The act of affixing; affixation, affixment, attachment.
affronts
affronts
noun
plural of affront
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affront
affronty
affronty
Adjective
Facing the observer.
affusion
affusion
noun
A method of Christian baptism in which water is poured on the head of the person being baptized.
The pouring of liquid, especially as a hydrotherapy.
afikomen
afikomen
noun
(Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.
aftonian
aftonian
Adjective
During the first interglacial period in North America, between the Kansan and Nebraskan glacial periods.
alfonsin
alfonson
amafingo
ammonify
ammonify
verb
(transitive) To treat with ammonia; to ammoniate.
annoyful
annoyful
adj
(obsolete) annoying
antifoam
antifoam
noun
Any chemical agent that inhibits the formation of foam.
antifowl
antifowl
adj
(immunology) Synonym of antichicken
antproof
antproof
adj
Resistant to ants.
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to ants.
apronful
apronful
noun
as much as an apron will hold
bancroft
bancroft
Proper noun
A city in Idaho
A city in Iowa
A city in Kentucky
A town in Maine
A village in Michigan
A village in Nebraska
A town in Ontario, Canada
A town in South Dakota
A town in West Virginia
A in Wisconsin
biforine
biforine
noun
(botany) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain araceous plants, with an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.
blanford
bloodfin
bloodfin
noun
Aphyocharax anisitsi, a South American characin with blood-red tail and fins.
bluffton
bonchief
bondfolk
bonefish
bonefish
noun
(New England) A doctorfish, common dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
A surgeonfish of the family Acanthuridae, especially genus Acanthurus.
Albula vulpes, the type of the genus and family.
Any of various game fish, of the family Albulidae, found in shallow, tropical waters.
bonfield
bonfires
bonfires
noun
plural of bonfire
boniface
boniface
noun
The proprietor of a hotel or restaurant; an innkeeper.
boniform
boniform
adj
Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
bonyfish
bouffant
bouffant
adj
Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body.
noun
A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
bowfront
bowfront
adj
Having a bow window in front.
Having an outward curving front.
branford
bronzify
bronzify
verb
(transitive) To turn into bronze.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become bronze in colour, as by tanning.
buffoons
buffoons
noun
plural of buffoon
bufonite
bufonite
noun
(paleontology, obsolete) A fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts, whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations.
caffeone
chaffron
chalfont
chamfron
chamfron
noun
Protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears.
chanfron
chanfron
noun
Alternative form of chamfron (protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears).
chiffons
chiffons
noun
plural of chiffon
chiffony
chiffony
adj
Resembling or characteristic of chiffon material.
cinofoil
clontarf
coffined
coffined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coffin
coffling
coffling
verb
present participle of coffle
cofounds
cofounds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cofound
coiffing
coiffing
verb
present participle of coiffe, an alternative spelling of coif
coinfers
cokneyfy
confated
confated
adj
Fated or decreed with something else.
confects
confects
noun
plural of confect
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confect
confeder
confeder
verb
(obsolete) To confederate.
conferee
conferee
noun
A person on whom something is conferred or bestowed.
A person who participates in a conference.
conferva
conferva
noun
An unbranched slender green freshwater alga.
confetti
confetti
noun
(rare) Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
verb
(transitive) To scatter with confetti.
confetto
confetto
noun
(rare) A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.
confided
confided
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confide
confider
confider
noun
One who confides.
confides
confides
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confide
confined
confined
adj
In childbed.
Limited; narrow; restricted.
Not free to move.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confine
confiner
confiner
noun
A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour.
A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant.
A prisoner incarcerated for a set term.
One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
confines
confines
noun
Elements that restrain someone.
The borders or limits of an area.
The scope or range of a subject.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confine
confirms
confirms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confirm
confixed
confixed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confix
conflate
conflate
adj
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
noun
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
verb
(by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
conflict
conflict
noun
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
verb
(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
confocal
confocal
adj
(optics, mathematics) Having the same foci
noun
Any of a pair of confocal mirrors or lenses
conforms
conforms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conform
confound
confound
noun
(statistics) A confounding variable.
verb
(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
(dated) To damn (a mild oath).
(sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
To perplex or puzzle.
To stun or amaze.
confract
confrere
confrere
noun
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
A fellow member of a religious organization, referring especially to Catholic religious orders of men.
confriar
confront
confront
verb
(intransitive) To engage in confrontation.
(transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.
(transitive) To come up against; to encounter.
(transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
(transitive) To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
(transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
confused
confused
adj
(of a person or animal) disoriented
(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
embarrassed
making no sense; illogical
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confuse
confuser
confuser
noun
One who or that which confuses.
confuses
confuses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuse
confuted
confuted
adj
Disproved; refuted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confute
confuter
confuter
noun
A person who confutes
confutes
confutes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confute
conifers
conifers
noun
plural of conifer
coniform
coniform
adj
Having the form of a cone
cornflag
cornflag
noun
Alternative form of corn-flag
cornific
cornific
adj
Producing horns; forming horn.
cornloft
cornloft
noun
A loft for corn; a granary.
cranford
crofting
crofting
noun
A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.
The process of exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
verb
present participle of croft
cuniform
cuniform
noun
Alternative spelling of cuneiform
danforth
danuloff
defensor
defensor
noun
(ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church
(law) a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
one who defends; a defender
defusion
defusion
noun
(proscribed) The act of defusing.
(psychology) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Misspelling of diffusion.
diformin
diolefin
diolefin
noun
(organic chemistry) An olefin that has two double bonds; a diene
dornsife
downface
downface
adj
Having or on a downward oriented face.
adv
Further down the face
noun
(dogs) A profile characterized by a downward sloping muzzle.
The face that is oriented downward.
verb
(transitive) To disparage; to cause to lose face.
(transitive, archaic, rare) to persist in an assertion in the face of opposition.
downfall
downfall
noun
A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
An act of falling down.
The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
verb
(intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
downfeed
downflow
downflow
noun
A downward flow.
downfold
downfold
noun
(geology) A syncline.
drofland
dumfound
dumfound
verb
Alternative form of dumbfound
effusion
effusion
noun
(chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
(figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
(medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
A liquid outpouring.
eftsoons
eftsoons
adv
(now archaic) Soon after, presently.
(obsolete) Once again; another time.
encoffin
encoffin
verb
(transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
enfamous
enfatico
enfeoffs
enfeoffs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfeoff
enflower
enflower
verb
(transitive, poetic) To cover or deck with flowers.
enfolded
enfolded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of enfold
enfolden
enfolden
verb
(obsolete) past participle of enfold
enfolder
enfolder
noun
One who, or that which, enfolds.
enfollow
enfonced
enfoncee
enforced
enforced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of enforce
enforcer
enforcer
noun
(ice hockey, rugby, Australian rules football) A player who physically intimidates or confronts the opposition.
A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld.
One who enforces.
The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
enforces
enforces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enforce
enforest
enforest
verb
(transitive) To turn into a forest.
enfurrow
ensiform
ensiform
adj
shaped like a sword blade
fabriano
fabronia
facedown
facedown
adv
Alternative form of face-down
noun
Alternative form of face-down (“a confrontation”)
factions
factions
noun
plural of faction
fagoting
fagoting
noun
A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches.
The joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads.
verb
present participle of fagot
fairborn
fairmont
fairmont
Proper noun
A city in Minnesota, USA.
A city in West Virginia, USA
falchion
falchion
noun
(also attributively) A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.
(obsolete) A billhook.
verb
(obsolete, rare, transitive) Attack with a falchion.
falconer
falconer
noun
A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
falcones
falconet
falconet
noun
(military, historical) A light cannon developed in the late 15th century and decorated with an image of a falcon.
A small or young falcon.
Any of various small, tropical Asian falcons of the genus Microhierax found in Southeast Asia.
falconry
falconry
noun
The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
fallston
famechon
fanagalo
fanagalo
Proper noun
A pidgin language based primarily on Zulu, spoken in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
fanakalo
fanaloka
fanaloka
noun
A Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana).
fanatico
fandango
fandango
noun
(color) A shade of red-violet.
(figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
(music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
A confusion; a chaotic collection.
A gathering for dancing; a ball.
An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
verb
(dance) To dance the fandango.
(figuratively) To dance, particularly with a lot of energy.
fanfaron
fanfaron
noun
(obsolete) A boaster; a braggart.
fanfolds
fanfolds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fanfold
fanhouse
fanioned
fanworts
fanworts
noun
plural of fanwort
farallon
fargoing
fargoing
adj
Having significant implications or repercussions.
farinose
farinose
adj
(botany, zoology) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, like the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy
Yielding or related to farina
farmtown
farmtown
noun
A farmhouse, farmyard and associated buildings
farnesol
farnesol
noun
(organic chemistry) A sesquiterpene alcohol that is present in many essential oils and is involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol
farrison
fashions
fashions
noun
plural of fashion
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fashion
faulkton
faulkton
Proper noun
a small city in South Dakota, USA
favonian
favonian
adj
(by extension) Mild, gentle.
Pertaining to the west wind.
favonius
favonius
Proper noun
The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.