(US, politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
(basketball) Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
(finance) A floating rate bond.
(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.
(politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
(politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
(slang) A misstep; a faux pas.
(slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
(sports) An unaffiliated player.
(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
A small suet dumpling put into soup.
An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
One who or that which floats.
florate
florate
adj
(rare) Of, pertaining to, or decorated with flowers; floral.
floreat
floreta
flotage
flotage
noun
That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
The floating capacity of a thing.
The state of floating.
foamite
folates
folates
noun
plural of folate
foliate
foliate
adj
(geology) foliated
of or relating to leaves
shaped like a leaf
verb
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
To form into leaves.
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.
footage
footage
noun
(usually uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.
A measurement in feet.
foreact
formate
formate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of formic acid.
verb
(aeronautics) To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.
fortake
fortake
verb
(transitive) To take away; remove; deprive.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To mistake; make a mistake.
fossate
fossate
adj
Having a fossa or depression.
foveate
foveate
adj
(anatomy, of a bone or organ) Having slight depressions or pits.
verb
(transitive) To angle one's eyes such that the foveae are directed at (an object in one's field of view), the fovea being the portion of the retina responsible for sharp central vision.
foyaite
foyaite
noun
(mineralogy) A K-feldspar-nepheline syenite mineral containing a proportion of ferromagnesian minerals, usually pyroxene, hornblende, and biotite.
furoate
furoate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
loaflet
loaflet
noun
A little loaf.
offbeat
offbeat
adj
Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
noun
(music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
(slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
offtake
offtake
noun
(mining) The removal of oil (or an industrial chemical) from a storage facility.
A point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.
An act of taking off; specifically, the taking away or purchase of goods.
Something taken off; a deduction.
verb
(obsolete) To take off; take away.
outface
outface
verb
(transitive) To boldly confront a situation.
(transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay
outfame
outfame
verb
(transitive) To become more famous than, particularly in a competitive sense.
outfeat
outfeat
verb
To surpass in feats.
overfat
overfat
adj
Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.
refloat
refloat
noun
The process of getting something to float again.
verb
(transitive) To cause to float again.
stefano
takeoff
takeoff
noun
(printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
A quantification, especially of building materials.
The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.
The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.