(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.
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.
basifacial
basifacial
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the lower half of the face
beachfront
beachfront
adj
Of property (real estate): located on a beach.
noun
The portion of land or property that runs alongside and facing a beach.
beatifical
beatifical
adj
beatific
beccaficos
beccaficos
noun
plural of beccafico
beflecking
beflecking
verb
present participle of befleck
bekerchief
benefactor
benefactor
noun
Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.
Someone who performs good or noble deeds.
beneficent
beneficent
adj
Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.
beneficial
beneficial
adj
Helpful or good to something or someone.
Relating to a benefice.
noun
Something that is beneficial.
beneficing
beneficing
verb
present participle of benefice
beneficium
beryciform
beryciform
adj
(zoology) Belonging to the Beryciformes, an order of ray-finned fishes
noun
Any fish of the order Beryciformes
besanctify
bewitchful
bewitchful
adj
Bewitching; alluring; fascinating; amazing.
bicrofarad
bicrofarad
noun
(dated, nonstandard) A billionth of a farad.
biflecnode
biflecnode
noun
(geometry) A fleflecnode
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
bilifuscin
bilifuscin
noun
(biochemistry) A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile.
bischofite
bischofite
noun
(mineralogy) An evaporite, consisting of magnesium chloride with the chemical formula MgCl₂·6H₂O, found with potash deposits in Saxony.
blackflies
blackflies
noun
plural of blackfly
boldfacing
boldfacing
verb
present participle of boldface
braincraft
braincraft
noun
(rare) Intellectual work; thinking.
brazenface
brazenface
noun
An impudent or shameless person.
brickcroft
brickfield
brickfield
noun
A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
briefcases
briefcases
noun
plural of briefcase
bucketfull
bucketfuls
bucketfuls
noun
plural of bucketful
bucketsful
burchfield
cantefable
cantefable
noun
Alternative form of chantefable
cherubfish
chifferobe
chifferobe
noun
Alternative spelling of chifforobe
chifforobe
chifforobe
noun
A piece of furniture consisting of a wardrobe combined with a chest of drawers
clofibrate
clofibrate
noun
(pharmacology) A compound C₁₂H₁₅ClO₃ used especially to lower abnormally high concentrations of fats and cholesterol in the blood.
clubfellow
clubfellow
noun
A fellow member of a club.
clubfisted
clubfisted
adj
Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
Having a large fist.
clubfooted
clubfooted
adj
Having a clubfoot.
coffeebush
combfishes
combfishes
noun
plural of combfish
combflower
confabbing
confabbing
verb
present participle of confab
confabular
confabular
adj
Of or pertaining to confabulation.
confinable
confinable
adj
Able to be confined
confusable
confusable
adj
Able to be confused.
noun
A word or phrase that is easily confused with another
confusably
confusably
adv
In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
confutable
confutable
adj
(archaic or formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
craftsbury
cribriform
cribriform
adj
Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
cymbaeform
defaceable
defaceable
adj
Able to be defaced.
defectible
defectible
adj
deficient; imperfect
edificable
effaceable
effaceable
adj
Capable of being effaced.
effectible
effectible
adj
(dated, 1600s) Capable of being done or achieved.
enforcible
enforcible
Adjective
Capable of being enforced.
fabricable
fabricable
adj
Able to be shaped into a finished product.
fabricated
fabricated
adj
Constructed or assembled.
False in the sense of made-up, constructed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fabricate
fabricates
fabricates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fabricate
fabricator
fabricator
noun
A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier
factabling
factorable
factorable
adj
(mathematics) Capable of being factored. For integers synonyms are composite, non-prime.
falconbill
fernambuck
fiberscope
fiberscope
noun
(American spelling) a flexible fibreoptic device for viewing otherwise inaccessible areas
fibrocytic
fibrocytic
adj
Relating to fibrocytes
fibrolitic
fibrolitic
adj
Of or relating to fibrolite.
fiddleback
fiddleback
noun
A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
The brown recluse spider.
filibranch
filibranch
adj
(biology, of gills) long, with tubular filaments
fimbricate
fimbricate
adj
(zoology) Fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, like the antennae of certain insects.
fringed; jagged; fimbriate
firebricks
firebricks
noun
plural of firebrick
flashbacks
flashbacks
noun
plural of flashback
flashcubes
flashcubes
noun
plural of flashcube
fleeceable
fleeceable
adj
able to be fleeced; naive and gullible
fluctuable
fluctuable
adj
Able or liable to fluctuate.
fluorboric
forbecause
frenchboro
frenchburg
funambulic
infectible
infectible
adj
Able to be infected; capable of infection.
morbifical
morbifical
adj
Alternative form of morbific
obfuscable
obfuscated
obfuscated
adj
(archaic, slang) Drunk.
Having undergone obfuscation.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obfuscate
obfuscates
obfuscates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate
obfuscator
obfuscator
noun
(computing) A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or reverse-engineer.
Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
olfactable
olfactible
olfactible
adj
Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
pacifiable
pacifiable
adj
capable of being pacified
subfactory
subfactory
noun
A secondary or subordinate factory.
subfalcate
subfalcate
adj
(botany) Almost falcate.
subfalcial
subfascial
subfascial
adj
(anatomy) Beneath the fascia.
subfuscous
subfuscous
adj
duskish; moderately dark; tawny
subjectify
subjectify
verb
(transitive) To turn into a subject.
subofficer
subofficer
noun
An under or subordinate officer.
suboffices
suboffices
noun
plural of suboffice
subprefect
subprefect
noun
the executive of a subprefecture
subsurface
subsurface
adj
below the surface
noun
(countable, mathematics) A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.
Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.