An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.
firetop
fishpot
fishpot
noun
A basket or similar container that is sunk, with a float attached, and used for catching fish or other sea creatures
flattop
flattop
noun
(US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
(US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier.
(music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
flopped
flopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flop
flopper
flopper
noun
(US, slang) A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation.
(skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
One who flops.
foeship
foeship
noun
Condition of possessing any enemies.
enmity
footpad
footpad
noun
(Australia) An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.
(archaic) A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
(medicine) A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
The soft underside of an animal's paw.
verb
(archaic) To rob travellers on the road.
To sneak on foot.
fopling
fopling
noun
(archaic) A petty fop.
foppery
foppery
noun
Stupidity.
The dress or actions of a fop.
fopping
foppish
foppish
adj
Like a fop, a man overly concerned with his appearance; vain and showy.
fopship
forceps
forceps
noun
An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
forepad
forepaw
forepaw
noun
Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans.
foretop
foretop
noun
(UK dialectal) An erect tuft of hair.
(nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
(obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
(obsolete) In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
(obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
(obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
The forelock of a horse.
The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
forpass
forpass
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
(transitive, obsolete) To go beyond, exceed; surpass.
forpine
forpine
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
(transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound
forweep
forweep
verb
(intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.
forwrap
forwrap
verb
(transitive, archaic) To wrap up or about; muffle.
fowlpox
fowlpox
noun
A disease of poultry caused by viruses of the family Poxviridae and the genus Avipoxvirus.
foxchop
foxship
foxship
noun
(Used as a mock title) The fox.
The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning.
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.
hopeful
hopeful
adj
feeling hope
inspiring hope
noun
Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.
improof
jumpoff
jumpoff
noun
(slang) A sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but with whom one does not intend to form a long-term romantic relationship.
kerflop
kerflop
intj
The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.
loopful
loopful
noun
As much as a loop will contain
offramp
offramp
noun
Alternative spelling of off-ramp
offtype
opacify
opacify
verb
(transitive) To make opaque.
opifice
opifice
noun
(obsolete) workmanship
padfoot
payoffs
payoffs
noun
plural of payoff
peafowl
peafowl
noun
A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).
penfold
penfold
noun
Alternative spelling of pinfold
perform
perform
verb
(by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
(intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
(intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
(intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
(transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
(transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
(transitive) To do (something); to execute.
(transitive, intransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
perkoff
perloff
peskoff
pickoff
pickoff
noun
(baseball) A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base
piefort
piefort
noun
Alternative form of piedfort (“unusually thick coin”)
piffero
piffero
noun
(music) A form of oboe
(music) A particular organ stop
pigfoot
pigfoot
noun
A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native to Europe.
Any similar fish
pilloff
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.
pitfold
plafond
plafond
noun
(anatomy) The tibial plafond.
A ceiling, especially one that is ornately decorated.
A painting or decoration on a ceiling.
playoff
playoff
noun
(US) A short series of games to select a league champion.
A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
plotful
plotful
adj
Abounding with plots; scheming.
pokeful
pokeful
noun
Enough to fill a poke; a bagful or sackful.
pomfret
pomfret
noun
A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
Any of several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
The black pomfret, Parastromateus niger.
The golden pomfret, Trachinotus blochii.
pomfrey
pondful
pondful
noun
Enough to fill a pond.
pontiff
pontiff
noun
(figuratively) Any chief figure or leader of a religion.
(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.
A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope.
pontify
pontify
verb
To pontificate.
pooftah
pooftah
noun
Alternative spelling of poofter
poofter
poofter
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory, slang) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.
portify
positif
postfix
postfix
noun
(chiefly computing) Suffix.
verb
(biology) To subject a sample to postfixation
(transitive) To suffix.
potfuls
potfuls
noun
plural of potful
potifer
pouffed
pouffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pouff
simple past tense and past participle of pouffe
pouffes
pouffes
noun
plural of pouffe
poutful
poutful
adj
pouty
prefool
preform
preform
noun
(archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
(linguistics) A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
verb
Misspelling of perform.
To shape something before some other operation.
proface
proface
intj
(obsolete) A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served.
profane
profane
adj
Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
noun
(Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
A person or thing that is profane.
verb
(transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
(transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
profant
profert
profert
noun
(law) The production or display of recorded evidence in court.
profess
profess
verb
(reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
(transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
(transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
(transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
(transitive, chiefly passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
(transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
(transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
proffer
proffer
noun
(obsolete) An attempt, an essay.
An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.
(transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
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.