(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
Floating at random.
adv
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
aerify
aerify
verb
(transitive) To mix with air.
(transitive) To vaporize.
afaint
afaint
adj
(archaic, poetic) fainting
afenil
affair
affair
noun
(military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
(slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.
A material object (vaguely designated).
A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
An adulterous relationship (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
affeir
affich
affied
affied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affy
affies
affies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affy
affile
affile
verb
(obsolete) To polish.
affine
affine
adj
(comparable, chemistry) Of two materials, having mutual affinity.
(geometry) Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f(⃑x)=A⃑x+⃑b (where A is a linear transformation and ⃑b is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.
(mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
noun
(anthropology, genealogy) A relative by marriage.
verb
To refine.
affing
affirm
affirm
verb
(law) To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
To support or encourage.
affixt
affixt
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of affix
afield
afield
adv
Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual); usually preceded by far (or farther, further).
On the field.
Out in the open.
aflcio
afraid
afraid
adj
(colloquial) Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation.
(used with for) Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).
Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
africa
afridi
afridi
Noun
A member of a Pashtun tribe.
afrika
afrite
afrite
noun
Alternative form of ifrit
afrits
afrits
noun
plural of afrit
agrief
agrief
adv
(obsolete) In grief; amiss.
agruif
aidful
aidful
adj
Helpful, assisting, providing aid.
aimful
aimful
adj
Full of purpose.
airify
airify
verb
Alternative form of aerify
albify
albify
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make white.
alfaki
alfirk
alfric
altify
argify
assify
aufait
aurify
aurify
verb
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To turn into gold.
baffin
baffin
Proper noun
A region of Nunavut
An island in Nunavut, Baffin Island.
Baffin Bay.
basify
basify
verb
(chemistry) To make more basic (less acidic)
beefin
befile
befile
verb
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
befind
befind
verb
(passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
(transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
(transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
befire
befist
befits
befits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befit
befriz
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
belief
belief
noun
(countable) Something believed.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
biafra
biafra
Proper noun
A short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s.
biface
biface
noun
(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
bifara
biffar
biffed
biffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of biff
biffin
biffin
noun
A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.
biflex
bifoil
bifold
bifold
adj
Of two kinds.
Twofold, double.
noun
(carpentry) A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.
biform
biform
adj
Having two distinct forms
bilify
binful
binful
noun
Enough to fill a bin.
biofog
boffin
boffin
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal) An engineer or scientist, especially one engaged in technological or military research.
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal, by extension) A person with specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward; (in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person.
bonify
bonify
verb
(archaic, transitive) To convert into, or make, good.
bowfin
bowfin
noun
A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
briefs
briefs
noun
(usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
plural of brief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brief
buffin
buffin
noun
(obsolete) A sort of coarse material.
cafila
cafila
noun
A caravan of travellers or supplies.
caitif
califs
califs
noun
plural of calif
caniff
certif
chetif
chiefs
chiefs
noun
plural of chief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chief
chihfu
chkfil
citify
citify
verb
(intransitive, informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
(transitive, informal) To make more like a city person.
(transitive, slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
cliffs
cliffs
noun
plural of cliff
cliffy
cliffy
adj
Abounding in cliffs.
noun
(slang) A cliffhanger (dramatic stopping point in a story).
clifts
clifts
noun
plural of clift
clifty
clifty
adj
(obsolete) Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
codify
codify
verb
To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
coffin
coffin
noun
(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
A storage container for nuclear waste.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
verb
(transitive) To place in a coffin.
coifed
coifed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coif
coiffe
coiffe
verb
Alternative spelling of coif
colfin
comfit
comfit
noun
(Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make into a dry sugared confection.
confit
confit
noun
Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
verb
(transitive) To prepare (food) in this manner.
confix
confix
noun
(linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
(linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
verb
(obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
cuffin
cuffin
noun
(obsolete, thieves' cant) A Justice of the Peace.
(obsolete, thieves' cant) A man.
cuinfo
cutify
cutify
verb
(informal) To make cute.
To form skin.
daffie
defail
defail
verb
(obsolete) To cause to fail.
defeit
defial
defied
defied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of defy
defier
defier
noun
agent noun of defy; one who dares and defies
defies
defies
noun
plural of defy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defy
defile
defile
noun
(military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
An act of marching in files or lines.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file.
(religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
(transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)
(transitive, obsolete) To march across (a place) in files or lines.
To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
To become dirty or unclean.
To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
To dishonour (someone).
To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
define
define
noun
(programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
verb
(mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
To express the essential nature of something.
To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
defoil
defoil
verb
To defile or despoil.
deific
deific
adj
divine; of or relating to a deity or deities.
differ
differ
noun
(computing) A program that diffs, a diff.
verb
(intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
(intransitive) To be separated in quantity.
(intransitive, people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree.
difmos
disfen
domify
domify
verb
(astrology, obsolete) To divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
(obsolete) To tame; to domesticate.
drifts
drifts
noun
plural of drift
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drift
drifty
drifty
adj
(dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.
Tending or seeming to drift
duffie
dufoil
dufoil
noun
(heraldry) Twifoil.
efaita
effeir
effigy
effigy
noun
A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
A likeness of a person.
eforia
efthim
eiffel
eiffel
Proper noun
A surname of French origin,
An ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language.
elfins
elfins
noun
plural of elfin
elfish
elfish
adj
Characteristic of an elf; elfin, elven.
Mischievous.
elfkin
elfkin
noun
A little elf.
enfief
enfile
enfile
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To thread onto, or hang up on, a string or cord.
enfire
enfire
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To set on fire.
enfirm
enfoil
enfrai
enlief
enlife
entify
entify
verb
To make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.
estrif
faailk
fabian
fabian
adj
Alternative form of Fabian
fabien
fabius
fabius
Proper noun
name, of historical use in English.
fabria
fabric
fabric
noun
(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
(now rare) An edifice or building.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
The framework underlying a structure.
The texture of a cloth.
verb
(transitive) To cover with fabric.
fabrin
facial
facial
adj
(medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
(relational) Of or affecting the face.
(transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to, as it is applied).
noun
(film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
(medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
(slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
(slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
facias
facias
noun
plural of facia
facier
facies
facies
noun
(geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
(medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
General appearance.
facile
facile
adj
(chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
(now rare) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
facily
facing
facing
adj
(rail transport, of points and crossovers) Diverging in the direction of travel.
Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction)
noun
(metalworking) A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
(military, in the plural) The collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat.
(military, usually in the plural) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about.
(sewing) Fabric applied to a garment edge on the underside.
The most external portion of exterior siding.
verb
present participle of face
facsim
fading
fading
noun
(obsolete) An Irish dance.
(obsolete) The burden of a song.
The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.
verb
present participle of fade.
faerie
faerie
noun
Archaic spelling of fairy.
Realm of the fays, fairyland.
fafnir
fafnir
Proper noun
a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar, who killed his father, transformed into a dragon, and was subsequently slain by Regin and Sigurd.
fagine
fagins
fagins
noun
plural of fagin
faikes
failed
failed
adj
Bankrupt.
Decayed; worn out.
unsuccessful
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fail
faille
faille
noun
A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.
fainer
fainer
adv
comparative form of fain: more fain
fainly
fainly
adv
(archaic) fain; gladly; by choice or preference
faints
faints
noun
Alternative form of feints (“product of distillation”)
plural of faint
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of faint