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We found 44 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word leech:
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General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech, leech: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. leech, leech: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. leech: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. leech: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Leech: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. leech: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. leech: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. leech: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. leech: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. leech (1), leech (2): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. leech: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. leech: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Leech (He-Man), Leech (Smallville), Leech (Smallville episode), Leech (comics), Leech (computing), Leech (disambiguation), Leech (sail), Leech (sailing), Leech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Leech: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. leech: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. leech: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Leech: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. leech: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. leech: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  20. leech: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  21. Leech: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
  22. Leech: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  23. leech: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. leech: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  25. leech: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. leech: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. Leech, leech: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. leech: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEECH: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  2. Leech: Natural Magick [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. leech: Webopedia [home, info]
  3. leech: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Leech: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  3. leech: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  4. leech: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  5. Leech: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leech: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leech: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leech: 2060 Shadow-Slang [home, info]
  2. leech: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  2. LEECH: Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (leech)

noun:  carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
noun:  a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
verb:  draw blood
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #5053)

Word origin

Phrases that include leech:   horse leech, leech lattice, william john leech, anti leech, dorothy sherman leech, more...

Words similar to leech:   bloodsucker, bleed, hirudinean, leeched, leeching, leechlike, minion, parasite, phlebotomize, sponge, freeloader, more...


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