(US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
verb
(intransitive) To struggle in vain.
(now rare) To foil; to thwart.
(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
barfed
barfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barf
bedaff
bedaff
verb
(transitive) To befool; make a fool of.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To confound or stupefy.
(transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
(transitive) To happen to.
befame
befell
befell
verb
simple past tense of befall
befile
befile
verb
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
befind
befind
verb
(passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
(transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
(transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
befire
befist
befits
befits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befit
beflag
beflag
verb
(transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
beflap
beflea
beflea
verb
(transitive) To pester, as fleas do.
beflum
befoam
befoam
verb
(transitive) To spatter or cover with foam.
befogs
befogs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befog
befool
befool
verb
(transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).
before
before
adv
At an earlier time.
At the front end.
In advance.
conj
(informal) Rather or sooner than.
In advance of the time when.
prep
At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
Earlier than (in time).
In front of in space.
In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In store for, in the future of (someone).
In the presence of.
Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
befoul
befoul
verb
(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
befret
befriz
befume
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
begulf
behalf
behalf
noun
(when adopted by someone else) One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.
The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.
behoof
behoof
noun
(dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
beleaf
beleft
beleft
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beleave
belfry
belfry
noun
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
(architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
(dialectal) A shed.
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
belief
belief
noun
(countable) Something believed.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
bepuff
bepuff
verb
(archaic) To puff out.
(archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.
bereft
bereft
adj
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bereave
biface
biface
noun
(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
biffed
biffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of biff
biflex
bouffe
bouffe
noun
(music) A comic opera
verb
(transitive) To make bouffant.
briefs
briefs
noun
(usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
plural of brief
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brief
buffed
buffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buff
buffer
buffer
adj
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
noun
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
verb
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
buffet
buffet
noun
(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
A small low stool; a hassock.
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
verb
(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
(transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
buffle
buffle
noun
(obsolete) A buffalo.
verb
(intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
bumfeg
fabens
faberg
fabien
fabled
fabled
adj
Known only in fables; fictitious.
Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fable
fabler
fabler
noun
A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
fables
fables
noun
plural of fable
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fable
famble
famble
noun
(obsolete, slang) A hand.
farber
febres
febris
feeble
feeble
adj
Deficient in physical strength.
Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
verb
(obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
feebly
feebly
adv
In a feeble manner.
ferbam
ferbam
Noun
A particular fungicide.
ferber
fibbed
fibbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fib
fibber
fibber
noun
(informal) A liar.
fibers
fibers
noun
plural of fiber
fibred
fibred
adj
(especially in combination) Having (a specified form of) fibres.
fibres
fibres
noun
plural of fibre
fimble
fimble
noun
The male hemp plant.
verb
(intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.
flabel
flabel
noun
(obsolete) A fan.
flambe
flambe
adj
Alternative spelling of flambé
fobbed
fobbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fob
foible
foible
adj
(obsolete) Weak; feeble.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
(fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
A weakness or failing of character.
forbes
forbes
Proper noun
A ghost town in California
A town in New South Wales, Australia.
A city in North Dakota, USA
forbye
forbye
adv
Alternative form of forby
foreby
freeby
fubbed
fubbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fub
fumble
fumble
noun
(Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
(sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
verb
(intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
(slang, obsolete) Of a man, to sexually underperform.
(transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
(transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
(transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
funbre
labefy
labefy
verb
(obsolete, rare) To weaken.
leboff
prefab
prefab
adj
prefabricated
noun
(Britain) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
(programming) A reusable object in a video game world.
A prefabricated building.
A prefabricated section of a building.
verb
To prefabricate.
rebuff
rebuff
noun
A sudden resistance or refusal.
He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
verb
(transitive) To buff again.
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
rubefy
rubefy
verb
to make red
subfeu
subfeu
noun
(Scotland law, historical) A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.
verb
(transitive and intransitive, Scotland law, historical) To subinfeud: to grant land via a subfeu.