Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
alfeo
aoife
befog
befog
verb
To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
To envelop in fog or smoke.
To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).
befop
coeff
defoe
defoe
Proper noun
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 to 1661 – 1731), English trader, writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for writing Robinson Crusoe
defog
defog
verb
(transitive) To remove the moisture or fog from.
(transitive, informal) To make intelligible; to free from confusion.
efron
fedor
felon
felon
adj
wicked; cruel
noun
(law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
(medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
A person who has committed a felony.
A wicked person.
feods
feods
noun
plural of feod
feoff
feoff
noun
(law) A fief.
verb
(law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
feola
ferio
ferox
ferro
fetor
fetor
noun
An unpleasant smell.
fiore
flexo
flexo
noun
flexography.
floes
floes
noun
plural of floe
floey
flore
flote
flote
noun
(obsolete) A wave.
verb
To fleet; to skim.
simple past tense of flite.
flowe
flowe
verb
Obsolete form of flow.
foder
fodge
foehn
foehn
noun
(meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
foeti
foeti
noun
(hypercorrect) plural of foetus
fogel
fogey
fogey
noun
A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.
fogie
fogle
fogle
noun
(obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
foley
foley
noun
(countable, US) A foley artist.
(medicine, colloquial) A Foley catheter.
(uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.
folie
fomes
fomes
noun
(archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
(archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
(obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
foote
foote
noun
Obsolete spelling of foot
force
force
noun
(countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
(countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
(countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
(countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
(humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
(law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
(law) Legal validity.
(linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
(uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
(usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
verb
(archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
(obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
(obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
(transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
(transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
(transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
(transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
(transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
(transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
(transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
(whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
forel
forel
noun
A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
verb
To bind with a forel.
fores
foret
forex
forex
noun
Short for foreign exchange.
forge
forge
noun
(computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
The act of beating or working iron or steel.
verb
(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
(often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
To form or create with concerted effort.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
forme
forme
noun
(printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)
Obsolete form of form.
forte
forte
adj
(music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
adv
(music) Loudly.
noun
A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
A strength or talent.
The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
fosie
fosse
fosse
noun
(anatomy) Alternative form of fossa
A ditch or moat.
fouke
foute
fovea
fovea
noun
(anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
(anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
fowey
fowey
Proper noun
a small town and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England.
a river in Cornwall which flows from Bodmin Moor to the English Channel at the town of Fowey.
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
foxed
foxed
adj
Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fox; baffled; outwitted.
foxer
foxer
noun
(military, historical) An acoustic decoy used to confuse acoustic homing torpedoes by mechanically generating a loud noise while being towed some distance behind a ship.
foxes
foxes
noun
plural of fox
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fox
foxie
foxie
noun
(informal) fox terrier
Diminutive of fox
foyer
foyer
noun
(UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.
A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
freon
freon
noun
(environmentalism, slang) A chlorofluorocarbon
(organic chemistry) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
(refrigeration, slang) A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant
froes
froes
noun
plural of froe
frome
frome
prep
Obsolete spelling of from
frore
frore
adj
(archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
verb
(archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of freeze
froze
froze
verb
(now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of freeze
simple past tense of freeze
geoff
geoff
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Geoffrey.
gofer
gofer
noun
(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
gonef
grofe
hofei
hofer
josef
jozef
lefor
offed
offed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of off
offen
offen
adv
(dialectal) Alternative form of off
Pronunciation spelling of often.
offer
offer
noun
(law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
A proposal that has been made.
Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
verb
(intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
(intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
(obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
(transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
(transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
(transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
(transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
(transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
(transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
oflem
often
often
adj
(archaic) Frequent.
adv
Frequently; many times.
ofter
ofter
adv
(chiefly poetic or dialectal) comparative form of oft: more oft; more often
onfre
orfeo
reffo
reffo
noun
(Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A refugee who has settled in Australia.
rolfe
sofer
sofer
noun
A Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls and other religious writings.