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— English words —

• sluice n. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill…
• sluice n. A water gate or floodgate.
• sluice n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
• sluice n. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
• sluice n. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
• sluice n. (Linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
• sluice v. (Transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
• sluice v. (Transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.
• sluice v. (Transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
• sluice v. (Transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
• sluice v. (Intransitive) To flow, pour.
• sluice v. (Linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

— English word, defined in French —

• sluice n. Écluse.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• sluice s. Canal.
• sluice s. Saetín.
• sluice s. Compuerta.
• sluice s. Esclusa.
• sluice v. Verter.
• sluice v. Enjuagar.

67 English words from 12 English definitions

anything artificial auriferous box canal channel complement coordinated copiously down earth elide ellipsis emit example fitted flood floodgate flood␣gates flow flowing flows for for␣example gate gates generally Hence instance Intransitive Linguistics lock long mill Mining more opening out passage pour question rare running running␣through See sluice sluicing source stranding stream supply the through Transitive trough used valve wash washing wash␣with water water␣flows water␣gate wet which wh-question with

1 English word from 7 foreign definitions

Canal

4 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

Écluse Enjuagar Esclusa Verter

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

sluiced sluicer sluices sluicers sluicery sluicebox sluice-box sluice␣box sluiceway sluiceable sluicegate sluice-gate sluice␣gate sluiceless sluicelike sluiceries sluiceways sluiceboxes sluice-boxes sluice␣boxes sluicegates sluice-gates sluice␣gates sluice␣one's␣bolt sluice-gate␣price sluice-gate␣prices

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

unsluiced unsluices

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

unsluice Seaton␣Sluice

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

ice Ice ICE -ice Ice. Lui UIC

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

uls ULs Uls.

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

lucies

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

caulies celsius Celsius Chisleu Cleitus clipeus cliques cubiles culices cullies culshie curlies emulsic esculin Iliescu leucins leucism Luciers Luckies luetics Pulices siculae sluiced sluicer sluices spicule unclies unslice

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

ceils Celis ciels clies clues culei eICUs ILECs ileus Leics Lieus luces Sicel sicle -sicle slice Slice sulci

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

sluicy

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

slice Slice

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