(archaic) airplane; a flying machine, an aircraft.
afernan
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.
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
centref
coinfer
confers
confers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confer
conifer
conifer
noun
(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
cornfed
cornfed
adj
(informal, of a vehicle) Running on ethanol (E85).
(informal, sometimes derogatory, of a person) Sheltered; uncultured.
(not comparable, of an animal) Fed on corn.
definer
definer
noun
One who or that which defines something, or provides a definition.
dernful
dernful
adj
(obsolete) secret; lonely, sad, mournful
druffen
earnful
earnful
adj
(obsolete) Full of anxiety or yearning.
effront
effront
verb
(obsolete) To give assurance to.
enfarce
enfavor
enfever
enfever
verb
(transitive) to excite fever in
enforce
enforce
verb
(obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
(obsolete) To prove; to evince.
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
(obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
enforth
enframe
enframe
verb
To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
engraff
engraff
verb
Obsolete form of engraft.
engraft
engraft
adj
(rare) Engrafted.
verb
To fix firmly into place
To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
enserfs
enserfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enserf
fainter
fainter
adj
comparative form of faint: more faint
noun
One who faints.
falerno
falkner
fancher
fancier
fancier
adj
comparative form of fancy: more fancy
noun
A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
One who fancies or imagines.
One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
fanfare
fanfare
noun
(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
(countable, uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
verb
(music) To embellish with fanfares.
To fan out.
To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
To introduce with pomp and show.
To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
To play a fanfare.
To publicize or announce.
fanners
fanners
noun
plural of fanner
fannier
farnese
farness
farness
noun
The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
fawners
fawners
noun
plural of fawner
fawnery
fawnier
fearing
fearing
adj
Exhibiting fear.
Showing profound respect or deference.
verb
present participle of fear
fechner
feering
feigner
feigner
noun
One who feigns.
feinter
feinter
noun
Someone who feints.
fellner
felonry
felonry
noun
Felons as a group.
The convict population of a penal colony.
fencers
fencers
noun
plural of fencer
fenders
fenders
noun
plural of fender
fenetre
fenster
fenster
noun
(geology) A geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system; a tectonic window.
fenuron
fenuron
noun
(organic chemistry) The herbicide 3-phenyl-1,1-dimethylurea.
ferahan
feralin
fergana
feringi
ferison
ferling
ferment
ferment
noun
A catalyst.
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
verb
To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
fermion
fermion
noun
(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
(slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.
fernald
fernand
fernata
ferneau
fernery
fernery
noun
A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
An area naturally abundant in ferns.
fernier
fernier
adj
comparative form of ferny: more ferny
fernley
fernley
Proper noun
A ghost town in California
A city in Nevada
fernyak
feronia
feronia
Proper noun
A Roman goddess of wildlife, fertility, health and abundance.
a main belt asteroid.
ferrand
ferrean
ferring
fervent
fervent
adj
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
Glowing, burning, very hot.
Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
fibrine
fibrine
adj
Relating to the fibres of plants.
noun
Dated form of fibrin.
fiercen
fiercen
verb
(dialectal) To enliven.
(intransitive) To become or grow fierce.
(transitive) To make fierce.
finders
finders
noun
plural of finder
fingers
fingers
noun
plural of finger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finger
fingery
fingery
adj
(climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb
Resembling fingers in shape.
finnier
finnier
adj
comparative form of finny: more finny
fireman
fireman
noun
(baseball) A relief pitcher (reflecting the figurative analogy of rescuing the situation).
(firefighting) Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
(mining, historical) A safety inspector in coal mines.
(rail transport, by extension) An assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
(rail transport, nautical) A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship.
firemen
firemen
noun
plural of fireman
firenze
firepan
firepan
noun
A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
flaneur
flaneur
noun
An idler, a loafer.
One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
verb
To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace.
flanger
flanger
noun
(US) A mechanical device used to remove ice and snow from railway lines.
(music) An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound.
flanker
flanker
noun
(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
verb
(obsolete) To attack sideways.
(obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
flenser
flenser
noun
One who flenses (cuts blubber from a whale carcass)
fleuron
fleuron
noun
(architecture) The small flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos.
(typography) The typographic element (❧), used as a punctuation mark or for decoration.
An ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
flexner
flinder
flinder
noun
(obsolete or dialect) A butterfly.
A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter
verb
(intransitive) To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner
flinger
flinger
noun
One who flings or hurls something.
One who jeers.
flinter
flnerie
florent
florenz
florien
florine
flunker
flunker
noun
(slang, Canada, US) Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
fondler
fondler
noun
One who fondles.
foramen
foramen
noun
(anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
forcene
fordone
fordone
adj
Destroyed; utterly ruined.
Exhausted; worn out; overcome.
forefin
forefin
noun
Either of the anterior (front) pair of fins of an ichthyosaur
foreign
foreign
adj
(US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
(obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
(obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
(with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
Relating to a different nation.
noun
(now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
(now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
(obsolete) A foreign ship.
(obsolete) A non-guildmember.
(obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
(obsolete) Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.
(obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
(slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
foreman
foreman
noun
(US, historical) A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
(law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
(management) The leader of a work crew.
foremen
foremen
noun
plural of foreman
foreran
foreran
verb
simple past tense of forerun
forerun
forerun
verb
To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
To run in front.
foresin
forfend
forfend
verb
(archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
forgone
forgone
verb
past participle of forgo
forkmen
forlane
formene
fornent
fornent
prep
Alternative form of forenenst
forneys
forpine
forpine
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
(transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound
forseen
forseen
verb
past participle of forsee
fortune
fortune
noun
A large amount of money.
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
Destiny, especially favorable.
Good luck.
One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
forwean
forwean
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To accustom to bad habits; spoil by indulgence; pamper.
forwent
forwent
verb
simple past tense of forgo
founder
founder
noun
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
verb
(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
(transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.
fraenum
fraenum
noun
Alternative form of frenum
frances
francie
francie
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.
franger
franger
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom.
franked
franked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frank
frankel
franker
franker
adj
comparative form of frank: more frank
noun
Somebody or something which franks.
frankie
frankie
noun
An Indian snack resembling a burrito.
frannie
frannie
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.
A town in Wyoming, USA.
fransen
franzen
frecken
fredkin
freeing
freeing
noun
The act of making something free; liberation.
verb
present participle of free
freeman
freeman
noun
(Australia, historical) A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
(US and Canada, historical) An independent fur trapper.
(historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
(usually as two words) A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
(usually historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.
An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
freemen
freemen
noun
plural of freeman
freemon
freiman
fremont
frenate
frenchy
frenchy
Noun
A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
Proper noun
A short form for various names: Francine, Franchelle, Francoise, etc., e.g. Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis.
frendel
freneau
frenghi
frenula
frenula
noun
plural of frenulum
frenums
frenuna
frenzic
freshen
freshen
verb
(intransitive, of wind) To become stronger.
(intransitive, transitive, of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
(of water) To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
(transitive) To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
(transitive) To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
(transitive) To top up (a drink).
(transitive, historical) To top up (primer) in a firearm.
(transitive, nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
To be refreshed.
To become cool.
To make cool.
To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
To refresh; to revive; to renew.
To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
To touch up the paint on (something).
fresnel
fresnel
noun
(physics) A unit of frequency equal to 10¹² hertz, or one terahertz.
A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens
fretten
fretten
adj
(obsolete) Marked.
verb
alternative past participle of fret
friends
friends
noun
plural of friend
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of friend
fringed
fringed
adj
Possessing a fringe.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fringe
fringes
fringes
noun
plural of fringe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fringe
frizzen
frizzen
noun
An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms, positioned over the flash pan so to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel, such that when fired the flint scrapes it so as to create a spark.