(acoustics) The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.
(phonetics, obsolete) A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.
A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.
aftertouch
aftertouch
noun
(music, uncountable) Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
(rare) A touch (feature or characteristic) added finally or as an afterthought.
(video games) A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.
airiferous
airiferous
adj
Alternative form of aeriferous
antifouler
antifouler
noun
Synonym of antifoulant
aquiferous
aquiferous
adj
(geology) Of or pertaining to an aquifer
Carrying water
arciferous
armiferous
armiferous
adj
(rare) Bearing arms or weapons.
asciferous
auriferous
auriferous
adj
Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing.
benzofuran
benzofuran
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a benzene ring fused with one of furan.
benzofuryl
bifluoride
bifluoride
noun
(chemistry) Synonym of difluoride
biliferous
biliferous
adj
Generating bile.
bodysurfed
bodysurfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bodysurf
bodysurfer
bodysurfer
noun
One who bodysurfs.
bufflehorn
buffoonery
buffoonery
noun
The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
bullflower
cafetorium
cafetorium
noun
A large room, usually in a school, used as both a cafeteria and an auditorium.
camoufleur
camoufleur
noun
one who camouflages
ceriferous
ceriferous
adj
Containing or producing cerium.
ciliferous
ciliferous
adj
Bearing cilia.
clupeiform
clupeiform
adj
(zoology) Belonging or relating to the order Clupeiformes of ray-finned fish, including herrings and anchovies
noun
Any fish of the order Clupeiformes
cofeatures
cofeatures
noun
plural of cofeature
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cofeature
cofounders
cofounders
noun
plural of cofounder
comiferous
confecture
confecture
noun
(obsolete) confiture
(obsolete) conjecture, hypothesis
confervous
confervous
adj
Relating to, consisting of, or resembling confervae.
configured
configured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of configure
configures
configures
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of configure
conflexure
confounder
confounder
noun
(mathematics) A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable
A person who confounds
coniferous
coniferous
adj
Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
cosufferer
counterfix
culverfoot
cymiferous
cymiferous
adj
(botany) Producing cymes.
deflourish
difluoride
difluoride
noun
(chemistry) any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule
(obsolete) In a favoured or favourable manner; favourably.
favourless
favourless
adj
(archaic) unfavoured; having no countenance or support
(archaic) unpropitious; unfavourable
fearnought
fearnought
noun
Alternative form of fearnaught
februation
februation
noun
Purification, rejuvenation, or renewal, especially ritual or ceremonial.
The object of such purification; a sacrifice.
fecundator
ferocactus
ferryhouse
ferryhouse
noun
A building on the shore beside the departure point of a ferry, where passengers may purchase tickets etc.
fetiferous
fetiferous
adj
Producing young.
fetiparous
fetiparous
adj
(of a marsupial) bearing offspring born not fully developed
feverously
feverously
adv
In a feverous way.
fidejussor
fidejussor
noun
(law) A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
fieulamort
figuresome
figuresome
adj
Characterised as possessing an attractive figure or shape
filiferous
filiferous
adj
Producing threads.
filigerous
firehouses
firehouses
noun
plural of firehouse
fireplough
flatterous
flatterous
adj
(obsolete) flattering
fleuronnee
florentium
florentium
noun
(chemistry, disused nomenclature) Promethium.
florideous
florideous
adj
Synonym of floridean
floundered
floundered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flounder
flouriness
flouriness
noun
The state or condition of being floury.
flourished
flourished
adj
Decorated with flourishes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flourish
flourisher
flourisher
noun
One who flourishes.
flourishes
flourishes
noun
plural of flourish
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish
flugelhorn
flugelhorn
noun
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
fluoborate
fluoborate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
fluoboride
fluoboride
noun
(chemistry) Any borofluoride.
fluoborite
fluoborite
noun
(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
fluocerine
fluocerite
fluocerite
noun
(mineralogy) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.
fluoresage
fluoresced
fluoresced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce
fluorescer
fluorescer
noun
A fluorescent substance used for whitening.
fluoresces
fluoresces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoresce
fluoridate
fluoridate
verb
(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.
fluoridise
fluoridise
verb
Alternative form of fluoridize
fluoridize
fluoridize
verb
(transitive) To fluoridate.
fluorinate
fluorinate
verb
(chemistry, transitive) To introduce fluorine into a compound.
fluormeter
fluorotype
fluorotype
noun
(historical) A photographic process in which salts of fluoric acid were employed for the purpose of producing images in the camera.
foederatus
foederatus
noun
A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
foldcourse
foraminule
foraminule
noun
A very small foramen
forbecause
forcefully
forcefully
adv
With either physical or coercive force; in a forceful manner; vigorously; powerfully.
foreburton
forechurch
forecourse
forecourse
noun
(nautical) The lowest foresail on a square-rigged foremast.
forecourts
forecourts
noun
plural of forecourt
forefigure
foreground
foreground
noun
(computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
verb
To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
forejudged
forejudged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of forejudge
forejudger
forejudger
noun
(law) A judgement by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
forelouper
forequoted
forequoted
adj
Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay.
forerunner
forerunner
noun
(philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
(sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
A runner at the front or ahead.
foreshroud
forestburg
foresummer
foresummer
noun
The early part of summer
The season immediately preceding summer
foresummon
forethough
forfeiture
forfeiture
noun
(law) A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
(law) The loss of forfeit property.
(law) The property lost as a forfeit.
Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.
forfoughen
formulable
formulable
adj
That can be formulated
formulated
formulated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of formulate
formulates
formulates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate
formulised
formulised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of formulise
formuliser
formulized
formulized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of formulize
formulizer
formulizer
noun
One who formulizes.
fortescure
fortitudes
fortitudes
noun
plural of fortitude
fortuities
fortuities
noun
plural of fortuity
fortunella
foundering
foundering
noun
The act by which a vessel founders.
verb
present participle of founder
founderous
founderous
adj
(archaic) Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up.
foundrymen
foundrymen
noun
plural of foundryman
fouquieria
fourbagger
fourchette
fourchette
noun
(anatomy) A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
(card games) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.
(surgery) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.
The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
The wishbone or furculum of birds
fourhanded
fourhanded
adj
Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Requiring four hands.
Requiring or involving four people.
a fourhanded card game
fourierian
fourierism
fourierism
Noun
The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
fourierist
fourierist
Noun
A supporter of Fourierism.
Adjective
Relating to Fourierism.
fourierite
fourierite
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or associated with Charles Fourier or his socialist and philosophic theories.
Noun
A supporter of Fourierism.
fourniture
fourposter
fourposter
noun
Alternative form of four-poster (“type of bed”)
fourragere
fourragere
noun
Alternative form of fourragère
foursquare
foursquare
adj
(by extension) Solid, robust.
(cryptography) Pertaining to a four-square cipher.
Having four equal sides; square.
Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
noun
(architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
(cryptography) A four-square cipher.
Alternative form of four square
fourteener
fourteener
noun
(US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
(poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
fourteenth
fourteenth
adj
The ordinal form of the number fourteen.
noun
(music) The interval comprising an octave and a seventh.