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— English words —

• tortoiseshell n. The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
• tortoiseshell n. The hawksbill turtle.
• tortoiseshell n. A domestic cat (Or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
• tortoiseshell n. Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
• tortoiseshell adj. Made of the covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
• tortoiseshell adj. Having markings resembling covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
• tortoise-shell n. Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
• tortoise-shell adj. Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
• tortoise␣shell n. The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material.
• tortoise␣shell n. Alternative form of tortoiseshell.

— English word, defined in German —

• tortoiseshell S. Schildkrötenpanzer.

— English words, defined in French —

• tortoiseshell n. Écaille de tortue (carapace).
• tortoiseshell n. Écaille de tortue (robe de chat).

48 English words from 10 English definitions

Alternative and Any black brown butterflies carapace cat covering domestic domestic␣cat etc form fur genera guinea guinea␣pig has have Having hawksbill hawksbill␣turtle horny inaccurately Made Made␣of markings material mostly mottled of␣a pig rabbit resembling several shell similar sometimes that the tortoise tortoiseshell translucent turtle used veneer whose yellow

3 English words from 3 foreign definitions

carapace chat robe

3 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Écaille Écaille␣de␣tortue tortue

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

tortoiseshells tortoise-shells tortoise␣shells tortoiseshell␣cat tortoiseshell␣cats tortoise-shell␣bamboo tortoise-shell␣bamboos

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

large␣tortoiseshells small␣tortoiseshells

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

large␣tortoiseshell small␣tortoiseshell

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

ell Ell ELL 'e'll esh Esh ESH Hel he'l hell Hell he'll Ise ISE -ise I'se OIs OIS Oise OISE ort ORT RTO ses SEs SES -ses sesh she She SHE s/he she- (s)he Shel she'l shell Shell she'll Toi TOI Tois toise toises tor Tor TOR tort -tort Torto tortoise tortoises

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

ehs EHS EH&S ESI hse HSE IoT IOT -iot leh Leh Lehs OTR rot ROT ses SEs SES -ses TRO trot Trot

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

tortoiseshells tortoise-shells tortoise␣shells

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