(historical, nautical) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails.
(sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails
A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work.
afterhours
aftersound
aftersound
noun
(acoustics) The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.
(phonetics, obsolete) A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.
A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.
afterstudy
aftertouch
aftertouch
noun
(music, uncountable) Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
(rare) A touch (feature or characteristic) added finally or as an afterthought.
(video games) A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.
airiferous
airiferous
adj
Alternative form of aeriferous
alfarabius
alfraganus
anfracture
anfracture
noun
(obsolete) A mazy winding.
antefurcae
antefurcae
noun
plural of antefurca
antefurcal
antefurcal
adj
Relating to an antefurca
antefuture
antifouler
antifouler
noun
Synonym of antifoulant
aquafortis
aquafortis
noun
Alternative form of aqua fortis
aquiferous
aquiferous
adj
(geology) Of or pertaining to an aquifer
Carrying water
arciferous
armiferous
armiferous
adj
(rare) Bearing arms or weapons.
artfulness
artfulness
noun
The quality of being artful or of acting in an artful manner.
asciferous
aufklarung
auriferous
auriferous
adj
Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing.
auriflamme
auriflamme
noun
Obsolete spelling of oriflamme
ausforming
ausforming
verb
present participle of ausform
backfurrow
backfurrow
noun
(agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
verb
(agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.
baculiform
baculiform
adj
Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped.
barrelfuls
barrelfuls
noun
plural of barrelful
barrelsful
beautifier
beautifier
noun
A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
beefburger
beefburger
noun
(food) Synonym of hamburger (a cooked ground beef sandwich)
(food) Synonym of hamburger (a ground beef patty)
(food) Synonym of hamburger (ground beef)
befuddlers
befuddlers
noun
plural of befuddler
benzofuran
benzofuran
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a benzene ring fused with one of furan.
benzofuryl
bifistular
bifistular
adj
Doubly fistular; having two tubelike parts.
bifluoride
bifluoride
noun
(chemistry) Synonym of difluoride
bifurcated
bifurcated
adj
Divided into two branches.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bifurcate
bifurcates
bifurcates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bifurcate
biliferous
biliferous
adj
Generating bile.
blunderful
blunderful
adj
Inclined to blunder.
bodysurfed
bodysurfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bodysurf
bodysurfer
bodysurfer
noun
One who bodysurfs.
botuliform
botuliform
adj
Having the shape of a sausage
breadfruit
breadfruit
noun
An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
The large round fruit of this tree.
breadstuff
breadstuff
noun
Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour/meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
Bread or bread-like baked goods of any sort.
brunfelsia
brunfelsia
noun
(botany) Any of the plants of the genus Brunfelsia.
brushfires
brushfires
noun
plural of brushfire
brushproof
brushproof
adj
Resistant to damage caused by brushing.
brutifying
brutifying
verb
present participle of brutify
bufferrers
bufflehorn
buffoonery
buffoonery
noun
The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
bulimiform
bullflower
burchfield
burrfishes
burrfishes
noun
plural of burrfish
butterfats
butterfats
noun
plural of butterfat.
butterfish
butterfish
noun
(informal) The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) (the sablefish is not a true butterfish; but is called such informally)
(obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=6308&SynCode=26048&GenusName=Maccullochella&SpeciesName=macquariensis, http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Maccullochella-macquariensis.html.
A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
butterwife
cafetorium
cafetorium
noun
A large room, usually in a school, used as both a cafeteria and an auditorium.
camoufleur
camoufleur
noun
one who camouflages
carefuller
carefuller
adj
comparative form of careful: more careful
carfuffled
cauliflory
cauliflory
noun
The quality of being cauliflorous.
centrifuge
centrifuge
noun
(figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
verb
To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.
ceriferous
ceriferous
adj
Containing or producing cerium.
chapterful
chapterful
noun
As much as fills a chapter.
charmfully
charmfully
adv
In a charmful manner.
chaudfroid
chaudfroid
noun
Alternative form of chaud-froid
chauffeurs
chauffeurs
noun
plural of chauffeur
cheefuller
cheerfully
cheerfully
adv
In a cheerful manner.
cherubfish
churnstaff
ciliferous
ciliferous
adj
Bearing cilia.
circumflex
circumflex
adj
Curving around.
Having a circumflex mark.
noun
A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
verb
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
circumfuse
circumfuse
verb
To pour round; to spread round, as a fluid.
To spread round; to surround.
cloudcroft
clupeiform
clupeiform
adj
(zoology) Belonging or relating to the order Clupeiformes of ray-finned fish, including herrings and anchovies
noun
Any fish of the order Clupeiformes
cofeatures
cofeatures
noun
plural of cofeature
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cofeature
cofounders
cofounders
noun
plural of cofounder
coiffuring
coiffuring
verb
present participle of coiffure
colorfully
colorfully
adv
In a colorful manner.
colourfast
colourfast
adj
Alternative spelling of colorfast (Items with dyes or pigments that are capable of producing a stable colouring effect.)
colourific
colourific
adj
Rare spelling of colorific.
comfortful
comfortful
adj
Full of comforts; comfortable.
comiferous
comournful
confabular
confabular
adj
Of or pertaining to confabulation.
confecture
confecture
noun
(obsolete) confiture
(obsolete) conjecture, hypothesis
confervous
confervous
adj
Relating to, consisting of, or resembling confervae.
configural
configural
adj
Relating to the spatial configuration of something, such as a human face to be recognised, rather than its separate visual features.
configured
configured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of configure
configures
configures
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of configure
conflexure
confounder
confounder
noun
(mathematics) A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable
A person who confounds
confutator
coniferous
coniferous
adj
Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
corruptful
corruptful
adj
(obsolete) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
cosufferer
counterfix
courtcraft
courtcraft
noun
(sports) Skill on the court, as in squash or tennis.
The artifices and intrigues at courts.
craftsbury
creamfruit
creekstuff
cruciferae
crucifixes
crucifixes
noun
plural of crucifix
crucifying
crucifying
verb
present participle of crucify
crushproof
crushproof
adj
Strong enough to resist being deformed or crushed when subjected to more than normal physical stress or pressure.
cuculiform
cuculiform
noun
Any bird of the order Cuculiformes
cucumiform
cucumiform
adj
Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.
culiciform
culiciform
adj
(zoology) gnat-shaped
cultriform
cultriform
adj
(botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
(chemistry) any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule
discordful
discordful
adj
(rare) Full of discord; contentious, quarrelsome.
discursify
disfeature
disfeature
verb
(transitive) To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
disfigured
disfigured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disfigure
disfigurer
disfigurer
noun
One who disfigures.
disfigures
disfigures
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfigure
disfortune
disfurnish
disfurnish
verb
(transitive, archaic) To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipment, etc.); to strip or divest.
disulfiram
disulfiram
noun
(pharmacology) A synthetic compound (trademark Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholics to make drinking alcohol produce unpleasant after-effects.
disulfuret
disulfuric
disulfuric
adj
(inorganic chemistry) pyrosulfuric
disuniform
disuniform
Adjective
Not uniform.
dolefuller
dolorifuge
dolorifuge
noun
Something which mitigates or removes grief.
dreadfully
dreadfully
adv
(dated) Exceptionally, eminently, very much.
In a dreadful manner.
dreamfully
dreamfully
adv
In a dreamful manner.
drearfully
dreyfusard
dreyfusism
dreyfusist
dropperful
dropperful
noun
Enough to fill a dropper.
drumfishes
drumfishes
noun
plural of drumfish
dumfounder
dumfounder
verb
To dumbfound; to confound.
dunderfunk
dunderfunk
noun
(obsolete, nautical) ship's biscuit broken up, mixed with molasses etc. and baked