Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Pickle |
PickleNoun1. Vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar. 2. Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage". Verb1. Preserve in a pickling liquid; as of vegetables. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pickle" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | A solution used to remove oxides or other compounds from the surface of a metal by chemical action. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Pickle A rod in pickle. One ready to chastise with at any moment. Pickled means preserved for use. (Danish, pekel.) I'm in a pretty pickle. In a sorry plight, or state of disorder. "How camst thou in this pickle?" Shakespeare: Tempest, v. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. An acid dip used to remove oxides or other compounds from the surface of a metal by chemical action. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PICKLE. An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew of a mountebank. See JACK PUDDING. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pickle is a fruit or vegetable (usually a cucumber) that has been preserved and flavored in either a brine (salt solution) or a vinegar solution, or a combination of the two.
Pickle may also refer to the pickling solution, or similar solutions used for different purposes, such as removing scale from metal or preserving wood. The word pickle sometimes means a tough situation, or it may refer to a difficult or annoying person.
In the following discussion, the word pickle refers to a pickled cucumber. For information about the process of pickling, or about foods other than cucumbers which may be pickled, see pickling.
It is believed that pickles were first made 4500 years ago in Mesopotamia. Cleopatra thought pickles made her beautiful. The armies of Julius Caesar and Napoleon were fed pickles. During World War II, forty percent of the pickles produced in the US went to the armed forces.
There are many different types of pickles based on differences in preparation, added ingredients, especially spices, size, and form.
- Based on the way pickles are made, there are processed pickles (also called fermented), fresh-pack pickles, and refrigerated pickles.
- Based on flavorings, there are dill, garlic, sweet, bread and butter, deli and kosher pickles.
- Based on size, there are gerkins and midgets.
- Based on form, there are whole pickles, spears, chips, slices, chunks and stackers.
refrigerated dillsPickles are made in one of three ways:
Dill pickles are sour. Kosher pickles are garlic-flavored dills. Bread and butter pickles are onion-flavored and sweet.
- Processed pickles are made the old-fashioned way, by a process of fermentation. The bacteria in the cucumber is allowed to reduce the sugars present. This usually takes about five weeks, and the resulting pickles have a shelf life of many months.
- Fresh-packed pickles are made by pasteurizing cucumbers to kill bacteria or make bacterial spores dormant. Fresh-packed pickles have a shelf life of many months. Many commercially-produced pickles are fresh-packed.
- Refrigerated pickles (sometimes called overnight pickles) are made by placing cucumbers in a vinegar solution and refrigerating them. Compared to processed or fresh-pack pickles, refrigerated pickles have a relatively short shelf life, and even unopened jars should be kept refrigerated.
A gherkin is a small cucumber (there are as many as 8500 gherkins in a 45 gallon barrel). A midget is even smaller (there are up to 30,000 small midgets in a barrel).
See also: food preservation
External links
- History of the pickle
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pickle."
Synonyms: PickleSynonyms: fix (n), hole (n), jam (n), kettle of fish (n), mess (n), muddle (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: remover (chemistry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with. |
Condiment | Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento. |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position. | |
Preparation | Guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions; make investments; keep on foot. |
Preservation | Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store). |
Pungency | Render -pungent. Adjective: season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil. smoke, chew, take snuff. |
Punishment | Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one. |
Revenge | Have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. |
Scourge | Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. |
State | Noun: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect; (appearance), dilemma, pass, predicament. |
Water | Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pickle |
| English words defined with "pickle": Calver, Chutnee, Condite, connectedness, connection, connexion ♦ dill pickle ♦ Pickling, Potargo ♦ sweet pickle ♦ To put up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pickle": BEILSCHMIEDIA ANAY ♦ fan exhaust ♦ Gilpin ♦ life ♦ Ostrich Brains ♦ Rod in Pickle ♦ SHEEPSKIN PICKLER, slat pickler. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pickle": Calver. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein) I'm going to go home grab a shower and a shave, give the wife a little pickle tickle, and be on my way. (A League of their Own ; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) Stomp that pickle revert (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You made my pickle into a light bulb (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) And if we don't drop these bombs right in the pickle barrel there are going to be a lot of innocent people killed (Memphis Belle; writing credit: Monte Merrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pig in a Pickle (1954) Ickle Meets Pickle (1942) Mony a Pickle (1938) A Nice Pickle (1925) The Great Pickle Robbery (1920) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows one large, whole, deli pickle. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Two Maselli brothers, Californians who grow olives, make olive oil, and also pickle olives. Strathmore, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Closures on pickle jars. Pickle jar I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |
| "Pickle" by Amity Shroads Commentary: "This was a lucky shot with my cat Pickle, and it turned out really nice. Hope someone enjoys it." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Charles F. Abbott | Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He puts half the bun on top of the meat, paints the other half with melted butter, with thin pickle relish |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy. "Life's not worth living, and that's the truth," Carelessly caroled the golden youth. In manhood still he maintained that view And held it more strongly the older he grew. When kicked by a jackass at eighty-three, "Go fetch me a surgeon at once!" cried he. Han Soper |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pickle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.35% of the time. "Pickle" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.35% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.25% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.19% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pickle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pickle | Last name | 2,000 | 5,261 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "pickle": be in a nasty pickle ♦ be in a nice pickle ♦ be in a pickle ♦ be in a sad pickle ♦ be in a sorry pickle ♦ bread and butter pickle ♦ dill pickle ♦ have a rod in pickle ♦ have a rod in pickle for ♦ have a rod in pickle for smb. ♦ keep a rod in pickle for ♦ nice pickle ♦ pickle barrel ♦ pickle in aspic ♦ pickle raw ♦ pickle relish ♦ sad pickle ♦ sorry pickle ♦ sweet pickle ♦ tan pickle ♦ To be in a pickle ♦ To put a rod in pickle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pickle": pickle-bottle, pickle-cocks, Pickle-herring, pickle-jar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pickle | 1,106 | skankin pickle | 38 |
pickle recipe | 287 | pickle ball | 36 |
dill pickle recipe | 157 | party pickle | 36 |
dill pickle | 117 | fried pickle recipe | 34 |
bread and butter pickle | 96 | dill kosher pickle recipe | 29 |
cream ice pickle | 79 | pickle vlasic | 27 |
bread butter pickle recipe | 76 | pickle sour | 26 |
sweet pickle | 75 | homemade pickle | 25 |
canning pickle | 71 | comic pickle | 24 |
fried pickle | 69 | christina pickle | 22 |
auction pickle | 57 | kosher pickle | 22 |
petunia pickle bottom | 57 | deep fried pickle | 21 |
pickle picture | 52 | book pickle sweet | 21 |
make pickle | 51 | cucumber pickle recipe | 20 |
pickle barrel | 51 | pickle relish | 20 |
guss pickle | 50 | give em the pickle | 19 |
pickle recipe sweet | 49 | canning dill pickle | 18 |
making pickle | 45 | canning pickle recipe | 18 |
cucumber pickle | 40 | pickle sims | 18 |
refrigerator pickle | 38 | claussen pickle | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pickle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pastroj skorjet në banjë kimike, vë turshi, turshi (pickled, Pickles), telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, mess, nuisance, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry), shëllirë (brine), bela (annoyance, bother, curse, disaster, mess, mishap, pest, trouble), banjë kimike për heqjen e skorjeve. (various references) | |
Arabic | مخلل (pickled, pickles, rare), مأزق (bind, bottleneck, corner, critical situation, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, fix, impasse, jam, logjam, plight, predicament, quandary, quicksands, stalemate), مرق التخليل, نظف بحامض, ورطة (box, deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole, hot water, jam, maw, mess, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate), عالج بمحلول حمضي, خيار مخلل, خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, deficiency, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, preserve, souse, trouble), خل (vinegar). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неприятно положение (unpleasantness), палавник (limb, mischief, urchin), правя туршия от, байцвам (fix), ец, ецвам (etch), декапирам, мариновам (marinade, souse), саламура (brine, souse), киселина (acid), туршия, разтвор за декапиране, разтвор за ецване, слагам в марината, слагам в саламура (brine, souse), марината (marinade, souse). (various references) | |
Chinese | 腌汁, 腌 (to salt), 醃黃瓜 , 醃 (to salt). (various references) | |
Czech | naložit (can, embus, fill, Lade, load, load up, pack, put up, Stow), lák, kyselá okurka, dareba (little devil, rag, scapegrace), cídidlo. (various references) | |
Danish | rensemiddel (cleaner, detergent, remover, stripping compound), bejdse (remover, stain, staining, stripping compound, to dress), afbejdsemiddel (remover, stripping compound). (various references) | |
Dutch | zouten (salt), pekelen (brining, pickling in brine), inmaken (preserve), inleggen (deposit, insert, preserve, put away, put in, stow). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pekli, bubaĉo (naughty boy). (various references) | |
Faeroese | salta (salt). (various references) | |
Farsi | وضعیت دشوار, ترشی انداختن , ترشی (Acerbity, Acidity, Souse), سرکه (Vinegar), خیارترشی (Gherkin). (various references) | |
Finnish | peittauskylpy (remover, stripping compound), peittausaine (remover, stripping compound). (various references) | |
French | saler. (various references) | |
German | pökeln (cure, salt), Essiggurke (gherkin), Beize (corrosive fluid, disinfectant, Hawking, lye, marinade, mordant, stain). (various references) | |
Greek | τουρσί (piccalilli, pickled). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pác (mordant, mordent, soak), ecetes lé. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengasini (salt), mengasamkan, asinan (salted vegetables), asaman (acid). (various references) | |
Italian | sverniciatore (stripper), sottaceto (pickled), salamoia (brine), mettere sotto aceto, marinare (marinate, play truant, skip, souse), decapare (remover, stripping compound), conservare in salamoia, bagno di decapaggio (remover, stripping compound), aceto (vinegar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 菜を漬ける (to pickle greens), 白菜を漬ける (to pickle Chinese cabbage), 箸で漬け物を挟む (to hold a pickle with chopsticks), 漬け込む (to pickle a large amount), 漬ける (to moisten, to pickle, to soak). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なをつける (to pickle greens), つけこむ (to impose on, to make an entry, to pickle a large amount, to take advantage of), つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on, to wear), はしでつけものをはさむ (to hold a pickle with chopsticks). (various references) | |
Korean | 장아찌. (various references) | |
Manx | sailley (brine, corn, cure, salt, salt water), piggylaghey, piggyl (souse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icklepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pôr em vinagre, pôr em salmoura (marinade, souse), pôr de escabeche (marinade), escabeche (marinade, souse), bebedeira (bacchanalia, binge, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, libation, skinful, spree, wassail), conserva (conserve, preserves), conservar em vinagre, decapagem (engrave, etching, floor robbing, regulating, remover, shaping, stripping compound, stripping of overburden), decapante (remover, stripping compound), decapar, apuro (corner, difficulty, plight, style), embriaguez (crapulence, fuddle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, skinful), vinagre (acetic acid), salmoura (brine, souse), situação difícil (cul-de-sac, difficult situation, problem, quandary), situação embaraçosa (box), desoxidar (deoxidate, deoxidize). (various references) | |
Romanian | pomicicã, saramurã (brine, souse), murãturi, mura (wet), diavol (bogy, demon, devil, dragon, fiend, ghostly enemy, imp, limb, old scratch, the evil one, the old serpent), decapant, decapa, dandana (hubbub, racket, scrape, shindy), bãiţui (stain), afuma (burn, corn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, fumigate, gammon, perfume, reek, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, steam, sulphur). (various references) | |
Russian | солить (brine, salt, salt away), шалун (imp, naughty child, naughty kid, skylarker, varmint, varmint for people), мариновать;травить маринад;потрава, засаливать (preserve by salting, salt), протрава (mordant). (various references) | |
Scottish | saill (blubber, cure, fat, fat or fatness, fatness, salt thou, season), brìm. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | turšija (brine), staviti u turšiju, neprilika (hassle, inconvenience, nuisance, plight, predicament, trouble), kiseli krastavac. (various references) | |
Spanish | muchacho travieso (naughty boy), escabeche (brine, marinade, souse, soused fish), escabechar (dye, marinade, marinate, souse), el encurtido, diablillo (imp, monkey), desoxidar (deoxidize, scale), decapante (flux, remover, stripping compound), conservar en vinagre, conserva en vinagre, baño de ácido para desoxidar, aprieto (difficulty, emergency, fix, hole, jam, trouble), adobo (dressing, preparation), adobar (dress, marinate, tan). (various references) | |
Swedish | klämma (clamp, clip, jam, pinch, press, scrape, shut, squash, squeeze), ättikslag. (various references) | |
Turkish | zor durum (cleft stick, crunch, den, foul, grievousness, hole, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, push, sad pickle, scrape, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), tuzlayarak saklamak (salt, salt away, salt down), turşusunu kurmak, turşu, sarhoş etmek (befuddle, fluster, inebriate, intoxicate, make drunk, turn smb.'s head), salatalık turşusu, salamura yapmak (salt), salamura (brine, corned, in salt, pickled, salted, souse), metal temizleme asidi, asitle temizlemek, afacan (guttersnipe, imp, impish, little monster, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, puckish, rascal, scamp, urchin). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | соління (salting), солити (brine, salt, salt away), розсіл (brine), неприємне становище, маринувати (marinade, marinate), маринад (marinade), занапащати (overwhelm, ruin). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoa quả giầm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | pekel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pickle": pickled, pickles. (additional references) | |
| |
"Pickle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bickel, bickle, Kickle, Mickle, Nicklo, Packie, Pasikale, pekkle, piccie, pickel, pick'em, pickie, pickleey, Picksley, Picktel, picol, pikel, Pilckem, Pockley, Pockly, Poikile, Pokule, Puckle, rickle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pickle" (pronounced pi"kul) |
| 4 | -i" k u l | brickle, fickle, stickle, Mickle, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, sickle, tickle, trickle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tinkle, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-p" | |
-2 letters: ceil, clip, epic, kelp, kepi, lice, lick, like, lipe, peck, pice, pick, pike, pile, plie. | |
-3 letters: cel, cep, elk, ice, ick, ilk, kep, kip, lei, lek, lie, lip, pec, pic, pie. | |
-4 letters: el, li, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-p" | |
+1 letter: cuplike, pickled, pickles, prickle. | |
+2 letters: epiclike, klephtic, pickerel, pluckier, prickled, prickles. | |
+3 letters: clerkship, pickerels, placekick, pluckiest, pricklier, skeptical, speckling, stockpile. | |
+4 letters: clerkships, kiloparsec, leukopenic, lipsticked, pincerlike, placekicks, pluckiness, politicked, politicker, prickliest, stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpiles, superslick. | |
+5 letters: cupronickel, flyspecking, forcepslike, hypokalemic, kiloparsecs, leukoplakic, lickspittle, placekicked, placekicker, politickers, prickliness, skeptically, spinachlike, stockpilers. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
