(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.
befume
begulf
bepuff
bepuff
verb
(archaic) To puff out.
(archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.
bouffe
bouffe
noun
(music) A comic opera
verb
(transitive) To make bouffant.
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
caufle
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.
deflux
deflux
noun
(obsolete) downward flow
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.
defuse
defuse
verb
(obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
(transitive) To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
defuze
defuze
verb
Archaic spelling of defuse.
dezful
dueful
dueful
adj
(archaic) Suitable, appropriate.
duffed
duffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of duff
duffel
duffel
noun
(US, colloquial) Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit.
A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
duffer
duffer
adj
comparative form of duff: more duff
noun
(Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
(archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
(archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.
(informal) An incompetent, indolent, or clumsy person.
(sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
A cow that does not produce milk.
A racing pigeon that does not perform well.
duffie
duffle
duffle
noun
Alternative spelling of duffel
dufter
earful
earful
noun
(informal) an angry reprimand, castigation or telling off
(informal) intimate gossip
efflux
efflux
noun
That which has flowed out.
verb
(intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.
effude
effume
effume
verb
(obsolete) To breathe or puff out.
effund
effund
verb
(obsolete) To pour out.
effuse
effuse
adj
(botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
(zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
Poured out freely; profuse.
noun
(obsolete) effusion; loss
verb
(figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
(intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
(intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
(transitive) To emit; to give off.
effuso
enfoul
enfume
engulf
engulf
verb
(transitive) To cast into a gulf.
(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
erfurt
erfurt
Proper noun
The capital city of the state of Thuringia, in Germany
estufa
estufa
noun
A room in a Pueblo Indian house.
eyeful
eyeful
adj
Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
noun
(informal) A brief period of sleep; forty winks.
(sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.
A full or complete view; a good look.
Enough material to fill one's eye.
faceup
faceup
adv
Alternative spelling of face-up
faenus
farleu
fauces
fauces
noun
(anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
(botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
(zoology) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
faucet
faucet
noun
(Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
(game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
faucre
faufel
faunae
faunie
faured
fausen
fausen
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A young eel.
fauver
fauves
fauves
noun
plural of fauve
feague
feague
noun
(obsolete) An unkempt, slatternly person.
verb
(obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive.
(obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’.
To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its anus.
fecula
fecula
noun
Starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.
fecund
fecund
adj
(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
femurs
feodum
ferdus
fergus
ferous
ferous
adj
(archaic) wild; savage
ferrum
ferrum
noun
(homeopathy) Any of various remedies made from iron-containing compounds.
ferula
ferula
noun
(archaic) A stroke from a cane.
(obsolete) A ferule.
(obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.
ferule
ferule
noun
A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
verb
(transitive) To punish with a ferule.
fescue
fescue
noun
(countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
(countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
(countable) The style of a sundial.
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
verb
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
festus
feture
feuage
feuars
feuars
noun
plural of feuar
feucht
feudal
feudal
adj
Of, or relating to feudalism.
feuded
feuded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of feud
feudee
feuder
feuder
noun
One who feuds.
feudum
feuing
feuing
verb
present participle of feu
feuter
figure
figure
noun
(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
A number, an amount.
A numeral.
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
A shape.
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
Any complex dance moveᵂ.
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
verb
(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
(chiefly US) To come to understand.
(chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.
(intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
(music) To embellish.
(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.