name, a variant of Adolph, very rarely given to children since World War II because of its association with Adolf Hitler.
aflow
aflow
Adverb
flowing
afoul
afoul
adv
(archaic, principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement.
(with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).
alfeo
aloft
aloft
adv
(nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
At, to, or in the air or sky.
aloof
aloof
adj
Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.
adv
At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
Without sympathy; unfavorably.
prep
(obsolete) Away from; clear of.
cloff
cloff
noun
(historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
cloof
cloof
noun
Alternative form of kloof
falco
felon
felon
adj
wicked; cruel
noun
(law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
(medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
A person who has committed a felony.
A wicked person.
feola
filao
fillo
filos
filos
noun
plural of filo
flavo
flexo
flexo
noun
flexography.
fload
float
float
noun
(Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
(UK, dated) A coal cart.
(automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
(banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
(biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
(finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
(finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
(insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
(knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
(obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
(publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
(transport) A lowboy trailer.
A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
A float board.
A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
verb
(aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
(computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
(intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
(intransitive) To be capable of floating.
(intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
(intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
(intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
(intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
(intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
(intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
(intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
(intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
(poker) To perform a float.
(transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
(transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
(transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
(transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
(transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
(transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
(transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
(transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
flock
flock
noun
(Christianity) A religious congregation.
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
A large number of people.
A lock of wool or hair.
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
verb
(intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
(transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
(transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
flocs
flocs
noun
plural of floc
floes
floes
noun
plural of floe
floey
flogs
flogs
noun
plural of flog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flog
flois
floit
flong
flong
noun
(printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense of fling
flood
flood
noun
(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
(obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
A floodlight.
An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
Menstrual discharge; menses.
The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
verb
(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
(figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
flook
flook
noun
A fluke of an anchor.
floor
floor
noun
(finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
(gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
(gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(proscribed) Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
A dance floor.
A storey/story of a building.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
verb
(colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
(driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
(informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
(informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
(informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
(mathematics) To set a lower bound.
(transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
flops
flops
noun
plural of flop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flop
flora
flora
noun
A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
flore
flori
floro
flory
flory
adj
(heraldry, especially of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis.
flosh
flosh
noun
(obsolete) A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed to be stamped.
Alternative form of floss (“fibres of corncob, bean plants, etc.”)
flosi
floss
floss
noun
(Britain) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
(Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
(UK) A small stream of water.
A body feather of an ostrich.
A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Raw silk fibres.
The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
verb
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
To perform the floss dance move.
flota
flota
noun
A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.
flote
flote
noun
(obsolete) A wave.
verb
To fleet; to skim.
simple past tense of flite.
flots
flour
flour
noun
(US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
Obsolete form of flower.
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
Powder of other material.
verb
(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
(transitive) To reduce to flour.
flout
flout
noun
A mockery or insult.
The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
verb
(transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.
(transitive, archaic) To scorn.
flowe
flowe
verb
Obsolete form of flow.
flowk
flowk
noun
Archaic form of fluke. (type of worm)
flown
flown
adj
(theater) Suspended in the flies.
verb
(rare, obsolete) past participle of flow
past participle of fly
flows
flows
noun
plural of flow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flow
floyd
floyd
Proper noun
a variant of Lloyd.
name transferred from the surname, today particularly common among African Americans.
A ghost town in California.
A city in Iowa.
A village in New Mexico.
A town in New York.
A town in Virginia.
floyt
fluor
fluor
noun
(dated) The mineral fluorite.
(obsolete) A flow or flux.
(obsolete, in the plural) Menstrual periods.
foals
foals
noun
plural of foal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foal
foaly
focal
focal
adj
(medicine) Limited to a small area.
Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
noun
(Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
(geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.
A major point of interest; an attraction.
A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
An exemplar of a concept.
The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
fogel
fogle
fogle
noun
(obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
foils
foils
noun
plural of foil
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foil
foirl
folds
folds
noun
plural of fold
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fold
foldy
foldy
adj
(informal) Having or characterized by folds.
foley
foley
noun
(countable, US) A foley artist.
(medicine, colloquial) A Foley catheter.
(uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.
folia
folia
noun
plural of folium
folic
folic
adj
Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.
folie
folio
folio
noun
(accounting) A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
(books) A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height.
(law, dated, 19th to early 20th century) A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
(paper) A sheet of paper folded in half.
(printing) A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
A wrapper for loose papers.
a leaf of a book or manuscript
verb
to put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page
folks
folks
noun
(California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
(US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
(US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.
The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
plural of folk
folky
folky
adj
(music, informal) Having the character of folk music
folly
folly
noun
(architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
a pinkish-red color
fonly
fonly
adv
(obsolete) foolishly
fools
fools
noun
plural of fool
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fool
forel
forel
noun
A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
verb
To bind with a forel.
forli
foulk
fouls
fouls
noun
plural of foul
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foul
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
fowls
fowls
noun
plural of fowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fowl
foxly
foxly
adj
(archaic) Like, resembling, or characteristic of a fox; vulpine.
foyil
fplot
frowl
golfs
golfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of golf
hrolf
kloof
kloof
noun
(South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.
lafox
lefor
loafs
loafs
noun
(nonstandard, proscribed) plural of loaf
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loaf
lofti
lofts
lofts
noun
plural of loft
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loft
lofty
lofty
adj
extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
high, tall, having great height or stature
idealistic, implying over-optimism
loofa
loofa
noun
Alternative form of loofah
loofs
loofs
noun
plural of loof
lwoff
offal
offal
noun
A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
A dead body; carrion.
That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
The internal organs of an animal, used as food.
oflem
oftly
oxfly
oxfly
noun
gadfly
rolfe
solfa
solfa
noun
Alternative form of sol-fa
sulfo
toefl
woful
woful
adj
Obsolete spelling of woeful
wolfe
wolfe
noun
Obsolete spelling of wolf
wolff
wolfs
wolfs
noun
Misspelling of wolves.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wolf