(obsolete) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
alfie
alfie
Proper noun
name or Alfonso, also used as a formal given name.
alief
alief
noun
(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.
alife
alife
adv
(obsolete) On one's life; dearly.
noun
Alternative form of A-life
apfel
aslef
calef
clefs
clefs
noun
plural of clef
cleft
cleft
adj
split, divided, or partially divided into two.
noun
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
A piece made by splitting.
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
verb
(linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
simple past tense and past participle of cleave
delfs
delfs
noun
plural of delf
delft
delft
noun
A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”)
eifel
eifel
Proper noun
Eifel
elfic
elfie
elfin
elfin
adj
Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in its tiny size or features.
noun
A little urchin or child.
An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.
fable
fable
noun
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
false
false
adj
(music) Out of tune.
Based on factually incorrect premises.
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
Spurious, artificial.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
adv
In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
noun
One of two options on a true-or-false test.
verb
(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
(obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
(obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
(obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
farle
favel
favel
adj
yellow or dun in colour
noun
(obsolete) flattery; cajolery; deceit
A horse of a favel or dun colour.
feala
fecal
fecal
adj
Of or relating to feces.
feels
feels
adj
(colloquial) Synonym of emotional
noun
(archaic) plural of feel, sensory perceptions that mainly or solely involve the sense of touch
(colloquial) Feelings, emotions
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feel
feely
feely
adj
(dialectal) soft; smooth; velvety
(informal) Tending to feel things by physically touching them.
noun
(Polari) A child; a young person.
feigl
felch
felch
verb
(transitive) To suck semen out of a sexual partner's vagina or anus.
felda
feldt
felic
felid
felid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the cat family (Felidae).
felis
felix
fella
fella
noun
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
(informal) Used as a term of address for a male person.
Pronunciation spelling of fellow.
fells
fells
noun
plural of fell
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fell
felly
felly
adv
(now rare) Fiercely, harshly.
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.
felts
felts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felt
felty
felty
adj
Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.
noun
(UK, regional) The fieldfare.
felup
feola
feral
feral
adj
(of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.
Deadly, fatal.
Internet slang. Engrossed by a certain thought or behavior.
Of an animal, being wild but descended from domestic or captive animals.
Of or pertaining to the dead, funereal.
Wild, untamed.
noun
(Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
(Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
(furry subculture) A character in furry art or literature which has the physical characteristics (body) of a regular animal (typically quadripedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or anthros (contrasts anthro)
A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
ferly
fetal
fetal
adj
(embryology) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
feyly
feyly
adv
In a fey way.
fidel
field
field
noun
(algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
(baseball) The outfield.
(baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
(computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
(cricket) Archaic form of fielder.
(electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
(heraldry) The background of the shield.
(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
(physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
(usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
(vexillology) The background of the flag.
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
The extent of a given perception.
The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
verb
(intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
(transitive) To answer; to address.
(transitive) To defeat.
(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
(transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
(transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
(transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
filea
filed
filed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of file
filer
filer
noun
(computing) A software program for managing files.
Agent noun of file; one who files something.
files
files
noun
plural of file
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of file
filet
filet
noun
Alternative form of fillet
fille
fjeld
fjeld
noun
(geography) A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.
flake
flake
noun
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
(UK) Dogfish.
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
(nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
verb
(Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
To break or chip off in a flake.
To lay out on a flake for drying.
flame
flame
adj
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
noun
(Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
(color) A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
flame:
verb
(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
flane
flare
flare
noun
(American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
(figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
(in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
(nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
(photography) Short for lens flare.
A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
A sudden bright light.
A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
verb
(intransitive) To blaze brightly.
(intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
(transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
(transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.
(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
flche
fleak
fleak
noun
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck
(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
fleam
fleam
noun
(UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it
(UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
flear
fleas
fleas
noun
plural of flea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flea
fleay
fleck
fleck
noun
A flake.
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
verb
(transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
flect
fleda
fleer
fleer
noun
(archaic) mockery; derision
one who flees
verb
(archaic) To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
(archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn
flees
flees
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flee
fleet
fleet
adj
(literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
(uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
noun
(Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).
(dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
(nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
(nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
(nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
A group of vessels or vehicles.
A large, coordinated group of people.
Any group of associated items.
verb
(intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
(intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
(nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
(nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
(nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
(obsolete, intransitive) To float.
(transitive, intransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
(transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
To take the cream from; to skim.
flegm
fleme
fleme
verb
(obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.
flesh
flesh
noun
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
The human body as a physical entity.
The skin of a human or animal.
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
verb
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
(transitive) To glut.
(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
fleta
fleur
fleur
noun
fleur-de-lis
flews
flews
noun
plural of flew
flexo
flexo
noun
flexography.
fleys
fleys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fley
flied
flied
verb
(US, baseball) simple past tense and past participle of fly (hit a fly ball)
flier
flier
noun
Alternative form of flyer (more common in US, except in the sense of "leaflet")
verb
Alternative form of flyer
flies
flies
noun
The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
plural of fly
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fly
flipe
flipe
noun
Alternative form of flype (“a fold or flap”)
verb
Alternative form of flype
flite
flite
noun
(dialectal) a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
(dialectal) a scolding.
verb
(dialectal) to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.
(dialectal) to scold, jeer.
(obsolete) to make or utter complaint.
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.
flrie
flued
flued
adj
Having a flue or flues (of a specified kind).
fluer
flues
flues
noun
(obsolete) Bits of down.
plural of flue
fluey
fluey
adj
As if suffering from influenza.
downy; fluffy
fluke
fluke
noun
(nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
A flounder.
A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
Waste cotton.
verb
(snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
flume
flume
noun
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
verb
(transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.
flute
flute
noun
(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
A long French bread roll, baguette.
A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
verb
(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
(intransitive) To play on a flute.
(transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
(transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
flyer
flyer
noun
(acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
(architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
(dated) An airplane pilot.
(firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
(informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
(sports) A false start
A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
A leaflet, often for advertising.
A leap or jump.
A machine that flies.
A person who travels by airplane.
A risky investment or other venture.
A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
That which flies, as a bird or insect.
The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
verb
(intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
(transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).
flype
flype
noun
(mathematics) A transformation of a knot involving a 180° rotation of a tangle
A fold or flap, especially of the brim of a hat
verb
(Scotland, dated, transitive) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.
flyte
flyte
noun
Alternative spelling of flite
fogel
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
forel
forel
noun
A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
verb
To bind with a forel.
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
fuels
fuels
noun
plural of fuel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuel
fugle
fugle
verb
(colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
fulke
fusel
fylde
guelf
leafs
leafs
noun
(nonstandard unless referring to a moveable panel (e.g. of a bridge or door) or as a slang term for Canadians) plural of leaf
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leaf
leafy
leafy
adj
(of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
containing much foliage
covered with leaves
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
lefor
lefts
lefts
noun
plural of left
lefty
lefty
adj
(UK, informal) Left-wing.
(US) Intended for left-handed use.
(US) Left-handed.
noun
(US, informal) One who is left-handed.
(informal) One who has left-wing political views.
(slang) One's left testicle.
lifen
lifen
verb
(obsolete) To liven, to enliven.
lifer
lifer
noun
(birdwatching) A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the species he or she has ever seen.
A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
lifey
lifey
adj
(informal) Characteristic of life (all senses)
(informal) Full of life
melfa
nifle
nifle
noun
(obsolete) A trifle; something small and insignificant.
oflem
pelfs
pelfs
noun
plural of pelf
refel
refel
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
refly
refly
verb
to fly again
rifle
rifle
noun
(military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman.
(weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
(weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
verb
(intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
(intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
(intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
(intransitive, obsolete) To engage in a raffle.
(transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
(transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
(transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
(transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
(transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
(transitive, obsolete) To dispose of in a raffle.
rolfe
selfs
shelf
shelf
noun
(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.