(transitive, obsolete, law) To assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
affeir
affere
affret
affret
noun
(obsolete) An attack.
aflare
aflare
adj
Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).
Flaring (opening outward).
Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
afreet
afreet
noun
Alternative spelling of ifrit
afresh
afresh
adv
Anew; again; once more
afrete
afrite
afrite
noun
Alternative form of ifrit
afters
afters
noun
(Britain, Ireland, informal, sports) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped
(Britain, informal) dessert
(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
agrafe
agrafe
noun
A hook or fastener on clothing.
agrief
agrief
adv
(obsolete) In grief; amiss.
agrufe
alfred
barfed
barfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barf
beefer
beefer
noun
(slang) A person with a beefy build.
A cow used for beef and not milk.
befire
before
before
adv
At an earlier time.
At the front end.
In advance.
conj
(informal) Rather or sooner than.
In advance of the time when.
prep
At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
Earlier than (in time).
In front of in space.
In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In store for, in the future of (someone).
In the presence of.
Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
befret
befriz
belfry
belfry
noun
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
(architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
(dialectal) A shed.
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
bereft
bereft
adj
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bereave
briefs
briefs
noun
(usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
plural of brief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brief
buffer
buffer
adj
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
noun
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
verb
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
caffre
caffre
noun
Obsolete form of kaffir.
carafe
carafe
noun
A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
certif
chafer
chafer
noun
A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.
A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer, and rose chafer.
One who chafes.
coffer
coffer
noun
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
A cofferdam.
A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
verb
(transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
(transitive) To put money or valuables in a coffer
confer
confer
verb
(intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
(obsolete) To compare.
(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
(obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather.
(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
cuffer
cuffer
noun
(informal) An improbable or exaggerated story.
curfew
curfew
noun
(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
A signal indicating this time.
Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
The time when such restriction begins.
dafter
dafter
adj
comparative form of daft: more daft
noun
Alternative form of daftar
Obsolete spelling of daughter
deafer
deafer
adj
comparative form of deaf: more deaf
defers
defers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defer
defier
defier
noun
agent noun of defy; one who dares and defies
deford
deform
deform
adj
(obsolete except poetic) Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
verb
(also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
(engineering, physics) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress.
(intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.
To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
To mar the character or quality of (something).
defray
defray
verb
(archaic) To pay for (something).
(obsolete) To spend (money).
To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
defter
defter
adj
comparative form of deft: more deft
noun
(historical) A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire.
derfly
differ
differ
noun
(computing) A program that diffs, a diff.
verb
(intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
(intransitive) To be separated in quantity.
(intransitive, people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree.
doffer
doffer
noun
(textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
duffer
duffer
adj
comparative form of duff: more duff
noun
(Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
(archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
(archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.
(informal) An incompetent, indolent, or clumsy person.
(sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
A cow that does not produce milk.
A racing pigeon that does not perform well.
dufter
earful
earful
noun
(informal) an angry reprimand, castigation or telling off
(informal) intimate gossip
effare
effeir
efford
efform
efform
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To form; to shape.
effort
effort
noun
A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
An endeavor.
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
(uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
effray
effray
verb
(obsolete) To frighten, startle.
eforia
efreet
elfers
enfire
enfire
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To set on fire.
enfirm
enfork
enform
enform
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To form; to fashion.
enfort
enfrai
enfree
enfree
verb
(obsolete) To set free.
enserf
enserf
verb
To make into a serf.
erfert
erfurt
erfurt
Proper noun
The capital city of the state of Thuringia, in Germany
estrif
faberg
fabler
fabler
noun
A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
facers
facers
noun
plural of facer
facier
faders
faders
noun
plural of fader
faerie
faerie
noun
Archaic spelling of fairy.
Realm of the fays, fairyland.
faeroe
fafner
fagger
fagger
noun
(historical) A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
fainer
fainer
adv
comparative form of fain: more fain
faired
faired
adj
Enclosed within a fairing.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fair
fairer
fairer
adj
comparative form of fair: more fair.
faires
faires
noun
plural of faire
fakeer
fakeer
noun
An Eastern religious ascetic or monk.
fakers
fakers
noun
plural of faker
fakery
fakery
noun
Fraud or forgery, or an individual instance of this.
falcer
falcer
noun
(zoology) One of the mandibles of a spider.
falern
faller
faller
noun
(engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
One who falls.
falser
falser
adj
comparative form of false: more false
noun
(obsolete) A deceiver.
falter
falter
noun
An unsteadiness.
verb
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
(transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
To hesitate in purpose or action.
To stumble.
To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
fanger
fanger
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal) A receiver.
(obsolete) A helper; protector.
fanner
fanner
noun
A fan wheel; a fan blower.
One who fans.
farber
farced
farced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of farce
farcer
farces
farces
noun
plural of farce
farcie
farded
farded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fard
fardel
fardel
noun
(historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
(obsolete) A bundle or burden.
A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch.
farers
farers
noun
plural of farer
farfel
farfel
noun
Small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.
farfet
farfet
adj
(obsolete) far-fetched
farine
farlee
farler
farles
farleu
farley
farlie
farlie
noun
(obsolete, UK, dialect) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
farmed
farmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of farm
farmer
farmer
noun
(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
(historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.
farner
farnet
faroes
farrel
farset
farted
farted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fart
farver
fasher
faster
faster
adj
comparative form of fast: more fast
noun
One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
father
father
noun
(Christianity) A member of a church council.
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Something inanimate that begets.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
The founder of a discipline or science.
verb
(figuratively) To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To adopt as one's own.
To be a father to; to sire.
To provide with a father.
fatter
fatter
adj
comparative form of fat: more fat
faucre
faured
fauver
fawner
fawner
noun
One who fawns; a sycophant.
feared
feared
adj
Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fear
fearer
fearer
noun
One who fears, especially one who fears God; a worshipper.
feasor
feater
feater
adj
comparative form of feat: more feat
febres
febris
fedora
fedora
noun
A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down.
feeder
feeder
noun
(US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
(baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
(education) Short for feeder school.
(obsolete) One who abets another.
(shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
(video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
A branch line of a railway.
A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
One who feeds, or gives food to another.
One who feeds, or takes in food.
One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
That which is used to feed.
The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
feeler
feeler
noun
(Philippines) Someone that assumes or imagines that one's affection is reciprocated; Someone that indulges in one's own wishful thinking; One who flatters oneself
(anatomy) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
(figuratively) Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position.
(literally) Someone or something that feels.
feerie
fegary
fegary
noun
Alternative form of figary
feirie
feirie
adj
healthy; strong
felder
feller
feller
adj
(archaic) comparative form of fell: more fell
noun
A machine for felling trees.
A person who fells a seam.
A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Nonstandard form of fellow.
felter
felter
verb
To clot or mat together like felt.
femora
femora
noun
plural of femur
femurs
fencer
fencer
noun
A participant in the sport of fencing.
A person who makes, installs, repairs, or maintains fences.
fender
fender
noun
(US) a shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water
(US) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels
(nautical) any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute
a low metal framework in front of a fireplace, intended to catch hot coals, soot, and ash
verb
(nautical) To use fenders to protect the side of a boat
fenner
fenrir
fenrir
Proper noun
A monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring; bit off Tyr's right hand, remains bound by the gods until the events of Ragnarok, where he will attack Odin.
A moon of Saturn.
fenter
feodor
feower
ferash
ferash
noun
(obsolete, Anglo-Indian) a menial domestic servant