Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affect
affiant
affiant
noun
(law) The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.
afflate
afflate
verb
(obsolete) To fill, especially with divine inspiration.
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
affront
affront
noun
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
verb
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
To meet defiantly; to confront.
aflatus
aflaunt
aflaunt
adj
In a flaunting state or position.
aflight
aflight
adj
(obsolete) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
Covered or filled (with something flying).
Fleeing.
Flying.
afreets
afreets
noun
plural of afreet
afright
afright
adj
Alternative form of affright
aftergo
aftmost
aftmost
adj
Furthest aft, most sternward, as far back as possible.
aftosas
aftward
aftward
adv
(nautical) Toward the stern.
airlift
airlift
noun
(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Such a flight.
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
verb
(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
altdorf
anatifa
anfract
antefix
antefix
noun
(architecture) Any decoration serving to cover the ends of roofing tiles.
(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.
antifat
antifat
adj
(dated) Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect; antiobesity.
Opposed to obese people; fattist.
apritif
arefact
artefac
artifex
atafter
auftakt
axfetch
baffeta
barefit
bateful
bateful
adj
(obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
batfish
batfish
noun
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
batfowl
beatify
beatify
verb
(transitive) To make blissful.
(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beaufet
beaufet
noun
(archaic) A counter for refreshments; a buffet.
(archaic) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.
bedfast
bedfast
adj
Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
noun
A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
One who is bedfast.
belfast
belfast
Proper noun
A seaport in and the capital of Northern Ireland.
A city in the State of Maine, USA.
A town in New York
A in Pennsylvania
An unincorporated community in California
A township in Murray County, Minnesota
A village in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
cafenet
cafenet
noun
An inn or resthouse selling coffee in Turkey.
cafetal
caftans
caftans
noun
plural of caftan
caitiff
caitiff
adj
Especially despicable; cowardly
noun
(archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch
(obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave
A base or despicable person; a wretch
calfret
camfort
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
carifta
cartful
cartful
noun
As much as a cart will hold.
castoff
castoff
adj
discarded, rejected.
noun
Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
catface
catface
noun
A deformity in tomatoes, of unknown cause, characterized by cracked and misshapen fruit.
A mark or blemish in wood, plasterwork etc.
catfall
catfall
noun
(nautical) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
catfish
catfish
noun
(Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
(Internet) Such a fake profile.
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
verb
(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
To fish for catfish.
catfoot
chafted
confact
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
craftly
crafton
daftest
daftest
adj
superlative form of daft: most daft
deafest
deafest
adj
superlative form of deaf: most deaf
defacto
defacto
noun
Alternative form of de facto
default
default
noun
(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
(finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
(finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
(law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
(obsolete) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires.
(obsolete) Fault; offence; wrong act.
(obsolete) Lack; absence.
(often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
A loss incurred by failing to compete.
A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
verb
(intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
(intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
(intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
(transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
defeats
defeats
noun
plural of defeat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defeat
defiant
defiant
adj
Boldly resisting opposition.
Defying.
noun
One who defies opposition.
deflate
deflate
verb
(intransitive) To become deflated.
(slang) To belch or flatulate
(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
(transitive) To let down or disappoint.
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
(transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
(transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
distaff
distaff
adj
Of the maternal side of a family.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of women.
noun
(also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
A race for female horses only.
Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
dowfart
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.
efatese
effatum
efflate
efflate
verb
To fill with breath; to puff up.
elfstan
enfants
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
estafet
faceted
faceted
adj
Having facets.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of facet
facette
facette
noun
Alternative form of facet
faciata
facient
facient
noun
(mathematics) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
(obsolete) One who does something; a doer; an agent.
A multiplier.
faciest
factful
factful
adj
factually accurate
factice
factice
noun
Vulcanized unsaturated vegetable or animal oil, used as a processing aid and property modifier in rubber.
faction
faction
noun
(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
(uncountable) Strife; discord.
The facts found in fiction.
factish
factish
adj
Focused on fact rather than reason or speculation.
Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
noun
(sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.
factive
factive
adj
(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
(obsolete) Making.
noun
(grammar) A factive verb.
factors
factors
noun
plural of factor
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factor
factory
factory
adj
(colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
noun
(UK, slang) A police station.
(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
factrix
factrix
noun
(obsolete) A factoress, a female factor (agent or representative).
factual
factual
adj
Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
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.
faculty
faculty
noun
(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
(Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill.
(chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
A division of a university.
An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
The members of a profession.
faddist
faddist
noun
A person or entity given to following fads.
fadeout
fadeout
noun
A gradual disappearance or fading away.
faggots
faggots
noun
plural of faggot
faggoty
faggoty
adj
(rare) Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
(slang, derogatory, offensive) Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.
fagoted
fagoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fagot
fagoter
fagoter
noun
(historical) A worker who gathers fuelwood.
fagotte
fagotto
fagotto
noun
(music, dated) The bassoon.
fainant
fainest
fainest
adv
superlative form of fain: most fain
fainted
fainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of faint
fainter
fainter
adj
comparative form of faint: more faint
noun
One who faints.
faintly
faintly
adv
In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
fairest
fairest
adj
superlative form of fair: most fair
fairton
faitery
faithed
faithed
adj
(obsolete) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
Having faith of a specified quality or type.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
fajitas
fajitas
noun
plural of fajita
falcata
falcata
noun
(historical) A sword in pre-Roman Iberia having a concave edge to the blade.
falcate
falcate
adj
(zoology and botany) Shaped like a sickle.
faletti
fallout
fallout
noun
(radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
(rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
The particles themselves.
falsest
falsest
adj
superlative form of false: most false
falsity
falsity
noun
(countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
(uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
The falsity of that statement is easily proven.
falster
faltche
faltere
falters
falters
noun
plural of falter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of falter
falutin
fanatic
fanatic
adj
(obsolete) Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
Fanatical.
noun
A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.
fanchet
fanfoot
fanfoot
noun
A gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus, having toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion.
Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
fanglet
fanglet
noun
A little fang.
fanjets
fanjets
noun
plural of fanjet
fantail
fantail
noun
(nautical) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.
A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
fantasm
fantasm
noun
Alternative spelling of phantasm
fantast
fantast
noun
(now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.
fantasy
fantasy
noun
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
A fantastical design.
That which comes from one's imagination.
verb
(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
(transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.
fanteeg
fanteeg
noun
Eye dialect spelling of fantigue.
fantods
fantods
noun
(chiefly dated) plural of fantod To have “the fantods” is to be in a state of nervousness, distress, or anxiety.
...I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees. I went for it, cautious and slow. By and by I was close enough to have a look, and there laid a man on the ground. It most give me the fantods.
1839, Charles Biggs, Adventures of Harry Franco:
1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
You have got strong symptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut your eyes without opening your mouth.”
fantoms
fantoms
noun
plural of fantom
fanwort
fanwort
noun
Any of the genus Cabomba of aquatic plants, having divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan.
farcist
farcist
noun
A writer of farces.
faretta
fargite
farmost
farmost
adj
(obsolete) Most distant; farthest.
farmout
farmout
noun
The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
farrant
farther
farther
adj
Alternative form of further. (See also the usage notes at further.)
verb
(uncommon or old-fashioned) Alternative form of further.
farting
farting
noun
The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
verb
present participle of fart
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.
fascist
fascist
adj
(informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.
Of or relating to fascism.
Supporting the principles of fascism.
noun
A member of a political party or other organization that advocates fascist principles.
A proponent of fascism, frequently (highly derogatory) as an accusation towards any opponent of any political viewpoint whatsoever.
fastens
fastens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fasten
fastest
fastest
adj
superlative form of fast (adjective): most fast
adv
superlative form of fast (adverb): most fast
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of fast
fastiia
fasting
fasting
noun
abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting
abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
verb
present participle and gerund of fast
fastish
fastish
adj
(colloquial) Rather fast.
fatales
fatally
fatally
adv
Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
In a fatal manner; lethally.
Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
fatback
fatback
noun
(US) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard