(obsolete or dialectal) To imbue with fear; to affright, to terrify.
affer
afire
afire
adv
On fire (often metaphorically).
aflex
afley
afore
afore
adv
(archaic, dialect) Before.
(nautical) In the fore part of a ship.
conj
In advance of the time when; before.
prep
Before; in advance of the time of.
Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
afret
after
after
adj
(dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
(nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
adv
Behind; later in time; following.
conj
Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
prep
(Ireland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
(dated) According to an author or text.
(obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
As a result of.
Behind.
Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
In pursuit of, seeking.
In spite of.
Next in importance or rank.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
alefs
alefs
noun
plural of alef
aleft
aleft
adv
(archaic) To or on the left-hand side.
alfeo
alfet
alfet
noun
(obsolete) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
alfie
alfie
Proper noun
name or Alfonso, also used as a formal given name.
alief
alief
noun
(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.
alife
alife
adv
(obsolete) On one's life; dearly.
noun
Alternative form of A-life
aoife
apfel
arefy
arefy
verb
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To dry, or make dry; wither.
aslef
befan
cafes
cafes
noun
plural of cafe
calef
chafe
chafe
noun
(archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
Heat excited by friction.
Injury or wear caused by friction.
Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
verb
(intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
(intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
(intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
(transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
(transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
(transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
decaf
decaf
noun
(informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.
defat
defat
verb
To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents
ecafe
efram
efrap
enfia
faade
faber
fabes
fable
fable
noun
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
fabre
faced
faced
adj
(in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of face
facer
facer
noun
(obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
faces
faces
noun
plural of face
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of face
facet
facet
noun
(anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
(anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
(anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
(architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
(computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
(mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
verb
To cut a facet into a gemstone.
facie
faded
faded
adj
(US, slang) high on drugs; stoned
(sometimes figurative) That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fade
faden
fader
fader
adj
comparative form of fade: more fade
noun
(computer graphics) A program or algorithm for fading out colors.
A device used to control sound volume.
fades
fades
noun
plural of fade
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fade
fadge
fadge
noun
(Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
(New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
(Tyneside) A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
(UK, slang, archaic) A farthing (old coin).
(Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
verb
(Tyneside) To eat together.
(Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
(obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
(obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
(obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
fadme
faena
faena
noun
(bullfighting) A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword before the kill.
faery
faery
noun
Obsolete spelling of fairy
fagen
fager
fahey
faire
faire
adj
Obsolete spelling of fair
faked
faked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fake
faker
faker
adj
comparative form of fake: more fake.
noun
(military, by extension) A friendly unit (usually aircraft) that acts as a hostile unit in a military exercise.
(obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
A snake oil salesman; one who makes exaggerated claims about a product he sells.
An impostor or impersonator.
One who fakes something.
fakes
fakes
noun
plural of fake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fake
fakey
fakey
adj
(colloquial) Fake.
false
false
adj
(music) Out of tune.
Based on factually incorrect premises.
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
Spurious, artificial.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
adv
In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
noun
One of two options on a true-or-false test.
verb
(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
(obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
(obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
(obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
famed
famed
adj
Having fame; famous or noted.
fames
fames
noun
plural of fame
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fame
fanes
fanes
noun
plural of fane
fante
fanwe
farce
farce
noun
(cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.
(countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
(uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
(uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
(uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
verb
(transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
(transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
(transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
(transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”)
farde
fared
fared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fare
farer
farer
noun
(archaic) One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper
fares
fares
noun
plural of fare
farle
farse
farse
noun
A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
verb
(transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
fated
fated
adj
Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
verb
(rare) simple past tense and past participle of fate
fates
fates
noun
plural of fate
verb
(rare) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fate
faure
fause
faute
fauve
fauve
noun
Synonym of fauvist
favel
favel
adj
yellow or dun in colour
noun
(obsolete) flattery; cajolery; deceit
A horse of a favel or dun colour.
fawne
faxed
faxed
adj
(obsolete) Having a head of hair; hairy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fax
faxen
faxes
faxes
noun
plural of fax
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fax
fayed
fayed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fay
fayme
fayre
fayre
adj
(archaic) Fair, beautiful.
noun
(dated) A fair, a market.
(dated) Fare.
fazed
fazed
adj
Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off (usually used in the negative).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of faze
fazes
fazes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of faze
feala
fears
fears
noun
plural of fear
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fear
fease
feast
feast
noun
A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
Something delightful
verb
(intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
(intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
(transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
(transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
feats
feats
noun
plural of feat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feat
featy
feaze
feaze
verb
Alternative form of faze
Alternative form of feeze
fecal
fecal
adj
Of or relating to feces.
fedak
fedia
felda
fella
fella
noun
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
(informal) Used as a term of address for a male person.
Pronunciation spelling of fellow.
feola
ferae
feral
feral
adj
(of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.
Deadly, fatal.
Internet slang. Engrossed by a certain thought or behavior.
Of an animal, being wild but descended from domestic or captive animals.
Of or pertaining to the dead, funereal.
Wild, untamed.
noun
(Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
(Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
(furry subculture) A character in furry art or literature which has the physical characteristics (body) of a regular animal (typically quadripedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or anthros (contrasts anthro)
A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
feria
feria
noun
A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
ferna
festa
festa
noun
A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
fetal
fetal
adj
(embryology) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
fetas
fetas
noun
plural of feta
fetwa
fetwa
noun
Alternative form of fatwa
feuar
feuar
noun
(Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.
filea
fjare
flake
flake
noun
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
(UK) Dogfish.
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
(nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
verb
(Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
To break or chip off in a flake.
To lay out on a flake for drying.
flame
flame
adj
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
noun
(Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
(color) A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
flame:
verb
(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
flane
flare
flare
noun
(American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
(figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
(in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
(nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
(photography) Short for lens flare.
A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
A sudden bright light.
A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
verb
(intransitive) To blaze brightly.
(intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
(transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
(transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.
(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
fleak
fleak
noun
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck
(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
fleam
fleam
noun
(UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it
(UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
flear
fleas
fleas
noun
plural of flea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flea
fleay
fleda
fleta
fname
fovea
fovea
noun
(anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
(anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
frame
frame
noun
(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
(baseball, slang) An inning.
(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
(dated) Frame of mind; disposition.
(dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.
(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
(engineering, dated, chiefly UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
(genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
(horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
(mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
(obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
(philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
A context for understanding or interpretation.
A piece of photographic film containing an image.
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
The structure of a person's body; the human body.
verb
(intransitive, dialectal) To move.
(intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
(intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
(intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
(intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
(tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
(transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
(transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
(transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
(transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
(transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
(transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
(transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
(transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
(transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
(transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
frape
frape
noun
(Internet slang) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.
(obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.
verb
(Internet slang) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.
frase
frate
frate
noun
A friar.
fraze
freak
freak
adj
Strange, weird, unexpected.
noun
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos).
(dated) A streak of colour; variegation.
(dated) A sudden change of mind
(dated) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
(informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
A drug addict.
A hippie.
A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance due to a severe medical condition (originally, a freak of nature); later extended to meaning a person who is extremely abnormal in social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (e.g., "circus freak"); a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
Euphemistic form of fuck.
verb
(intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
(slang, transitive, intransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
(transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.
(transitive, dated) To streak; to variegate
fream
fream
noun
(US slang, 1950s–1960s) social outsider, misfit, loser, usually restricted to males
frear
freda
freia
frena
frena
noun
plural of frenum
freya
freya
Proper noun
name of mostly British usage.
fuage
fuage
noun
Alternative form of fumage
gaffe
gaffe
noun
A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.
ganef
ganef
noun
(slang, derogatory) A thief; a rascal or scoundrel.
jaffe
kafre
kenaf
kenaf
noun
Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia.
The fibre obtained from this plant, similar to jute.
leafs
leafs
noun
(nonstandard unless referring to a moveable panel (e.g. of a bridge or door) or as a slang term for Canadians) plural of leaf
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leaf
leafy
leafy
adj
(of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
containing much foliage
covered with leaves
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
mafey
melfa
nefas
rafer
raffe
raffe
noun
Alternative form of raff (“three-cornered sail”)
refan
refan
noun
An airplane engine that has been refanned.
verb
(metaphoric) To revive or reinvigorate.
To cause air to blow on again.
To retrofit an airplane engine with a turbofan that reduces noise.
To winnow again.
safen
safen
verb
(transitive) To make safe.
(transitive) To protect a crop from injury from a herbicide by adding a safener.
safer
safer
adj
comparative form of safe: more safe
safes
safes
noun
plural of safe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of safe
shaef
sheaf
sheaf
noun
(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
(mechanical) A sheave.
A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Any collection of things bound together.
verb
(intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
(transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves