Words and phrases whose definition contains another:  (1396 results)
aboard, abut, accede, accept, action, addend, address, adjoin, adjunct, adscript, agent, aimless, airway, air lane, air plant, angle, apart, applique, approach, assist, assume, augend, babel, background, backup, back up, balance, bank draft, banter, bathing, beadsman, better, biased, bizarre, bondage, border, boswell, bound off, broker, bugger, butt on, but then, by-catch, bycatch, bypass, call in, carry, censured, central, chain-smoke, change hands, channel, chaser, chokehold, choke hold, cipher, clathrate, clawback, clearance, co-sign, cognate, cogwheel, colored, coloured, column, commute, compeer, comrade, concede, concord, condyle, confer, confound, confuse, consign, control, convert, convey, conveyed, coolant, cosign, couple, covet, crisscross, crossing, crossroad, crossway, curie, cut in, cut to, cypher, dado, debate, defer, depart, deport, devolve, diphthong, direct, discord, dispose, dogfight, donor, double, drifting, duet, duo, earnest, easement, eclipse, elbow, elsewhere, embrace, envy, equal, exchange, expand, expect, export, extend, eyespot, factor, fairly, favor, favour, fellow, ferry, fill-in, flight path, floating, folded, fomite, food chain, force field, foreign, fork out, fork up, fortune, free love, friction, frottage, frotteur, function, gear wheel, get in, give in, give up, gradate, half-bound, hand-down, hand-me-down, hazard, hearsay, hedger, high-five, hitting, home help, hostage, impact, incline, index, insert, instance, intro, invade, inverse, in line, jealous, jolly, journey, jump-start, jumpstart, jump cut, lander, lapping, layer, layered, leapfrog, leechlike, lemma, letter, level, loanword, locum, love-song, love song, mapping, masking, masse shot, mayhem, meanwhile, member, migrant, migrate, millstone, mix-up, mobile, mohs scale, motion, movement, mover, namesake, neighbor, neighbour, occur, offset, orbit, outrange, oxide, passage, passing, pass on, pass through, peptide, phase change, pirate, planet, poacher, postpose, prefer, preferred, prepose, project, promise, proxy, purging, quitclaim, raper, rapist, react, rebirth, reduce, refer, relief, remain, remand, remit, render, renter, replace, reserve, reship, revolt, ringer, riptide, rising, rope up, rubbing, sandglass, sandhi, schism, segue, send back, send out, sequence, series, servant, service, seventh, sex crime, sharing, sheet bend, shifting, shortened, singing, siphon, sister, skyway, slam dance, slander, slanted, slapper, slasher, slave ant, snarl-up, sorbate, sorbent, sorption, spanker, stabber, stand-in, state change, steady, stratum, striking, subject, sublease, sublet, submit, subscript, subset, subspace, substrate, super, support, sweetheart, sweetie, switching, tailgate, takeout, tattle, telling, tender, texture, thraldom, thralldom, tide rip, toggle, tortured, traitor, transfer, transform, transfuse, transit, translate, transmit, transplant, transport, transpose, transship, travel, trespass, tribute, triple, trouble, truelove, trustee, try square, turn in, two-faced, twosome, unit, upstage, usurped, vagrant, vicar, virus, voucher, vouch in, washup, wave-off, winder, zero
abetter, abettor, absorbent, absorption, accomplice, adapter, addiction, addition, adherent, adjournment, adoption, adsorbent, aerophyte, aggressive, agonist, alias, alien, allograph, alternate, amalgam, anagram, approaching, arranger, ascendance, ascendence, assignment, assistant, attendant, attender, attraction, autograft, avulsion, backbiter, backup man, back and forth, banker's draft, bear down on, becket bend, bedesman, betrayer, betting odds, biddable, bigamist, bloodsucking, blood brother, bohr theory, borrowing, borrow pit, breakaway, brotherhood, bumper guard, butt against, carrefour, casey jones, cat burglar, chain-smoker, changeling, change over, channelise, channelize, circumscribe, claim jumper, class feeling, close support, coeval, cofactor, cognate word, commonwealth, companion, compassion, compliance, compliant, concordance, condolence, confidence, confusion, congener, conjugate, connection, connexion, contagious, container, continue, contradance, contra danse, contredanse, conversion, converter, convertor, conveyance, conveying, copycat, cosponsor, countercheck, counterclaim, counterpart, counterplan, counterplay, counterplot, counterpoised, countersign, country-dance, covetous, crochet stitch, cross-index, cross-refer, crosscurrent, crossover, cut away, daughter cell, dead ringer, deceitful, decouple, defamer, deliver, dependant, dependent, detrition, different, differently, diffusion, disaccord, disagree, disciple, displacement, divergent, dividend, divider, divisor, dominance, double-date, double-faced, double-park, double-tongued, dumbwaiter, egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue, elution, embracing, emigrant, emigre, emigree, empathy, emulate, encroachment, end-to-end, enhancer, entr'acte, envious, epiphyte, erasure, established, estate car, exchanger, exchange rate, exotic, exploded, extradite, familiar, family, field of force, follower, foot soldier, foreign-born, foreign aid, foreign bill, foreign draft, forerunner, fork over, forwarding, foster-nurse, fraud in fact, free-living, friendliness, frittata, fungible, give-and-go, go-around, go away, guarantee, guarantor, guaranty, guestworker, guest worker, half binding, hand over, harmony, helicteres, heritor, homicide, housebreaker, humectant, hyperlink, imposture, impression, inclusion, indenture, indifferent, infidel, influence, ingenious, insertion, instrument, interchange, interface, interim, interlock, interlude, interpret, intruder, intrusion, in common, janus-faced, journeying, kinsperson, libeler, life cycle, lightning rod, livery, maintenance, maligner, manfully, manslayer, martin cline, maxzide, migration, migrator, mimesis, mimicry, mind reader, minister, misconduct, mother cell, movable, moveable, muckraker, mudslinger, murderer, negation, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nonnative, novation, obeisance, occluded, occupy, ocellus, offerer, offeror, ogler, one-sided, orient, otherwise, out-of-town, outgoer, overlap, overshoot, overskirt, oxidant, paradigm, parasite, partition, pass across, pass over, pentacle, pentagram, personage, perspective, placeholder, plagiarist, polony, position, precursor, preference, presentment, primitive, punching bag, purgation, quadruple, quantum jump, race riot, racism, reaction, rebellion, recoding, reducer, reductant, redundant, referent, refraction, reinsure, relative, relegate, reliant, reliever, relinquish, remission, remitment, remittal, remittance, replacement, replacing, repulsion, reshipment, retainer, right of way, rolling hitch, sadistic, satellite, saturate, schadenfreude, secondhand, see also, segregate, selected, self-abuse, seminal, sex offense, shooting brake, slam dancing, slanderer, slavery, soaking up, sodomist, softener, soliton, some other, source language, sparring mate, speaking tube, spring-loaded, stablemate, stakeholder, stock power, stovepiping, subcontract, subduction, subfigure, submission, submitter, subrogate, substitute, substratum, succession, suggestion, superpose, superscript, supplanter, supplanting, suppresser, suppressor, surety, surrender, surrogate, survivor, svengali, symploce, synergist, tailgater, take over, teleport, telescoped, then again, thoroughfare, thought-reader, to and fro, trace program, traducer, traffic jam, transcriber, transcription, transducer, transduction, transferase, transferee, transference, transferor, transferral, transformer, transfusion, transition, translation, translator, translocate, transmigrate, transshipment, traveling, travelling, trespasser, triplicate, trusteeship, turn over, two-timer, underling, underquote, xenograft, unswerving, uprising, usurper, vagabond, valuable, vehicle, verify, versatile, vestibule, vis-a-vis, warranter, warrantor, weaver's hitch, weaver's knot, well-wishing, written text
accessary, accessory, accompaniment, acquiescent, acquirer, action at law, affiliate, alienable, alimony, allopatric, also known as, alteration, alternation, ambassador, ambidextrous, anaclitic, anamorphic, antagonist, apocarpous, arbitrager, arbitrageur, ascendancy, ascendency, aspirator, assibilate, assignable, associate, attractive force, autoplasty, background signal, bear down upon, betake oneself, bill of exchange, blood relation, blood relative, business agent, capital cost, carry over, catalysis, co-occurrence, combining weight, command guidance, communicate, commutable, commutation, companionway, complication, concomitance, concomitant, confederate, confidential, congenator, consistency, conspecific, control system, convertible, conveyable, conveyancing, coolant system, corollary, correspondence, counterattack, counterbalanced, countercurrent, countermeasure, country dancing, cross-reference, delivery, derivative, derived function, desultory, differential, direct support, dispersing phase, displaced fracture, double-crosser, double-dealer, double-dealing, double entry, double standard, duplicitous, duplicity, effectual, egg-and-anchor, elevator, embassador, emigration, emulation, emulator, emulsified, endogamic, endogamous, enviousness, epicycle, epicycloid, epitaxy, equivalent, ethnic cleansing, extradition, fiducial, fissiparous, foreign exchange, foster-mother, genus helicteres, geomancy, handing over, harmoniser, harmonizer, heat exchanger, heterograft, high commission, homogenised, homogenized, hydraulic press, hypocycloid, imbrication, imitator, impersonate, indebtedness, independence, inferior, inheritor, insurrection, integrated, interbank loan, intercession, interloper, intermezzo, intersection, introduction, intromission, inverse function, invidia, irredenta, irridenta, isometry, john luther jones, legal action, legal transfer, letters of marque, letter of marque, liquidator, liver cancer, loan translation, locum tenens, madame curie, marie curie, masturbation, mercenary, metalepsis, metaphoric, metastasis, metonymic, miscegenate, modifier, modulation, money changer, moralism, moving expense, naturalise, naturalize, naturalized, negociate, negotiable, obedience, object language, obscenely, occultation, onanism, opposition, organ transplant, orientate, out-migration, overlapping, oxidiser, oxidizer, parallel-park, parallelize, parasitic, permutation, personation, phase transition, physical change, plagiariser, plagiarizer, plurality, pollinator, positive fraud, postposition, postpositive, potato race, power takeoff, preferable, preoccupy, preparation, preposition, presentation, procurator, proselytise, proselytize, proximity, public mover, quadruplicate, qualifying, quitclaim deed, racialism, radial nerve, rate of exchange, reattribute, recognition, registered bond, reincarnate, removal firm, reposition, repulsive force, screen memory, separatist, seriatim, sexualize, soliton wave, sparring partner, stay together, stick together, sub-interval, submissiveness, subordinate, subrogation, substitution, successiveness, superimposed, superior, supersedure, supersession, support payment, suppresser gene, suppressor gene, synaesthesia, synesthesia, syntax language, target language, tcp/ip, telepathist, telepathy, telescopic, tenderhearted, thought transference, tongue and groove joint, tramontane, transaminate, transferable, transferrable, transfer paper, transformation, translatable, transmigration, transmutation, transplantation, transportable, transportation, transposition, usurpation, ventriloquy, verifier, vested interest, vicarious, vicious circle, vicious cycle, vicissitude, vilifier, violation, xenotransplant
adulteration, air-to-air missile, alienation, aminopherase, anachronism, anacoluthon, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antagonism, antibiosis, antiparticle, assimilation, backward and forward, celestial orbit, centrifugal force, centripetal force, character witness, commiseration, compassionateness, concentricity, congratulation, consideration, contemporary, conversion factor, coreligionist, cost of capital, counterargument, cross-pollination, crossover voter, data conversion, data converter, dental amalgam, desexualise, desexualize, directivity, echolalia, electrical shunt, emancipation, epicyclic train, epiphytic plant, equilibrium, equivalent weight, expatriation, expropriated, felicitation, fiduciary, first derivative, food elevator, from pillar to post, high commissioner, hither and thither, humiliation, identity theft, impersonation, impersonator, inalienable, inclusion body, incommutable, inconvertible, independency, isuridae, legal guardian, liability, line of succession, machine translation, marya sklodowska, metaphorical, metempsychosis, metonymical, modification, modifier gene, moving company, nitrification, nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic, on the other hand, opposite number, order of payment, organic compound, parasitical, parasitic plant, partner relation, perpendicular, prechlorination, purchasing agent, recriminative, redeposition, reducing agent, reincarnation, representation, saturation point, sexual abuse, sexual assault, soldier of fortune, solitary wave, stable companion, subdirectory, subsidiary, substitutable, substitution class, succedaneum, superinfection, superposition, teleportation, the green-eyed monster, tower of babel, transaminase, transamination, translating program, transliteration, transubstantiate, trust territory, ultimate frisbee, unconvertible, undeservedly, undeviating, unexchangeable, untranslatable, vena comitans, ventriloquism

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