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— English words —

• thirl n. (Archaic or dialectal) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
• thirl n. (Dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
• thirl n. (Mining, possibly obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
• thirl n. (Mining, possibly obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.
• thirl v. (Transitive, possibly obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
• thirl v. (Transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
• thirl v. (Obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
• thirl v. (Historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one’s own property as an owner.
• thirl n. (Historical) A thrall.

57 English words from 9 English definitions

adit adits allow and another aperture Archaic between bind bore coalpit communication cut cut␣through dialectal door drill dry dry␣stone dry␣stone␣wall especially Historical hole legally long low mine mining nostril obsolete one own owner partition pass pass␣through penetrate perforate pierce possibly projectile property sheep short smoot stone stone␣wall tenant the thrall through throw to␣the transitive use wall working

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

thirls Thirlby thirled thirlage Thirlbys thirling thirlages thirlings Thirlmere Thirlwall

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

nosethirls

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

nosethirl

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

hir irl IRL Thi thi- thir

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

iht IHT

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

Hirtle Hitler liroth lither thirls thrill thulir

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

hilt Hilt IHRL lirt lith -lith lith- Lith. LRTI rith thir tirl

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

chirl shirl Shirl tgirl t-girl thial Thiel thill Thill thiol Thira Thíra third thiyl thurl twirl whirl

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

thir tirl

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