To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
To neutralize alkalis.
aciform
aciform
adj
Shaped like a needle.
afacing
affaire
affaire
noun
Obsolete spelling of affair
affairs
affairs
noun
plural of affair
affaite
affiant
affiant
noun
(law) The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.
affiche
affiche
noun
A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
verb
To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
affinal
affinal
adj
(anthropology) Of a family relationship by marriage of a relative (or through affinity), as opposed to consanguinity; in-law.
affined
affined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affine
affines
affines
noun
plural of affine
affirms
affirms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affirm
affixal
affixal
adj
As or like an affix.
affixed
affixed
adj
(linguistics) With an affix.
Enduringly stuck to, or attached to, something.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affix
affixer
affixer
noun
A person or thing that affixes.
affixes
affixes
noun
plural of affix
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affix
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
affrica
affying
affying
verb
present participle of affy
afghani
afghani
noun
The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
aflight
aflight
adj
(obsolete) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
Covered or filled (with something flying).
Fleeing.
Flying.
afrasia
africah
african
afright
afright
adj
Alternative form of affright
afrikah
afzelia
airfare
airfare
noun
The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.
airflow
airflow
noun
Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil.
airfoil
airfoil
noun
A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.
A wing of an aircraft.
airlift
airlift
noun
(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Such a flight.
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
verb
(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
alewife
alewife
noun
(archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
Any of several species similar in appearance.
alfadir
alfakis
alfakis
noun
plural of alfaki
alfaqui
alfaqui
noun
(historical) An Islamic cleric, an expert in Islamic law and jurisprudence, especially in medieval and early modern Spain.
alfheim
alfieri
alfiona
alfione
alfione
noun
(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
algific
algific
adj
Producing cold; covered in ice.
aliform
aliform
adj
(of a building) Having wings
Shaped like a wing
aliofar
amplify
amplify
verb
(transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
(translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
anatifa
anglify
anglify
Verb
To convert into English; to anglicise.
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.
antifat
antifat
adj
(dated) Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect; antiobesity.
Opposed to obese people; fattist.
apritif
aquifer
aquifer
noun
An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
artifex
ashrafi
ashrafi
noun
(historical) A coin of usually gold issued by Muslim dynasties in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, worth in India two mohurs.
auliffe
aurifex
aurific
aurific
adj
That produces gold
axifera
axiform
azafrin
azafrin
noun
An orange pigment found in azafranillo root (Escobedia scabrifolia).
azofier
bacliff
baffies
baffies
noun
plural of baffie
plural of baffy
baffing
baffing
verb
present participle of baff
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.
The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
barefit
barfing
barfing
verb
present participle of barf
barfish
barfish
noun
A black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus
A white bass, Morone chrysops
A yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis
batfish
batfish
noun
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
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.
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
belfair
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
bonifay
braniff
bufagin
bufagin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
caffeic
caffeic
adj
of, or pertaining to coffee or caffeic acid
caffein
caffein
noun
Alternative spelling of caffeine
caffiso
caffiso
noun
Alternative form of cafiso, particularly in Italian contexts.
cafiero
caitiff
caitiff
adj
Especially despicable; cowardly
noun
(archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch
(obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave
A base or despicable person; a wretch
calcify
calcify
verb
(intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.
(transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
calfish
calfish
adj
(dated) Silly and awkward through immaturity.
califon
candify
candify
verb
(transitive, archaic) To candy.
(transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.
cardiff
cardiff
Proper noun
The capital city of Wales
carifta
carnify
carnify
verb
(intransitive) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
catfish
catfish
noun
(Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
(Internet) Such a fake profile.
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
verb
(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
To fish for catfish.
chaffin
chafing
chafing
noun
The act by which something is chafed.
verb
present participle of chafe
chinafy
claflin
clarify
clarify
verb
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
(obsolete) To glorify.
(of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter.
To make clear or easily understood; to explain in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
coalify
coalify
verb
(paleontology, of a fossil) To change into coal.
cofinal
cofinal
adj
(order theory) Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
crifasi
daffier
daffier
adj
comparative form of daffy: more daffy
daffily
daffily
adv
In a daffy manner.
daffing
daffing
noun
(Scotland) Fun; merrymaking.
daffish
daffish
adj
(obsolete) Stupid, silly.
dafodil
dainful
damnify
damnify
verb
(law) To cause injuries or loss to.
(obsolete) To damage physically; to injure.
dandify
dandify
verb
To dress as, or to adopt the style of, a dandy.
dapifer
dapifer
noun
The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
deafish
deafish
adj
Somewhat deaf.
decafid
decafid
adj
Alternative form of decemfid
defiant
defiant
adj
Boldly resisting opposition.
Defying.
noun
One who defies opposition.
diffame
disfame
disfame
noun
(obsolete) disrepute
disleaf
disleaf
verb
(transitive, rare or obsolete) To remove the leaves from.
distaff
distaff
adj
Of the maternal side of a family.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of women.
noun
(also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
A race for female horses only.
Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
draffin
ediface
elfrida
epifano
fabiano
fabiola
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
fabrice
fabrics
fabrics
noun
plural of fabric
fabrile
fabrile
adj
Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
fachini
facials
facials
noun
plural of facial
faciata
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.
faciest
facings
facings
noun
plural of facing
fackins
fackins
noun
(obsolete) Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.
factice
factice
noun
Vulcanized unsaturated vegetable or animal oil, used as a processing aid and property modifier in rubber.
faction
faction
noun
(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
(uncountable) Strife; discord.
The facts found in fiction.
factish
factish
adj
Focused on fact rather than reason or speculation.
Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
noun
(sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.
factive
factive
adj
(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
(obsolete) Making.
noun
(grammar) A factive verb.
factrix
factrix
noun
(obsolete) A factoress, a female factor (agent or representative).
fadaise
fadaise
noun
A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
faddier
faddier
adj
comparative form of faddy: more faddy
fadding
faddish
faddish
adj
Being or relating to a fad; trendy.
faddism
faddism
noun
The behaviour of a faddist; following fads.
faddist
faddist
noun
A person or entity given to following fads.
fadging
fadging
verb
present participle of fadge
fadiman
fadings
fadings
noun
plural of fading
fadlike
fadlike
Adjective
Having characteristics of a fad.
faeries
faeries
noun
plural of faerie
fagelia
fagging
fagging
noun
(UK, historical, education) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.
verb
present participle of fag
faience
faience
noun
(archaeology) The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.)