(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
An advantage; help or aid from something.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
benioff
besnuff
besnuff
verb
(transitive, rare) To befoul with snuff.
biafran
biafran
Adjective
Of, from or relating to Biafra.
Extremely skinny.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Biafra.
biffing
biffing
noun
(informal) A hitting or punching.
verb
present participle of biff
biffins
biffins
noun
plural of biffin
biforin
bifront
bifront
adj
Having two fronts, faces or aspects.
binford
binford
Proper noun
A city/town in North Dakota.
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
boffins
boffins
noun
plural of boffin
bogfern
bonfire
bonfire
noun
(figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
(obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
verb
(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
(intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
(obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
bonifay
bouffon
bowfins
bowfins
noun
plural of bowfin
braniff
bufagin
bufagin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
buffing
buffing
noun
Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
verb
present participle of buff
buffone
buffont
buffont
noun
(chiefly historical) An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
Alternative form of bouffant
buffoon
buffoon
noun
(derogatory) An unintentionally ridiculous person.
One who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.
verb
To behave like a buffoon
bufidin
bufonid
bufonid
noun
(zoology) Any toad in the family Bufonidae.
confabs
confabs
noun
plural of confab
conflab
conflab
noun
(informal) A discussion.
fabiano
fabling
fabling
noun
The act of telling fables.
verb
present participle of fable
fanback
fanback
noun
(often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.
faubion
feedbin
feedbin
noun
A bin for holding feed to be fed later to an animal.
A bin for holding material to be fed into an industrial process.
fenbank
fibbing
fibbing
noun
(archaic, boxing) Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
(informal) The telling of a lie.
verb
present participle of fib
fibrine
fibrine
adj
Relating to the fibres of plants.
noun
Dated form of fibrin.
fibrins
fibrins
noun
plural of fibrin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fibrin
fibroin
fibroin
noun
(biochemistry) A tough elastic protein that is the main component of silk and of spider's webs
finable
finable
adj
Punishable by a fine.
finback
finback
noun
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
finbone
firbank
flybane
flybane
noun
A poisonous mushroom, the fly agaric.
Certain catchflies of the genus Silene.
fobbing
fobbing
verb
present participle of fob
fogbank
fogbank
noun
A bank of fog.
forborn
forborn
verb
(archaic) past participle of forbear
foxbane
fubbing
fubbing
verb
present participle of fub
funebre
lobefin
lobefin
noun
Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.
noblify
unbefit
unbefit
verb
(transitive, archaic, rare) Not to befit or suit; to be inappropriate for.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To make unfit or unsuitable.