(archery, of a bow) Having the arms curved or curled at the base so as to turn towards the archer when unstrung, reducing the strain on the limbs and also the energy stored by the weapon.
verb
(zoology, botany) To bend down.
deflux
deflux
noun
(obsolete) downward flow
efflux
efflux
noun
That which has flowed out.
verb
(intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.
fixage
fixage
noun
The act of fixing or determining.
fixate
fixate
verb
(intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
(intransitive, psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on.
(transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
A pale yellow brown; the colour of dried flax stalks and of the fiber obtained therefrom.
Made of or resembling flax fibers.
flaxes
flaxes
noun
plural of flax
flexed
flexed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flex
flexes
flexes
noun
plural of flex
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flex
flexor
flexor
noun
A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
fluxed
fluxed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flux
fluxer
fluxes
fluxes
noun
plural of flux
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flux
forfex
forfex
noun
(obsolete) A pair of shears.
foxery
foxery
noun
cunning behavior; trickery; deceit
foxier
foxier
adj
comparative form of foxy: more foxy
foxite
foxite
Noun
A Whig following the political philosophy of
frutex
frutex
noun
(botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
inflex
inflex
verb
To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
opifex
perfix
perfix
verb
(obsolete) To fix surely; to appoint.
prefix
prefix
noun
(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
(telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)
A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.
verb
(transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
(transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
redfox
reflex
reflex
adj
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
(painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Bent, turned back or reflected.
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
noun
(chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
(linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
verb
(transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
To respond to a stimulus.
reflux
reflux
noun
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
verb
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser