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— English words —

• windmill n. A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
• windmill n. The structure containing such machinery.
• windmill n. A child’s toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
• windmill n. (Basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
• windmill n. (Baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
• windmill n. A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
• windmill n. A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor…
• windmill n. Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one…
• windmill n. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
• windmill n. (Juggling) The false shower.
• windmill n. (Figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
• windmill v. (Transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
• windmill v. (Intransitive) Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
• wind-mill n. Archaic spelling of windmill.
• wind␣mill n. Rare spelling of windmill.

— English words, defined in French —

• windmill n. Moulin à vent.
• windmill v. Tourner librement, sans contrainte en parlant d’une pièce rotative.
• windmill v. Tourner avec un mouvement de balayage.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• windmill s. Molino de viento.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• windmill s. Moinho de vento.
• windmill s. Cata-vento.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• windmill s. Mulino a vento.
• windmill s. Girandola (giocattolo).

106 English words from 15 English definitions

adjustable and Any Archaic arm ball Baseball Basketball become before blown body breakdancing but butterflies by␣means␣of called child circle circular consisting consisting␣of containing continuously dancer deal disengaged dunk dunker enemy exercises false false␣shower Figurative floor freely genus great great␣circle guitar hand her his hoop imaginary intransitive Juggling large linear machine machinery makes means mimics motion mounted move move␣in muscle of␣a on␣a␣stick one on␣the on␣the␣floor papilionid part path person pitch pitcher presented Rare real resemble rolls rotate rotating rotational sails shower spelling stick structure strumming such sweeping swings that the through throwing torso toy Transitive translates turning typically vanes various when where which wind windmill wings with

7 English words from 8 foreign definitions

balayage Girandola Molino Moulin rotative sans vent

16 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

avec Cata Cata-vento contrainte giocattolo librement Moinho Moulin␣à␣vent mouvement Mulino parlant pièce Tourner une vento viento

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

windmills wind-mills wind␣mills windmilly windmilled windmiller windmillers windmilling windmill␣grass windmill␣restart windmill␣restarts windmills␣in␣one's␣head

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

fight␣windmills tilt␣at␣windmills tilts␣at␣windmills tilted␣at␣windmills tilting␣at␣windmills

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

giddy␣as␣a␣windmill cap␣over␣the␣windmill hat␣over␣the␣windmill

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

DMI ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill. Ind IND ind. Ind. in␣d. mil Mil MIL mil. mill Mill NDM win Win WIN w/in wind Wind

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

DNI IMD IM'd Lim -lim- MDN

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

windmills wind-mills wind␣mills windmilly

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

Wildmill windbill Windhill

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