(archaic, transitive) To inspire fright in; to frighten, to terrify.
antihuff
antihuff
noun
(US, obsolete) A substance of uncertain composition once used to adulterate cheese to prevent it from swelling.
ashcroft
ashcroft
Proper noun
A village in British Columbia, Canada
A ghost town in Colorado
baitfish
baitfish
noun
(fishing) Fish that can be caught using bait.
(fishing) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish.
camshaft
camshaft
noun
A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
catchfly
catchfly
noun
Any of several unrelated plants that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
catfight
catfight
noun
(slang) A fight or bickering between women.
A fight between cats.
chalfont
cofather
danforth
dearthfu
deathful
deathful
adj
(literary) Subject to death; mortal.
Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.
Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly.
deathify
disfaith
faintish
faintish
adj
Somewhat faint.
faithful
faithful
adj
(mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
Consistent with reality.
Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
Having faith.
Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
Reliable; worthy of trust.
noun
(in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
faithing
faithing
noun
worship, practising faith
falmouth
falmouth
Proper noun
definition
A harbour town in Cornwall, England.
fanlight
fanlight
noun
a semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom
an electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture
farfetch
farfetch
noun
(obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
farsight
farsight
noun
The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
farthest
farthest
adj
Alternative form of furthest. (See also usage notes at further.)
farthing
farthing
noun
(figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount.
(historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
(obsolete) A division of land.
fasnacht
fasthold
fatheads
fatheads
noun
plural of fathead
fathered
fathered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of father
fatherly
fatherly
adj
Characteristic of fathers, paternal.
Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.
adv
In a way pertaining to, befitting, or of a father.
fathomed
fathomed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fathom
fathomer
fathomer
noun
One who fathoms.
feathers
feathers
noun
plural of feather
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feather
feathery
feathery
adj
Resembling feathers.
fecalith
fecalith
noun
Alternative form of fecolith
fellatah
fellatah
Noun
A member of the Fula people.
felspath
fichtean
fishboat
fishboat
noun
A fishing boat.
fishtail
fishtail
noun
A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
Short for fishtail palm.
The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
verb
(intransitive) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
(intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
(transitive) To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
fishtrap
flaherty
flatfish
flatfish
noun
A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.
flathead
flathead
noun
(US, informal) Alternative form of flathead catfish
(plural only "flatheads") A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
(plural only "flatheads", automotive) A type of engine that has the valves placed in the engine block beside the piston, instead of in the cylinder head, as in an overhead valve engine.
Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.
flattish
flattish
adj
Somewhat flat, in any comparable sense of the word.
flatwash
flaughts
footbath
footbath
noun
A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet with.
A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.
The act of soaking or washing the feet.
foothalt
foothalt
noun
A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
footpath
footpath
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, India) A paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians.
Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.
forbathe
forbathe
verb
(archaic, transitive) To bathe abundantly or thoroughly.
fortranh
franchot
fratched
fratched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fratch
fratcher
fraughts
fraughts
noun
plural of fraught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught
fughetta
fughetta
noun
(music) A short, condensed version of a fugue.
futharcs
futharks
futharks
noun
plural of futhark
ghastful
ghastful
adj
(archaic) Causing fear; terrifying; dreadful; fit to make one aghast; exceedingly dismal.
(archaic) Terrified, frightened.
goatfish
goatfish
noun
Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.
haftarah
haftaras
haftaras
noun
plural of haftara
haftarot
haftorah
haftorot
hakafoth
halftime
halftime
noun
(American football) The halftime show, the primary light entertainment of a game, after the second quarter, when players can physically recover, coaches can give players a pep talk, bets can be doubled, etc.
(US) Alternative spelling of half-time
halftone
halftone
noun
(art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
(music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
(printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
verb
To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.
hanafite
handfast
handfast
adj
(obsolete) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
(rare) Strong; steadfast.
noun
(obsolete) A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
(obsolete) A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
verb
(transitive) To pledge; to bind.
(transitive, Scotland, archaic or historical except Wicca) To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.
hanifite
hardfist
harefoot
harefoot
noun
A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward, as in dogs.
A type of clover, Trifolium arvense.
hartford
hartford
Proper noun
Any of a number of placenames in England, variants of Hertford; such as a village in Cheshire.
from these places.
The capital city of the state of Connecticut in the United States of America, located in
A city in Alabama.
A city in Arkansas.
A village in Illinois.
A city in Iowa.
A city in Kansas.
A city in Kentucky
A town in Maine.
A city in Michigan.
A town in New York.
A city in South Dakota.
A town in Vermont.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
hasteful
hasteful
adj
(dated) hasty; rapid; speedy
hastifly
hatfield
hatfield
Proper noun
A town in Hertfordshire, England.
A town in South Yorkshire, England
A town in Arkansas.
an unincorporated census-designated place in Luce Township, Spencer County, Indiana, USA
A locality in Jamaica.
A town in Massachusetts.
A city in Minnesota.
A borough in Pennsylvania.
haylofts
haylofts
noun
plural of hayloft
headfast
headfast
noun
(nautical) A rope at the bows of a ship used to fasten it to a wharf, etc.
heartful
heartful
adj
Sincere and compassionate.
noun
An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
hoffarth
holdfast
holdfast
noun
(archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.
(biology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.
Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
The aspect of a character that experiences destructive temptation.
hoofbeat
hoofbeat
noun
The sound of a hoof striking the ground.
khalifat
khalifat
noun
Dated form of caliphate.
layshaft
layshaft
noun
A subsidiary transmission shaft.
loathful
loathful
adj
Causing a feeling of loathing; loathsome.
Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
misfaith
misfaith
noun
Bad or misplaced religious belief.
Lack of faith; distrust.
nonshaft
nonshaft
adj
Not of or relating to a shaft.
outflash
outflash
verb
(poetic, transitive) To flash more brightly than; to outshine.
pathfind
pooftahs
pooftahs
noun
plural of pooftah
saltfish
saltfish
noun
salt cod: dried and salted cod.
scathful
scathful
adj
(obsolete) harmful; pernicious
seaforth
shaffert
shafiite
shafiite
Noun
A member of the (Arabic: شافعي Šāfiʿī), one of the schools of fiqh, or religious law, within the Sunni branch of Islam, recognising four sources of jurisprudence.
shafting
shafting
noun
(engineering) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
Shafts collectively.
verb
present participle of shaft
shaftman
shaftman
noun
A man who sinks a mineshaft.
shaftway
shaftway
noun
The vertical space in a building in which the elevator or lift travels.
shiftage
shiftage
noun
Movement by shifting.
shiftman
softhead
softhead
noun
A fool; a silly or feeble-minded person.
staffish
staffish
adj
(obsolete) stiff; harsh
starfish
starfish
noun
(obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
(slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
(vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
verb
(intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
(transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
subshaft
subshaft
noun
(architecture) A secondary or subsidiary shaft.
tafinagh
tangfish
tangfish
noun
(UK, dialect) The common harbour seal.
tashreef
teatfish
thankful
thankful
adj
(obsolete) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Showing appreciation or gratitude.
tifinagh
toadfish
toadfish
noun
Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
The banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma)
The blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus)
The common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni)
The dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
The frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
The pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus)
The prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei)
The red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
The smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)
trashify
trashify
verb
(informal, transitive) To throw away; to dispose of.