(rare) To reinforce (a team etc.) with extra people
arcform
archfoe
archfoe
noun
archenemy
backoff
backoff
noun
(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
(surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.
bifocal
bifocal
adj
(of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision
(optics) Having two focal lengths
caffeol
caffiso
caffiso
noun
Alternative form of cafiso, particularly in Italian contexts.
cafiero
califon
camfort
carafon
carefox
carfour
carfour
noun
Synonym of carfax
castoff
castoff
adj
discarded, rejected.
noun
Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
catfoot
cerfoil
chefdom
chefdom
noun
Collectively, all chefs.
The state of being a chef.
chiffon
chiffon
noun
A lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.
Any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.
chincof
choffer
choffer
noun
(rare, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of chauffeur.
Alternative form of chauffer (“heating device”)
clifton
clifton
Proper noun
Any of several places in England, especially a suburb of Bristol, England.
for someone who lived in a town of this name.
name transferred from the surname.
coalify
coalify
verb
(paleontology, of a fossil) To change into coal.
cobloaf
cochief
cochief
noun
A joint chief.
codfish
codfish
noun
(countable) A cod (the fish).
(uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food.
coffeen
coffees
coffees
noun
plural of coffee
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coffee
coffeng
coffers
coffers
noun
plural of coffer
coffing
coffins
coffins
noun
plural of coffin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coffin
coffled
coffled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coffle
coffles
coffles
noun
plural of coffle
coffman
coffret
coffret
noun
A small box or chest; casket.
cofield
cofinal
cofinal
adj
(order theory) Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
cofound
cofound
verb
(transitive) To found at the same time as another.
(transitive) To found with one or more other people.
coiffed
coiffes
coiffes
noun
plural of coiffe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coiffe
coifing
coifing
verb
present participle of coif
coinfer
comfier
comfier
adj
comparative form of comfy: more comfy
comfily
comfily
adv
(informal) comfortably
comfits
comfits
noun
plural of comfit
comfort
comfort
noun
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
Contentment, ease.
Something that offers comfort.
verb
(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
(transitive) To make comfortable.
(transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
comfrey
comfrey
noun
Any of several species of perennial herbs of the genus Symphytum, often specifically Symphytum officinale.
concoff
confabs
confabs
noun
plural of confab
confact
confect
confect
noun
(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
verb
(transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
(transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
confers
confers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confer
confess
confess
verb
(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
To disclose or reveal.
confest
confest
verb
(archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of confess
confide
confide
verb
(intransitive) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in)
(intransitive, now rare) To trust, have faith (in).
(transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
(transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.
confine
confine
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
verb
(obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
confirm
confirm
verb
(transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
confisk
conflab
conflab
noun
(informal) A discussion.
conflow
conflow
verb
to flow together into one stream, to converge
conflux
conflux
noun
A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things.
A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
conform
conform
verb
(intransitive, of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.
(intransitive, of things, situations, etc.) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline.
(transitive) To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.
confort
confuse
confuse
verb
(intransitive) To be confused.
(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
(transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
(transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
(transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
confute
confute
verb
(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
conifer
conifer
noun
(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
coosify
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.
cornify
cornify
verb
(chiefly medicine) To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
corosif
costful
costful
adj
(archaic) Expensive; sumptuous
Indicative of expenditure or loss; costly
coteful
cowfish
cowfish
noun
A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)
A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin.
cowflap
cowflap
noun
Alternative form of cowflop (“a cowpat”)
cowflop
cowflop
noun
A cowpat.
crafton
crofoot
crofter
crofter
noun
One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
crofton
cutoffs
cutoffs
noun
plural of cutoff
trousers (most often jeans) that have been shortened by cutting off part or most of the legs
defacto
defacto
noun
Alternative form of de facto
defalco
defocus
defocus
noun
(optics) The distance by which the focal point is in front of (positive defocus) or beyond (negative defocus) the image or target surface.
The process of going out of focus.
verb
(transitive) To cause (a lens, or a beam of light or particles, etc.) to be out of focus.
deforce
deforce
verb
(law, Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.
(law, transitive) To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
defrock
defrock
verb
(by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
(figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
(literally) To divest of a frock.
dogface
dogface
noun
(US military, slang) A foot soldier, especially during World War II.
(slang, derogatory) An ugly person.
Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene.
efforce
efforce
verb
(obsolete, reflexive) To force oneself.
(obsolete, transitive) To force, force open; to acquire by force.
elflock
elflock
noun
(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
enfonce
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.
facebow
facebow
noun
(dentistry) A prosthodontic instrument used to transfer functional and aesthetic components from the patient's mouth to the dental articulator.
faceoff
faceoff
noun
(ice hockey) The method used to begin play in ice hockey.
faconde
faconne
faconne
noun
Alternative spelling of façonné
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.
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.
falcone
falcons
falcons
noun
plural of falcon
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of falcon
fanchon
felicio
fenchol
fenchol
noun
(organic chemistry) 1,3,3-trimethyl-2-norbornanol, a terpene and an isomer of borneol, used in perfumery.
fetlock
fetlock
noun
A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
fiascos
fiascos
noun
plural of fiasco
fiction
fiction
noun
(law) A legal fiction.
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
fillock
fillock
noun
A wanton girl.
flacons
flacons
noun
plural of flacon
flector
flector
noun
Dated form of flexor.
flocced
floccus
floccus
noun
(meteorology) A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds.
flocked
flocked
adj
(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.
(of bristles) Having split, bushy ends.
(of swabs) Having dense fibers with a desirable nap to optimize collection and elution of specimens.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flock
flocker
flocker
noun
One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
flocoon
flounce
flounce
noun
(sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.ᵂ
A row of spines, corrugations, or skin folds on the hemipenis of a snake.
The act of flouncing.
verb
(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
To decorate with a flounce.
To depart in a haughty, dramatic way that draws attention to oneself.
To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
flouncy
flouncy
adj
Gathered and pleated.
fluoric
fluoric
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, obtained from or containing fluorine
(obsolete, inorganic chemistry) hydrofluoric
focally
focally
adv
With respect to a focus
focoids
focused
focused
adj
Dealing with some narrowly defined aspects of a broader phenomenon.
Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of focus
focuser
focuser
noun
A device which allows one to adjust the focus of an instrument such as a telescope.
focuses
focuses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focus
folacin
folacin
Noun
folic acid
fondaco
fondaco
noun
(historical, Italian contexts) A type of inn, especially as the residence of a merchant or trader; a trading post, a trading factory.
fonseca
foochow
forcene
forceps
forceps
noun
An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
forcers
forcers
noun
plural of forcer
forches
forcier
forcing
forcing
adj
(bridge) Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.
noun
(climatology, countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
(horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
(photography) An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
(set theory) A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics).
verb
present participle of force
forcite
forcite
noun
A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.
forcive
fordyce
fordyce
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA
a village in Nebraska, USA.
a village in council area, Scotland
foreact
forecar
forecar
noun
(historical) A one-wheeled attachment to the front of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.
formica
formica
noun
A heat-resistant laminate material used to veneer countertops.
fosdick
fossick
fossick
verb
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To elicit information; to ferret out.
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
(intransitive, British dialect) To be troublesome.
fotched
foulbec
fourche
fourche
adj
(heraldry) Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.
foxchop
frescos
frocked
frocked
adj
Dressed in a frock.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frock
frolick
frolick
adj
Archaic form of frolic.
frolics
frolics
noun
plural of frolic
frounce
frounce
noun
A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
A plait or curl.
verb
(rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To curl.
To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
fucoids
fucoids
noun
plural of fucoid
fucosan
fucosan
noun
(biochemistry) A polysaccharide (of fucose) present in brown algae of the genus Fucus
fucoses
fucoses
noun
plural of fucose
functor
functor
noun
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
(functional programming) A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.