Words and Linguistics

Some of this stuff might seem intuitive, but it could give you ways of searching for things that you hadn't thought about.

Word Properties
Words

Find definitions and other properties of a word
 * word march
 * word plinth

Dictionary lookup

Find the definition of a word
 * define triangulate

Find a phonetic representation of a word
 * phonetic hypothesize

Thesaurus

Look up synonyms of word
 * synonyms granular

Look up hypernyms (broader terms) of word
 * broader terms wine

Look up hyponyms (narrower terms) of word
 * narrower terms green

Etymology

Find etymology of word
 * etymology line

Word Puzzles
Anagrams

Find anagrams of a word or phrase
 * anagrams trace
 * anagrams pepsi cola

Find letter bank words
 * letter bank tale

Crosswords

Find words matching a pattern
 * t_n
 * _al__la__

Find words with a specified beginning
 * words starting with tric

Find words with a specified ending
 * words ending with ager

Subsets and Supersets

Find words made from a specified set of letters
 * word subsets recycle
 * word subsets aelrstt

Find words containing a specified set of letters
 * words containing eeqz

Cryptograms

Find possible decoding of a cryptogram
 * cryptograms krkrpl

Document Length
Do document length calculations
 * 70,000 words
 * 1,000,000 characters
 * 500 pages

Specify a language
 * 35,000 words in Finnish

Specify a document type
 * 120 page screenplay

Specify language and document type
 * 500 page book in Spanish

Number Names
Number Names

Find the English name of a large number
 * 1,702,465,818
 * 10^39

Specify a number by name
 * four thousand three hundred twelve
 * 1 vigintillion
 * five sixteenths

Mix words and numerals
 * 165 million

Get number names in a given language
 * German numeral names

Word Problems

Specify math problems in words
 * one hundred ninety-six times nineteen
 * the square root of sixty-four