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6-letter words (4 found)

POUDER,POUDRE,POURED,ROUPED,

5-letter words (14 found)

DOPER,DRUPE,DUPER,OUPED,PEDRO,PERDU,PORED,PROUD,PRUDE,PUDOR,PURED,ROPED,UREDO,URPED,

4-letter words (29 found)

DERO,DOER,DOPE,DORE,DORP,DOUP,DOUR,DROP,DUPE,DURE,DURO,EURO,OPED,PORE,POUR,PROD,PUER,PURE,REDO,REPO,RODE,ROED,ROPE,ROUE,ROUP,RUDE,RUED,UPDO,URDE,

3-letter words (33 found)

DEP,DOE,DOP,DOR,DUE,DUO,DUP,ODE,OPE,ORD,ORE,OUD,OUP,OUR,PED,PER,POD,PRE,PRO,PUD,PUR,RED,REO,REP,ROD,ROE,RUD,RUE,UDO,UPO,URD,URE,URP,

2-letter words (14 found)

DE,DO,ED,ER,OD,OE,OP,OR,OU,PE,PO,RE,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 95 words from poudre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of poudre

poudre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pudʁ/

Noun

poudre f (plural poudres)

  1. (obsolete) dust
    Synonym: poussière
  2. powder

Derived terms

Related terms

  • poussière
  • pulvériser

Descendants

Further reading

  • “poudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French poudre, ultimately from Latin pulvis.

Alternative forms

  • powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuːdər/, /ˈpuːðər/, /ˈpuːdrə/

Noun

poudre (plural poudres)

  1. powder (a collection of particles):
    1. Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
    2. Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
    3. Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
    4. Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
    5. Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
    6. (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
  2. The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
  3. (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.
Derived terms
  • gunnepoudre
  • poudren
Descendants
  • English: powder (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: pouder, pouther
  • → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr
References
  • “pǒudre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Etymology 2

Verb

poudre

  1. Alternative form of poudren

Old French

Alternative forms

  • puldre, pudre, poldre, podre
  • polre (Picardy, Lorraine)
  • pourre (Champagne)
  • poure, pourre

Etymology

From Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”). Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.

Noun

poudre oblique singular, f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)

  1. powder
  2. dust

Related terms

  • pous

Descendants

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 561

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