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— English words —

• tantalus n. A stork of the genus Mycteria (formerly Tantalus), especially the American wood stork, Mycteria americana.
• tantalus n. A stand in which to lock up drink decanters while keeping them visible.
• tantalus n. Something of an evasive or retreating nature, something consistently out of reach; a tantalising thing.
• Tantalus prop.n. (Greek mythology) A Phrygian king who was condemned to remain in Tartarus, chin-deep in water, with…

— International convention —

• Tantalus prop.n. (Obsolete) Mycteria, the genus of certain storks.

— English word, defined in French —

• Tantalus n.prop. (Mythologie) Tantale.

48 English words from 5 English definitions

American certain chin condemned consistently decanters deep drink especially evasive formerly genus Greek keeping king lock lock␣up mythology nature Obsolete of␣an out out␣of out␣of␣reach Phrygian reach remain retreating something stand stand␣in stork storks tantalising Tantalus Tartarus the them thing visible was water which while who with wood wood␣stork

1 foreign word from 5 English definitions

americana

2 foreign words from the foreign definition

Mythologie Tantale

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

tantaluses Tantalus␣cup Tantalus␣cups Tantalus␣sphinx

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

alu ALU alus ant Ant ANT -ant an't ant- ant. Ant. a'n't anta ANTA lus Lus LUs NTA Tal talus tan Tan TAN Tant -tant

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

ATN lat LAT lat. Lat. nat Nat NAT Nat. Sul TNA Ula ULA

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

sultanate tantalous tantalums

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

alaunts anlauts saltant sultana Sultana

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

tantalum

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

tantalous tantalums

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