(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
bedrift
bedrift
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
beefier
beefier
adj
comparative form of beefy: more beefy
beefily
beefily
adv
In a beefy manner.
beefing
beefing
noun
Alternative form of biffin (“type of apple”)
verb
present participle of beef
beefish
beefish
adj
resembling beef
befilch
befilth
befilth
verb
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
befrill
befrill
verb
(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a frill.
belfair
beliefs
beliefs
noun
plural of belief
benefic
benefic
adj
Favorable; beneficent.
noun
(astrology) a favorable planet
benefit
benefit
noun
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
An advantage; help or aid from something.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
benioff
bifaces
bifaces
noun
plural of biface
biffies
biffies
noun
plural of biffy
bifteck
bigfeet
bigfeet
noun
(plural only) snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
bonfire
bonfire
noun
(figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
(obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
verb
(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
(intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
(obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
briefed
briefed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brief
briefer
briefer
adj
comparative form of brief: more brief
noun
One who provides a briefing.
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
buffier
buffier
adj
comparative form of buffy: more buffy
byfield
debrief
debrief
verb
(transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
(transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
(transitive) To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
defiber
defiber
verb
(US, transitive) To remove some or all fiber from.
embelif
fabrice
fabrile
fabrile
adj
Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
febrile
febrile
adj
(medicine) Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
Feverish, or having a high temperature.
Full of nervous energy.
feedbin
feedbin
noun
A bin for holding feed to be fed later to an animal.
A bin for holding material to be fed into an industrial process.
fibbers
fibbers
noun
plural of fibber
fibbery
fibbery
noun
The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
fibered
fibered
adj
(American spelling) Having fibers/fibres.
fibiger
fibrine
fibrine
adj
Relating to the fibres of plants.
noun
Dated form of fibrin.
fibrose
fibrose
verb
(intransitive) To undergo fibrosis.
fibster
fibster
noun
One who fibs.
fibulae
fibulae
noun
plural of fibula
filbert
filbert
noun
A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
The hazel tree.
The hazelnut.
filibeg
filibeg
noun
Alternative form of philibeg
fimbles
fimbles
noun
plural of fimble
finable
finable
adj
Punishable by a fine.
finbone
firebed
firebed
noun
A layer of fuel that burns under a heat source
firebee
firebox
firebox
noun
(rail transport) The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
(vulgar) A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.
The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
fireboy
fireboy
noun
A young fireman.
firebug
firebug
noun
(slang) a pyromaniac or arsonist.
Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.
fishbed
fishbed
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Fishbed
fivebar
fixable
fixable
adj
Capable of being fixed, repairable.
attachable
flabile
flabile
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
flebile
fluible
foibles
foibles
noun
plural of foible
forbite
forbite
verb
To bite up, bite to pieces.
forerib
forerib
noun
A cut of beef that includes the rib in front of the sirloin, used especially for roasting.
freebie
freebie
noun
(informal) Something which is free; a giveaway or handout.
friable
friable
adj
(mathematics, of a number) Smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
fribble
fribble
adj
Of little or no importance, frivolous.
noun
A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
A trifler.
A trifling action.
verb
To behave in a frivolous way.
To totter.
To waste or fritter.
frisbee
frisbee
noun
(countable) Alternative form of Frisbee (an object)
(uncountable, sports) Alternative form of Frisbee (a sport)
verb
Alternative form of Frisbee
fubsier
fubsier
adj
comparative form of fubsy: more fubsy
fusible
fusible
adj
Able to be fused or melted.
noun
Any substance that can be fused or melted.
lobefin
lobefin
noun
Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.
obafemi
plebify
plebify
verb
(transitive) To make plebeian; to vulgarize.
sebific
sebific
adj
(entomology) relating to the fatty fluid secreted by insects from the colleterium in order to cement eggs together
semifib
subfief
subfile
subfile
noun
A file organised within another file.
tubifer
tubifex
tubifex
noun
Any member of the genus Tubifex of tubificid annelids, some of which are used to feed fish in freshwater aquaria.
unbefit
unbefit
verb
(transitive, archaic, rare) Not to befit or suit; to be inappropriate for.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To make unfit or unsuitable.
unbrief
unfiber
verbify
verbify
verb
(transitive, nonstandard) To use a noun as a verb via anthimeria.
(transitive, nonstandard, slang) To derive a verb from a pre-existing noun.