(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
A love interest; a paramour.
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
Any passionate love for something.
Any romantic relationship.
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
affirmly
aimfully
aimfully
adv
In an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.
alacrify
alacrify
verb
(transitive) To rouse into action; to inspirit; to inspire.
alkalify
alkalify
verb
(intransitive) To become changed into an alkali.
(transitive) To make (more) alkaline (less acidic)
ammonify
ammonify
verb
(transitive) To treat with ammonia; to ammoniate.
aseptify
aycliffe
babyfied
babyfied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of babyfy
bayfield
bayfield
Proper noun
A village in Barbados.
A town in Colorado.
A rural community in New Brunswick, Canada.
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A village in Ontario, Canada.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
beautify
beautify
verb
(computing) Synonym of pretty-print
(intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
(intransitive, rare) To make oneself beautiful.
(transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
bifidity
bifidity
noun
The quality of being bifid.
bonyfish
brandify
bronzify
bronzify
verb
(transitive) To turn into bronze.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become bronze in colour, as by tanning.
caitifty
calorify
capacify
capacify
verb
(archaic) To qualify.
caustify
chiefery
chiefery
noun
(historical) An Irish head tax
A colonial administrative centre.
The form of government in which people are ruled by a chief.
The land ruled over by a chief; chieftainship.
The leaders or chiefs of a people, collectively.
The status or role of a chief; chieftainship.
chiffony
chiffony
adj
Resembling or characteristic of chiffon material.
chuffily
chuffily
adv
In a clownish manner.
chylific
chylific
adj
That produces chyle
cityfied
cityfied
adj
Alternative spelling of citified.
cityfolk
classify
classify
verb
To make classy
to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
clothify
clothify
verb
(transitive, computer graphics) To give a cloth-like texture to.
copurify
copurify
verb
To purify two or more materials simultaneously, normally by chromatography
craftily
craftily
adv
In a crafty manner; slyly.
crayfish
crayfish
noun
(Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
(New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
(Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
verb
Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)
to catch crayfish
cuffyism
daintify
daintify
verb
(transitive, rare) To make dainty.
dayflies
dayflies
noun
plural of dayfly
deathify
degasify
degasify
verb
(transitive) To liquefy; to change (a gas) back to liquid form.
(transitive) To remove gas from.
deifying
deifying
verb
present participle of deify
denazify
denazify
verb
(transitive) To free from Nazi influence.
deossify
deossify
verb
(intransitive) To undergo deossification.
(transitive) To cause the deossification of.
detoxify
detoxify
verb
To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
disdeify
disdeify
verb
(transitive) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
disedify
disedify
verb
To fail in edifying; to injure or scandalize.
disunify
disunify
verb
(transitive) To cause to cease to be unified; to split up or dissociate.
divinify
divinify
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To render divine; to deify.
draftily
draftily
adv
In a drafty manner.
driftway
driftway
noun
(US, Rhode Island) An access road to the sea.
(mining) A drift, or horizontal passage in a mine.
A common road or path for driving cattle.
dutchify
dutchify
Verb
To render more Dutch.
edifying
edifying
adj
That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
That enlightens or uplifts.
noun
edification
verb
present participle of edify
efficacy
efficacy
noun
Ability to produce a desired effect under ideal testing conditions.
Degree of ability to produce a desired effect; effectiveness.
elfishly
elfishly
adv
In an elfish manner; mischievously.
emulsify
emulsify
verb
(transitive) To make into an emulsion.
esterify
esterify
verb
(chemistry, of an acid) To combine with an alcohol or (of an alcohol) to combine with an acid, to form an ester.
etherify
etherify
verb
(organic chemistry) To convert (an alcohol etc.) into an ether.
facially
facially
adv
(law, of a law or regulation's validity) In a facial manner; on its face.
Using or involving the face.
facilely
facilely
adv
In a facile manner.
facility
facility
noun
(Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.
(Scotland, law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
(dated) Affability.
(finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility.
An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
facingly
facingly
adv
In a facing manner or position.
fadingly
fadingly
adv
In a fading manner; becoming lighter or paler.
fairbury
fairbury
Proper noun
A city in Illinois, USA.
A city in Nebraska, USA
fairplay
fairplay
noun
Alternative form of fair play
fairways
fairways
noun
plural of fairway
fairydom
fairydom
noun
The realm or sphere of fairies.
fairyish
fairyish
adj
fairylike
fairyism
fairyism
noun
A fairylike quality, for example in literature.
Belief in fairies as supernatural beings.
fallibly
fallibly
adv
In a fallible manner
fancying
fancying
noun
Something fancied or imagined.
verb
present participle of fancy
farriery
farriery
noun
(countable) A farrier's workshop.
(uncountable) The work done by a farrier.
fatality
fatality
noun
(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
A person killed.
An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
faultily
faultily
adv
In a faulty manner
fayalite
fayalite
noun
(mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe₂SiO₄.
feasibly
feasibly
adv
In a feasible manner
felicify
felicity
felicity
noun
(countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
(uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
(uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
(uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
felinely
felinely
adv
In a feline manner.
felinity
felinity
noun
(countable) Any feline characteristic.
(humorous) catkind, all cats collectively (cf. humanity)
(uncountable) The state of being feline.
femality
femality
noun
femaleness
feminacy
feminacy
noun
(archaic) effeminacy
feminity
feminity
noun
(archaic) Synonym of femininity
feracity
feracity
noun
(obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
ferinely
ferlying
ferocity
ferocity
noun
The condition of being ferocious.
ferriday
ferrying
ferrying
noun
The act by which something is ferried.
verb
present participle of ferry
fervidly
fervidly
adv
In a fervid manner.
fetichry
fetidity
fetidity
noun
The quality of being fetid.
fetishry
ficklety
ficklety
noun
(humorous) fickleness
fiddlery
fiddleys
fiddleys
noun
plural of fiddley
fidelity
fidelity
noun
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
Faithfulness to one's duties.
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
fiercely
fiercely
adv
In a fierce manner.
extremely; to a large degree
fiercely competitive
filatory
filatory
noun
(obsolete) A machine for forming threads.
filchery
filially
filially
adv
In a filial manner.
filthify
filthify
verb
(transitive) To make something filthy.
filthily
filthily
adv
in a filthy manner
finality
finality
noun
The state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
finchery
finchery
noun
(historical) A structure into which finches are decoyed so that they can be caught in a net.
finchley
finitary
finitary
adj
(logic) Pertaining to finite-length proofs, each using a finite set of axioms.
(mathematics) Of a function, taking a finite number of arguments to produce an output.
finitely
finitely
adv
In a finite manner.
finnicky
finnicky
adj
Alternative form of finicky
fireclay
fireclay
noun
Alternative spelling of fire clay
fiscally
fiscally
adv
In a fiscal manner; concerning finance
fisheyes
fisheyes
noun
plural of fisheye
fishways
fishways
noun
plural of fishway
fishyard
fitchery
fitfully
fitfully
adv
In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.
fitzroya
fixidity
fixidity
noun
(obsolete) The quality of being fixed.
flabbily
flabbily
adv
In a flabby manner
flaggily
flaggily
adv
In a flaggy manner.
flashily
flashily
adv
In a flashy manner
fleecily
fleecily
adv
In a fleecy way.
flexibly
flexibly
adv
in a flexible manner
flickery
flickery
adj
Seeming to flicker; unsteady
flimsily
flimsily
adv
In a flimsy manner
flindosy
flintify
flintify
verb
(transitive) To turn to flint.
flintily
flintily
adv
In a flinty manner.
flippery
flippery
adj
Resembling or characteristic of flippers.
floppily
floppily
adv
In a floppy manner.
floridly
floridly
adv
In a florid manner
flossily
flossily
adv
In a flossy manner.
fluffily
fluffily
adv
In a fluffy way.
fluidify
fluidify
verb
(intransitive) to become fluid
(transitive) to make fluid
fluidity
fluidity
noun
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity.
(uncountable) The state of being fluid rather than viscous
The quality of being fluid or free-flowing
fluxibly
flyingly
flyingly
adv
So as to fly; with light rapid movement.
flytiers
flytings
flytings
noun
plural of flyting
flywinch
fogyisms
fogyisms
noun
plural of fogyism
folksily
folksily
adv
In a folksy manner.
follying
foraying
foraying
verb
present participle of foray
forcibly
forcibly
adv
In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will.
In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly.
fortifys
fortuity
fortuity
noun
(countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.
(uncountable) The state of being fortuitous.
fortyish
fortyish
adj
About forty years old.
Close to the number forty
num
Any number close to forty.
foryield
foryield
verb
(dialectal or obsolete) to pay back; recompense.
(obsolete) to yield up; pay; reward; requite.
fosslify
foyaitic
foyaitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral foyaite.
frankify
frayings
frayings
noun
plural of fraying
freakily
freakily
adv
In a freaky manner.
frenzily
frenzily
adv
frenziedly; madly
friendly
friendly
adj
(in compounds) Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
(number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
(usually military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.
Without any hostility.
adv
(archaic) In a friendly manner, like a friend.
noun
(sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.
A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.
frigidly
frigidly
adv
In a frigid manner; coldly; icily.
frillery
frillery
noun
frilly ornamentation
frillily
frillily
adv
In a frilly manner.
frippery
frippery
noun
(obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.