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Definition: SPUN SILK |
SPUN SILK1. A cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Yarn produced by dressing or combing processes from silk waste that has been'boiled off'to remove the gum. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPUN SILK |
| English words defined with "SPUN SILK": leaf roller, leafroller. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPUN SILK": chappe, chapped silk ♦ schappe silk, schappe yarn, silk noils. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SPUN SILK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | silkegarn (silk yarn, tram), schappesilke, affaldssilkegarn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ZIJDEVEZELGAREN. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | silkkilanka (silk yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fil de soie, fil de schappe, fil de déchets de soie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Seidengarn (silk yarn), Schappeseide, Abfallseidengarn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλωσμένο μετάξι, μεταξωτό νήμα (silk yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | seta filata (thrown silk), filato di seta (silk yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unspay ilksay seda schappe (silk noils), seda fiada (thrown silk), fio de seda (silk yarn). (various references) seda hilada (reeled silk, thrown silk), hilo schappe (silk-spun), hilo de seda (silk yarn). (various references) silkegarn (silk yarn), silke (silk). (various references) pamuklu ipek ipliği, kaba ipekli dokuma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-n-p-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: linkups, uplinks. | |
-2 letters: linkup, lupins, plinks, plunks, slinks, spunks, suslik, uplink. | |
-3 letters: kilns, links, lisps, lunks, lupin, nisus, pilus, pinks, plink, plunk, pulik, pulis, punks, silks, sinks, sinus, skins, skips, slink, slips, slunk, snips, spiks, spins, spunk, sulks. | |
-4 letters: ilks, inks, kiln, kins, kips, kiss, link, lins, lips, lisp, lunk, nils, nips, pink, pins. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n-p-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: pluckiness. | |
+3 letters: spelunkings. | |
+4 letters: pluckinesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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