(archaic) airplane; a flying machine, an aircraft.
afernan
affined
affined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affine
affines
affines
noun
plural of affine
afounde
alfione
alfione
noun
(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
alfonse
anfeeld
antefix
antefix
noun
(architecture) Any decoration serving to cover the ends of roofing tiles.
(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.
baneful
baneful
adj
(archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
Harmful, injurious.
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
beefing
beefing
noun
Alternative form of biffin (“type of apple”)
verb
present participle of beef
befancy
benefic
benefic
adj
Favorable; beneficent.
noun
(astrology) a favorable planet
benefit
benefit
noun
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
An advantage; help or aid from something.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
benioff
besnuff
besnuff
verb
(transitive, rare) To befoul with snuff.
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
bogfern
bonfire
bonfire
noun
(figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
(obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
verb
(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
(intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
(obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
buffone
cafeneh
cafeneh
noun
Alternative form of cafenet
cafenet
cafenet
noun
An inn or resthouse selling coffee in Turkey.
caffein
caffein
noun
Alternative spelling of caffeine
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
centref
chefang
coffeen
coffeng
coinfer
confect
confect
noun
(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
verb
(transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
(transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
confers
confers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confer
confess
confess
verb
(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
To disclose or reveal.
confest
confest
verb
(archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of confess
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.
confuse
confuse
verb
(intransitive) To be confused.
(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
(transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
(transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
(transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
confute
confute
verb
(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
conifer
conifer
noun
(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
cornfed
cornfed
adj
(informal, of a vehicle) Running on ethanol (E85).
(informal, sometimes derogatory, of a person) Sheltered; uncultured.
(not comparable, of an animal) Fed on corn.
deafens
deafens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deafen
defangs
defangs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defang
defence
defence
noun
(obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
(team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
(team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
An argument in support or justification of something.
Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Something used to oppose attacks.
The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.
defends
defends
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defend
defense
defense
noun
(government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
(law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
(law, by extension) The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
(obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
(team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
(team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
defiant
defiant
adj
Boldly resisting opposition.
Defying.
noun
One who defies opposition.
defined
defined
adj
(bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
Having a definition or value.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of define
definer
definer
noun
One who or that which defines something, or provides a definition.
defines
defines
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of define
defunct
defunct
adj
(business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
(computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
(linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
(now rare) Deceased, dead.
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
noun
The dead person (referred to).
verb
To make defunct.
defying
defying
verb
present participle of defy
delfine
denhoff
densify
densify
verb
(intransitive) To become (more) dense.
(transitive) To make (more) dense.
dernful
dernful
adj
(obsolete) secret; lonely, sad, mournful
druffen
earnful
earnful
adj
(obsolete) Full of anxiety or yearning.
effendi
effendi
noun
An educated or well-respected man in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country; often used as a title of respect or courtesy in Turkey or a former Ottoman territory.
effront
effront
verb
(obsolete) To give assurance to.
eftsoon
eftsoon
adv
Obsolete form of eftsoons.
elfland
elfland
noun
Alternative form of Elfland
elfstan
enchafe
enchafe
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make warm, to heat.
endfile
endleaf
endleaf
noun
A protective page before or after the textblock.
enfaced
enfaced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of enface
enfaces
enfaces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enface
enfants
enfarce
enfavor
enfelon
enfeoff
enfeoff
verb
(transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.
(transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.
enfever
enfever
verb
(transitive) to excite fever in
enfield
enfield
Proper noun
A town and borough in North London
Noun
A heraldic monster with the head of a fox, the chest of a greyhound, the talons of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the hindlegs and tail of a wolfA Complete Guide to Heraldry by Charles Fox-Davies (London, 1909), p. 231.
enfiled
enfiled
adj
(heraldry) Having some object, such as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it.
enflame
enflame
verb
Alternative spelling of inflame
enflesh
enflesh
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To clothe with flesh.
enfolds
enfolds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfold
enfonce
enforce
enforce
verb
(obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
(obsolete) To prove; to evince.
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
(obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
(obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
enforth
enframe
enframe
verb
To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
englify
engraff
engraff
verb
Obsolete form of engraft.
engraft
engraft
adj
(rare) Engrafted.
verb
To fix firmly into place
To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
engulfs
engulfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engulf
enserfs
enserfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enserf
epifano
faceman
faceman
noun
Alternative spelling of face man
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.
faconde
faconne
faconne
noun
Alternative spelling of façonné
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.
fainest
fainest
adv
superlative form of fain: most fain
fainted
fainted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of faint
fainter
fainter
adj
comparative form of faint: more faint
noun
One who faints.
falange
falcone
falerno
falkner
famines
famines
noun
plural of famine
fancher
fanchet
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
fanegas
fanegas
noun
plural of fanega
faneuil
fanfare
fanfare
noun
(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
(countable, uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
verb
(music) To embellish with fanfares.
To fan out.
To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
To introduce with pomp and show.
To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
To play a fanfare.
To publicize or announce.
fangled
fangled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fangle
fanglet
fanglet
noun
A little fang.
fanjets
fanjets
noun
plural of fanjet
fanleaf
fanleaf
noun
Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.
Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
The Grapevine fanleaf virus.
fanlike
fanlike
adj
Resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device).
fannell
fannell
noun
Obsolete form of fannel.
fanners
fanners
noun
plural of fanner
fannier
fannies
fannies
noun
plural of fanny
fanteeg
fanteeg
noun
Eye dialect spelling of fantigue.
fanweed
fanweed
noun
The flowering plant Thlaspi arvense.
fanwise
fanwise
adj
In a radial arrangement resembling a hand-held fan.
adv
In a fanwise manner.
fanzine
fanzine
noun
A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest
farnese
farness
farness
noun
The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
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.).
fastens
fastens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fasten
fatness
fatness
noun
The state, quality, or condition of being fat.
fattens
fattens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fatten
faunule
faunule
noun
A thin stratum of animal fossils
fawners
fawners
noun
plural of fawner
fawnery
fawnier
fayanne
fayence
fayence
noun
Alternative form of faience
fazenda
fazenda
noun
A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
fdnames
feaking
feaking
verb
present participle of feak (alternative form of feaguing).
fearing
fearing
adj
Exhibiting fear.
Showing profound respect or deference.
verb
present participle of fear
feasant
feasing
feasing
verb
present participle of fease
feasten
feazing
feazing
verb
present participle of feaze
fechner
feddans
feddans
noun
plural of feddan
feedbin
feedbin
noun
A bin for holding feed to be fed later to an animal.
A bin for holding material to be fed into an industrial process.
feeding
feeding
noun
(countable) An instance or session of giving food.
(countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
(dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
(dated) That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
(uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
(uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
(uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
verb
present participle of feed
feedman
feeling
feeling
adj
Emotionally sensitive.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
noun
(always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
(always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
An opinion, an attitude.
Emotion; impression.
Intuition.
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
verb
present participle of feel
feering
feezing
feezing
verb
present participle of feeze
feighan
feigned
feigned
adj
Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.