgen verouderd Vissen winnen woekeraar Zoologia Zoologie

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

sharke sharks sharky sharked sharker sharkes Sharkey sharkdom sharkers Sharkeys sharkfin shark-fin shark␣fin sharkful sharking sharkish sharklet shark␣net shark-bait shark␣bait sharkbite shark-bite shark␣bite sharkette sharkfins shark-fins shark␣fins shark-gull sharkless sharklets sharklike sharkling sharkmeat shark␣nets sharksfin sharkskin shark␣week sharkettes shark-gulls sharkishly sharklings sharkskins sharktopus shark␣weeks shark␣attack shark␣baiter shark-finned Shark␣Island sharksucker shark␣attacks +14 words

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

catsharks cowsharks cow␣sharks fox␣sharks mudsharks mud␣sharks sawsharks blue␣sharks bull␣sharks cardsharks hornsharks horn␣sharks landsharks land␣sharks loansharks loan␣sharks mako␣sharks megasharks poolsharks reef␣sharks sandsharks sand␣sharks angelsharks angel␣sharks blind␣sharks brown␣sharks dusky␣sharks frill␣sharks ghostsharks ghost␣sharks gummy␣sharks houndsharks hound␣sharks lemon␣sharks loansharked loan␣sharked mud␣sharking nurse␣sharks river␣sharks swellsharks tiger␣sharks whale␣sharks white␣sharks zebra␣sharks bamboosharks bamboo␣sharks carpet␣sharks copper␣sharks fat␣catsharks goblin␣sharks +45 words

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

catshark cowshark cow␣shark fox␣shark mudshark mud␣shark sawshark antishark blue␣shark bull␣shark cardshark hornshark horn␣shark landshark land␣shark loanshark loan␣shark mako␣shark megashark poolshark reef␣shark sandshark sand␣shark angelshark angel␣shark blind␣shark brown␣shark dusky␣shark frill␣shark ghostshark ghost␣shark gummy␣shark houndshark hound␣shark lemon␣shark nurse␣shark river␣shark rough␣shark swellshark tiger␣shark whaleshark whale␣shark white␣shark zebra␣shark bambooshark bamboo␣shark carpet␣shark copper␣shark fat␣catshark goblin␣shark +50 words

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

ark Ark Ark. har HAR hark sha SHA

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

ahs Ahs AHS kra Kra KRA rah rahs

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

harks HKSAR Kahrs

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

Ashkar charks Eraskh harkas Harkis hearks Horaks Hruska karhis kasher kasrah Khares Kheras Kishar Klahrs Krahns Kuhars kurash rakhis rakish Rehaks riksha Sakhir shaker Shaker Shakir Shakur sharke sharks sharky shikar shikra Shirak shrank Shukra sikhra

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

Ahrs AHRS akhs AKRs arks Askr Haks hark hars HARs hask HRAs Kahr kars Kars KARs Kash Kash. Khas ksar rahs rash Rash Sahr sark Sark Shak SHRA skar

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

chark shack Shack shaik Shaik shalk shank Shank shard share Share shari Shari Sharm sharn sharp Sharp SHARP shart Shary Sherk shirk Shirk sjark smark snark Snark spark Spark stark Stark

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

hark sark Sark Shak

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