(informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
flouncy
flouncy
adj
Gathered and pleated.
fluency
fluency
noun
(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
The quality of smoothness of flow.
flyback
flyback
noun
A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.
The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
focally
focally
adv
With respect to a focus
fordyce
fordyce
Proper noun
a city in Arkansas, USA
a village in Nebraska, USA.
a village in council area, Scotland
fratchy
fratchy
adj
(UK, informal) Irritable or argumentative.
freckly
freckly
adj
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
adv
(obsolete) hurriedly
boldly; eagerly.
frenchy
frenchy
Noun
A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
Proper noun
A short form for various names: Francine, Franchelle, Francoise, etc., e.g. Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis.
glacify
glacify
verb
(intransitive) To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.
(transitive) To cause to turn into ice.
infancy
infancy
noun
(figurative) An early stage in the development of anything.
(law) The state of being a minor.
The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
The state of being an infant.
lactify
lactify
verb
(intransitive) To become milky.
(transitive) To make milky.
lucrify
mercify
mercify
verb
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity.
micrify
olfacty
olfacty
noun
A unit for measuring intensity of smell.
opacify
opacify
verb
(transitive) To make opaque.
paucify
rectify
rectify
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
(transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
(transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
(transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
(transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
(transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
(transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
(transitive, mathematics) To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
(transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
sacrify
sacrify
verb
Obsolete form of sacrifice.
scarify
scarify
verb
(horticulture) To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
(horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
(obsolete or nonstandard) Denude, or lay waste to.
(obsolete or nonstandard) To scar.
To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
To harrow the feelings.
To make scratches or cuts on.
To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
scorify
scorify
verb
(transitive) To reduce (an ore) to scoria.
scruffy
scruffy
adj
Scurfy.
Untidy in appearance.
noun
(informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
scuffly
scuffly
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a scuffle.
specify
specify
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To speak explicitly or in detail (often used with of).
(transitive) To bring about a specific result.
(transitive) To include in a specification.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.