To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
To neutralize alkalis.
aciform
aciform
adj
Shaped like a needle.
afacing
affaire
affaire
noun
Obsolete spelling of affair
affairs
affairs
noun
plural of affair
affaite
affiant
affiant
noun
(law) The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.
affiche
affiche
noun
A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
verb
To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
affinal
affinal
adj
(anthropology) Of a family relationship by marriage of a relative (or through affinity), as opposed to consanguinity; in-law.
affined
affined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affine
affines
affines
noun
plural of affine
affirms
affirms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affirm
affixal
affixal
adj
As or like an affix.
affixed
affixed
adj
(linguistics) With an affix.
Enduringly stuck to, or attached to, something.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affix
affixer
affixer
noun
A person or thing that affixes.
affixes
affixes
noun
plural of affix
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affix
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
affrica
affying
affying
verb
present participle of affy
afghani
afghani
noun
The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
aflight
aflight
adj
(obsolete) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
Covered or filled (with something flying).
Fleeing.
Flying.
afrasia
africah
african
afright
afright
adj
Alternative form of affright
afrikah
afzelia
airfare
airfare
noun
The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.
airflow
airflow
noun
Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil.
airfoil
airfoil
noun
A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.
A wing of an aircraft.
airlift
airlift
noun
(archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Such a flight.
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
verb
(transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
alewife
alewife
noun
(archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
Any of several species similar in appearance.
alfadir
alfakis
alfakis
noun
plural of alfaki
alfaqui
alfaqui
noun
(historical) An Islamic cleric, an expert in Islamic law and jurisprudence, especially in medieval and early modern Spain.
alfheim
alfieri
alfiona
alfione
alfione
noun
(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
algific
algific
adj
Producing cold; covered in ice.
aliform
aliform
adj
(of a building) Having wings
Shaped like a wing
aliofar
amplify
amplify
verb
(transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
(translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
anatifa
anglify
anglify
Verb
To convert into English; to anglicise.
antefix
antefix
noun
(architecture) Any decoration serving to cover the ends of roofing tiles.
(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.
antifat
antifat
adj
(dated) Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect; antiobesity.
Opposed to obese people; fattist.
apritif
aquifer
aquifer
noun
An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
artifex
ashrafi
ashrafi
noun
(historical) A coin of usually gold issued by Muslim dynasties in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, worth in India two mohurs.
auliffe
aurifex
aurific
aurific
adj
That produces gold
axifera
axiform
azafrin
azafrin
noun
An orange pigment found in azafranillo root (Escobedia scabrifolia).
azofier
bacliff
baffies
baffies
noun
plural of baffie
plural of baffy
baffing
baffing
verb
present participle of baff
bailiff
bailiff
noun
(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
(UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
(historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
(historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.
(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
barefit
barfing
barfing
verb
present participle of barf
barfish
barfish
noun
A black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus
A white bass, Morone chrysops
A yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis
batfish
batfish
noun
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
beatify
beatify
verb
(transitive) To make blissful.
(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
bedrift
bedrift
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
beefier
beefier
adj
comparative form of beefy: more beefy
beefily
beefily
adv
In a beefy manner.
beefing
beefing
noun
Alternative form of biffin (“type of apple”)
verb
present participle of beef
beefish
beefish
adj
resembling beef
befilch
befilth
befilth
verb
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
befrill
befrill
verb
(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a frill.
belfair
beliefs
beliefs
noun
plural of belief
benefic
benefic
adj
Favorable; beneficent.
noun
(astrology) a favorable planet
benefit
benefit
noun
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
An advantage; help or aid from something.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
benioff
biafran
biafran
Adjective
Of, from or relating to Biafra.
Extremely skinny.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Biafra.
bifaces
bifaces
noun
plural of biface
biffies
biffies
noun
plural of biffy
biffing
biffing
noun
(informal) A hitting or punching.
verb
present participle of biff
biffins
biffins
noun
plural of biffin
bifidly
bifidly
adv
In a bifid manner.
bifilar
bifilar
adj
Having two wires, threads or filaments
bifocal
bifocal
adj
(of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision
(optics) Having two focal lengths
bifolia
bifolia
noun
plural of bifolium
biforin
bifront
bifront
adj
Having two fronts, faces or aspects.
bifrost
bifrost
Proper noun
The rainbow bridge that connects Asgard with Midgard.
bifteck
bigfeet
bigfeet
noun
(plural only) snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bigfoot
bigfoot
verb
(intransitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To behave in an authoritative, commanding manner.
(transitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To control or manage forcefully; to exercise authority over.
bigford
binford
binford
Proper noun
A city/town in North Dakota.
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
bodfish
boffins
boffins
noun
plural of boffin
boiloff
boiloff
noun
The vaporization of a liquid (or solid) whose boiling point is lower than that of the environment in which it is stored.
bonfire
bonfire
noun
(figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
(obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
verb
(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
(intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
(obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
bonifay
boozify
bowfins
bowfins
noun
plural of bowfin
boxfish
boxfish
noun
Any of the family Ostraciidae of often colorful, squared, bony fishes.
Certain species in Ostraciidae, principally in genus Ostracion.
braniff
briefed
briefed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brief
briefer
briefer
adj
comparative form of brief: more brief
noun
One who provides a briefing.
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
brimful
brimful
adj
Filled to maximum capacity.
noun
(figurative) A large amount.
The maximum amount a container can hold.
brutify
brutify
verb
(transitive) To make like a brute; to make senseless or unfeeling; to brutalize.
bufagin
bufagin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
buffier
buffier
adj
comparative form of buffy: more buffy
buffing
buffing
noun
Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
verb
present participle of buff
bufidin
bufonid
bufonid
noun
(zoology) Any toad in the family Bufonidae.
bugfish
bugfish
noun
(US, dated) The menhaden.
burfish
burfish
noun
A spinose plectognath fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States (especially Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur.
byfield
caffeic
caffeic
adj
of, or pertaining to coffee or caffeic acid
caffein
caffein
noun
Alternative spelling of caffeine
caffiso
caffiso
noun
Alternative form of cafiso, particularly in Italian contexts.
cafiero
caitiff
caitiff
adj
Especially despicable; cowardly
noun
(archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch
(obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave
A base or despicable person; a wretch
calcify
calcify
verb
(intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.
(transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
calfish
calfish
adj
(dated) Silly and awkward through immaturity.
califon
candify
candify
verb
(transitive, archaic) To candy.
(transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.
cardiff
cardiff
Proper noun
The capital city of Wales
carifta
carnify
carnify
verb
(intransitive) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
catfish
catfish
noun
(Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
(Internet) Such a fake profile.
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
verb
(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
To fish for catfish.
cerfoil
certify
certify
verb
(archaic, reflexive) To assure (oneself) of something; to ascertain.
(transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
(transitive) To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
(transitive, archaic) To inform; to tell (a person) that something is true.
(transitive, law) To authenticate or verify in writing.
chaffin
chafing
chafing
noun
The act by which something is chafed.
verb
present participle of chafe
chiefer
chiefer
adj
(rare) comparative form of chief: more chief
chiefly
chiefly
adj
of or relating to a chief
adv
(focus) Especially or primarily; above all.
(focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
chiefry
chiefry
noun
A chief's territory.
A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord.
chiefty
chiffer
chiffon
chiffon
noun
A lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.
Any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.
chiffre
chiffre
noun
(music) A figure or motif (short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated).
chifley
chinafy
chincof
chkfile
chylify
chylify
verb
(biochemistry, intransitive) To be converted into chyle.
(biochemistry, transitive) To make chyle of.
chymify
chymify
verb
(physiology) To form into chyme.
cityful
cityful
noun
Enough to fill a city.
claflin
clarify
clarify
verb
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
(obsolete) To glorify.
(of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter.
To make clear or easily understood; to explain in order to remove doubt or obscurity.