A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s.
aquafer
aquafer
noun
Alternative form of aquifer
aquifer
aquifer
noun
An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
arafura
armfuls
armfuls
noun
plural of armful
armsful
armsful
noun
Alternative form of armful
arnulfo
aurifex
aurific
aurific
adj
That produces gold
ausform
ausform
verb
(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.
barfuss
barnful
barnful
noun
The amount that can fit in a barn
baufrey
buffbar
careful
careful
adj
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
carfour
carfour
noun
Synonym of carfax
carfuls
carfuls
noun
plural of carful
cartful
cartful
noun
As much as a cart will hold.
chaufer
crawful
crawful
noun
As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
Enough to fill the craw.
dareful
dareful
adj
Full of daring or defiance; adventurous.
darkful
darkful
adj
(archaic) Full of darkness
defraud
defraud
verb
(archaic) To deprive.
(transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
earfuls
earfuls
noun
plural of earful
earmuff
earmuff
noun
A garment or part worn over a single ear.
A garment to keep the ears warm.
A sound-deadening cup or a pair of such cups worn over the ear or ears.
attributive form of earmuffs.
earnful
earnful
adj
(obsolete) Full of anxiety or yearning.
fabular
fabular
adj
In the form of a fable.
Of, or pertaining to, fables.
facture
facture
noun
(archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
(dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.
facular
facular
adj
(astronomy) Of or pertaining to the faculae.
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.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
famular
famular
noun
(obsolete) A domestic or familiar.
faquirs
faquirs
noun
plural of faquir
farceur
farceur
noun
A farcical comedian.
A person who writes farces, or who performs in them.
farmout
farmout
noun
The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
farruca
farruca
noun
A form of Flamenco music and dance, probably originating in Galicia, traditionally danced only by men.
fathmur
faubert
faucher
faujdar
faujdar
noun
(India) An officer tasked with the administration of a sarkar.
faulter
faulter
noun
(obsolete) One who commits a fault.
verb
Archaic spelling of falter.
fauster
favours
favours
noun
plural of favour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of favour
fearful
fearful
adj
(dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
(now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.
Frightening; causing fear.
Tending to fear; timid.
adv
(dialect) Extremely; fearfully.
feature
feature
noun
(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
(film) Ellipsis of feature film.
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
(statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
An important or main item.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
verb
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
(transitive) To star, to contain.
(transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
ferneau
ferulae
ferulae
noun
plural of ferula
ferular
ferular
Noun
A ferule.
ferulas
feudary
feudary
adj
Held by, or relating to, feudal tenure.
noun
A feodary.
A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
fibular
fibular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fibula
figurae
figurae
noun
plural of figura
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.
fissura
fiumara
fiumara
noun
A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
flabrum
flaneur
flaneur
noun
An idler, a loafer.
One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
verb
To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace.
flavour
flavour
noun
Britain standard spelling of flavor.
flexura
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.
flustra
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
foujdar
foujdar
noun
Alternative form of faujdar
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
fractur
fractur
noun
Alternative spelling of fraktur.
fractus
fractus
noun
(meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
fraenum
fraenum
noun
Alternative form of frenum
fraktur
fraktur
noun
(US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.
(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
frauder
fraught
fraught
adj
(figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
(with with) Furnished, equipped.
Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
noun
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
(transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
fraunch
freneau
frenula
frenula
noun
plural of frenulum
frenuna
fruggan
frutage
frutage
noun
(obsolete) A confection made of fruit.
(obsolete) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
fuhrman
fuirena
fulcral
fulcral
adj
Of or relating to a fulcrum.
fulgora
fulgora
Proper noun
The Roman goddess/personification of lightning. She is the Roman counterpart of Astrape.
fulmars
fulmars
noun
plural of fulmar
fumaria
fumaria
noun
plural of fumarium
fumaric
fumaric
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to fumaric acid or its derivatives.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from fumitory.
fumarin
fumaryl
fumaryl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The divalent radical derived from fumaric acid -OCCH=CHCO-
funaria
funeral
funeral
adj
(uncommon) Alternative form of funereal
noun
(dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.
A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
funfair
funfair
noun
(UK, Ireland) A travelling amusement park.
furandi
furanes
furanes
noun
plural of furane
furazan
furazan
noun
(organic chemistry) The heterocycle 1,2,5-oxadiazole
furcate
furcate
adj
Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
verb
To fork or branch out.
furcula
furcula
noun
(anatomy) A forked process or structure, generally two-pronged.
(entomology) The (two-pronged) forked, somewhat tail-like organ held bent forward and secured by a catch beneath most species of Collembola (springtails), with which they jump by releasing the catch abruptly when alarmed.
(ornithology) The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought.
furiant
furiosa
furivae
furlana
furlana
noun
A lively Italian folk dance.
furlane
furlani
furmark
furnace
furnace
noun
(UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
(US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
(colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
verb
To exhale like a furnace.
To heat in a furnace.
furnage
furnary
furoate
furoate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
futharc
futhark
futhark
noun
The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
futural
futural
adj
(grammar) Having a future tense.
Of or relating to the future.
gauffer
gauffer
verb
(transitive) In fine bookbinding, to decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.
(transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace.
gauffre
gauffre
noun
A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
A waffle.
hamfurd
hanfurd
harmful
harmful
adj
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
jarfuls
jarfuls
noun
plural of jarful
jarsful
lafleur
mafurra
prayful
prayful
adj
Synonym of prayerful
quaffer
quaffer
noun
(informal) A quaffable wine.
One who quaffs.
rackful
rackful
noun
Enough to fill a rack.
rageful
rageful
adj
full of rage, enraged
rainful
rainful
adj
(rare) Full of rain.
rakeful
rakeful
noun
A portion of something raked up.
rapeful
rapeful
adj
(obsolete) Given to the commission of rape.
rashful
rashful
adj
(obsolete) rash; hasty; precipitate
rchauff
refugia
refugia
noun
plural of refugium
refusal
refusal
noun
(civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
The act of refusing.
refutal
refutal
noun
A refutation.
ruffian
ruffian
adj
Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.
noun
(obsolete) A lover; a paramour.
(obsolete) A pimp; a pander.
A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
verb
To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
ruffina
rufiyaa
rufiyaa
noun
The official currency of Maldives, equal to 100 laari.
sarkful
sarkful
noun
(Scotland and Northern England) A shirtful or smockful.
starful
starful
adj
(poetic) Full of stars.
suffari
surface
surface
noun
(figurative) Outward or external appearance.
(mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
The outside hull of a tangible object.
The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
verb
(intransitive) To rise to the surface.
(intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
(intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
(intransitive, of information or facts) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found.
(transitive) To apply a surface to something.
(transitive) To bring to the surface.
(transitive) To make (information or facts) known.
(transitive) To provide something with a surface.
surfacy
surfacy
adj
superficial
surfman
surfman
noun
A member of a rescue team using a surf boat.
A person skilled in handling boats in surf.
tartufe
tartufe
noun
Alternative form of tartuffe
tearful
tearful
adj
Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
Sorrowful.
tramful
trayful
trayful
noun
As much as a tray will hold.
trufant
turfage
turfman
turfman
noun
A person who goes horse racing, or who owns racehorses