Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
disgracefully
disgracefully
adv
In a disgraceful manner.
disgracefulness
disgracefulness
noun
The state or quality of being disgraceful.
disqualifying
disqualifying
verb
present participle of disqualify
disregardful
disregardful
adj
inconsiderate, thoughtless, heedless, regardless
disregardfully
disregardfully
adv
In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
disregardfulness
disregardfulness
noun
the state of being disregardful
doughface
doughface
noun
(derogatory) a person, especially a politician, who is pliable, moldable like dough.
doughfaceism
doughfaceism
noun
(derogatory) The character of a doughface; pliability.
dreamingful
echafaudage
effectuating
effectuating
verb
present participle of effectuate
effigurate
effigurate
adj
(botany, lichenology) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.
effiguration
effleurage
effleurage
noun
(massage) A form of massage involving smooth strokes of the skin with one's hands.
verb
(massage) To gently stroke the skin in a circular motion with the palm of one's hands.
effluviography
effluviography
noun
(photography, obsolete) The effects upon the dry photographic plate of certain electric emanations, including those later known as the X-rays.
eflagelliferous
eflagelliferous
adj
Not flagelliferous.
enfleurage
enfleurage
noun
The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol.
enfleurages
enfleurages
noun
plural of enfleurage
exfiguration
faciolingual
faciolingual
adj
Relating to the face and tongue.
fagaceous
fagaceous
adj
(botany) Of the family Fagaceae of beeches and similar trees.
fagopyrismus
fagopyrismus
noun
Dated form of fagopyrism.
fagopyrum
fagus
fainaigue
fainaigue
verb
(card games) To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).
To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
To cheat or deceive (someone).
To evade work or shirk responsibility.
To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
fainaigued
fainaigued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fainaigue
fainaiguer
fainaiguer
noun
One who fainaigues.
fainaiguing
fainaiguing
verb
present participle of fainaigue
fairground
fairground
noun
A commercially-operated collection of rides, games and other entertainment attractions; an amusement park.
An area where a fair (an event for public entertainment) or other public event is held; a showground.
fairgrounds
fairgrounds
noun
Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
plural of fairground
fallsburg
famagusta
fannettsburg
fanteague
fantigue
fantigue
noun
(dialectal) A state of worry or excitement.
farfugium
farmersburg
farnborough
farnborough
Proper noun
a town in north-east Hampshire, England.
a residential area in the London Borough of Bromley.
a village in Berkshire, and a village in Warwickshire, both in England.
farraginous
farraginous
adj
(now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
farragut
fastigious
fastigium
fastigium
noun
(architecture) A pediment or gable end.
(pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
An apex or summit; culmination.
fastigiums
fatiguabilities
fatiguability
fatiguability
noun
Alternative form of fatigability
fatiguable
fatiguable
adj
Alternative form of fatigable
fatigue
fatigue
noun
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
(often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
verb
(intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
(transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
fatigued
fatigued
adj
Tired; weary.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fatigue
fatigueless
fatigueless
adj
Free from fatigue.
fatigues
fatigues
noun
(US) Military clothing worn when doing menial tasks.
(military) Menial duties, especially as punishment.
plural of fatigue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fatigue
fatiguesome
fatiguesome
adj
fatiguing; tiring
fatiguing
fatiguing
adj
causing fatigue
verb
present participle of fatigue
fatiguingly
fatiguingly
adv
In a fatiguing manner.
faubourg
faubourg
noun
An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
faubourgs
faubourgs
noun
plural of faubourg
faugh
faugh
intj
(dated) An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.
faultage
faultfinding
faultfinding
adj
Tending to find fault
noun
Excessive or petty criticism
faultfindings
faultfindings
noun
plural of faultfinding
faulting
faulting
noun
Formation of a geological fault.
verb
present participle of fault
faunological
faunological
adj
Relating to faunology.
faunology
faunology
noun
The study of fauna.
favaginous
favaginous
adj
(obsolete) Resembling a honeycomb; cellular.
favouring
favouring
verb
present participle of favour
favouringly
favouringly
adv
In a favouring way.
feague
feague
noun
(obsolete) An unkempt, slatternly person.
verb
(obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive.
(obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’.
To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its anus.
fearnaught
fearnaught
noun
(by extension) A warm garment, especially one made of this cloth.
A fearless person.
A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnought
fearnought
fearnought
noun
Alternative form of fearnaught
featuring
featuring
noun
(rap music) A cameo on another performer's track.
verb
present participle of feature
febrifugal
febrifugal
adj
(pharmacology) Acting against or preventing fever.
fecundating
fecundating
verb
present participle of fecundate
federalsburg
fedifragous
fedifragous
adj
Treaty-breaking.
ferragus
ferruginate
ferruginated
ferruginated
adj
Having the colour or properties of rust, or iron oxide.
ferruginating
ferrugination
ferrugination
noun
(pathology) A deposition of minerals (typically containing iron) on the walls of blood vessels
ferruginean
ferruminating
ferruminating
verb
present participle of ferruminate
feuage
feuchtwanger
feudalising
feudalising
verb
present participle of feudalise
feudalizing
feudalizing
verb
present participle of feudalize
feuillage
feuillage
noun
archaic form of foliage
fibrocartilaginous
fibrocartilaginous
adj
Of or pertaining to fibrocartilage.
fibroligamentous
figueroa
figulate
figulate
adj
made of potter's clay
figulated
figulated
adj
Alternative form of figulate
figura
figura
noun
(semiotics) Any of the non-signifying constituents of signifiers.
figurability
figurability
noun
The quality of being figurable.
figurable
figurable
adj
Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
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.
figurally
figurally
adv
in a figural manner
figurant
figurant
noun
An actor or dancer in the background lacking an aural presence.
figurante
figurante
noun
A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
figurants
figurants
noun
plural of figurant
figurate
figurate
adj
(music) Florid.
Forming a figure.
verb
To shape; to give a figure.
figurately
figurately
adv
In a figurate manner; Using or forming a figure.
figuratively, in a figurative manner.
figuration
figuration
noun
(art) Representation through visual forms.
(sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
Form, outline or boundaries.
Mixture of concords and discords.
Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
The act of giving figure or determinate form.
figurational
figurational
adj
Relating to figurations.
figurations
figurations
noun
plural of figuration
figurative
figurative
adj
(art) representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
Metaphorically so called.
Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.
With many figures of speech.
figuratively
figuratively
adv
(manner) In a figurative manner.
Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.
figurativeness
figurativeness
noun
The property of being figurative.
figurato
figurehead
figurehead
noun
(by extension) Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has no actual power; a front or front man.
(nautical) A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.
(nautical, slang, obsolete) A person's face.
figureheadless
figureheads
figureheads
noun
plural of figurehead
figureheadship
figureheadship
noun
The role or status of figurehead.
figurial
figurial
adj
Represented by figure or delineation.
firebaugh
fireflaught
fireguard
fireguard
noun
A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
fissilingual
fissilingual
adj
(zoology) Having the tongue forked.
fissilinguia
flagellariaceous
flagellariaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Flagellariaceae.
flagelliferous
flagelliferous
adj
Bearing a flagellum.
flagellula
flagellulae
flagellum
flagellum
noun
(biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
(biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
A whip
flagellums
flagitious
flagitious
adj
(literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
(literary) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
flagitiously
flagitiously
adv
In a flagitious manner.
flagitiousness
flagitiousness
noun
The state or quality of being flagitious; wickedness, infamy.
flammigerous
flashgun
flashgun
noun
(photography) An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb.
(photography) Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography.
flashguns
flashguns
noun
plural of flashgun
flaught
flaughtbred
flaughter
flaughter
noun
A flat spade used in peat cutting.
flaughts
flaunching
flaunching
noun
A mortar fillet at the junction of the chimney stack and the roof; superseded in modern times by lead flashing.
The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
verb
present participle of flaunch
flaunting
flaunting
adj
That flaunts; showy or gaudy
noun
The act by which something is flaunted.
verb
present participle of flaunt
flauntingly
flauntingly
adv
In a flaunting manner
flavouring
flavouring
noun
Britain standard spelling of flavoring.
verb
present participle of flavour
fleabug
fleabugs
flocculating
flocculating
verb
present participle of flocculate
fluctuating
fluctuating
adj
Subject to irregular changes in quantity or quality.
noun
A fluctuation.
verb
present participle of fluctuate
flugelman
flugelman
noun
Alternative form of fugleman
fluidglycerate
fluidglycerate
noun
A plant extract produced by extracting with a mixture of glycerine and water
fluigram
fluigram
noun
(archaic, medicine) A cubic centimetre.
fluigramme
fluoresage
fluoridating
fluoridating
verb
present participle of fluoridate
fluorinating
fluorinating
verb
present participle of fluorinate
fluorographic
fluorographic
adj
Relating to fluorography.
fluorography
fluorography
noun
photofluorography
visualisation of radiolabelled material
flushgate
flusterating
flusterating
verb
present participle of flusterate
flustrating
flustrating
verb
present participle of flustrate
fluvioglacial
fluvioglacial
adj
(geology) Describing a stream formed from glacial meltwater