(transitive) To plastically deform (steel) as part of a certain process in order to improve its strength.
balfour
balfour
Proper noun
A town/village in New Zealand.
A in North Carolina.
A city/village in North Dakota.
One of two villages in Scotland.
One of two towns in South Africa.
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
buffalo
buffalo
noun
(US slang) A nickel.
A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
verb
(US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
(archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
(transitive) To hunt buffalo.
carfour
carfour
noun
Synonym of carfax
fadeout
fadeout
noun
A gradual disappearance or fading away.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
fallout
fallout
noun
(radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
(rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
The particles themselves.
farmout
farmout
noun
The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
fatuoid
fatuous
fatuous
adj
Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
faubion
favours
favours
noun
plural of favour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of favour
featous
featous
adj
(archaic) clever
(archaic) neat
(archaic) nimble
flavour
flavour
noun
Britain standard spelling of flavor.
flavous
flavous
adj
(obsolete) yellow
florula
florula
noun
flora of a small area, a small flora
fluoran
fluoran
noun
A triarylmethane dye, the structural core of a variety of other dyes.
formula
formula
noun
(chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
(countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
(especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
(logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
(mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
fortuna
fossula
fossula
noun
(anatomy) A small fossa.
fougade
fougade
noun
(military, historical) A kind of land mine; a fougasse.
foujdar
foujdar
noun
Alternative form of faujdar
foujita
foulage
foulage
noun
A form of massage involving kneading and pressure against the muscles.
foulard
foulard
noun
A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
foumart
foumart
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.
fourrag
frabous
fucosan
fucosan
noun
(biochemistry) A polysaccharide (of fucose) present in brown algae of the genus Fucus
fugatos
fugatos
noun
plural of fugato
fukuoka
fukuoka
Proper noun
The capital city of Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.
fulgora
fulgora
Proper noun
The Roman goddess/personification of lightning. She is the Roman counterpart of Astrape.
fumados
fumados
noun
plural of fumado
furiosa
furoate
furoate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
hallouf
ifugaos
moanful
moanful
adj
Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.
mungofa
oathful
oathful
adj
Inclined to swear oaths, or curse.
outface
outface
verb
(transitive) To boldly confront a situation.
(transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay
outfall
outfall
noun
(dialectal) A quarrel; a falling out.
(obsolete) A sudden eruption of troops from a fortified place; sally.
The point or place of discharge of a river, drain, culvert, sewer, etc.; mouth; embouchure.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.
outfame
outfame
verb
(transitive) To become more famous than, particularly in a competitive sense.
outfast
outfast
verb
(transitive) To surpass in fasting, or abstention from food.
outfawn
outfawn
verb
(transitive, rare) To exceed in fawning.
outfeat
outfeat
verb
To surpass in feats.
sfumato
sfumato
noun
In painting, the application of subtle layers of translucent paint so that there is no visible transition between colors, tones and often objects.