Third-person singular simple present indicative form of father
faucher
feather
feather
noun
(hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
(rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
verb
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
(intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
(transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
(transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
(transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
(transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
fechner
fechter
feigher
ferahan
feroher
feroher
noun
(archaeology) A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
ferrash
ferther
fetcher
fetcher
noun
A person or thing that fetches something
fighter
fighter
noun
(colloquial) A firefighter.
(eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A participant in boxing or any martial art.
A person who fights; a combatant.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A warrior; a fighting soldier.
filcher
filcher
noun
One who filches; a thief.
fischer
fishers
fishers
noun
plural of fisher
fishery
fishery
noun
(countable) A fishing company.
(countable) A right to fish in a particular location; Territorial fishing waters.
(uncountable) Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
A place where fish or other seafood are caught: a fishing ground.
A place where fish or other seafood are processed: a seafood factory.
A place where fish or other seafood are raised: a fish farm.
fishier
fishier
adj
comparative form of fishy: more fishy
fitcher
flasher
flasher
noun
(automotive) An indicator or turn signal.
(obsolete) Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
(slang) Someone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.
Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
flesher
flesher
noun
(Scotland) A butcher.
A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
A tool used to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
flether
flusher
flusher
noun
(US, politics) A worker for a political campaign who encourages voters to vote on Election Day.
Agent noun of flush: one who flushes.
The mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.
fluther
forches
forehew
forehew
verb
(transitive) To hew or cut in front.
forhale
forhale
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To overhaul; overtake.
forheed
fourche
fourche
adj
(heraldry) Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.
frechet
freeish
freeish
adj
Somewhat free.
freight
freight
adj
(obsolete) Freighted; laden.
noun
(countable) A burden, a load.
(countable) Payment for transportation.
(countable, originally US, rail transport) Short for freight train.
(specifically, uncountable) Cultural or emotional associations.
(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
(uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
verb
(by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).
(figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
(intransitive, US, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
To transport (goods).
frenchy
frenchy
Noun
A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
Proper noun
A short form for various names: Francine, Franchelle, Francoise, etc., e.g. Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis.
frenghi
freshed
freshed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fresh
freshen
freshen
verb
(intransitive, of wind) To become stronger.
(intransitive, transitive, of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
(of water) To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
(transitive) To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
(transitive) To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
(transitive) To top up (a drink).
(transitive, historical) To top up (primer) in a firearm.
(transitive, nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
To be refreshed.
To become cool.
To make cool.
To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
To refresh; to revive; to renew.
To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
To touch up the paint on (something).
fresher
fresher
adj
comparative form of fresh: more fresh
noun
(Britain) A first year student at a university.
(India) A fresh graduate looking for one's first job.
freshes
freshes
noun
plural of fresh
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fresh
freshet
freshet
noun
(poetic) A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
freshly
freshly
adv
(uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.
Recently, newly.
fretish
frothed
frothed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of froth
frother
frother
noun
A machine that generates froth
verb
(dialectal) To comfort.
(dialectal) To feed.
fuehrer
fuehrer
noun
Alternative spelling of Führer
fuhrers
fuhrers
noun
plural of fuhrer
fulcher
fulcher
Proper noun
most common in East Anglia.
further
further
adj
(comparative form of far) More distant; relatively distant.
More, additional.
adv
(comparative form of far) To a greater extent or degree.
(comparative form of far) To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
(conjunctive) Also; in addition; furthermore; moreover.
(in the phrase 'further to') Following on (from).
Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
verb
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(transitive) To help forward; to assist.
hafters
hafters
noun
plural of hafter
hamfare
hariffe
heffron
hefters
hefters
noun
plural of hefter
heftier
heftier
adj
comparative form of hefty: more hefty
heifers
heifers
noun
plural of heifer
henefer
heroify
heroify
verb
To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws.
herself
herself
pron
(Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
(emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
(reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
hoffert
hoofers
hoofers
noun
plural of hoofer
huffier
huffier
adj
comparative form of huffy: more huffy
huffler
huffler
noun
(nautical) An unqualified pilot, typically employed by the crew of a barge
humfrey
rechafe
redfish
redfish
noun
A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
Lutjanus spp., snappers.
Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.
Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
Sebastes spp., the edible red rockfish.
especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
refetch
refetch
verb
(transitive) To fetch again.
(transitive, computing) To retrieve data previously stored in memory.
refight
refight
verb
To fight again.
reflash
reflash
verb
(intransitive, of a fire) To burst back into flame after being extinguished and then receiving a large amount of oxygen.
(transitive, computing) To flash again; to overwrite the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip.
reflush
reflush
noun
Another flush.
verb
(intransitive, transitive) To flush again.
refresh
refresh
noun
(computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
The process of modernizing something.
verb
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
(intransitive) To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
(intransitive, colloquial, dated) To take refreshment; to eat or drink.
(transitive) To renew or revitalize.
To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
reshift
reshift
verb
(transitive) To shift again or anew.
schafer
serfish
serfish
adj
(figuratively) like a serf, slavish
(literally) of a serf, relating to serfdom
shaefer
shaffer
shafter
shafter
noun
One who or that which shafts.
shareef
shareef
adj
meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent
shereef
shereef
noun
(historical) A member of an Arab princely family descended from Muhammad through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima, the "Grand Shereef" being the governor of Mecca.
sherifa
sheriff
sheriff
noun
(Britain, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
(Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
verb
To carry out the duties of a sheriff
sherifi
sherifs
sherifs
noun
plural of sherif
sherify
shifter
shifter
noun
(US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
(mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
(mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
terefah
thereof
thereof
adv
From that circumstance or origin; therefrom, thence.
Of this, that, or it.
wharfed
wharfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wharf
wharfie
wharfie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf labourer or stevedore.