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— English words —

• shifter n. One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
• shifter n. (Linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
• shifter n. (Dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
• shifter n. (Nautical) An assistant to the ship’s cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
• shifter n. (Engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
• shifter n. (Engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
• shifter n. (Cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear…
• shifter n. A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
• shifter n. (Mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
• shifter n. (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
• shifter n. (Mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing…
• shifter n. (Erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
• shifter n. A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• shifter s. Deviatore.

— In French —

• shifter v. Décaler.
• shifter v. Changer pour autre chose.

106 English words from 13 English definitions

adjustable and another arrangement artifice as␣in assistant being belt capable changes changing component consciousness control cook cozener Cycling Dated deixis depending depending␣on desired employed Engineering erotica etc fantasy fiction focusing for from gear gearing genre historical horseways jaw keep Linguistics locomotive loop lycanthropes meaning means mechanisms meditation Mining Mythology narrowing Nautical needle one on␣the other passages Pennsylvania person plays practices provisions pulley railroad reality repair resides rider salt science science␣fiction select shape shape-shifter shapeshifters shifter shifting shifts ship shunter shunting sidewise situation size spanner steeping such such␣as switcher textiles that the their them through to␣the tricks unobstructed used washing werewolves which who whose wire with word

3 English words from 3 foreign definitions

Changer chose pour

4 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

autre autre␣chose Décaler Deviatore

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

shifters shifter␣cart shifter␣carts

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

upshifters nymshifters downshifters woodshifters frameshifters phase␣shifters sceneshifters scene-shifters shapeshifters shape-shifters video␣shifters barrel␣shifters column␣shifters paddle␣shifters

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

upshifter nymshifter downshifter woodshifter frameshifter nightshifter phase␣shifter sceneshifter scene-shifter shapeshifter shape-shifter video␣shifter barrel␣shifter column␣shifter paddle␣shifter

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

FTE HIF if't shi Shi shift Shift ter TER ter-

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

ETF IHS ret Ret.

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

reshift

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

fetisher Fichters fighters freights Fritches Fritsche frothies preshift redshift red␣shift refights reshifts sefiroth shifters shiftier shitfire shit␣fire treefish

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

efrits feiths fetish firest fireth firste firths Firths fisher Fisher fister Fister freits friths refits Reiths resift Rieths rifest riseth Ritesh rithes sherif Sherif shrift sifter sireth strife theirs their's thiefs Thiers

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

Seifter shafter Shafter Shiffer shifted shiftee shitter snifter Stifter swifter

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

sifter

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

shiftier

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