(mineralogy) An evaporite, consisting of magnesium chloride with the chemical formula MgCl₂·6H₂O, found with potash deposits in Saxony.
blowfishes
blowfishes
noun
plural of blowfish
boarfishes
boarfishes
noun
plural of boarfish
bonefishes
bonefishes
noun
plural of bonefish
buffoonish
buffoonish
adj
Characteristic of a buffoon.
chaudfroid
chaudfroid
noun
Alternative form of chaud-froid
chifferobe
chifferobe
noun
Alternative spelling of chifforobe
chiffonade
chiffonade
noun
A culinary preparation of herbs or leafy vegetables cut into long, thin ribbons.
verb
To prepare a chiffonade.
chiffonier
chiffonier
noun
A receptacle for rags or shreds.
A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
chifforobe
chifforobe
noun
A piece of furniture consisting of a wardrobe combined with a chest of drawers
childproof
childproof
adj
Designed to be unable for a child to use, operate, or open.
Made safe for children.
Made safe from children; resistant to damage by children.
verb
To make something childproof.
choreiform
choreiform
adj
(medicine) Resembling chorea.
chromaffin
chromaffin
adj
(cytology) Having an affinity for (and thus being stained brownish yellow) by chromium salts.
coalfishes
coalfishes
noun
plural of coalfish
cockfights
cockfights
noun
plural of cockfight
codfishery
codfishery
noun
A fishery specifically dealing with cod.
codfishing
cofferfish
cofferfish
noun
boxfish
combfishes
combfishes
noun
plural of combfish
conchifera
conchiform
conchiform
adj
Shaped like a conch.
cornetfish
cornetfish
noun
Any of several slender, elongate tropical fish, of the family Fistulariidae, that live in shallow water
coverchief
coverchief
noun
A covering for the head.
cyathiform
cyathiform
adj
In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
damfoolish
deflourish
disfashion
disfashion
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
doctorfish
doctorfish
noun
Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.
dollarfish
dollarfish
noun
Peprilus triacanthus, the American butterfish.
downshifts
downshifts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downshift
dragonfish
dragonfish
noun
Any of several long, slender fishes, of the family Stomiidae, that have a luminous barbel used to attract prey.
echiniform
eightyfold
eightyfold
adj
By a factor of eighty.
etheriform
etheriform
adj
Having the form of ether.
factorship
factorship
Noun
The business of a factor.
fantoddish
fantoddish
adj
irritable
fashioners
fashioners
noun
plural of fashioner
fashioning
fashioning
noun
The act or process of fashioning something; manufacture.
verb
present participle of fashion
fashionist
fashionist
noun
(archaic) An obsequious follower of fashion.
fashionize
fashionize
verb
(transitive) To make fashionable; to bring into the realm of fashion.
fautorship
fautorship
noun
The role or status of fautor.
fellowship
fellowship
noun
(arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
(dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
(education) A merit-based scholarship.
(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
(medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
verb
(intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
(transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
fianchetto
fianchetto
noun
(chess) The development of a bishop by moving it one square to a long diagonal; specifically, a set of opening moves where a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file.
verb
(chess) To play a fianchetto.
fingerhold
fingerhold
noun
A grip with the fingers.
fingerhook
firehouses
firehouses
noun
plural of firehouse
fireplough
fisherboat
fisherboat
noun
Alternative form of fisher-boat
fisherfolk
fisherfolk
noun
(anthropology) Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.
People who fish for a living.
Recreational fishers.
fishertown
fishmonger
fishmonger
noun
(Britain) A person who sells fish.
(Britain, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
(archaic) A pimp.
fishpotter
fishworker
fishworker
noun
A laborer in the fishing industry.
flightshot
floodlight
floodlight
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
verb
(transitive) To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s).
floorshift
flourished
flourished
adj
Decorated with flourishes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flourish
flourisher
flourisher
noun
One who flourishes.
flourishes
flourishes
noun
plural of flourish
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish
fluohydric
fluohydric
adj
(chemistry) hydrofluoric
foemanship
foemanship
noun
Enmity.
folkething
folklorish
folklorish
adj
(colloquial) Being similar to or having the quality of folklore.
foolfishes
foolfishes
noun
plural of foolfish
foolishest
foolishest
adj
superlative form of foolish: most foolish
footlights
footlights
noun
plural of footlight
forechoice
forechoice
noun
(ethics) A motive which is in harmony or agreement with right desire.
Preference.
The act or process of choosing ahead of time; preselection.
foresights
foresights
noun
plural of foresight
forethrift
forsythias
forsythias
noun
plural of forsythia
forthbring
forthbring
verb
(obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
forthgoing
forthgoing
adj
Going out or forth; departing.
noun
A going forth or utterance; a proceeding from or out.
verb
present participle of forthgo
forthright
forthright
adj
(archaic) Proceeding straight forth.
Fixed; settled; decided.
Frank, outspoken.
Markedly simple.
Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.
adv
(archaic) Straight forward, in a straight direction.
At once, forthwith.
Expressly, frankly, unhesitatingly.
Swiftly.
noun
(archaic) A straight path.
fortnights
fortnights
noun
plural of fortnight
fostership
fostership
noun
The relationship between foster parent and foster child.
franchisor
franchisor
noun
A company which, or a person who, grants franchises.
francophil
frightsome
frightsome
adj
Feeling fright; afraid; frightened.
Marked by fright or frightfulness; frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
frithborgh
frithsoken
frithstool
frithstool
noun
(historical) An Anglo-Saxon stone seat, placed near the altar of a church, which afforded protection to those seeking sanctuary.
frogfishes
frogfishes
noun
plural of frogfish
frothiness
frothiness
noun
The quality of being frothy
ghostified
ghostified
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ghostify
goatfishes
goatfishes
noun
plural of goatfish
goldfishes
goldfishes
noun
plural of goldfish
hallieford
hederiform
hederiform
adj
ivy-shaped
heiferhood
heiferhood
noun
The state or time of being a heifer.
heliciform
heliciform
adj
Having the form of a helix; spiral.
heliofugal
hemingford
hemofuscin
hierofalco
hiliferous
hippogriff
hippogriff
noun
a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
hitchproof
hominiform
hominiform
noun
Synonym of hominid
honorifics
honorifics
noun
plural of honorific
hordeiform
horrifying
horrifying
adj
Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
verb
present participle of horrify
horsefight
horseflies
horseflies
noun
plural of horsefly
hotfooting
hotfooting
verb
present participle of hotfoot
houseflies
houseflies
noun
plural of housefly
humaniform
humaniform
adj
Like a human or that of a human in form or appearance.
noun
(science fiction) A robot resembling a human.
hustisford
hydatiform
hydatiform
Adjective
Resembling a hydatid.
hydrofoils
hydrofoils
noun
plural of hydrofoil
hyraciform
infanthood
infanthood
noun
Infancy.
infrahyoid
infrahyoid
adj
(anatomy, relational) Below the hyoid bone in the neck.
lifeholder
lightproof
lightproof
adj
Sealed so that no light can enter.
lionfishes
lionfishes
noun
plural of lionfish
microfiche
microfiche
noun
A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
verb
(transitive) To convert (documents) to microfiche format.
misfashion
misfashion
verb
To form or fashion wrongly.
monkfishes
monkfishes
noun
plural of monkfish
moonfishes
moonfishes
noun
plural of moonfish
muttonfish
muttonfish
noun
(Australia) Any of several edible molluscs of the genus Haliotis; an abalone.
(chiefly US) Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially the mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis, the ocean pout, Macrozoarces americanus, or the Irish pompano, Diapterus auratus.
nonchafing
nonchafing
adj
That does not chafe.
nonfighter
nonfighter
noun
One who is not a fighter.
oafishness
oafishness
noun
The state or condition of being oafish; stupidity; dullness; folly.
offishness
offishness
noun
Quality of being offish.
outfighter
overfished
overfished
adj
Fished to the point of sustained reduction of fish species population.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overfish
overfishes
overfishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overfish
overflight
overflight
noun
The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
oysterfish
oysterfish
noun
tautog (Tautoga onitis)
parrotfish
parrotfish
noun
Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
phenformin
phenformin
noun
(pharmacology) An antidiabetic drug of the biguanide class.
philofelon
phylliform
phylliform
Adjective
leaf-shaped
pitchforks
pitchforks
noun
plural of pitchfork
ploughfish
pondfishes
pondfishes
noun
plural of pondfish
porkfishes
postflight
postflight
adj
After a flight.
prefashion
prowfishes
prowfishes
noun
plural of prowfish
refashions
refashions
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of refashion
reflourish
reflourish
verb
(intransitive) To flourish again.
rheiformes
rhombiform
rhombiform
adj
(geometry) In the shape of a rhombus.
ribbonfish
ribbonfish
noun
Any of several lampriform fish, of the family Trachipteridae, having long, ribbon-like bodies.
richthofen
rightforth
rockfishes
rockfishes
noun
plural of rockfish
rosefishes
rosefishes
noun
plural of rosefish
sailorfish
schonfield
scyphiform
scyphiform
adj
(botany) Shaped like a cup.
seaforthia
sheriffdom
sheriffdom
noun
The office, or period of office, of a sheriff.
The regions in which a sheriff has authority.
shirtfront
shirtfront
noun
(Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
(cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.
(real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
The front part of a shirt.
verb
(transitive, Australia, politics) To confront in a threatening manner.