(debating) affirmative; the resolution made by one group and countered by the opposing group's negative
afg
afi
afl
afm
afp
afr
afs
aft
aft
adj
located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane
adv
(nautical) At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
noun
(dated slang) Alternative form of afternoon: the time of day from noon until early evening.
(nautical) The stern portion of a vessel.
aif
alf
anf
arf
arf
intj
Representing the sound of a dog's bark.
atf
atf
Proper noun
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (
Noun
Automatic Transmission Fluid
advanced tactical fighter
Auxiliary Tugboat Fleet - a naval fleet tugboat, a fleet tug that can keep up with a fleet on operations
As Trustee For
auf
auf
noun
(obsolete) A changeling or elf child; a child left by fairies.
(obsolete) A deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
bcf
bdf
bef
bfa
bfd
bfr
bfs
bfs
noun
plural of bf
bft
blf
bnf
bnf
Noun
Backus-Naur form (originally Backus normal form).
Noun
A famous member of fandom; a celebrity fan.
bof
bsf
buf
caf
caf
noun
(informal) A cafeteria.
(informal) A café.
A caffeinated coffee.
ccf
ccf
noun
Abbreviation of one hundred cubic feet.
cdf
cef
cfa
cfb
cfc
cfc
Noun
of, a class of molecules containing chlorine, fluorine and carbon atoms
cfd
cfe
cff
cfh
cfi
cfl
cfl
Proper noun
Canadian Football League
Noun
compact fluorescent lamp
context-free language
cfm
cfo
cfp
cfr
cfs
cif
cmf
csf
ctf
dbf
def
def
adj
(African-American Vernacular, slang) excellent; very good
adv
Abbreviation of definitely.
noun
Abbreviation of deficit.
Abbreviation of definition.
dfa
dfc
dfd
dfe
dfi
dfm
dfs
dft
dfw
dif
dtf
dtf
adj
Alternative letter-case form of DTF
ecf
edf
efd
eff
eff
verb
(euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate")
To put into words; to express.
efi
efl
efs
efs
noun
plural of ef
eft
eft
adv
(obsolete) Again; afterwards
noun
A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus).
ehf
elf
elf
noun
(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
verb
(now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.
emf
emf
noun
(physics) Alternative letter-case form of EMF ("electromotive force")
(US regional, Cape Colony, New York, South Africa) A small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement.
(by extension) Stock; cattle.
esf
etf
faa
faa
noun
The letter ف in the Arabic script.
fab
fab
adj
(informal) fabulous (great or spectacular).
noun
A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
verb
To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
fac
fac
noun
(colloquial) A faculty within a university.
(typography, rare) A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
fad
fad
noun
A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
fae
fae
adj
Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”)
noun
Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”)
pron
(rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
fag
fag
noun
(Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
(Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.
verb
(intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
(intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
(intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
(transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
fan
fan
noun
(mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
verb
(baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
(baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).
(firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
(intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
(metaphoric) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
(rail transport, transitive) To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
(transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
(transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
(transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
To winnow grain.
fao
fao
prep
Abbreviation of for the attention of.. Used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.
faq
faq
noun
Alternative letter-case form of FAQ
far
far
adj
(programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Distant; remote in space.
Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
Long.
More remote of two.
Remote in time.
adv
To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
Very much; by a great amount.
noun
(UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.
Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
verb
(transitive, rare) To send far away.
fas
fas
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
(Scotland, obsolete) A thing represented as being worthless.
plural of fa
fat
fat
adj
(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
(theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
Alternative form of phat
Bountiful.
Bulbous; rotund.
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
Fertile; productive.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
Thick; large.
noun
(countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
(informal, derogatory) A fat person.
(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
(slang) An erection.
(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
A beef cattle fattened for sale.
Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
The best or richest productions; the best part.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
(transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
(transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
fax
fax
intj
Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
noun
(informal) Nonstandard form of facts.
(obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.
A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
verb
To send a document via a fax machine.
fay
fay
adj
(US slang) White; white-skinned.
Fairy like.
Fitted closely together.
noun
(US slang) A white person.
A fairy.
verb
(dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
(obsolete) To fadge.
(obsolete) To fit.
(shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
(shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly.
fba
fbi
fbi
Proper noun
Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).
Noun
Fixed-bit index.
Female body inspector.
fbo
fbv
fca
fcc
fcc
adj
(crystallography) Initialism of face-centered cubic.
fcg
fco
fcp
fcp
noun
Abbreviation of foolscap.
fcs
fct
fcy
fda
fda
Proper noun
of, a United States federal regulatory body.
fdm
fdp
fdr
fdx
fea
feb
fec
fed
fed
noun
(Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government.
(London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
(US, derogatory, slang) A federal government officer or official, especially a FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.
(weightlifting, colloquial) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of feed
fee
fee
noun
(figurative, obsolete) Synonym of possession.
(law) An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
(law, historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
(law, historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
(law, historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held.
(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
verb
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
feh
feh
intj
An expression of disgust or contempt.
fei
fem
fem
adj
(LGBT) Synonym of femme
(colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
noun
(LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
fen
fen
intj
(obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
noun
(dated, fandom slang) Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
(obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
fep
fer
fer
prep
(dialectal, especially Britain) Pronunciation spelling of for.
fet
fet
noun
(BDSM, slang) Clipping of fetish.
(obsolete) a piece
verb
(obsolete) to fetch
feu
feu
noun
(Scotland, property law, historical) Land held in feudal tenure.
verb
(Scotland, law, transitive) To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
fev
fev
Noun
femtoelectronvolt
few
few
det
(meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
(meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
(used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
pron
Few people, few things.
fey
fey
adj
(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
(obsolete) Dying; dead.
Magical or fairylike.
Overrefined, affected.
Spellbound.
Strange or otherworldly.
noun
Fairy folk collectively.
fez
fez
noun
A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.
ffa
ffc
ffi
ffs
ffs
adv
(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of for fuck's sake; also FFS.
fft
ffv
ffv
Noun
The ‘first families of Virginia’, or someone descended from such a family.
fga
fgb
fgc
fgd
fgn
fgs
fha
fia
fib
fib
noun
(informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
(informal, rare) A liar.
(medicine, informal) The fibula.
(neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.
verb
(archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
(informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
fid
fid
noun
(nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
(nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
(nautical, slang) The penis.
A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
A small thick piece of anything.
A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
verb
To support a topmast using a fid.
fie
fie
intj
(archaic) Often followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
fig
fig
noun
(Newfoundland, dated) a raisin (dried grape)
(colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
A small piece of tobacco.
Abbreviation of figure. (diagram or illustration)
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
verb
(colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
(soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
(transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
fil
fil
noun
(chess) Alternative form of alfil.
A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.