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— English words —

• wait v. (Transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now…
• wait v. (Intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
• wait v. (Intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
• wait v. (Transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
• wait v. (Obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
• wait v. (Obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
• wait v. (Intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
• wait n. A delay.
• wait n. An ambush.
• wait n. (Computing) Short for wait state.
• wait n. (Obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
• wait n. (In the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
• wait n. (In the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas…
• wait interj. (Informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.
• Wait prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Elfdalian - Tok pisin
  • wait adj. White.
• Gothic
  • wait rom. Romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍄.
• Luxembourgish
  • wäit adj. Far; not close.
  • wäit adv. Far.
• Saterland frisian
  • wäit adj. Wet.
• Westrobothnian
  • wait n. Wheat (Triticum).
  • wait n. Wheat bread.

— English words, defined in German —

• wait V. Warten, abwarten.
• wait V. (Einen Tisch) bedienen, kellnern.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• wait n. Het (proces van) wachten.
• wait w. Wachten; op dezelfde plaats of in dezelfde situatie blijven tot iemand komt of iets gebeurt.

— English words, defined in French —

• wait n. Attente.
• wait v. Attendre.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• wait v. Esperar.
• wait s. Espera.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• wait s. Espera.
• wait v. Esperar.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• wait s. Attesa.

94 English words from 22 English definitions

absence accompany action ambush arrival at␣night attend await betrothed bread ceremony Christmas close colloquial Computing consequence customers defer delay during early eating eating␣establishment especially establishment etc event faithful Far follow for Hautboys Informal Intransitive meal moment morning movement musicians neglected night not now oboes obsolete occurrence one other partner period play play␣at played plural postpone prolonged rare readiness remain respect restaurant Romanization serve Short Short␣for sing some speaker state stative stop surname tables talking Tells the time town Transitive Triticum typing until upon wait wait␣state wait␣tables watches watchman Wet Wheat Wheat␣bread White who with

5 English words from 11 foreign definitions

Espera Het Tisch tot van

19 foreign words from 11 foreign definitions

abwarten Attendre Attente Attesa bedienen blijven dezelfde Einen Esperar gebeurt iemand iets kellnern komt plaats proces situatie wachten Warten

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

waite Waite waits Waits Waitt Waitby waited waitee waiter waites Waites Waithe waitin' wait'll wait␣on Waitts wait␣up Waitaki waitees waiters Waiters waitest waiteth wait␣for Waithes waiting wait␣out waitron waits␣on waits␣up wait-a-bit waitable Waitangi waitasec waited␣on waited␣up waitered waiterly waithood waitings waitlist wait-list waitress waitrons wait␣upon wait-a-bits waiterage waiterdom waitering waiterish +79 words

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

awaits kwaito twaite awaited awaiter awaitin' iowaite Kuwaiti thwaite Thwaite twaites awaiters awaitest awaiteth awaiting hi-wa␣itck iowaites Kuwaitis outwaits reawaits thwaites Thwaites unwaited awaitable awaitment garewaite -in-waiting Kuwaitise Kuwaitize Outhwaite outwaited overwaits reawaited twait␣shad arakawaite awaitables Brathwaite Calthwaite Dowthwaite dumbwaiter dumb-waiter dumb␣waiter Garthwaite headwaiter insizwaite Kuwait␣City Kuwaitised Kuwaitises Kuwaitized Kuwaitizes +89 words

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

await Kuwait can␣wait outwait prewait reawait can't␣wait overwait postwait lie␣in␣wait Crosthwait Postlewait just␣you␣wait lying␣in␣wait Micklethwait watch␣and␣wait State␣of␣Kuwait hurry␣up␣and␣wait

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

ait AIT wai WAI

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

IAW tia Tia TIA

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

Tiwa WTAI

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

Antwi atwix await IAWTC IAWTP IT␣law Iwata Iwate Kawit Swati Taiwo Taiwu tawie Tawil tawiz Tawni Tihwa twain Twain TWAIN Twila wag␣it waift waint waist waite Waite waits Waits Waitt wapit Wasit Waxit WAxit Wiant witan Wutai

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

ait AIT ATW AWT IAT IAW ita ITA iwa tai Tai TAI taw Taw tia Tia TIA Tiw Twa TWA Twi twi- wai WAI wat Wat WAT WIA wit WIT wit' wit. WTA WTI

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

bait Cait fait Fait gait Kait lait Lait nait NAIT Pait tait Tait waft waid Waid waie waif WAIF wail wain Wain wair wais WAIS walt Walt WALT Walt. want Want wan't wa'n't wart wast was't watt Watt Wayt whit Whit writ WSIT

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

ait AIT wai WAI wat Wat WAT wit WIT wit' wit.

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

wag␣it waift waint waist Waitt wapit Wasit Waxit WAxit

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