(transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
befrets
belfort
blufter
calfret
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
centref
certify
certify
verb
(archaic, reflexive) To assure (oneself) of something; to ascertain.
(transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
(transitive) To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
(transitive, archaic) To inform; to tell (a person) that something is true.
(transitive, law) To authenticate or verify in writing.
coffret
coffret
noun
A small box or chest; casket.
crafted
crafted
adj
manufactured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of craft
crafter
crafter
noun
Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or as a small business
cretify
cretify
verb
(intransitive, obsolete, medicine) To become impregnated with salts of lime.
crofter
crofter
noun
One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
defrost
defrost
noun
The removal of frost.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.
(transitive) To remove frost from.
(transitive) To thaw something.
drafted
drafted
adj
(US) conscripted
(nautical) of a certain depth required to float (said of a vessel); used comparatively with shallow, deep, etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of draft
draftee
draftee
noun
One who is drafted (into a military service, etc).
drafter
drafter
noun
(US) A person who writes a legislative bill.
A person who prepares drafts.
A person who prepares technical drawings and plans.
drifted
drifted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of drift
drifter
drifter
noun
(automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
(fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.
(fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
(mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
(nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
(parachuting) A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
(sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
duftery
efforts
efforts
noun
plural of effort
effront
effront
verb
(obsolete) To give assurance to.
elfwort
emforth
emforth
Preposition
according to; in a way that is conformable to
enforth
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
facture
facture
noun
(archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
(dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.
fagoter
fagoter
noun
(historical) A worker who gathers fuelwood.
fainter
fainter
adj
comparative form of faint: more faint
noun
One who faints.
fairest
fairest
adj
superlative form of fair: most fair
faitery
falster
faltere
falters
falters
noun
plural of falter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of falter
faretta
fargite
farther
farther
adj
Alternative form of further. (See also the usage notes at further.)
verb
(uncommon or old-fashioned) Alternative form of further.
fartlek
fartlek
noun
An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.
fathers
fathers
noun
plural of father
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of father
fattier
fattier
adj
comparative form of fatty: more fatty
faubert
faulter
faulter
noun
(obsolete) One who commits a fault.
verb
Archaic spelling of falter.
fauster
feaster
feaster
noun
One who feasts, who attends a feast.
feather
feather
noun
(hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
(rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
verb
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
(intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
(transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
(transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
(transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
(transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
feature
feature
noun
(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
(film) Ellipsis of feature film.
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
(statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
An important or main item.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
verb
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
(transitive) To star, to contain.
(transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
fechter
feinter
feinter
noun
Someone who feints.
felwort
felwort
noun
A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family.
Any member of any species in genus Swertia.
Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae
fenetre
fenster
fenster
noun
(geology) A geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system; a tectonic window.
ferdwit
feretra
feretra
noun
plural of feretrum
fermata
fermata
noun
(music) The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest.
fermate
fermate
noun
plural of fermata
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.
fernata
ferrate
ferrate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The anion FeO₄²⁻ in which iron is in a +6 formal oxidation state.
ferrets
ferrets
noun
plural of ferret
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ferret
ferrety
ferrety
adj
Ferretlike.
ferrite
ferrite
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The anion FeO₂²⁻, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it.
Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers.
The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.
ferther
fertile
fertile
adj
(figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
(physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
fervent
fervent
adj
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
Glowing, burning, very hot.
Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
festers
festers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fester
fetcher
fetcher
noun
A person or thing that fetches something
fetters
fetters
noun
plural of fetter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fetter
fettler
fettler
noun
(by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
(mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
(slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate
A person who maintains railway lines.
Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
feveret
feveret
noun
(obsolete) A slight fever.
fibster
fibster
noun
One who fibs.
fiester
figeter
fighter
fighter
noun
(colloquial) A firefighter.
(eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A participant in boxing or any martial art.
A person who fights; a combatant.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A warrior; a fighting soldier.
filbert
filbert
noun
A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
The hazel tree.
The hazelnut.
filters
filters
noun
plural of filter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filter
fiorite
fiorite
noun
(mineralogy) A variety of opal occurring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses.
firelit
firelit
adj
Illuminated by a fire
firepot
firepot
noun
A pot used to hold or carry fire.
An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.
firetop
firmest
firmest
adj
superlative form of firm: most firm
firster
firster
adj
(obsolete) Earlier, former.
noun
(in combination) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
fitcher
fitters
fitters
noun
plural of fitter
fittier
fitzger
fixture
fixture
noun
(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
(law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
(sports, chiefly Britain, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match.
A lighting unit; a luminaire.
A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
(transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match).
flatter
flatter
adj
comparative form of flat: more flat
noun
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
verb
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
To portray someone to advantage.
flector
flector
noun
Dated form of flexor.
fleeter
fleeter
adj
comparative form of fleet: more fleet
noun
A member of a fleet.
flether
fleuret
fleuret
noun
A fencing foil.
An ornament resembling a small flower.
flinter
flirted
flirted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flirt
flirter
flirter
noun
One who flirts.
flitter
flitter
noun
(archaic Southern US, Caribbean) Pronunciation spelling of fritter.
(science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.
A fluttering movement
A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
A small perceptible feeling
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
verb
To flutter or quiver.
To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
To scatter in pieces.
floater
floater
noun
(Australia) A pie floater.
(India) A sandal.
(US, politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
(basketball) Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
(finance) A floating rate bond.
(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.
(politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
(politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
(slang) A misstep; a faux pas.
(slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
(sports) An unaffiliated player.
(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
A small suet dumpling put into soup.
An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
One who or that which floats.
flobert
flobert
Noun
A small cartridge designed for target shooting; a ball cap.
floeter
florate
florate
adj
(rare) Of, pertaining to, or decorated with flowers; floral.
floreat
florent
floreta
florets
florets
noun
plural of floret
flotter
flouter
flouter
noun
A person who flouts.
fluster
fluster
noun
A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion.
verb
(by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
(intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
fluters
fluters
noun
plural of fluter
fluther
flutier
flutier
adj
comparative form of fluty: more fluty
flutter
flutter
noun
(Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
(audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
(uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
A hasty game of cards or similar.
A state of agitation.
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
verb
(espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
(intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
(intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
(intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
(transitive) To cause something to flap.
(transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
flytier
foetors
foetors
noun
plural of foetor
foeture
foister
foister
noun
One who foists; a falsifier.
fooster
fooster
noun
(Ireland) A confused hurry; bustle.
verb
(Ireland, intransitive) To bustle about in a purposeless way; fidget.
(Ireland, intransitive) To rummage; to engage in inept activity; to noodle.
footers
footers
noun
plural of footer
footier
footler
footler
noun
one who footles, foolish trifler
forbite
forbite
verb
To bite up, bite to pieces.
forcite
forcite
noun
A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.
foreact
forefit
foregut
foregut
noun
(biology, anatomy, embryology) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.
(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.
foreset
foreset
adj
Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.
noun
(geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.
An obstacle; hindrance.
That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
verb
(transitive) To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
(transitive, dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
To propose, suggest.
forests
forests
noun
plural of forest
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forest
foresty
foresty
Adjective
Like a forest.
foretop
foretop
noun
(UK dialectal) An erect tuft of hair.
(nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
(obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
(obsolete) In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
(obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
(obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
The forelock of a horse.
The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
forewit
forewit
noun
One who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.
Timely knowledge; precaution; foresight.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To foreknow.
forfeit
forfeit
adj
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
noun
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
verb
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
To fail to keep an obligation.
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
forgets
forgets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forget
forgett
forleft
forleft
verb
simple past tense and past participle of forleave
forleit
formate
formate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of formic acid.
verb
(aeronautics) To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.
formelt
formelt
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To melt; melt away; dissolve.
fornent
fornent
prep
Alternative form of forenenst
forrest
forsete
forseti
forster
fortake
fortake
verb
(transitive) To take away; remove; deprive.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To mistake; make a mistake.
fortier
forties
forties
adj
From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
noun
(temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 40 and 49.
The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.
plural of forty
fortlet
fortlet
noun
A little fort.
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.
forwent
forwent
verb
simple past tense of forgo
fosters
fosters
noun
plural of foster
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foster
fracted
fracted
adj
(heraldry) Having a part displaced, as if broken; said of an ordinary.