A clasp consisting of a hook which fastens onto a ring.
A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is held so as to limit the vibration.
alforge
aufgabe
bagreef
beefing
beefing
noun
Alternative form of biffin (“type of apple”)
verb
present participle of beef
beflags
beflags
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beflag
begulfs
bigfeet
bigfeet
noun
(plural only) snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bogfern
cageful
cageful
noun
That which can fit into a cage.
chefang
coffeng
defangs
defangs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defang
defying
defying
verb
present participle of defy
degraff
dogface
dogface
noun
(US military, slang) A foot soldier, especially during World War II.
(slang, derogatory) An ugly person.
Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene.
effulge
effulge
verb
to radiate, shine or beam
eggfish
englify
engraff
engraff
verb
Obsolete form of engraft.
engraft
engraft
adj
(rare) Engrafted.
verb
To fix firmly into place
To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
engulfs
engulfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engulf
faberge
fagales
fagelia
faggery
faggery
noun
(UK, education, historical) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.
(slang, derogatory) Homosexuality.
fagoted
fagoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fagot
fagoter
fagoter
noun
(historical) A worker who gathers fuelwood.
fagotte
falange
faldage
faldage
noun
(law, Norfolk, Suffolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
(law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.
fallage
fanegas
fanegas
noun
plural of fanega
fangled
fangled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fangle
fanglet
fanglet
noun
A little fang.
fanteeg
fanteeg
noun
Eye dialect spelling of fantigue.
fardage
fardage
noun
(nautical) Material used to fill space and prevent goods from moving about during transport; dunnage.
fargite
farmage
farrage
fatigue
fatigue
noun
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
(often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
verb
(intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
(transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
feaking
feaking
verb
present participle of feak (alternative form of feaguing).
fearing
fearing
adj
Exhibiting fear.
Showing profound respect or deference.
verb
present participle of fear
feasing
feasing
verb
present participle of fease
feazing
feazing
verb
present participle of feaze
feedbag
feedbag
noun
A horse's nosebag.
feeding
feeding
noun
(countable) An instance or session of giving food.
(countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
(dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
(dated) That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
(uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
(uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
(uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
verb
present participle of feed
feeling
feeling
adj
Emotionally sensitive.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
noun
(always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
(always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
An opinion, an attitude.
Emotion; impression.
Intuition.
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
verb
present participle of feel
feering
feetage
feezing
feezing
verb
present participle of feeze
feighan
feigher
feigned
feigned
adj
Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of feign
feigner
feigner
noun
One who feigns.
fellage
fellage
noun
The felling of trees.
felling
felling
noun
The act by which something is felled.
verb
present participle of fell
felting
felting
noun
Felt or similar material, usually impregnated with a water-resistant material, or the application of such material, usually to a roof.
The hobby of making objects, such as soft toys, from felt.
The production of felt from wool.
The tangling of woolen fibres (such as when an article of clothing is washed at too high a temperature)
verb
present participle of felt
fenagle
fenagle
verb
Alternative form of finagle
fencing
fencing
noun
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
Receiving and buying of stolen goods.
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
verb
present participle of fence
fending
fending
verb
present participle of fend
fengite
fengite
noun
(mineralogy) A transparent form of marble or alabaster, formerly sometimes used for windows.
fergana
feridgi
feridgi
noun
(obsolete) A voluminous, armless mantle, generally of black silk, worn by Turkish women.
ferigee
feringi
ferling
fermage
ferring
ferrugo
ferrugo
noun
(phytopathology) A disease of plants caused by fungus; rust.
fessing
fessing
verb
present participle of fess
festing
fetting
fetting
verb
present participle of fet
feuding
feuding
noun
Participation in feuds.
verb
present participle of feud
fibiger
fidgets
fidgets
noun
A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
plural of fidget
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fidget
fidgety
fidgety
adj
Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
figeter
figgery
figgery
noun
(colloquial, dated) Dressy ornamentation.
A fig farm or orchard.
figgier
figgier
adj
comparative form of figgy: more figgy
fighter
fighter
noun
(colloquial) A firefighter.
(eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A participant in boxing or any martial art.
A person who fights; a combatant.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A warrior; a fighting soldier.
figless
figless
adj
Without figs.
figlike
figlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fig.
figment
figment
noun
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
figurae
figurae
noun
plural of figura
figured
figured
adj
(of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
Adorned with a figure or figures.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of figure
figurer
figurer
noun
One who figures or calculates.
figures
figures
noun
plural of figure
verb
(by ellipsis) It figures.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figure
filibeg
filibeg
noun
Alternative form of philibeg
finagle
finagle
verb
(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
(transitive, intransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
finegan
fingent
fingent
adj
Given to fashioning or molding.
fingers
fingers
noun
plural of finger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finger
fingery
fingery
adj
(climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb
Resembling fingers in shape.
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.
firedog
firedog
noun
Alternative form of fire dog
fittage
fitzger
flagged
flagged
adj
Having split, bushy ends (of bristles).
Marked with a flag
Paved with flagstones.
registered with a particular country (and thus flying its flag)
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flag
flagger
flagger
noun
One who uses a flag or signal, as for example to direct traffic or to start a race.
flagler
flaglet
flaglet
noun
A small flag.
flagmen
flagmen
noun
plural of flagman
flakage
flakage
noun
(archaeology) The presence of flaking in an artifact.
flanged
flanged
adj
Having one or more flanges
flanger
flanger
noun
(US) A mechanical device used to remove ice and snow from railway lines.
(music) An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound.
flanges
flanges
noun
plural of flange
fleabag
fleabag
noun
(slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
(slang) An unkempt mammal.
fleabug
fledged
fledged
adj
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fledge
fledges
fledges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fledge
fleeing
fleeing
noun
The act of one who flees.
verb
present participle of flee
fleisig
fleming
fleming
verb
present participle of fleme
flexing
flexing
noun
The action of the verb flex; a bending of something, a tightening of the muscles.
verb
present participle of flex
fleying
fleying
verb
present participle of fley
flieger
fligged
fligger
fligger
verb
(obsolete) To sneer.
flinger
flinger
noun
One who flings or hurls something.
One who jeers.
flogged
flogged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flog
flogger
flogger
noun
(BDSM) A lightweight whip with multiple lashes.
(theater) A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
A whip.
One who flogs.
flotage
flotage
noun
That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
The floating capacity of a thing.
The state of floating.
flowage
flowage
noun
A flowing or overflowing of liquid.
foggage
foggage
noun
(UK, dialect) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter.
verb
To leave dead or decaying grass on land through the winter.
foggers
foggers
noun
plural of fogger
foggier
foggier
adj
comparative form of foggy: more foggy
fogless
fogless
adj
Free of fog.
foldage
foldage
noun
Alternative form of faldage
foliage
foliage
noun
(short for) Fall foliage.
An architectural ornament representing foliage.
The leaves of plants.
footage
footage
noun
(usually uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.
A measurement in feet.
foraged
foraged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of forage
forager
forager
noun
An animal or person who forages
forages
forages
noun
plural of forage
foregut
foregut
noun
(biology, anatomy, embryology) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.
(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.
foreign
foreign
adj
(US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
(obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
(obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
(with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
Relating to a different nation.
noun
(now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
(now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
(obsolete) A foreign ship.
(obsolete) A non-guildmember.
(obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
(obsolete) Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.
(obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
(slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
foreleg
foreleg
noun
Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.
forgave
forgave
verb
simple past tense of forgive
forgers
forgers
noun
plural of forger
forgery
forgery
noun
(archaic) An invention, creation.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
The act of forging metal into shape.
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
forgets
forgets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forget
forgett
forgive
forgive
verb
(intransitive) To accord forgiveness.
(transitive) To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation.
forgoer
forgoer
noun
A person who forgoes
forgoes
forgoes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forgo
forgone
forgone
verb
past participle of forgo
fossage
fougade
fougade
noun
(military, historical) A kind of land mine; a fougasse.
fougere
foulage
foulage
noun
A form of massage involving kneading and pressure against the muscles.
fragged
fragged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frag
fragile
fragile
adj
(UK) Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.
(UK) Thin-skinned or oversensitive.
Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.