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Showing words for PELICAN using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Pelican

calepin, capelin, panicle, pelican, pinacle

6 Letter Words for Pelican

alcine, alpine, ancile, apneic, caline, caplin, epical, inlace, nepali, pencil, penial, piacle, pineal, plaice, plicae

5 Letter Words for Pelican

alice, alien, alpen, ancle, anile, calin, calpe, canel, canli, capel, caple, cinel, clape, clean, cline, clipe, elaic, elain, encia, eniac, enpia, ileac, incle, laine, lance, lapin, liane, linac, linea, necia, nepal, niepa, paine, pance, panel, panic, pecan, penal, pical, picea, pilea, place, plain, plane, plena, plica

4 Letter Words for Pelican

acle, acne, aiel, aile, aine, alce, alec, alen, alep, alin, ance, anil, cain, calp, cane, cape, capi, ceil, cepa, ciel, cine, clan, clap, clep, clin, clip, eila, elan, encl, epic, epil, ilea, inca, incl, lace, laen, laic, lain, lane, lean, leap, lena, lepa, lice, lien, lina, line, lipa, lipe, nace, nael, nail, nale, nape, neal, neap, nepa, nice, nile, nipa, pace, pail, pain, pale, pali, pane, peai, peal, pean, pela, peni, pial, pian, pica, pice, pien, pila, pile, pina, pine, plan, plea, plia, plie, pnce

3 Letter Words for Pelican

ace, ail, ain, alc, ale, aln, alp, anc, ane, apc, ape, apl, cai, cal, can, cap, cel, cen, cep, cia, cie, cli, cpa, cpi, cpl, ean, ela, eli, enc, enl, epa, epi, ice, ile, inc, ipl, lac, lai, lan, lap, lca, lea, lei, lep, lie, lin, lip, lpn, nae, nap, nea, nei, nep, nie, nil, nip, pac, pal, pan, pci, pea, pec, pel, pen, pia, pic, pie, pil, pin, pli

Definitions for Pelican

[1] any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
[2] a still or retort with two tubes that leave the body from the neck, curve in opposite directions, and reenter the body through the belly.
[3] any aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, such as P. onocrotalus (white pelican ): order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish

Words nearby Pelican

pelger-huët nuclear anomaly, pelham, pelham holles, pelham-holles, pelias, pelican, pelican crossing, pelican hook, pelican state, pelican-flower, pelike

Origin of Pelican

before 1000; Middle English pellican, Old English < Late Latin pelicānus, variant of pelecān < Greek pelekā́n

Word origin for Pelican

Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelicānus, from Greek pelekān; perhaps related to Greek pelekus axe, perhaps from the shape of the bird's bill; compare Greek pelekas woodpecker