(obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
(transitive) To influence or alter.
(transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
(transitive) To move to emotion.
(transitive, Scotland, law) To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
(transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
(transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
(transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
(transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
(transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
(transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
affeer
affeer
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To confirm; to assure.
(transitive, obsolete, law) To assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
affeir
affere
affied
affied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affy
affies
affies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affy
affile
affile
verb
(obsolete) To polish.
affine
affine
adj
(comparable, chemistry) Of two materials, having mutual affinity.
(geometry) Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f(⃑x)=A⃑x+⃑b (where A is a linear transformation and ⃑b is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
(mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
noun
(anthropology, genealogy) A relative by marriage.
verb
To refine.
afflue
affret
affret
noun
(obsolete) An attack.
affuse
affuse
verb
(transitive) To pour out or upon.
afield
afield
adv
Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual); usually preceded by far (or farther, further).
On the field.
Out in the open.
aflame
aflame
adj
in flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it
showing anger or contempt
aflare
aflare
adj
Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).
Flaring (opening outward).
Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
afreet
afreet
noun
Alternative spelling of ifrit
afresh
afresh
adv
Anew; again; once more
afrete
afrite
afrite
noun
Alternative form of ifrit
afscme
afters
afters
noun
(Britain, Ireland, informal, sports) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped
(Britain, informal) dessert
(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
agleaf
agrafe
agrafe
noun
A hook or fastener on clothing.
agrief
agrief
adv
(obsolete) In grief; amiss.
agrufe
ahoufe
alfaje
alfeus
alfred
aloofe
asself
awheft
babeuf
baffed
baffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baff
baffle
baffle
noun
(US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
verb
(intransitive) To struggle in vain.
(now rare) To foil; to thwart.
(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
barfed
barfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barf
bedaff
bedaff
verb
(transitive) To befool; make a fool of.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To confound or stupefy.
(transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
(transitive) To happen to.
befame
befell
befell
verb
simple past tense of befall
befile
befile
verb
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
befind
befind
verb
(passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
(transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
(transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
befire
befist
befits
befits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befit
beflag
beflag
verb
(transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
beflap
beflea
beflea
verb
(transitive) To pester, as fleas do.
beflum
befoam
befoam
verb
(transitive) To spatter or cover with foam.
befogs
befogs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befog
befool
befool
verb
(transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).
before
before
adv
At an earlier time.
At the front end.
In advance.
conj
(informal) Rather or sooner than.
In advance of the time when.
prep
At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
Earlier than (in time).
In front of in space.
In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In store for, in the future of (someone).
In the presence of.
Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
befoul
befoul
verb
(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
befret
befriz
befume
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
begulf
behalf
behalf
noun
(when adopted by someone else) One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.
The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.
behoof
behoof
noun
(dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
beleaf
beleft
beleft
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beleave
belfry
belfry
noun
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
(architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
(dialectal) A shed.
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
belief
belief
noun
(countable) Something believed.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
bepuff
bepuff
verb
(archaic) To puff out.
(archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.
bereft
bereft
adj
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bereave
biface
biface
noun
(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
biffed
biffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of biff
biflex
bouffe
bouffe
noun
(music) A comic opera
verb
(transitive) To make bouffant.
briefs
briefs
noun
(usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
plural of brief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brief
buffed
buffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buff
buffer
buffer
adj
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
noun
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
verb
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
buffet
buffet
noun
(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
A small low stool; a hassock.
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
verb
(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
(transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
buffle
buffle
noun
(obsolete) A buffalo.
verb
(intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
bumfeg
caffle
caffre
caffre
noun
Obsolete form of kaffir.
calefy
calefy
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become warm or hot
(transitive, obsolete) To make warm or hot
carafe
carafe
noun
A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
casefy
casefy
verb
To make or become cheeselike.
caufle
certif
chafed
chafed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chafe
chafee
chafer
chafer
noun
A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.
A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer, and rose chafer.
One who chafes.
chafes
chafes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chafe
chefoo
chetif
chiefs
chiefs
noun
plural of chief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chief
clefts
clefts
noun
plural of cleft
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cleft
cofane
coffea
coffee
coffee
adj
Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.
noun
(countable) A serving of this beverage.
(uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
verb
(intransitive) To drink coffee.
(transitive) To give coffee.
coffer
coffer
noun
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
A cofferdam.
A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
verb
(transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
(transitive) To put money or valuables in a coffer
coffey
coffey
Proper noun
A city in Missouri.
coffle
coffle
noun
A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
verb
(transitive) To fasten (a line of people or animals) together.
coifed
coifed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coif
coiffe
coiffe
verb
Alternative spelling of coif
confed
confer
confer
verb
(intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
(obsolete) To compare.
(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
(obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather.
(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
cuffed
cuffed
adj
Fitted with a cuff.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cuff
cuffer
cuffer
noun
(informal) An improbable or exaggerated story.
cuffle
curfew
curfew
noun
(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
A signal indicating this time.
Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
The time when such restriction begins.
daffed
daffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of daff
daffie
daffle
dafter
dafter
adj
comparative form of daft: more daft
noun
Alternative form of daftar
Obsolete spelling of daughter
deafen
deafen
verb
(transitive) To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.
(transitive) To make soundproof.
(transitive, rare, dialectal, sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise.
deafer
deafer
adj
comparative form of deaf: more deaf
deafly
deafly
adv
In a deaf manner; without the aid of a sense of hearing.
decafs
decafs
noun
plural of decaf
deface
deface
verb
(heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.
defade
defail
defail
verb
(obsolete) To cause to fail.
defalk
defalk
verb
(archaic) To reduce by deducting a part, especially when used in a financial sense.
(obsolete) To cut off, to deduct, to subtract (especially expenses or a sum of money).
defame
defame
noun
(now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel.
(now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour.
verb
(now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
defamy
defang
defang
verb
(figuratively) To render harmless.
(transitive) To remove the fangs from (something).
defant
defats
defats
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defat
defeat
defeat
noun
(obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
verb
(transitive) To nullify
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
(transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
To prevent (something) from being achieved.
defect
defect
noun
(mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
A fault or malfunction.
The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
verb
(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
(law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
(military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
(military) To join the enemy army.
defeit
defend
defend
verb
(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
(sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
(transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
(transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
(transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
(transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
defers
defers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defer
defial
defied
defied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of defy
defier
defier
noun
agent noun of defy; one who dares and defies
defies
defies
noun
plural of defy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defy
defile
defile
noun
(military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
An act of marching in files or lines.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file.
(religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
(transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)
(transitive, obsolete) To march across (a place) in files or lines.
To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
To become dirty or unclean.
To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
To dishonour (someone).
To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
define
define
noun
(programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
verb
(mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
To express the essential nature of something.
To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
deflea
deflea
verb
(transitive) To rid of fleas.
deflex
deflex
adj
(archery, of a bow) Having the arms curved or curled at the base so as to turn towards the archer when unstrung, reducing the strain on the limbs and also the energy stored by the weapon.
verb
(zoology, botany) To bend down.
deflow
deflow
verb
(obsolete) To flow down.
deflux
deflux
noun
(obsolete) downward flow
defoam
defoam
verb
(transitive) To remove the foam from.
defogs
defogs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defog
defoil
defoil
verb
To defile or despoil.
deford
deform
deform
adj
(obsolete except poetic) Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
verb
(also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
(engineering, physics) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress.
(intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.
To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
To mar the character or quality of (something).
defoul
defoul
verb
(obsolete) To defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.
(obsolete) To oppress, keep down.
(obsolete) To physically crush or break.
(obsolete) To trample underfoot.
defray
defray
verb
(archaic) To pay for (something).
(obsolete) To spend (money).
To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).