(transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
(translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
duplify
elfship
elfship
noun
A compellation for an elf.
faipule
faipule
noun
The leader of an atoll of Tokelau.
felippe
filippa
filippi
filippo
fillips
fillips
noun
plural of fillip
fipples
fipples
noun
plural of fipple
fleapit
fleapit
noun
Alternative spelling of flea pit
fliping
fliping
verb
present participle of flipe
flipped
flipped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flip
flipper
flipper
noun
(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
(dated, slang) The hand.
(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
(informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
(theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
A kitchen spatula.
In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
verb
To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
flippin
fopling
fopling
noun
(archaic) A petty fop.
lipfert
pailful
pailful
noun
The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.
painful
painful
adj
(informal) Very bad, poor.
(now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
palisfy
palsify
piffled
piffled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of piffle
piffler
piffler
noun
A blathering fool.
piffles
piffles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of piffle
pilaffs
pilaffs
noun
plural of pilaff
pilfers
pilfers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pilfer
pilfery
pilfery
noun
petty theft
pilifer
pilifer
noun
A bristly structure forming part of a hearing organ on the heads of hawkmoths of the subtribe Choerocampina, used in detecting the echolocation sounds of insectivorous bats.
pilloff
pinfall
pinfall
noun
(bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.
(wrestling, countable) A victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.
pinfold
pinfold
noun
An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
verb
(transitive) To confine (animals) in a pinfold.
pipeful
pipeful
noun
Enough tobacco to fill a pipe for smoking.
pitfall
pitfall
noun
(computing) An antipattern.
(figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
(literally) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
(mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
pitfold
pithful
pithful
adj
Full of pith.
pitiful
pitiful
adj
(now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
Of an amount or number: very small.
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
adv
(colloquial, dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
plebify
plebify
verb
(transitive) To make plebeian; to vulgarize.
plumify
plurify
plurify
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become many.
prefile
prefile
verb
(transitive) To file in advance.
prefill
prefill
verb
(transitive) To fill in advance.
prelife
prelife
adj
Before the start of life
profile
profile
noun
(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
(archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
(architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
(civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
(countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.