(archaic) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.
beflout
blufter
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
bootful
bootful
noun
As much as a boot will hold.
brutify
brutify
verb
(transitive) To make like a brute; to make senseless or unfeeling; to brutalize.
buffets
buffets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buffet
buffont
buffont
noun
(chiefly historical) An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
Alternative form of bouffant
cartful
cartful
noun
As much as a cart will hold.
cityful
cityful
noun
Enough to fill a city.
confute
confute
verb
(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
costful
costful
adj
(archaic) Expensive; sumptuous
Indicative of expenditure or loss; costly
coteful
cutoffs
cutoffs
noun
plural of cutoff
trousers (most often jeans) that have been shortened by cutting off part or most of the legs
debtful
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.
defunct
defunct
adj
(business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
(computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
(linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
(now rare) Deceased, dead.
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
noun
The dead person (referred to).
verb
To make defunct.
destuff
duftery
duftite
duftite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular kind of vitreous or dull, olive-green to grey-green orthorhombic mineral.
dustoff
dustoff
noun
Alternative form of dust-off
dutiful
dutiful
adj
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
effatum
etouffe
factful
factful
adj
factually accurate
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.
fadeout
fadeout
noun
A gradual disappearance or fading away.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
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.
falutin
farmout
farmout
noun
The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
fateful
fateful
adj
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
fathmur
fatigue
fatigue
noun
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
(often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
verb
(intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
(transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
fatuate
fatuism
fatuism
noun
(obsolete) fatuity
fatuity
fatuity
noun
Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
fatuoid
fatuous
fatuous
adj
Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
faubert
faucets
faucets
noun
plural of faucet
faucett
faulted
faulted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fault
faulter
faulter
noun
(obsolete) One who commits a fault.
verb
Archaic spelling of falter.
faunist
faunist
noun
One who describes the fauna of a country.
fausant
fauster
faustus
fauvist
fauvist
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
An artist who used this style.
featous
featous
adj
(archaic) clever
(archaic) neat
(archaic) nimble
feature
feature
noun
(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
(film) Ellipsis of feature film.
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
(statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
An important or main item.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
verb
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
(transitive) To star, to contain.
(transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
festuca
festuca
noun
fescue grass
fetuses
feudist
feudist
noun
A writer about feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
One who takes part in feuds.
fistful
fistful
noun
(by extension) A small number of something.
The amount that can be held in a closed fist.
fistuca
fistuca
noun
(historical) A kind of piledriver used by the ancient Romans.
fistula
fistula
noun
(Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses).
(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
fistule
fistule
noun
Alternative form of fistula
fixture
fixture
noun
(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
(law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
(sports, chiefly Britain, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match.
A lighting unit; a luminaire.
A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
(transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match).
flaucht
flaught
flaunts
flaunts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flaunt
flaunty
flaunty
adj
flaunting; showy; meretricious
fleuret
fleuret
noun
A fencing foil.
An ornament resembling a small flower.
floruit
floruit
noun
The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
flouted
flouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flout
flouter
flouter
noun
A person who flouts.
fluster
fluster
noun
A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion.
verb
(by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
(intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
flustra
fluters
fluters
noun
plural of fluter
fluther
flutier
flutier
adj
comparative form of fluty: more fluty
flutina
flutina
noun
(music) An early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the "draw" of the bellows.
fluting
fluting
adj
Making a sound like a flute.
noun
(architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
(fashion) A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
A flute-like sound.
The act of making such grooves.
verb
present participle of flute
flutist
flutist
noun
Alternative form of flautist
flutter
flutter
noun
(Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
(audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
(uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
A hasty game of cards or similar.
A state of agitation.
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
verb
(espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
(intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
(intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
(intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
(transitive) To cause something to flap.
(transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
foeture
foldout
foldout
adj
That folds out from a closed position
noun
A foldout bed.
An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
fontful
footful
footful
noun
(humorous) A small number, about five.
(humorous) As much as one can handle, especially of something handled with one's feet.
A complete set of toes for one foot.
A quantity (of something) that covers the foot.
An amount that can be picked up by one foot.
The amount of pressure that can be exerted by pressing with one foot.
foregut
foregut
noun
(biology, anatomy, embryology) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.
(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.
fortuna
fortune
fortune
noun
A large amount of money.
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
Destiny, especially favorable.
Good luck.
One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
fouette
foughty
foujita
foulest
foulest
adj
superlative form of foul: most foul
foumart
foumart
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.
fouquet
fourths
fourths
noun
plural of fourth
fractur
fractur
noun
Alternative spelling of fraktur.
fractus
fractus
noun
(meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
fraktur
fraktur
noun
(US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.
(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
fraught
fraught
adj
(figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
(with with) Furnished, equipped.
Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
noun
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
(transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
fretful
fretful
adj
Irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish.
Unable to relax; fidgety or restless.
frousty
fructed
fructed
adj
(heraldry, of a tree or plant on an escutcheon) Bearing fruit.
fructus
fructus
noun
(law, historical) In Ancient Roman law, any product originating either from a natural source (such as fruits grown or animals bred) or from legal transactions (e.g. interest on a loan).
fruited
fruited
adj
Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fruit
fruiter
fruiter
noun
(historical) A ship for transporting fruit.
(slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
Any organism that fruits.
frument
frumety
frustum
frustum
noun
A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.
A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes.
frutage
frutage
noun
(obsolete) A confection made of fruit.
(obsolete) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
frutify
frutify
verb
Alternative form of fructify
fuckwit
fuckwit
noun
(derogatory, vulgar, slang) A contemptible person.
(derogatory, vulgar, slang) A very stupid person.
fuertes
fugatos
fugatos
noun
plural of fugato
fugient
fugient
adj
(rare or obsolete) Fleeing.
fuguist
fuguist
noun
(archaic) A musician who composes or performs fugues.
fujitsu
fulbert
fulgent
fulgent
adj
Shining brilliantly; radiant.
fullest
fullest
adj
superlative form of full: most full.
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of full
fumette
fumette
noun
The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long.
fumiest
fumiest
adj
superlative form of fumy: most fumy
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.
(grammar) A function word.
(object-oriented programming) A function object.
functus
funfest
funfest
noun
(informal, US) A fun event.
fungate
fungate
verb
(intransitive) To become like a fungus, as in appearance or in growth rate or pattern.
fungite
fungite
noun
(paleontology) A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
funster
funster
noun
(colloquial, humorous or childish) A fun person.
funston
furcate
furcate
adj
Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
verb
To fork or branch out.
furiant
furmety
furmint
furmint
noun
A type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
A white wine made from this grape.
furmity
furmity
noun
Alternative form of frumenty
furoate
furoate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
further
further
adj
(comparative form of far) More distant; relatively distant.
More, additional.
adv
(comparative form of far) To a greater extent or degree.
(comparative form of far) To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
(conjunctive) Also; in addition; furthermore; moreover.
(in the phrase 'further to') Following on (from).
Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
verb
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(transitive) To help forward; to assist.
furtive
furtive
adj
Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
fusspot
fusspot
noun
(informal) A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
fustian
fustian
adj
Imaginary; invented.
Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.
Useless; worthless.
noun
(alcoholic beverages, archaic) Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.
(figuratively) Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
fustics
fustics
noun
plural of fustic
fustier
fustier
adj
comparative form of fusty: more fusty
fustily
fustily
adv
In a fusty manner.
futchel
futchel
noun
The jaws between which the hind end of a carriage tongue is inserted.
futharc
futhark
futhark
noun
The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
futhorc
futhorc
noun
The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English and Old Frisian.
futhork
futhork
noun
Alternative spelling of futhorc
futiley
futtock
futtock
noun
(nautical) Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.