(dated, electronics) A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10⁹) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units
affable
affable
adj
Mild; benign.
Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
affably
affably
adv
in an affable manner
aufgabe
backoff
backoff
noun
(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
(surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.
bacliff
baffeta
baffies
baffies
noun
plural of baffie
plural of baffy
baffing
baffing
verb
present participle of baff
baffled
baffled
adj
(not comparable) having baffles
thoroughly confused, puzzled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baffle
baffler
baffler
noun
One of the projections inside a dice tower that serve to deflect the die unpredictably.
Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
baffles
baffles
noun
plural of baffle
bagfuls
bagfuls
noun
plural of bagful
bagreef
bagsful
bailiff
bailiff
noun
(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
(UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
(historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
(historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.
(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
batfowl
baufrey
beakful
beakful
noun
As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.
beamful
beamful
adj
Beamy; radiant; luminous.
noun
A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
beatify
beatify
verb
(transitive) To make blissful.
(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beaufet
beaufet
noun
(archaic) A counter for refreshments; a buffet.
(archaic) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
bedfast
bedfast
adj
Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
noun
A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
One who is bedfast.
bedwarf
bedwarf
verb
(archaic, transitive) To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
beefalo
beefalo
noun
A cross between a domestic cow and an American buffalo or bison.
The meat of such a hybrid.
befalls
befalls
noun
plural of befall
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall
befancy
befavor
beflags
beflags
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beflag
befleas
befleas
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beflea
belfair
belfast
belfast
Proper noun
A seaport in and the capital of Northern Ireland.
A city in the State of Maine, USA.
A town in New York
A in Pennsylvania
An unincorporated community in California
A township in Murray County, Minnesota
A village in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
bescarf
biafran
biafran
Adjective
Of, from or relating to Biafra.
Extremely skinny.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Biafra.
bifaces
bifaces
noun
plural of biface
bifilar
bifilar
adj
Having two wires, threads or filaments
bifocal
bifocal
adj
(of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision
(optics) Having two focal lengths
bifolia
bifolia
noun
plural of bifolium
blaflum
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
boffola
boffola
noun
A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.
bonifay
braniff
bufagin
bufagin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
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.
buffbar
cobloaf
confabs
confabs
noun
plural of confab
conflab
conflab
noun
(informal) A discussion.
effable
effable
adj
(archaic) Able to be spoken of; able to be expressed.
(slang, vulgar) Fuckable; sexually attractive.
fabella
fabella
noun
(anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
faberge
fabiano
fabiola
fablers
fablers
noun
plural of fabler
fabliau
fabliau
noun
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
fabling
fabling
noun
The act of telling fables.
verb
present participle of fable
fabozzi
fabraea
fabrice
fabrics
fabrics
noun
plural of fabric
fabrile
fabrile
adj
Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
fabular
fabular
adj
In the form of a fable.
Of, or pertaining to, fables.
fabyola
facebar
facebow
facebow
noun
(dentistry) A prosthodontic instrument used to transfer functional and aesthetic components from the patient's mouth to the dental articulator.
fadable
fadable
Adjective
Capable of fading, or losing its colour.
falbala
falbala
noun
A furbelow.
falbelo
fanback
fanback
noun
(often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.
fatback
fatback
noun
(US) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard
A fish, the menhaden.
fatbird
faubert
faubion
faubush
feeable
feeable
adj
For which a fee may be charged.
feedbag
feedbag
noun
A horse's nosebag.
fenbank
ferbams
fibroma
fibroma
noun
(pathology) A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue.
fibulae
fibulae
noun
plural of fibula
fibular
fibular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fibula
fibulas
fimbria
fimbria
noun
(anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
(bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.
finable
finable
adj
Punishable by a fine.
finback
finback
noun
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
firbank
fivebar
fixable
fixable
adj
Capable of being fixed, repairable.
attachable
flabile
flabile
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
flabrum
flambee
flambes
flambes
noun
plural of flambe
flatbed
flatbed
adj
Having a flat bed.
noun
(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
verb
To transport by flatbed.
fleabag
fleabag
noun
(slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
(slang) An unkempt mammal.
fleabug
flyable
flyable
adj
(of a route or distance) Passable by flight.
(of aircraft) Able to be flown; airworthy.
flyback
flyback
noun
A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.
The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
flyball
flyball
noun
A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.
Alternative spelling of fly ball
flybane
flybane
noun
A poisonous mushroom, the fly agaric.
Certain catchflies of the genus Silene.
flyboat
flyboat
noun
A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel.
foambow
foambow
noun
A kind of rainbow or fogbow seen as sunlight passes through the airborne water droplets of a waterfall.
fogbank
fogbank
noun
A bank of fog.
forbade
forbade
verb
simple past tense of forbid
forbare
forbare
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of forbear
forbear
forbear
noun
Alternative spelling of forebear
verb
(intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.
(intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
(intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
forebar
forebar
verb
Alternative form of forbar
forebay
forebay
noun
(reservoirs) An artificial pool of water ahead of a larger body of water.
The distinctive overhang(s) on a Pennsylvania barn.
foxbane
foyboat
foyboat
noun
A small workboat primarily used to assist the mooring and servicing of a larger vessel, especially on the rivers of north-east England.
frabbit
frabbit
adj
(UK, dialect) crabbed; peevish
frabous
friable
friable
adj
(mathematics, of a number) Smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
fyzabad
gabfest
gabfest
noun
(slang, chiefly US) An occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length.
leafboy
lebhaft
obafemi
offbeat
offbeat
adj
Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
noun
(music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
(slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.