To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
To neutralize alkalis.
aciform
aciform
adj
Shaped like a needle.
afacing
affiche
affiche
noun
A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
verb
To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
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.
affrica
africah
african
algific
algific
adj
Producing cold; covered in ice.
aurific
aurific
adj
That produces gold
bacliff
befilch
benefic
benefic
adj
Favorable; beneficent.
noun
(astrology) a favorable planet
bifaces
bifaces
noun
plural of biface
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
bifteck
caffeic
caffeic
adj
of, or pertaining to coffee or caffeic acid
caffein
caffein
noun
Alternative spelling of caffeine
caffiso
caffiso
noun
Alternative form of cafiso, particularly in Italian contexts.
cafiero
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
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
candify
candify
verb
(transitive, archaic) To candy.
(transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.
cardiff
cardiff
Proper noun
The capital city of Wales
carifta
carnify
carnify
verb
(intransitive) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
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.
cerfoil
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.
chaffin
chafing
chafing
noun
The act by which something is chafed.
verb
present participle of chafe
chiefer
chiefer
adj
(rare) comparative form of chief: more chief
chiefly
chiefly
adj
of or relating to a chief
adv
(focus) Especially or primarily; above all.
(focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
chiefry
chiefry
noun
A chief's territory.
A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord.
chiefty
chiffer
chiffon
chiffon
noun
A lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.
Any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.
chiffre
chiffre
noun
(music) A figure or motif (short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated).
chifley
chinafy
chincof
chkfile
chylify
chylify
verb
(biochemistry, intransitive) To be converted into chyle.
(biochemistry, transitive) To make chyle of.
chymify
chymify
verb
(physiology) To form into chyme.
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.
cochief
cochief
noun
A joint chief.
codfish
codfish
noun
(countable) A cod (the fish).
(uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food.
coffing
coffins
coffins
noun
plural of coffin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coffin
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.
coiffed
coiffes
coiffes
noun
plural of coiffe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coiffe
coifing
coifing
verb
present participle of coif
coinfer
comfier
comfier
adj
comparative form of comfy: more comfy
comfily
comfily
adv
(informal) comfortably
comfits
comfits
noun
plural of comfit
confide
confide
verb
(intransitive) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in)
(intransitive, now rare) To trust, have faith (in).
(transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
(transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.
confine
confine
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
verb
(obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
confirm
confirm
verb
(transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
confisk
conifer
conifer
noun
(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
coosify
cornify
cornify
verb
(chiefly medicine) To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
corosif
cowfish
cowfish
noun
A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)
A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin.
cretify
cretify
verb
(intransitive, obsolete, medicine) To become impregnated with salts of lime.
crifasi
crucify
crucify
verb
(hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
(hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
cuffing
cuffing
noun
The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.
verb
present participle of cuff
cundiff
decafid
decafid
adj
Alternative form of decemfid
deficit
deficit
noun
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
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.
duncify
duncify
verb
(transitive) To make stupid in intellect.
ediface
edifice
edifice
noun
A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one
An abstract structure; a school of thought.
fabrice
fabrics
fabrics
noun
plural of fabric
fachini
facials
facials
noun
plural of facial
faciata
faciend
faciend
noun
(mathematics, obsolete) The multiplicand.
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
facings
facings
noun
plural of facing
fackins
fackins
noun
(obsolete) Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.
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).
faience
faience
noun
(archaeology) The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.)
A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
falcial
falcial
adj
Of or pertaining to a falx.
falisci
famelic
famelic
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to hunger.
familic
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.
fanchie
fancied
fancied
adj
(obsolete) Designed in an artistic manner.
Existing only in the fancy (“imagination”); imaginary, imagined.
Having a fancy (“inclination, liking, or love”) for; desired, favourite.
Organized, or (especially of attire) designed, to suit one's fancy or whim.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fancy
fancier
fancier
adj
comparative form of fancy: more fancy
noun
A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
One who fancies or imagines.
One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
fancies
fancies
noun
plural of fancie
plural of fancy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fancy
fancify
fancify
verb
(transitive) To make fancy.
fancily
fancily
adv
In a fancy manner
faradic
faradic
adj
(physics) Of or pertaining to electricity, especially to electrical induction.
Of a current that is alternating, as opposed to galvanic.
farcial
farcied
farcied
adj
Of a horse: having the disease called farcy.
farcies
farcies
noun
plural of farcy
farcify
farcify
verb
(transitive) To make farcical; to turn into farce.
farcing
farcing
noun
(cooking, archaic) stuffing; forcemeat
Alternative form of farsing (“insertion of vernacular paraphrases into a Latin liturgy”)
farcist
farcist
noun
A writer of farces.
farrica
fasciae
fasciae
noun
plural of fascia
fascial
fascial
adj
Relating to a fascia.
fascias
fascili
fascine
fascine
noun
(chiefly construction) Originally a cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, and now often a bundle of plastic pipes, bound together, and used for strengthening purposes, such as in revetments for riverbanks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
(figuratively, rare) Something which is used for defensive purposes.
(specifically, military fortification) A similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts.
verb
(transitive, originally military, chiefly New Zealand) To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.).
fascism
fascism
noun
(by extension, derogatory) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.
(figurative, derogatory) Any extreme reliance on or enforcement of rules and regulations.
Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition.
Hyponyms: alt-right, Falangism, Kahanism, Nazism
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.
fatidic
fatidic
adj
(now rare) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic
faucial
faucial
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
fayumic
feceris
fecials
fecials
noun
plural of fecial
felecia
felicia
felicia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Felicia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
felicie
felicio
felicle
fencing
fencing
noun
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
Receiving and buying of stolen goods.
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
verb
present participle of fence
fennici
fenwick
ferrick
ferulic
ferulic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to ferulic acid or its derivatives
fiacres
fiacres
noun
plural of fiacre
fianced
fianced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fiance
fiancee
fiancee
noun
Alternative spelling of fiancée.
fiances
fiances
noun
plural of fiance
fiaschi
fiaschi
noun
(often pedantic) plural of fiasco
fiascos
fiascos
noun
plural of fiasco
ficaria
ficelle
ficelle
noun
A very narrow French loaf.
fickler
fickler
adj
comparative form of fickle: more fickle
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.