(obsolete) To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
affirmed
affirmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of affirm
affirmer
affirmer
noun
One who affirms.
affirmly
afikomen
afikomen
noun
(Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.
aimfully
aimfully
adv
In an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.
airframe
airframe
noun
The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).
alsifilm
amafingo
amalfian
ammonify
ammonify
verb
(transitive) To treat with ammonia; to ammoniate.
antifame
antifame
adj
Opposing fame.
antifoam
antifoam
noun
Any chemical agent that inhibits the formation of foam.
aquiform
aquiform
adj
Resembling water; watery, liquid
arciform
arciform
adj
Having the form of a bow (weapon)
auriform
auriform
adj
Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.
befamine
befilmed
befilmed
adj
(poetic, archaic, rare) Covered with a film.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of befilm
bifolium
bifolium
noun
(geometry) A quartic plane curve whose equation in Cartesian coordinates is (x²+y²)²=ax²ʸ.
biformed
biformed
adj
Having two forms.
birdfarm
boniform
boniform
adj
Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
boviform
boviform
adj
Shaped like an ox.
brimfull
brimfull
adj
Obsolete spelling of brimful
caffeism
caffeism
noun
Alternative form of caffeinism
campfire
campfire
noun
A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
cariform
chiefdom
chiefdom
noun
(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe, but smaller or simpler than a state.
An area or region governed by a chief.
ciliform
ciliform
adj
Having the form of cilia
cinefilm
cinefilm
noun
(countable) A film recorded on this medium.
(countable, uncountable) Any of various obsolete film formats, including 8 mm, 9.5 mm, 16 mm, and Super 8, formerly much used for making home movies to be viewed on a projector.
verb
(transitive) To record onto cinefilm.
coliform
coliform
adj
Of or pertaining to the bacteria that inhabit the intestines (especially the colon) of mammals
noun
Such a bacterium
combfish
combfish
noun
An Australasian wrasse, Coris picta, having a comb-like stripe
comfiest
comfiest
adj
superlative form of comfy: most comfy
confirms
confirms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confirm
coniform
coniform
adj
Having the form of a cone
crimeful
crimeful
adj
criminal; wicked; illegal
cubiform
cubiform
adj
Having the shape of a cube
cuffyism
cuniform
cuniform
noun
Alternative spelling of cuneiform
decemfid
decemfid
adj
(botany) cleft into ten parts
defaming
defaming
noun
defamation
verb
present participle of defame
demiwolf
demiwolf
noun
(archaic) A mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
difforme
diformin
disframe
driftman
drumfire
drumfire
noun
Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire.
drumfish
drumfish
noun
Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder.
dumbfish
dumfries
dumfries
Proper noun
A town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and the former county town of
A town in Virginia.
dumpfile
dwarfism
dwarfism
noun
The condition of being a dwarf (person of short stature).
The quality of being puny or inferior.
emulsify
emulsify
verb
(transitive) To make into an emulsion.
enfamish
enfamish
verb
To famish; to starve.
ensiform
ensiform
adj
shaped like a sword blade
equiform
equiform
adj
Having the same form; uniform, equiformal
fabiform
fabiform
adj
Shaped like a bean
faddisms
faddisms
noun
plural of faddism
fairmont
fairmont
Proper noun
A city in Minnesota, USA.
A city in West Virginia, USA
fairsome
fairsome
adj
Characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive
fairtime
fairtime
noun
The period of time during which a fair takes place.
fairydom
fairydom
noun
The realm or sphere of fairies.
fairyism
fairyism
noun
A fairylike quality, for example in literature.
Belief in fairies as supernatural beings.
fakirism
fakirism
noun
The practices of fakirs.
falltime
falltime
noun
The period or season of fall or autumn.
famacide
famacide
noun
A slanderer or person who destroys another's reputation
familial
familial
adj
(pathology) Inherited.
(taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
Of or pertaining to a human family.
Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
familiar
familiar
adj
Acquainted.
Intimate or friendly.
Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
noun
(historical) The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.
(obsolete) A close friend.
(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
(witchcraft) An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
families
families
noun
plural of family
familism
familism
noun
(religion, now historical) The beliefs or practice of the Family of Love religious sect, active in sixteenth century England.
A form of social structure in which the needs of the family as a group are more important than the needs of any individual family member.
familist
familist
noun
(religion, historical) A member of the Family of Love religious group in 16th-century England.
famished
famished
adj
Extremely hungry.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of famish
famishes
famishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of famish
fanatism
fanatism
noun
(archaic) excessive intolerance of opposing views
faradism
faradism
noun
(medicine, dated) Treatment with faradic electricity; faradization.
farmings
farmings
noun
plural of farming
farmwife
farmwife
noun
A farmer's wife.
The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.
fascisms
fascisms
noun
plural of fascism
fatalism
fatalism
noun
(metaphysics, philosophy) The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them.
fatimite
fatimite
Noun
Fatimid.
fauvisms
faviform
faviform
adj
Shaped like a honeycomb.
feliform
feliform
adj
Resembling a cat; applied to member of the Feliformia, a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of cat-like carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets, etc.
noun
Any carnivore of the suborder Feliformia, which are regarded as cat-like.
femalist
femalist
noun
(rare) Someone who courts or pursues the female sex; a womanizer.
femality
femality
noun
femaleness
femalize
femalize
verb
To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.
femereil
femicide
femicide
noun
The killing of a woman because of their gender, especially when motivated by misogyny.
feminacy
feminacy
noun
(archaic) effeminacy
feminate
feminate
adj
(obsolete) feminine
feminine
feminine
adj
(grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
(of a noun) Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
(of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
noun
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
(grammar) The feminine gender.
(rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.
That which is feminine.
feminise
feminise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of feminize.
feminism
feminism
noun
(obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity.
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
feminist
feminist
adj
Hypernym: egalitarian
relating to or in accordance with feminism.
noun
a member of a feminist political movement
an advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life
feminity
feminity
noun
(archaic) Synonym of femininity
feminize
feminize
verb
(intransitive) To become (more) feminine.
(transitive) To make (more) feminine.
fermions
fermions
noun
plural of fermion
fermiums
fersmite
fersmite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, cerium, fluorine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, sodium, tantalum, thorium, titanium, and yttrium.
fetalism
fibromas
ficiform
ficiform
adj
fig-shaped
fideisms
fideisms
noun
plural of fideism
fidelism
fiefdoms
fiefdoms
noun
plural of fiefdom
fieldman
fieldman
noun
(cricket) A fielder.
(now rare) An agricultural labourer.
An employee who works in the field rather than at at office; a field agent.
fieldmen
fieldmen
noun
plural of fieldman
fiendism
fiendism
noun
Fiendish behaviour.
figments
figments
noun
plural of figment
figurism
figurism
noun
(Christianity, historical) An intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.
filament
filament
noun
(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
(physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
filemark
filemark
noun
(computing) A special value used on computer tape to separate individual files.
filename
filename
noun
(computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.
filiform
filiform
adj
Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
fillemot
fillmass
fillmore
filmable
filmable
adj
Capable of being filmed; suitable for filming.
filmcard
filmcard
noun
A card containing microfilm data, used in a microfiche system.
filmdoms
filmgoer
filmgoer
noun
(chiefly Britain) Person who regularly frequents movie theaters.
filmiest
filmiest
adj
superlative form of filmy: most filmy
filmized
filmized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of filmize
filmland
filmland
noun
The fictitious world where films are set.
The industry of films and filmmaking.
filmlike
filmlike
adj
(figuratively, by extension) Unrealistically romantic, exciting, scenic, etc.
(of a digital photograph or video) Having qualities similar to those of images captured on photographic film.
Resembling a film.
filmmake
filmogen
filmsets
filmsets
noun
plural of filmset
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filmset
filomena
fimbriae
fimbriae
noun
plural of fimbria
fimbrial
fimbrial
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fimbriae
finalism
finalism
noun
teleology
finecomb
finement
finicism
finitism
finitism
noun
(mathematics) An extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical object does not exist unless it can be constructed from natural numbers in a finite number of steps.
finmarks
finnmark
finnmark
Proper noun
A county in Norway.
firearms
firearms
noun
plural of firearm
firebomb
firebomb
noun
A weapon that causes fire; an incendiary weapon.
verb
(transitive) To attack with a firebomb.
firedamp
firedamp
noun
(mining) An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.
fireroom
fireroom
noun
(nautical) stokehold
fireworm
fireworm
noun
The bearded fireworm, Chloeia flava, a species of polychaete, in family Amphinomidae, which may cause pain if touched.
The larva of a small tortricid moth that feeds on cranberry leaves, giving the plant a burnt look; the cranberry worm.
The larva of any of several tortricid moths (family Tortricidae).
firmance
firmarii
firmicus
firmland
firmless
firmless
adj
(obsolete) Detached from physical substance.
(obsolete) Infirm; unstable.
firmness
firmness
noun
physical durability; rigidness (of material)
security; steadfastness; good grip
strictness; mental strength
firmware
firmware
noun
(computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
Software intended for such embedded computer applications.
fishmeal
fishmeal
noun
Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
fishworm
fishworm
noun
A worm used as bait in angling.
fistmele
fistmele
noun
(archery) A traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6½ inches or 16½ centimetres).