(law) The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.
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.
afright
afright
adj
Alternative form of affright
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.
anatifa
antefix
antefix
noun
(architecture) Any decoration serving to cover the ends of roofing tiles.
(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.
antifat
antifat
adj
(dated) Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect; antiobesity.
Opposed to obese people; fattist.
apritif
artifex
barefit
batfish
batfish
noun
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
beatify
beatify
verb
(transitive) To make blissful.
(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
bedrift
bedrift
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
befilth
befilth
verb
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
benefit
benefit
noun
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
An advantage; help or aid from something.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
bifront
bifront
adj
Having two fronts, faces or aspects.
bifrost
bifrost
Proper noun
The rainbow bridge that connects Asgard with Midgard.
bifteck
bigfeet
bigfeet
noun
(plural only) snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bigfoot
bigfoot
verb
(intransitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To behave in an authoritative, commanding manner.
(transitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To control or manage forcefully; to exercise authority over.
brutify
brutify
verb
(transitive) To make like a brute; to make senseless or unfeeling; to brutalize.
caitiff
caitiff
adj
Especially despicable; cowardly
noun
(archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch
(obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave
A base or despicable person; a wretch
carifta
catfish
catfish
noun
(Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
(Internet) Such a fake profile.
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
verb
(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
To fish for catfish.
certify
certify
verb
(archaic, reflexive) To assure (oneself) of something; to ascertain.
(transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
(transitive) To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
(transitive, archaic) To inform; to tell (a person) that something is true.
(transitive, law) To authenticate or verify in writing.
chiefty
cityful
cityful
noun
Enough to fill a city.
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.
comfits
comfits
noun
plural of comfit
cretify
cretify
verb
(intransitive, obsolete, medicine) To become impregnated with salts of lime.
defiant
defiant
adj
Boldly resisting opposition.
Defying.
noun
One who defies opposition.
deficit
deficit
noun
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
distaff
distaff
adj
Of the maternal side of a family.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of women.
noun
(also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
A race for female horses only.
Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
drifted
drifted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of drift
drifter
drifter
noun
(automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
(fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.
(fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
(mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
(nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
(parachuting) A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
(sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
drifton
dryfist
duftite
duftite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular kind of vitreous or dull, olive-green to grey-green orthorhombic mineral.
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.
faciata
facient
facient
noun
(mathematics) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
(obsolete) One who does something; a doer; an agent.
A multiplier.
faciest
factice
factice
noun
Vulcanized unsaturated vegetable or animal oil, used as a processing aid and property modifier in rubber.
faction
faction
noun
(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
(uncountable) Strife; discord.
The facts found in fiction.
factish
factish
adj
Focused on fact rather than reason or speculation.
Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
noun
(sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.
factive
factive
adj
(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
(obsolete) Making.
noun
(grammar) A factive verb.
factrix
factrix
noun
(obsolete) A factoress, a female factor (agent or representative).
faddist
faddist
noun
A person or entity given to following fads.
fainant
fainest
fainest
adv
superlative form of fain: most fain
fainted
fainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of faint
fainter
fainter
adj
comparative form of faint: more faint
noun
One who faints.
faintly
faintly
adv
In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
fairest
fairest
adj
superlative form of fair: most fair
fairton
faitery
faithed
faithed
adj
(obsolete) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
Having faith of a specified quality or type.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
fajitas
fajitas
noun
plural of fajita
faletti
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
fanatic
fanatic
adj
(obsolete) Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
Fanatical.
noun
A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.
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.
farcist
farcist
noun
A writer of farces.
fargite
farting
farting
noun
The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
verb
present participle of fart
fascist
fascist
adj
(informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.
Of or relating to fascism.
Supporting the principles of fascism.
noun
A member of a political party or other organization that advocates fascist principles.
A proponent of fascism, frequently (highly derogatory) as an accusation towards any opponent of any political viewpoint whatsoever.
fastiia
fasting
fasting
noun
abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting
abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
verb
present participle and gerund of fast
fastish
fastish
adj
(colloquial) Rather fast.
fatbird
fatidic
fatidic
adj
(now rare) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic
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.
fatihah
fatimah
fatimid
fatimid
Noun
A member of a Muslim dynasty in North Africa and Egypt (Approx CE 900-1200).
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.
fattier
fattier
adj
comparative form of fatty: more fatty
fatties
fatties
noun
plural of fatty
fattily
fattily
adv
In a fatty way.
fatting
fatting
verb
present participle of fat
fattish
fattish
adj
Somewhat fat
fatuism
fatuism
noun
(obsolete) fatuity
fatuity
fatuity
noun
Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
fatuoid
faunist
faunist
noun
One who describes the fauna of a country.
fauvist
fauvist
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
An artist who used this style.
featish
feinted
feinted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of feint
feinter
feinter
noun
Someone who feints.
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)
verb
present participle of felt
fengite
fengite
noun
(mineralogy) A transparent form of marble or alabaster, formerly sometimes used for windows.
ferdwit
ferrite
ferrite
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The anion FeO₂²⁻, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it.
Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers.
The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.
fertile
fertile
adj
(figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
(physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
festina
festine
festing
festino
festino
noun
(obsolete) A feast or entertainment.
festive
festive
adj
Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
In the mood to celebrate.
fetials
fetials
noun
plural of fetial
fetidly
fetidly
adv
In a fetid manner.
fetting
fetting
verb
present participle of fet
feudist
feudist
noun
A writer about feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
One who takes part in feuds.
fibster
fibster
noun
One who fibs.
fictile
fictile
adj
(figuratively) Capable of being led or directed
(of an art work or artifact) Molded of clay or earth
(pottery) Of or relating to earthenware
Capable of being molded into the shape of an artifact or art work
fiction
fiction
noun
(law) A legal fiction.
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
fictive
fictive
adj
Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
noun
(Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.
fideist
fideist
noun
A subscriber to fideism.
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.
fiestas
fiestas
noun
plural of fiesta
fiester
fifteen
fifteen
noun
(Ireland, mostly in plural) An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.
num
The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
fifthly
fifthly
adv
In the fifth place; fifth in a row.
fifties
fifties
adj
From or evoking the 51st through 60th years of a century (chiefly the 1950s).
noun
(temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 50 and 59.
The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59.
The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.
plural of fifty
figeter
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.
figment
figment
noun
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.