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— English words —

• spear n. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
• spear n. (Now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• spear n. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• spear n. (Ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• spear n. (Wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler’s shoulder is driven into…
• spear n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
• spear n. The feather of a horse.
• spear n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
• spear n. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
• spear v. (Transitive) To pierce with a spear.
• spear v. (Transitive, by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make…
• spear v. (Gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one’s helmet.
• spear v. (Intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
• spear v. (Transitive, obsolete, social, esp. Regency England) To ignore as a social snub.
• spear adj. Male.
• spear adj. Pertaining to male family members.
• spear n. (Botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk.
• spear n. (Obsolete) A church spire.
• Spear prop.n. An English surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • spear n. Alternative form of spere (“spear”).
• West frisian
  • spear n. Spear.

— English words, defined in French —

• spear n. (Armement) Lance, épieu.
• spear v. Harponner.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• spear s. (Arma) lancia.

115 English words from 21 English definitions

Alternative another any anything armed a␣sharp as␣if as␣of attached barbed Botany bucket by␣extension chiefly church driven end end␣of England English esp extension family family␣members feather fish fishermen football for form from grass Gridiron Gridiron␣football helmet historical hockey hockey␣player hockey␣stick horse Ice Ice␣hockey ignore illegal into Intransitive lance long make male maneuver members motion narrow Now object obsolete of␣a one opponent or␣anything penetrate Pertaining pierce plant plants player plunger professional professional␣wrestling prongs pump ramming Regency retrieve rod running sharp shoot shoulder snub social soldier some spear spearman spere spire sprout stalk stem stick stick␣to stick␣with strike strip such surname tackle the them thin throwing thrusting tip Transitive used used␣to using vegetable weapon which with wrestler wrestling

1 English word from 3 foreign definitions

Lance

5 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Arma Armement épieu Harponner lancia

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

spears Spears speary speared spearer spearers speareth speargun spear␣gun spearing Spearing spearlet spearman Spearman spearmen spear-rib speartip spearable spearbush spearcast spear␣feet spearfish Spearfish spear␣foot spearguns spear␣guns spearhead spear-head spearings Spearings spearless spearlets spearlike spear␣lily Spearmans spearmint spearplay spear-ribs spear␣side spearsman spearsmen speartips spearwood spearwork spearwort spearcasts speargrass spear␣grass spearheads spear-heads +59 words

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

upspears bespeared eelspears unspeared upspeared Bent␣Spears boar-spears fire␣spears fishspears polespears Shakspeare upspearing cactus␣pears Shakespeare riding␣spears Shakespeares Shakspearean Shakspearian Shakspearism Britney␣Spears Shakespearean Shakespearese Shakespearian Shakespearism Shakespearize Shakspearisms goes␣pear-shaped Shakespeareana Shakespeareans Shakespeariana Shakespearians Shakespearisms Shakespearized Shakespearizes black␣speargrass Shakespeareanly Shakespearianly Shakespearizing Shakespearology Shakspeareanism Shakspearianism turns␣pear-shaped unShakespearean clutch␣one's␣pearls Shakespeareanism Shakespeareanize Shakespearianism Shakespearolater Shakespearolatry Shakspeareanisms +19 words

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

upspear eelspear Bent␣Spear boar-spear fire␣spear fishspear polespear Pope's␣pear cactus␣pear king's␣spear riding␣spear tip␣of␣the␣spear

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

ear EAR 'ear pea Pea PEA pear SPE

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

eps Eps EPs EPS Rae

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

apers apres aprés après après- asper Asper as␣per Earps pares parse pears Pears Peras præs. prase presa Presa rapes Rapes reaps RESPA sarpe spaer spare Spare Spera

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

afpers Alpers ampers A-per-se APLers arepas Arispe arpens aspire capers Casper CASREP crapes Cresap drapes dreaps escarp e-scrap e-sharp E-sharp e␣sharp E␣sharp Espera frapes gapers gasper Gasper grapes Grapes harpes Harpes hepars japers jasper Jasper lapser Närpes operas pacers Pacers padres Padres pagers paires pakers panser papers parens pareos parges +68 words

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

aper apes APRs apse ares Ares AREs arps Arps arse ARSE EAPs Earp ears EARs EPAs EPRs eras ERAs ERPs Ersa ERSP Paes pare pars pase pear peas Peas PEAs Pera pers pers. Pers. PESA prae- præ- pres Pres pres. Pres. PSRA rape Rape raps RAPs rase rasp reap reas reps Reps Reps. resp RESP resp. RPAs sapr- sare Sare sear Sear Sepa SEPA sera Sera SERA SERP spae spar Spar SPAR Sper

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

scear shear Shear skear smear speak -speak spean Spean speat speer Speir Sphar stear swear

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

pear sear Sear spar Spar SPAR Sper

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Spehar sphear

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