(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
befind
befind
verb
(passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
(transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
(transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
befire
befist
befits
befits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befit
befriz
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
belief
belief
noun
(countable) Something believed.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
biafra
biafra
Proper noun
A short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s.
biface
biface
noun
(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
bifara
biffar
biffed
biffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of biff
biffin
biffin
noun
A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.
biflex
bifoil
bifold
bifold
adj
Of two kinds.
Twofold, double.
noun
(carpentry) A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.
biform
biform
adj
Having two distinct forms
bilify
binful
binful
noun
Enough to fill a bin.
biofog
boffin
boffin
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal) An engineer or scientist, especially one engaged in technological or military research.
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal, by extension) A person with specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward; (in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person.
bonify
bonify
verb
(archaic, transitive) To convert into, or make, good.
bowfin
bowfin
noun
A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
briefs
briefs
noun
(usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
plural of brief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brief
buffin
buffin
noun
(obsolete) A sort of coarse material.
fabian
fabian
adj
Alternative form of Fabian
fabien
fabius
fabius
Proper noun
name, of historical use in English.
fabria
fabric
fabric
noun
(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
(now rare) An edifice or building.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
The framework underlying a structure.
The texture of a cloth.
verb
(transitive) To cover with fabric.
fabrin
febris
fibbed
fibbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fib
fibber
fibber
noun
(informal) A liar.
fibdom
fibers
fibers
noun
plural of fiber
fibred
fibred
adj
(especially in combination) Having (a specified form of) fibres.
fibres
fibres
noun
plural of fibre
fibril
fibril
noun
(biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
A fine fibre or filament
fibrin
fibrin
noun
A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood.
An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.
verb
To apply fibrin sealant to a surgical site to either stop bleeding or for surgical flap closure.
fibula
fibula
noun
(anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
figboy
fimble
fimble
noun
The male hemp plant.
verb
(intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.
finbar
finbur
foible
foible
adj
(obsolete) Weak; feeble.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
(fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
A weakness or failing of character.
forbid
forbid
verb
(ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
(transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
(transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
(transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
forbit
fribby
lobfig
obfirm
obfirm
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make firm; to harden in resolution.
rosbif
rosbif
noun
(humorous) An English person (as viewed by the French).
rubify
rubify
verb
(rare, intransitive) to redden; to become red
(rare, transitive) to make red; to cause to redden
subfix
subfix
noun
One or more letters or sounds added at the bottom of a word to modify its meaning, found in Maya script.
verb
To add one or more letters or sounds to the bottom of a word to change its meaning.