(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
Floating at random.
adv
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
affret
affret
noun
(obsolete) An attack.
afreet
afreet
noun
Alternative spelling of ifrit
afrete
afrite
afrite
noun
Alternative form of ifrit
afrits
afrits
noun
plural of afrit
afront
afront
adv
in front; face to face
afters
afters
noun
(Britain, Ireland, informal, sports) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped
(Britain, informal) dessert
(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
arafat
arafat
Proper noun
A transliteration of the Arabic surname.
artful
artful
adj
(especially) Skilful at using dishonest or unfair means to achieve a purpose; crafty, cunning.
(obsolete) Knowledgeable about the liberal arts; learned, wise.
Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious.
Exhibiting or using much art or skill; dexterous; skilful.
Not naturally produced; artificial; imitative.
befret
bereft
bereft
adj
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bereave
certif
crafts
crafts
noun
plural of craft
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craft
crafty
crafty
adj
(dated) Magical or occult, or allegedly so.
Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
Skillful at deceiving others.
Sneaky; surreptitious.
crofts
crofts
noun
plural of croft
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of croft
daftar
daftar
noun
(India, historical) A record or register consisting of a set of loose sheets filed on a string or tied up in a cloth.
dafter
dafter
adj
comparative form of daft: more daft
noun
Alternative form of daftar
Obsolete spelling of daughter
defter
defter
adj
comparative form of deft: more deft
noun
(historical) A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire.
drafts
drafts
noun
Archaic form of draughts (“the board game”).
plural of draft
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draft
drafty
drafty
adj
(of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts).
Characterized by gusts of wind; windy.
drifts
drifts
noun
plural of drift
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drift
drifty
drifty
adj
(dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.
Tending or seeming to drift
dryfat
dryfat
noun
(obsolete) A dry vat or basket.
dufter
duftry
effort
effort
noun
A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
An endeavor.
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
(uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
efreet
enfort
erfert
erfurt
erfurt
Proper noun
The capital city of the state of Thuringia, in Germany
estrif
factor
factor
noun
(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
A commission agent.
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
An agent or representative.
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
verb
(commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
(of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
faitor
falter
falter
noun
An unsteadiness.
verb
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
(transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
To hesitate in purpose or action.
To stumble.
To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
farant
farfet
farfet
adj
(obsolete) far-fetched
farnet
farset
farted
farted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fart
faster
faster
adj
comparative form of fast: more fast
noun
One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
father
father
noun
(Christianity) A member of a church council.
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Something inanimate that begets.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
The founder of a discipline or science.
verb
(figuratively) To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To adopt as one's own.
To be a father to; to sire.
To provide with a father.
fatter
fatter
adj
comparative form of fat: more fat
fautor
fautor
noun
(obsolete) Patron, protector.
Admirer, one who favours.
Supporter, adherent, partisan.
favrot
feater
feater
adj
comparative form of feat: more feat
felter
felter
verb
To clot or mat together like felt.
fenter
ferfet
ferity
ferity
noun
The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.
fermat
ferret
ferret
noun
(dated) A tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc. or along the edge of fabric.
(figurative) A diligent searcher.
An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes.
verb
(by extension, transitive, intransitive) To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.
To hunt game with ferrets.
ferter
fertil
fester
fester
noun
(pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
(pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
verb
(intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
(intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
(transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
fetors
fetors
noun
plural of fetor
fetter
fetter
noun
(figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
verb
(transitive) To restrain or impede; to hamper.
(transitive) To shackle or bind up with fetters.
feture
feuter
fewter
fewter
noun
A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
verb
(transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
fictor
fictor
noun
An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
fierte
fiertz
filter
filter
noun
(figurative) self-restraint in speech.
(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
(photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
verb
(intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
(intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
(intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
(transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
filtre
filtre
noun
Obsolete form of filter.
firlot
firlot
noun
(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
firsts
firsts
noun
plural of first
firths
firths
noun
plural of firth
fister
fister
noun
Someone who takes part in the sexual practice of fisting.
fitter
fitter
adj
comparative form of fit: more fit
noun
(UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
(film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.
(informal) An epileptic.
A person who fits or assembles something.
flirts
flirts
noun
plural of flirt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flirt
flirty
flirty
adj
Flirting, or seeming to flirt.
floret
floret
noun
A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
floter
fluter
fluter
noun
One who makes grooves or flutings.
Someone who plays a flute.
foetor
foetor
noun
Alternative spelling of fœtor
foiter
footer
footer
noun
(archaic) A footgoer; pedestrian
(chiefly Britain, slang) Football / soccer.
(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents. (Compare foot in printing.)
(in combination) Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
(in combination) Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
verb
(Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
forbit
forcat
forcet
forcut
forcut
verb
(transitive, archaic) To cut into; cut through; cut completely; cut in pieces; cut up; injure by cutting.
forest
forest
noun
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
(graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
Any dense collection or amount.
The colour forest green.
verb
(transitive) To cover an area with trees.
forfit
forgat
forgat
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense of forget
forget
forget
verb
(intransitive) To cease remembering.
(slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
(transitive) To lose remembrance of.
(transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
(transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
forgot
forgot
verb
(archaic or colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of forget
simple past tense of forget
forint
forint
noun
The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér.
forlet
forlet
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To forget.
(transitive, archaic or UK dialectal) To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
format
format
noun
(by extension) The form of presentation of something.
(computing) A file type.
(radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
The layout of a publication or document.
verb
(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
To create or edit the layout of a document.
forpet
forpet
noun
(dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
forpit
forpit
noun
Alternative form of forpet
forrit
forrit
adv
(Scotland) Forwards, forward.
forset
forset
noun
(transitive, dialectal) A stratagem.
verb
(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
(transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
forsta
forsta
verb
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To comprehend; understand.
fortas
fortes
fortes
noun
plural of forte
plural of fortis
forthy
forthy
adv
(obsolete) For this, for this reason; on this account.
(obsolete) Therefore.
conj
Because, for sake, forwhy, since.
fortin
fortin
noun
(obsolete) A little fort; a fortlet.
fortis
fortis
adj
(phonetics) Strongly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiceless.
noun
(phonetics) A fortis consonant.
fortna
foster
foster
adj
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
Receiving such care.
Related by such care.
noun
(countable, informal) A foster parent.
(obsolete) A forester.
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
(transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
(transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
fother
fother
noun
(dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.
(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
(obsolete) A load of any sort.
(obsolete) A wagonload.
verb
(dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
fourth
fourth
adj
The ordinal form of the number four.
noun
(chiefly US) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
(in the singular) The fourth gear of an engine.
(in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
(music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
verb
(informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
fouter
fouter
noun
(UK, dialect) A despicable fellow.
foutra
foutra
noun
(obsolete, derogatory) A fig or whit; term of contempt.
foutre
fracti
fracti
noun
plural of fractus
fraist
fraist
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go forth on an expedition; sally forth.
(obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To learn by trial; experience.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To try; test; prove; put to the proof; make trial (of).
(transitive, obsolete) To seek to learn; ask; inquire.
(transitive, obsolete) To seek; be eager for; desire.
frants
frantz
fratch
fratch
noun
(UK) A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.
verb
(UK, Yorkshire) To argue, to quarrel; to fight.
frater
frater
noun
A comrade.
A frater house.
A monk.
fratry
fratry
noun
Alternative form of fratery
freath
freest
freest
adj
superlative form of free: most free
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of free
freety
freety
adj
Superstitious; belonging to or pertaining to superstitions.
fregit
freith
freity
frentz
frette
fretty
fretty
adj
(colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore.
(heraldry) Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
Inclined to fret, agitated, worrying.
fretum
fretum
noun
strait; channel.
friant
fricti
fright
fright
adj
(rare) frightened; afraid; affright
noun
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To frighten.
fritch
friths
friths
noun
plural of frith
frithy
frithy
adj
woody; relating to brushwood, undergrowth, or a partial clearing in a forest
fritts
fritze
fronts
fronts
noun
plural of front
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of front
frosts
frosts
noun
plural of frost
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frost
frosty
frosty
adj
(figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
Cold, chilly.
Having frost on it.
frothi
froths
froths
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of froth
frothy
frothy
adj
(business) Highly speculative; having high risk and high return.
(figurative) lightweight; lacking depth or substance
Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
noun
(Australia, slang, chiefly in the plural) A serving of beer.
froust
froust
verb
Alternative spelling of frowst
frowst
frowst
noun
Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
verb
(intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
fruita
fruits
fruits
noun
plural of fruit
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fruit
fruity
fruity
adj
(Britain, informal) Sexually suggestive.
(informal) Mad, crazy.
(informal, sometimes derogatory, LGBT, of a male) Effeminate or otherwise flamboyant or homosexual.
Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.
Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.
noun
Alternative form of fruitie (“fruit machine”)
frusta
frutex
frutex
noun
(botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
fstore
ftnerr
fuerte
furnit
furtek
furthy
furtum
fuster
fuster
noun
A saddle tree maker.
verb
(Ireland) To fumble; to work clumsily.
To become marked with signs of age or decay.
To fret, whine, or complain.
To fuss; to meddle or micromanage.
futter
futter
verb
(transitive, intransitive) (obsolete) To fuck.
futura
future
future
adj
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
noun
(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
(finance) Alternative form of futures
(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(sports) A minor-league prospect.
Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.