(anthropology) Of a family relationship by marriage of a relative (or through affinity), as opposed to consanguinity; in-law.
affixal
affixal
adj
As or like an affix.
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
aflight
aflight
adj
(obsolete) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
Covered or filled (with something flying).
Fleeing.
Flying.
afzelia
airflow
airflow
noun
Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil.
airfoil
airfoil
noun
A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.
A wing of an aircraft.
airlift
airlift
noun
(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Such a flight.
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
verb
(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
alewife
alewife
noun
(archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
Any of several species similar in appearance.
alfadir
alfakis
alfakis
noun
plural of alfaki
alfaqui
alfaqui
noun
(historical) An Islamic cleric, an expert in Islamic law and jurisprudence, especially in medieval and early modern Spain.
alfheim
alfieri
alfiona
alfione
alfione
noun
(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
algific
algific
adj
Producing cold; covered in ice.
aliform
aliform
adj
(of a building) Having wings
Shaped like a wing
aliofar
amplify
amplify
verb
(transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
(translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
anglify
anglify
Verb
To convert into English; to anglicise.
auliffe
bacliff
bailiff
bailiff
noun
(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
(UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
(historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
(historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.
(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
beefily
beefily
adv
In a beefy manner.
befilch
befilth
befilth
verb
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
befrill
befrill
verb
(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a frill.
belfair
beliefs
beliefs
noun
plural of belief
bifidly
bifidly
adv
In a bifid manner.
bifilar
bifilar
adj
Having two wires, threads or filaments
bifocal
bifocal
adj
(of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision
(optics) Having two focal lengths
bifolia
bifolia
noun
plural of bifolium
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
boiloff
boiloff
noun
The vaporization of a liquid (or solid) whose boiling point is lower than that of the environment in which it is stored.
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
brimful
brimful
adj
Filled to maximum capacity.
noun
(figurative) A large amount.
The maximum amount a container can hold.
byfield
calcify
calcify
verb
(intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.
(transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
calfish
calfish
adj
(dated) Silly and awkward through immaturity.
califon
cerfoil
chiefly
chiefly
adj
of or relating to a chief
adv
(focus) Especially or primarily; above all.
(focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
chifley
chkfile
chylify
chylify
verb
(biochemistry, intransitive) To be converted into chyle.
(biochemistry, transitive) To make chyle of.
cityful
cityful
noun
Enough to fill a city.
claflin
clarify
clarify
verb
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
(obsolete) To glorify.
(of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter.
To make clear or easily understood; to explain in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
cliffed
cliffed
adj
formed by cliffs
cliffes
clifton
clifton
Proper noun
Any of several places in England, especially a suburb of Bristol, England.
for someone who lived in a town of this name.
name transferred from the surname.
coalify
coalify
verb
(paleontology, of a fossil) To change into coal.
cofield
cofinal
cofinal
adj
(order theory) Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
comfily
comfily
adv
(informal) comfortably
daffily
daffily
adv
In a daffy manner.
dafodil
dainful
defiled
defiled
adj
impure; dirty
verb
simple past tense and past participle of defile
defiler
defiler
noun
one who defiles.
defiles
defiles
noun
plural of defile
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defile
delfine
dierolf
direful
direful
adj
Fearful, terrible.
disgulf
dishful
dishful
noun
As much as a dish will hold.
disleaf
disleaf
verb
(transitive, rare or obsolete) To remove the leaves from.
dulcify
dulcify
verb
(obsolete) To neutralise the acidity of.
(transitive) To mollify or make peaceful.
To make sweeter or more pleasant.
To sweeten the taste of.
dullify
duplify
dutiful
dutiful
adj
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
eelfish
elflike
elflike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an elf.
elfrida
elfship
elfship
noun
A compellation for an elf.
elfwife
ellfish
embelif
endfile
enfield
enfield
Proper noun
A town and borough in North London
Noun
A heraldic monster with the head of a fox, the chest of a greyhound, the talons of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the hindlegs and tail of a wolfA Complete Guide to Heraldry by Charles Fox-Davies (London, 1909), p. 231.
enfiled
enfiled
adj
(heraldry) Having some object, such as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it.
englify
fabiola
fabliau
fabliau
noun
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
fabling
fabling
noun
The act of telling fables.
verb
present participle of fable
fabrile
fabrile
adj
Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
facials
facials
noun
plural of facial
fadlike
fadlike
Adjective
Having characteristics of a fad.
fagelia
failing
failing
noun
weakness; defect
prep
If what follows is not possible; without.
verb
present participle of fail
failles
failles
noun
plural of faille
failure
failure
noun
An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
Bankruptcy.
Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
faintly
faintly
adv
In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
faipule
faipule
noun
The leader of an atoll of Tokelau.
fairily
fairily
adv
In the manner of a fairy.
fairlee
fairley
fairlie
falcial
falcial
adj
Of or pertaining to a falx.
falding
falding
noun
(obsolete) A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
falerii
faletti
falieri
faliero
falisci
falkirk
falkirk
Proper noun
A town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, originally in
A unitary council area in Scotland, and previously a local government district in Region (1975-1996).
falling
falling
noun
gerund of fall
verb
present participle of fall
falsies
falsies
noun
plural of falsie
falsify
falsify
verb
(transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
(transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
(transitive) To misrepresent.
(transitive) To prove to be false.
(transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
(transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
falsism
falsism
noun
A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device.
falsity
falsity
noun
(countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
(uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
The falsity of that statement is easily proven.
falutin
famelic
famelic
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to hunger.
familia
familia
noun
(Roman law) The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.
(historical) A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
familic
famille
famulli
fancily
fancily
adv
In a fancy manner
faneuil
fanlike
fanlike
adj
Resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device).
fantail
fantail
noun
(nautical) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.
A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
farcial
fascial
fascial
adj
Relating to a fascia.
fascili
fatlike
fatlike
adj
Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
fatling
fatling
noun
A young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter.
fattily
fattily
adv
In a fatty way.
faucial
faucial
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
faveoli
faveoli
noun
plural of faveolus
favilla
febrile
febrile
adj
(medicine) Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
Feverish, or having a high temperature.
Full of nervous energy.
fecials
fecials
noun
plural of fecial
feelies
feelies
noun
plural of feelie
plural of feely
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
felahin
felecia
felicia
felicia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Felicia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
felicie
felicio
felicle
felidae
felinae
felines
felines
noun
plural of feline
felippe
felisha
felizio
fellani
fellies
fellies
noun
plural of felly
felling
felling
noun
The act by which something is felled.
verb
present participle of fell
fellini
felsite
felsite
noun
(geology) Any light-colored volcanic rock whose true mineralogy is not yet determined.
(mineralogy) A fine grained volcanic extrusive rock, generally light in color, composed of felsic minerals.
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)