A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
fluxer
forfex
forfex
noun
(obsolete) A pair of shears.
fornax
fornix
fornix
noun
(neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
foxery
foxery
noun
cunning behavior; trickery; deceit
foxier
foxier
adj
comparative form of foxy: more foxy
fraxin
fraxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It is faintly fluorescent in alkaline solutions.
frutex
frutex
noun
(botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
oxford
oxford
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (cloth)
Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (shoe)
perfix
perfix
verb
(obsolete) To fix surely; to appoint.
prefix
prefix
noun
(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
(telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)
A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.
verb
(transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
(transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
redfox
reflex
reflex
adj
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
(painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Bent, turned back or reflected.
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
noun
(chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
(linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
verb
(transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
To respond to a stimulus.
reflux
reflux
noun
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
verb
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser