Crossword-Solution: PELICAN 7 letters, 112 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Pelican	n.	Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
Pelican	n.	A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PELICAN	anagram	CALEPIN, CAPELIN, INPLACE, PANICLE

We have 112 clues for the answer “PELICAN”

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"A wonderful bird is the ___ . . . "	1 answer
A symbol of Louisiana	1 answer
Avian bigmouth	1 answer
Big bird on the state seal of Louisiana.	1 answer
Big-billed sea bird	1 answer
Bird in a Grisham title	1 answer
Bird in a John Grisham title	1 answer
Bird of Louisiana	1 answer
Bird on LSU's seal	1 answer
Bird on Louisiana's state flag	1 answer
Bird on a Louisiana quarter	1 answer
Bird that Alcatraz was named for	1 answer
Bird with a large beak	1 answer
Bird with a pouch	1 answer
Creole State bird	1 answer
Diver on Louisiana's state seal	1 answer
Figure on Louisiana's seal	1 answer
Grisham title bird	1 answer
He fills the bill	1 answer
Hotel in "Sorrell and Son."	1 answer
Image on Louisiana license plates	1 answer
It has a big pouch	1 answer
It has a gular pouch	1 answer
It might present you with a big bill	1 answer
It stores fish in a pouch	1 answer
LA's bird	1 answer
LOUISIANA State	1 answer
Large billed bird	1 answer
Large bird on Louisiana's state flag	1 answer
Large-billed sea bird	1 answer
Lonzo Ball, since 2019	1 answer
Louisiana (with "state")	1 answer
Louisiana State Nicknames	1 answer
Louisiana bird	1 answer
Louisiana flag image	1 answer
Louisiana license plate image	1 answer
Louisiana state bird	1 answer
Louisiana symbol	1 answer
Louisiana's bird	1 answer
Louisiana's state bird	1 answer
Louisiana's state bird, e.g.	1 answer
Louisiana, the ___ State	1 answer
Lousiana bird	1 answer
MEDITERRANEAN bird	1 answer
NBA player since 2013	1 answer
One with a sizable bill	1 answer
POUCH-beaked bird	1 answer
POUCHED bird	1 answer
Plunger with wings?	1 answer
Prominent feature of Louisiana's state flag	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETRA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PELICAN (5)

But what between the poor men I won’t have, and the rich men who won’t have me, I stand forlorn as a pelican in the wilderness.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence, sometimes broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds, and the noise of the waves breaking upon the shore, chafing against the rocks, or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters of the Gulf with its noisy paddles.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Couldn't you bring back some baby alligators and a pelican? Anything alive will be gratefully received.

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995

This was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoological Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner until the whole place was alive with barkings, yappings, roarings, pelican chatterings, and feline yowlings, interspersed with shrieks of hysterical laughter.

Ann Veronica H. G. Wells 2006

Likewise the cuffs and collar, though here I struck a snag, for I had lost my scarf somewhere in the Coolin, and Amos, pelican-like, had to surrender the rusty black tie which adorned his own person.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1996

Quotes with PELICAN (3)

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.

Gary Snyder Turtle Island

For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage to put his back into it. Once in a while the need to create wells up in him, the longing to see a part of himself set free in a work by him, and for days at a time his being can be tensed with joyous, titanic efforts to mold the clay into his Adam. But he is never able to shape him into a semblance of his image, he does not have enough stamina to ma…

Jens Peter Jacobsen

The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.” Roma smiled. “And by scientists, are you one?” “That is dependent on your opinion Dr. Hill. I’m well versed by Dr. Sangha.” Roma moved towards him, narrowing his eyes. “It is my opinion that no respectable scientist will allow himself to be a subject of ridicule by turning in his human DNA to become a freak, a beast or whatever the hell it is…

Dew Platt Roma&retina

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 69 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).