(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.
belfair
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
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
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.
coalify
coalify
verb
(paleontology, of a fossil) To change into coal.
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.
daffily
daffily
adv
In a daffy manner.
dafodil
dainful
disleaf
disleaf
verb
(transitive, rare or obsolete) To remove the leaves from.
elfrida
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
fecials
fecials
noun
plural of fecial
felahin
felecia
felicia
felicia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Felicia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
felidae
felinae
felisha
fellani
feminal
feminal
adj
Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism
fenelia
feralin
fermail
fermila
fetials
fetials
noun
plural of fetial
fibulae
fibulae
noun
plural of fibula
fibular
fibular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fibula
fibulas
fidalgo
fidalgo
noun
(now historical) A Portuguese nobleman.
fidelas
fidelia
figural
figural
adj
(mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
(music) Figurate.
(obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
(rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
Figurative, not literal.
Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
filacer
filacer
noun
(Britain, law, obsolete) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
filaree
filaree
noun
Any plant of the species Erodium.
filaria
filaria
noun
Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
filasse
filasse
noun
Vegetable fiber, such as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.
filator
filazer
filazer
noun
Alternative form of filacer
filiano
filiate
filiate
verb
(transitive) To adopt as son or daughter.
(transitive) To establish filiation between.
filical
filical
adj
Belonging to the Filices, or ferns.
filippa
fillian
finable
finable
adj
Punishable by a fine.
finagle
finagle
verb
(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
(transitive, intransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
finales
finales
noun
plural of finale
finalis
finally
finally
adv
(manner) Definitively, comprehensively.
(sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
findlay
findlay
Proper noun
a city in Ohio, USA
finella
fingall
finials
finials
noun
plural of finial
finical
finical
adj
Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
finland
finland
Proper noun
of the Nordic countries having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia. Official name: Republic of Finland.
fiscals
fiscals
noun
plural of fiscal
fistula
fistula
noun
(Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses).
(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
fixable
fixable
adj
Capable of being fixed, repairable.
attachable
flabile
flabile
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
flaccid
flaccid
adj
Flabby.
Lacking energy or vigor.
Soft; floppy.
flacian
flailed
flailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flail
flakier
flakier
adj
comparative form of flaky: more flaky
flakily
flakily
adv
In a flaky way.
flaking
flaking
adj
Breaking or tending to break into flakes.
noun
A piece of flaked material.
verb
present participle of flake
flamier
flamier
adj
comparative form of flamy: more flamy
flaming
flaming
adj
(Britain, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
(colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
On fire with visible flames.
Very bright and the color of flame.
Very enthusiastic or passionate.
noun
(Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.
An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
verb
present participle of flame
flaring
flaring
noun
(oil industry) The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.
The act of something that flares.
verb
present participle of flare
flative
flative
adj
(obsolete) Producing wind; flatulent.
flattie
flattie
noun
(Internet slang) A flat earther.
(South Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat.
(informal) A flat white (type of coffee).
(informal) A flat-coated retriever.
(informal) A flatmate.
(informal) A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
(informal) A person with a flat chest, i.e., without breasts.
(informal) A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.
(slang) A flat store.
(slang) The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
A flattie spider.
Alternative form of flatty
flavian
flavian
Adjective
of or pertaining to the between the years 69 and 96 AD