12 Letter Countdown Words Starting With F

FAD (7) [noun] A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time. FAG (7) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. | [noun] A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. | [noun] (usually offensive, sometimes affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one. FAN (6) [noun] A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. | [noun] An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. | [noun] The action of fanning; agitation of the air. | [noun] A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport. FAR (6) [adjective] Distant; remote in space. | [adjective] Remote in time. | [adjective] Long. | [noun] Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it. | [noun] A litter of piglets; a farrow. FAS (6) [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale. FAT (6) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. | [noun] A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. FAX (13) [noun] The hair of the head. | [noun] A fax machine or a document received and printed by one. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAY (9) [verb] To fit. | [verb] To join or unite closely or tightly. | [verb] To lie close together. | [verb] To cleanse; clean out. | [noun] A fairy. | [noun] A white person. FED (7) [noun] A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete. | [verb] (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. FEE (6) [noun] (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. | [noun] An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. | [noun] An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail). FEH (9) [interjection] An expression of disgust or contempt. FEM (8) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [adjective] Feminine, effeminate. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. FEN (6) [noun] A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. | [noun] Unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan | [noun] Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc. | [noun] A kind of mildew that grows on hops. FER (6) FET (6) [verb] To fetch | [noun] A piece | [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. FEU (6) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FEW (9) [pronoun] Few people, few things. FEY (9) [adjective] About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death. | [adjective] Dying; dead. | [adjective] Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience. | [noun] Fairy folk collectively. FEZ (15) [noun] A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached. FIB (8) [noun] A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. | [noun] A liar. | [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [noun] The fibula. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. | [noun] A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. FID (7) [noun] A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike. | [noun] A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship). | [noun] A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun. FIE (6) [interjection] Often followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage. FIG (7) [noun] A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. | [noun] The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. | [noun] A small piece of tobacco. | [verb] To move suddenly or quickly; rove about. | [noun] A person's figure; dress or appearance. | [verb] To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of: to perform figging upon. FIL (6) [noun] A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture. FIN (6) [noun] One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver. | [noun] A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal. | [noun] A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft. | [noun] (formerly Australia) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds. FIR (6) [noun] A conifer of the genus Abies. | [noun] Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). | [noun] Wood of such trees. FIT (6) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. | [noun] A section of a poem or ballad. | [noun] A seizure or convulsion. FIX (13) [noun] A repair or corrective action. | [noun] A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. | [noun] A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. FIZ (15) FLU (6) [noun] Influenza. | [noun] Stomach flu. FLY (9) [noun] Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies. | [noun] (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). | [noun] Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly. | [noun] The action of flying; flight. | [adjective] Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp. | [noun] (rural) A wing. FOB (8) [noun] A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket. | [noun] A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch. | [noun] A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below) | [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. FOE (6) [noun] An enemy. | [adjective] Hostile. | [noun] A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules. FOG (7) [noun] A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. | [noun] A mist or film clouding a surface. | [noun] A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. | [noun] A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed. FOH (9) FON (6) [noun] A fool or idiot. | [noun] A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon. FOP (8) [noun] A vain man; a dandy. FOR (6) FOU (6) [adjective] Drunk. FOX (13) [noun] A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail. | [noun] Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox). | [noun] The fur of a fox. FOY (9) FRO (6) [adverb] From; away; back or backward. | [noun] A hairstyle characterized by a tightly curled locks and a rounded shape. FRY (9) [noun] (usually in the plural, fries) A fried strip of potato. | [noun] A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. | [noun] A state of excitement. | [noun] Offspring; progeny; children; brood. | [noun] A kind of sieve. FUB (8) FUD (7) FUG (7) [noun] A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area. | [noun] A state of lethargy and confusion; daze. | [noun] A state of chaos or confusion. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. FUN (6) [noun] Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure | [noun] Playful, often noisy, activity. | [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FUR (6) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. | [preposition] Towards; in the direction of.

FACE (9) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. FACT (9) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FADE (8) [noun] A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw. | [noun] A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade. | [noun] A fight. | [adjective] Strong; bold; doughty. FADO (8) [noun] A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance. FADS (8) [noun] A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time. FAGS (8) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. FAIL (7) [noun] Poor quality; substandard workmanship. | [noun] A failure (condition of being unsuccessful) | [noun] A failure (something incapable of success) | [noun] A piece of turf cut from grassland. FAIN (7) [adjective] Well-pleased, glad. | [adjective] Satisfied, contented. | [adjective] Eager, willing or inclined to. | [adverb] With joy; gladly. | [verb] To be delighted or glad; to rejoice. FAIR (7) [noun] Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective). | [noun] A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women. | [noun] Fairness, beauty. | [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. FAKE (11) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. | [noun] One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. FALL (7) [noun] The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | [noun] A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | [noun] The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. | [noun] The chasing of a hunted whale. FALX (14) FAME (9) [noun] What is said or reported; gossip, rumour. | [noun] One's reputation. | [noun] The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of. FANE (7) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FANG (8) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. | [noun] A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. FANO (7) FANS (7) [noun] A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. | [noun] An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. | [noun] The action of fanning; agitation of the air. FARD (8) [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. | [verb] To embellish or gloss over. | [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfil; a religious duty or obligation. FARE (7) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. | [verb] To go, travel. FARL (7) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. | [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FARM (9) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures | [verb] To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out FARO (7) [noun] A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack. FART (7) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FASH (10) [noun] A worry; trouble; bother. | [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. | [noun] A fascist, a member of the far-right. FAST (7) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. FATE (7) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATS (7) [noun] A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. | [noun] A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. | [noun] That part of an organization deemed wasteful. FAUN (7) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUX (14) [adjective] Fake or artificial FAVA (10) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVE (10) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [adjective] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK). FAWN (10) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. | [noun] A servile cringe or bow. FAYS (10) [noun] A fairy. | [noun] A white person. FAZE (16) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEAL (7) FEAR (7) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. | [adjective] Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. FEAT (7) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [adjective] Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. | [verb] To feature. I FECK (13) [noun] Effect, value; vigor. | [noun] The greater or larger part. | [verb] To throw. | [verb] Fuck. FEDS (8) [noun] A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete. FEED (8) [noun] Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. | [noun] Something supplied continuously. | [noun] The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. | [verb] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. FEEL (7) [noun] A quality of an object experienced by touch. | [noun] A vague mental impression. | [noun] An act of fondling. | [adjective] Much; many. FEES (7) [noun] (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. | [noun] An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. | [noun] An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail). FEET (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | [noun] Fact; performance; feat. FEHS (10) FELL (7) [noun] A cutting-down of timber. | [noun] The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. | [noun] The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. | [noun] An animal skin, hide, pelt. | [noun] (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. | [adjective] Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. | [noun] Anger; gall; melancholy. | [noun] The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting. | [verb] (heading) To be moved downwards. FELT (7) [noun] A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. | [noun] A hat made of felt. | [noun] A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. | [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. FEME (9) FEMS (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. FEND (8) [noun] Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being. | [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). | [noun] An enemy; fiend; the Devil. FENS (7) [noun] A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. | [noun] Unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan FEOD (8) FERE (7) FERN (7) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FESS (7) [verb] To confess; to admit. | [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. | [adjective] (British dialect) Proud; conceited. FETA (7) [noun] A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. FETE (7) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETS (7) [verb] To fetch FEUD (8) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. | [noun] An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service. FEUS (7) [noun] Land held in feudal tenure. | [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FIAR (7) FIAT (7) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FIBS (9) [noun] A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. | [noun] A liar. | [noun] The fibula. FICE (9) FICO (9) FIDO (8) [noun] A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors. FIDS (8) [noun] A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike. | [noun] A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship). | [noun] A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun. FIEF (10) [noun] An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior. | [noun] Something over which one has rights or exercises control. | [noun] An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy. FIFE (10) [noun] A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music | [verb] To play this instrument. | [numeral] Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion. FIGS (8) [noun] A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. | [noun] The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. | [noun] A small piece of tobacco. FILA (7) FILE (7) [noun] A collection of papers collated and archived together. | [noun] A roll or list. | [noun] Course of thought; thread of narration. | [noun] A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side by side. | [noun] A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal. | [verb] To defile FILL (7) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. | [noun] (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. | [noun] One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. FILM (9) [noun] A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | [noun] A medium used to capture images in a camera. | [noun] A movie. FILO (7) [noun] A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked. FILS (7) FIND (8) [noun] Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | [noun] The act of finding. | [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. FINE (7) [noun] Fine champagne; French brandy. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [noun] A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law. | [noun] The end of a musical composition. | [noun] End; conclusion; termination; extinction. FINK (11) [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] An informer. | [noun] A strikebreaker. | [verb] To ponder, to go over in one's head. | [noun] Any of several birds in the family Ploceidae native to southern Africa. FINO (7) [noun] The driest and palest type of traditional sherry. FINS (7) [noun] One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver. | [noun] A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal. | [noun] A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft. FIRE (7) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. | [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [adjective] Amazing; excellent. FIRM (9) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. | [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. FIRN (7) [noun] A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snow-cone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions. FIRS (7) [noun] A conifer of the genus Abies. | [noun] Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). | [noun] Wood of such trees. FISC (9) [noun] The public treasury of Rome. | [noun] Any state treasury or exchequer. FISH (10) [noun] A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. | [noun] Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | [noun] The flesh of the fish used as food. | [noun] A period of time spent fishing. | [verb] To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. | [noun] A counter, used in various games. FIST (7) [noun] A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. | [noun] The pointing hand symbol ☞. | [noun] The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. | [noun] The act of breaking wind; fise. FITS (7) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. FIVE (10) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. FIXT (14) FIZZ (25) [noun] An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles. | [noun] The sound of such an emission. | [noun] A carbonated beverage, especially champagne. FLAB (9) [noun] Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat. FLAG (8) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | [verb] To weaken, become feeble. | [noun] Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus. | [noun] A slice of turf; a sod. | [noun] A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. FLAK (11) [noun] Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. | [noun] Anti-aircraft shell fire. | [noun] Adverse criticism. FLAM (9) [noun] A freak or whim; an idle fancy. | [noun] A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext | [verb] To deceive with a falsehood. | [noun] (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note. FLAN (7) [noun] Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.) | [noun] (Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. | [noun] A coin die. (Compare planchet.) | [noun] A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly. FLAP (9) FLAT (7) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. | [noun] An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | [verb] To beat or strike; pound FLAW (10) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. | [noun] A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw. FLAX (14) [noun] A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds. | [noun] The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles. | [noun] The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps. FLAY (10) [noun] A fright; a scare. | [noun] Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual. | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To strip skin off FLEA (7) [noun] A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities. | [noun] A thing of no significance. | [verb] To remove fleas from (an animal). | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). FLED (8) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEE (7) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEW (10) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [adjective] Shallow; flat FLEX (14) [noun] Flexibility, pliancy. | [noun] The or an act of flexing. | [noun] Any flexible insulated electrical wiring. FLEY (10) FLIC (9) [noun] A data file containing computer animations. | [noun] A French policeman. FLIP (9) [noun] A maneuver which rotates an object end over end. | [noun] A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc. | [noun] A slingshot. | [interjection] Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error. | [adjective] Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose. | [noun] A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog). FLIT (7) [noun] A fluttering or darting movement. | [noun] A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. | [noun] A homosexual. FLOC (9) [noun] A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed. FLOE (7) [noun] A low, flat mass of floating ice. FLOG (8) [noun] A contemptible, often arrogant person. | [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [noun] A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service. FLOP (9) [noun] An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. | [noun] A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. | [noun] The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. | [noun] Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation. FLOW (10) [noun] A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts | [noun] The movement of a real or figurative fluid. | [noun] A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. | [noun] A morass or marsh. FLUB (9) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUE (7) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. | [adjective] Shallow; flat FLUS (7) FLUX (14) [noun] The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. | [noun] A state of ongoing change. | [noun] A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. FOAL (7) [noun] A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old. | [noun] A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. | [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. FOAM (9) [noun] A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains. | [noun] A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. | [noun] (by extension) Sea foam; the sea. FOBS (9) [noun] A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket. | [noun] A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch. | [noun] A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below) FOCI (9) [noun] A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. | [noun] A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. | [noun] The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. FOES (7) [noun] An enemy. | [noun] A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules. FOGS (8) [noun] A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. | [noun] A mist or film clouding a surface. | [noun] A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. FOGY (11) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. | [noun] Extra pay granted to officers for length of service. FOHN (10) [noun] A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | [noun] A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain. FOIL (7) [noun] A very thin sheet of metal. | [noun] Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food. | [noun] A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant. | [noun] Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. | [noun] The track of an animal. | [verb] To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials. | [verb] To defile; to soil. FOIN (7) FOLD (8) [noun] An act of folding. | [noun] A bend or crease. | [noun] Any correct move in origami. | [noun] A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. | [noun] The Earth; earth; land, country. FOLK (11) [noun] A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation. | [noun] The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants. | [noun] (plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. FOND (8) [verb] To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of. | [verb] To caress; to fondle. | [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [noun] The background design in lace-making. FONS (7) [noun] A fool or idiot. | [noun] A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon. FONT (7) [noun] A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. | [noun] A receptacle for oil in a lamp. | [noun] Spring, source, fountain. | [noun] A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters. | [noun] A source, wellspring, fount. FOOD (8) [noun] Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | [noun] A foodstuff. | [noun] Anything that nourishes or sustains. FOOL (7) [noun] A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. | [noun] A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). | [noun] Someone who derives pleasure from something specified. FOOT (7) [noun] A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | [noun] Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | [noun] (often used attributively) Travel by walking. FOPS (9) [noun] A vain man; a dandy. FORA (7) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FORB (9) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FORD (8) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORE (7) [noun] The front; the forward part of something; the foreground. | [adjective] Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. | [adjective] Forward; situated towards the front (of something). | [verb] To go, travel. FORK (11) [noun] A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. | [noun] A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil. | [noun] A gallows. | [noun] The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains. FORM (9) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORT (7) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FOSS (7) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. | [noun] Waterfall (permanent flow of water over the edge of a cliff). FOUL (7) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. | [noun] A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. FOUR (7) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FOWL (10) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. | [noun] Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. | [adjective] Foul FOXY (17) [adjective] Having the qualities of a fox. | [adjective] Cunning, sly. | [adjective] Attractive, sexy (of a woman). FOYS (10) FOZY (19) FRAE (7) FRAG (8) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAP (9) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRAT (7) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAY (10) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm | [noun] A fight or argument FREE (7) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FRET (7) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. | [noun] An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. | [noun] A ferrule, a ring. | [noun] A channel, a strait; a fretum. | [noun] A channel or passage created by the sea. | [noun] A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. FRIG (8) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. | [noun] An insulated bin, box or cabinet used to keep food or beverages cold. FRIT (7) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [adjective] Frightened. | [noun] A frit fly. FRIZ (16) FROE (7) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FROG (8) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. | [noun] A French person. | [noun] A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt. | [verb] To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake. FROM (9) [preposition] Used to indicate source or provenance. | [preposition] Originating at (a year, time, etc.) | [preposition] Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference. FROW (10) [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. | [noun] A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman. | [noun] A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character. | [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [adjective] Brittle; tender; crisp | [noun] A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower. FRUG (8) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. | [verb] To perform this dance. FUBS (9) FUCI (9) [noun] Any alga of the genus Fucus. FUCK (13) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUDS (8) FUEL (7) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUGS (8) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUGU (8) [noun] Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins. FUJI (14) [noun] A plain spun silk fabric. | [noun] A Nigerian musical genre. FULL (7) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. | [noun] Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FUME (9) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMY (12) FUND (8) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. FUNK (11) [noun] Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor. | [noun] A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the one, and much syncopation. | [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [noun] Spark. | [noun] Mental depression. FUNS (7) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FURL (7) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURS (7) [noun] The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick. | [noun] The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans. | [noun] A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel. FURY (10) [noun] Extreme anger. | [noun] Strength or violence in action. | [noun] An angry or malignant person. | [noun] A thief. FUSE (7) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. | [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. FUSS (7) [noun] Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something. | [noun] A complaint or noise; a scene. | [noun] An exhibition of affection or admiration. FUTZ (16) [noun] An objectionable woman | [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZE (16) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZZ (25) [noun] A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. | [noun] Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. | [noun] The random data used in fuzz testing. | [noun] (with "the") The police. FYCE (12) FYKE (14) [noun] A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.

FABLE (10) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FACED (11) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. | [adjective] Drunk FACER (10) [noun] An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat. | [noun] One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. | [noun] A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. FACES (10) [noun] The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area. | [noun] One's facial expression. | [noun] (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. FACET (10) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. FACIA (10) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FACTS (10) [noun] Something actual as opposed to invented. | [noun] Something which is real. | [noun] Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. FADDY (13) [adjective] Having characteristics of a fad. | [adjective] Fussy, having particular tastes or whims FADED (10) [verb] To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. | [verb] To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. | [verb] To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. FADER (9) [adjective] Weak; insipid; tasteless. | [adjective] Strong; bold; doughty. | [noun] A device used to control sound volume. FADES (9) [noun] A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw. | [noun] A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade. | [noun] A fight. FADGE (10) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. | [noun] Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried. FADOS (9) [noun] A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance. FAENA (8) FAERY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAGGY (13) [adjective] Effeminate; homosexual; gay. FAGIN (9) FAGOT (9) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAILS (8) [noun] Poor quality; substandard workmanship. | [noun] A failure (condition of being unsuccessful) | [noun] A failure (something incapable of success) FAINT (8) [noun] The act of fainting, syncope. | [noun] The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. | [adjective] (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness | [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). FAIRS (8) [noun] A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. | [noun] An event for public entertainment and trade, a market. | [noun] An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair. FAIRY (11) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAITH (11) [noun] A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. | [noun] The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation. | [noun] A religious or spiritual belief system. FAKED (13) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAKER (12) [noun] One who fakes something. | [noun] An impostor or impersonator. | [noun] A thief. FAKES (12) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. FAKEY (15) FAKIR (12) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FALLS (8) [noun] The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | [noun] A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | [noun] The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. FALSE (8) [noun] One of two options on a true-or-false test. | [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. FAMED (11) [adjective] Having fame; famous or noted. FAMES (10) FANCY (13) [noun] The imagination. | [noun] An image or representation of anything formed in the mind. | [noun] An opinion or notion formed without much reflection. | [verb] To appreciate without jealousy or greed. FANES (8) [noun] A weathercock, a weather vane. | [noun] A banner, especially a military banner. | [noun] A temple or sacred place. FANGA (9) FANGS (9) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. FANNY (11) [noun] The female genitalia. | [noun] The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms. | [noun] Sexual intercourse with a woman. | [noun] (naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot. FANON (8) FANOS (8) FANUM (10) FAQIR (17) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FARAD (9) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F FARCE (10) [noun] A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. | [noun] A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | [noun] A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. | [noun] Forcemeat, stuffing. FARCI (10) FARCY (13) [noun] A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders FARDS (9) [noun] Force of movement, impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset. | [noun] Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint. | [verb] To paint, as the cheeks or face. FARED (9) [verb] To go, travel. | [verb] To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. | [verb] To eat, dine. FARER (8) FARES (8) [noun] A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. | [noun] Money paid for a transport ticket. | [noun] A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. FARLE (8) FARLS (8) [noun] A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. | [noun] Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls. FARMS (10) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures FAROS (8) FARTS (8) [noun] An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. | [noun] (impolite) An irritating person; a fool. | [noun] (impolite, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views. FASTS (8) [noun] A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations | [noun] The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food. | [noun] The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food. FATAL (8) [noun] A fatality; an event that leads to death. | [noun] A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate. | [adjective] Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. FATED (9) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | [adjective] Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate. FATES (8) [noun] The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | [noun] The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | [noun] An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. FATLY (11) FATSO (8) [noun] Someone who is overweight. FATTY (11) [adjective] Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. | [adjective] Like fat; greasy. | [adjective] Literally or figuratively large. | [noun] An obese person. FATWA (11) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. | [verb] To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. FAUGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell. FAULD (9) FAULT (8) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FAUNA (8) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUNS (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. FAUVE (11) FAVAS (11) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVES (11) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) FAVOR (11) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVUS (11) FAWNS (11) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. FAWNY (14) FAXED (16) [adjective] Having a head of hair; hairy. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAXES (15) [noun] The hair of the head. | [noun] A fax machine or a document received and printed by one. | [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYED (12) FAZED (18) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. | [adjective] Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off (usually used in the negative). FAZES (17) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEARS (8) [noun] A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | [noun] A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | [noun] Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. FEASE (8) FEAST (8) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. | [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. FEATS (8) [noun] A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. | [verb] To form; to fashion. | [verb] To feature. I FEAZE (17) FECAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to feces. FECES (10) [noun] Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement. FECKS (14) [verb] To throw. | [verb] To steal. | [verb] To leave hastily. | [noun] (in minced oaths) Faith. FEEDS (9) [noun] Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. | [noun] Something supplied continuously. | [noun] The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. FEELS (8) [adjective] Of or relating to the emotions. | [adjective] Characterised by emotion. | [adjective] Determined by emotion rather than reason. FEEZE (17) FEIGN (9) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FEINT (8) [noun] A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy. | [noun] That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem. | [noun] (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance | [noun] The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper. FEIST (8) FELID (9) [noun] Any member of the cat family (Felidae). FELLA (8) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. FELLS (8) [noun] A cutting-down of timber. | [noun] The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. | [noun] The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. FELLY (11) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. | [adverb] Fiercely, harshly. FELON (8) [noun] A person who has committed a felony. | [noun] A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony. | [noun] A wicked person. | [noun] A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe. FELTS (8) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FEMES (10) FEMME (12) [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. | [noun] A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. FEMUR (10) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FENCE (10) [noun] A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter. | [noun] Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods. | [noun] Skill in oral debate. FENDS (9) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FENNY (11) FEODS (9) FEOFF (14) FERAL (8) [noun] A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans. | [noun] A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly. | [noun] A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle. FERES (8) FERIA (8) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FERLY (11) FERMI (10) [noun] An obsolete unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m). FERNS (8) [noun] Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. FERNY (11) FERRY (11) [noun] A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. | [noun] A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. | [noun] The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service. FESSE (8) [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. FETAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus. FETAS (8) FETCH (13) [noun] An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. | [noun] The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. | [noun] A stratagem or trick; an artifice. | [noun] (originally Ireland) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith. FETED (9) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). | [adjective] Honoured; celebrated. FETES (8) [noun] A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. | [noun] A feast, celebration or carnival. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETID (9) [noun] The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FETOR (8) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FETUS (8) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FEUAR (8) FEUDS (9) [noun] A state of long-standing mutual hostility. | [noun] A staged rivalry between wrestlers. | [noun] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. FEUED (9) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FEVER (11) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FEWER (11) FEYER (11) FEYLY (14) FEZES (17) FIARS (8) FIATS (8) [noun] An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. | [noun] Authorization, permission or (official) sanction. | [noun] (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. FIBER (10) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRE (10) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FICES (10) FICHE (13) [noun] A microfiche FICHU (13) [noun] A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest. FICIN (10) FICUS (10) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant. FIDGE (10) FIDOS (9) [noun] A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors. FIEFS (11) [noun] An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior. | [noun] Something over which one has rights or exercises control. | [noun] An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy. FIELD (9) [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | [noun] A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | [noun] A place where competitive matches are carried out. FIEND (9) [noun] A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. | [noun] A very evil person. | [noun] An enemy; a foe. FIERY (11) [adjective] Of or relating to fire. | [adjective] Burning or glowing. | [adjective] Inflammable or easily ignited. FIFED (12) [verb] To play this instrument. FIFER (11) FIFES (11) [noun] A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music FIFTH (14) [noun] The person or thing in the fifth position. | [noun] One of five equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The fifth gear of an engine. FIFTY (14) [noun] A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50. | [noun] A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs. | [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one. FIGHT (12) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] An occasion of fighting. FILAR (8) FILCH (13) [noun] Something which has been filched or stolen. | [noun] An act of filching; larceny, theft. | [noun] A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief. FILED (9) [verb] To commit (official papers) to some office. | [verb] To place in an archive in a logical place and order | [verb] To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. FILER (8) FILES (8) [noun] A collection of papers collated and archived together. | [noun] A roll or list. | [noun] Course of thought; thread of narration. FILET (8) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILLE (8) FILLO (8) FILLS (8) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. FILLY (11) [noun] A young female horse. | [noun] A young attractive female. FILMS (10) [noun] A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | [noun] A medium used to capture images in a camera. | [noun] A movie. FILMY (13) [adjective] Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy | [adjective] Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy FILOS (8) FILTH (11) [noun] Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. | [noun] Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. | [noun] (with definite article) The police. FILUM (10) FINAL (8) [noun] A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class. | [noun] The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined. | [noun] A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.). FINCH (13) [noun] Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak. | [verb] To hunt for finches, to go finching. FINDS (9) [noun] Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | [noun] The act of finding. | [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. FINED (9) [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [verb] To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | [verb] To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. FINER (8) [adjective] Senses referring to subjective quality. | [adjective] Senses referring to objective quality. | [adjective] Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. FINES (8) [noun] Fine champagne; French brandy. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. FINIS (8) [noun] The end (of a book or other work). FINKS (12) [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] An informer. | [noun] A strikebreaker. FINNY (11) [adjective] (of a fish) Having one or more fins. | [adjective] Resembling a fin. | [adjective] Abounding in fishes. FINOS (8) [noun] The driest and palest type of traditional sherry. | [noun] Second-best wool from Merino sheep. FIORD (9) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FIQUE (17) FIRED (9) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIRER (8) FIRES (8) [noun] A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. | [noun] An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). | [noun] The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. FIRMS (10) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. FIRNS (8) FIRRY (11) FIRST (8) [noun] The person or thing in the first position. | [noun] The first gear of an engine. | [noun] Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. | [noun] Time; time granted; respite. FIRTH (11) [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] Peace; security. FISCS (10) [noun] The public treasury of Rome. | [noun] Any state treasury or exchequer. FISHY (14) [noun] A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. | [noun] Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | [noun] The flesh of the fish used as food. FISTS (8) [noun] A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. | [noun] The pointing hand symbol ☞. | [noun] The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code. FITCH (13) [noun] The European polecat, Mustela putorius. | [noun] The skin of the polecat | [noun] A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads "spelt". FITLY (11) FIVER (11) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FIVES (11) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. FIXED (16) [verb] To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | [verb] To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | [verb] To mend, to repair. FIXER (15) [noun] Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes. | [noun] A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions. | [noun] (criminal justice) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit. FIXES (15) [noun] A repair or corrective action. | [noun] A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. | [noun] A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. FIXIT (15) FIZZY (29) [noun] A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage. | [adjective] (of a liquid) Containing bubbles. | [adjective] Lively, vivacious. FJELD (16) FJORD (16) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FLABS (10) FLACK (14) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. | [noun] A publicist, a publicity agent. | [noun] Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. FLAGS (9) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. FLAIL (8) [noun] A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material. | [noun] A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. | [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. FLAIR (8) [noun] A natural or innate talent or aptitude. | [noun] Distinctive style or elegance. | [noun] Smell; odor. FLAKE (12) [noun] A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything | [noun] A scale of a fish or similar animal | [noun] A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. | [noun] Dogfish. | [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. FLAKY (15) [adjective] Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. | [adjective] (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. | [adjective] (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction. FLAME (10) [noun] The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | [noun] A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair. | [noun] Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FLAMS (10) [verb] To deceive with a falsehood. | [verb] (drumming) To play (notes as) a flam. FLAMY (13) FLANK (12) [noun] The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side. | [noun] A cut of meat from the flank of an animal. | [noun] The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc. FLANS (8) [noun] Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.) | [noun] (Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. | [noun] A coin die. (Compare planchet.) FLAPS (10) FLARE (8) [noun] A sudden bright light. | [noun] A source of brightly burning light or intense heat. | [noun] A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up. FLASH (11) [noun] A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography. | [noun] A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. | [noun] A very short amount of time. | [noun] A pool. FLASK (12) [noun] A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. | [noun] A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask. | [noun] Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base. FLATS (8) [noun] An area of level ground. | [noun] A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | [noun] A flat tyre/tire. FLAWS (11) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. FLAWY (14) FLAXY (18) FLAYS (11) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLEAM (10) FLEAS (8) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLECK (14) [noun] A flake | [noun] A lock, as of wool. | [noun] A small spot or streak; a speckle. FLEER (8) [noun] Mockery; derision | [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. | [noun] One who flees FLEES (8) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEET (8) [noun] A group of vessels or vehicles. | [noun] Any group of associated items. | [noun] A large, coordinated group of people. | [noun] An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. | [verb] To float. | [noun] Floor; bottom; lower surface. FLESH (11) [noun] The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. | [noun] The skin of a human or animal. | [noun] (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso. FLEWS (11) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. FLEYS (11) FLICK (14) [noun] A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. | [noun] A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema. | [noun] A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target. FLICS (10) [noun] A data file containing computer animations. | [noun] A French policeman. FLIED (9) [verb] To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). FLIER (8) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLIES (8) [noun] The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung. | [noun] Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies. | [noun] (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). FLING (9) [noun] An act of throwing, often violently. | [noun] An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. | [noun] An act or period of unrestrained indulgence. | [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. FLINT (8) [noun] A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. | [noun] A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. | [noun] A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. FLIPS (10) [noun] A maneuver which rotates an object end over end. | [noun] A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc. | [noun] A slingshot. FLIRT (8) [noun] A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion | [noun] Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. | [noun] An act of flirting. FLITE (8) FLITS (8) [noun] A fluttering or darting movement. | [noun] A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. | [noun] A homosexual. FLOAT (8) [noun] A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. | [noun] A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. | [noun] A float board. FLOCK (14) [noun] A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration. | [noun] A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together. | [noun] Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd. | [noun] Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding. FLOCS (10) [noun] A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed. FLOES (8) [noun] A low, flat mass of floating ice. FLOGS (9) [noun] A contemptible, often arrogant person. | [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. FLONG (9) FLOOD (9) [noun] A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. | [noun] A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. | [noun] The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. FLOOR (8) [noun] The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | [noun] Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground). | [noun] The lower inside surface of a hollow space. FLOPS (10) [noun] Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation. | [noun] An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. | [noun] A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. FLORA (8) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLOSS (8) [noun] A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth. | [noun] Raw silk fibres. | [noun] The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans. | [noun] A small stream of water. FLOTA (8) FLOUR (8) [noun] Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. | [noun] The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents. | [noun] Powder of other material. FLOUT (8) [noun] The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law. | [noun] A mockery or insult. | [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. FLOWN (11) [adjective] Suspended in the flies. | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). FLOWS (11) [noun] A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts | [noun] The movement of a real or figurative fluid. | [noun] A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. FLUBS (10) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUED (9) FLUES (8) [noun] A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace). | [noun] An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along. | [noun] A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. FLUFF (14) [noun] Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers. | [noun] Anything inconsequential or superficial. | [noun] A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines. FLUID (9) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FLUKE (12) [noun] A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [noun] A flounder. | [noun] Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail. FLUKY (15) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUME (10) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMP (12) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FLUNG (9) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. FLUNK (12) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUOR (8) FLUSH (11) [noun] A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc. | [verb] To cause to take flight from concealment. | [verb] To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. | [adjective] Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. | [noun] A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. | [noun] A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit. FLUTE (8) [noun] A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. | [noun] A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | [noun] A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. | [noun] A kind of flyboat; a storeship. FLUTY (11) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUYT (11) FLYBY (16) [noun] A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations. | [noun] A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade. | [noun] A brief visit. FLYER (11) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLYTE (11) FOALS (8) [noun] A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old. | [noun] A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. | [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. FOAMS (10) [noun] A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains. | [noun] A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. | [noun] (by extension) Sea foam; the sea. FOAMY (13) [noun] An inexpensive surfboard made of extruded polystyrene foam | [adjective] Full of foam. FOCAL (10) [adjective] Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus | [adjective] Limited to a small area FOCUS (10) [noun] A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. | [noun] A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. | [noun] The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. FOEHN (11) [noun] A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | [noun] A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain. FOGEY (12) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOGGY (13) [adjective] Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy | [adjective] Confused, befuddled, etc. FOGIE (9) FOHNS (11) [noun] A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | [noun] A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain. FOILS (8) [noun] A very thin sheet of metal. | [noun] Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food. | [noun] A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant. FOINS (8) FOIST (8) [noun] A thief or pickpocket. | [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [noun] A light and fast-sailing ship. | [noun] A cask for wine. FOLDS (9) [noun] An act of folding. | [noun] A bend or crease. | [noun] Any correct move in origami. FOLIA (8) [noun] A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate. | [noun] A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop. FOLIO (8) [noun] A leaf of a book or manuscript | [noun] A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book. | [noun] A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages. FOLKS (12) [noun] A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation. | [noun] The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants. | [noun] (plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. | [noun] (California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States. FOLKY (15) [adjective] Having the character of folk music FOLLY (11) [noun] Foolishness. | [noun] Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence. | [noun] A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons. FONDS (9) FONDU (9) [noun] The graded shift from one color into another. | [noun] Involving a lowering of the body by bending the knee of the supporting leg. | [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. FONTS (8) [noun] A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. | [noun] A receptacle for oil in a lamp. | [noun] Spring, source, fountain. FOODS (9) [noun] Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | [noun] A foodstuff. | [noun] Anything that nourishes or sustains. FOOLS (8) [noun] A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. | [noun] A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). | [noun] Someone who derives pleasure from something specified. FOOTS (8) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. FOOTY (11) [adjective] Having foots, or settlings. | [adjective] Poor; mean FORAM (10) FORAY (11) [noun] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. | [noun] A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere. | [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. FORBS (10) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FORBY (13) [adjective] Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior. | [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. FORCE (10) [noun] Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | [noun] Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | [noun] Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. | [noun] A waterfall or cascade. | [verb] To stuff; to lard; to farce. FORDO (9) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FORDS (9) [noun] A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing. | [noun] A stream; a current. | [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORES (8) FORGE (9) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. | [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. FORGO (9) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORKS (12) [noun] A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. | [noun] A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil. | [noun] A gallows. FORKY (15) FORME (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORMS (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORTE (8) [noun] A strength or talent. | [noun] The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt. | [noun] A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. FORTH (11) [adverb] Forward in time, place or degree. | [adverb] Out into view; from a particular place or position. | [adverb] Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. FORTS (8) [noun] A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops. | [noun] Any permanent army post. | [noun] An outlying trading-station, as in British North America. FORTY (11) [noun] A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces. | [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one. FORUM (10) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FOSSA (8) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOSSE (8) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOULS (8) [noun] A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. | [noun] A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball. | [noun] A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines. FOUND (9) [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | [verb] To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. | [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. | [noun] A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers. FOUNT (8) [noun] Something from which water flows. | [noun] A device from which poultry may drink. | [noun] That from which something flows or proceeds; a source. | [noun] A typographic font. FOURS (8) [noun] The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. | [noun] Anything measuring four units, as length. | [noun] A person who is four years old. FOVEA (11) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FOWLS (11) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. | [noun] Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. FOXED (16) [verb] To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. | [verb] To confuse or baffle (someone). | [verb] To act slyly or craftily. FOXES (15) [noun] A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail. | [noun] Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox). | [noun] The fur of a fox. FOYER (11) [noun] A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc. | [noun] The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. | [noun] A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people. FRAGS (9) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRAIL (8) [noun] A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. | [noun] The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. | [noun] A rush for weaving baskets. FRAME (10) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FRANC (10) [noun] A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. | [noun] Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies. FRANK (12) [noun] Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article). | [noun] The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found. | [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. | [noun] A hot dog or sausage. | [noun] The grey heron. | [noun] A pigsty. FRAPS (10) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] An iced cappuccino. FRASS (8) [noun] The droppings or excrement of insects. | [adjective] Under the influence of marijuana, stoned FRATS (8) [noun] Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.) FRAUD (9) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRAYS (11) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FREAK (12) [noun] A sudden change of mind | [noun] Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | [noun] A hippie. | [noun] A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. FREED (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. FREER (8) [adjective] (social) Unconstrained. | [adjective] Obtainable without any payment. | [adjective] (abstract) Unconstrained. FREES (8) [noun] Free transfer | [noun] The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. FREMD (11) FRENA (8) FRERE (8) FRESH (11) [noun] A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. | [noun] A stream or spring of fresh water. | [noun] The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. | [adjective] Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. FRETS (8) [noun] Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. | [noun] Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. | [noun] Herpes; tetter. FRIAR (8) [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | [noun] A white or pale patch on a printed page. | [noun] An American fish, the silverside. FRIED (9) [adjective] Cooked by frying. | [adjective] (specifically, of an egg) Fried with the yolk unbroken. | [adjective] Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried. FRIER (8) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet | [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). FRIES (8) [noun] (usually in the plural, fries) A fried strip of potato. | [noun] A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. | [noun] A state of excitement. FRIGS (9) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. FRILL (8) [noun] A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. | [noun] A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. | [noun] A wrinkled edge to a film. | [verb] To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk). FRISE (8) FRISK (12) [noun] A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. | [verb] To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. | [verb] To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing. FRITH (11) [noun] Peace; security. | [noun] Sanctuary, asylum. | [verb] To protect; guard. | [noun] A forest or wood; woodland generally. | [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. FRITS (8) [noun] A fused mixture of materials used to make glass. | [noun] A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) | [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture FRITT (8) FRITZ (17) [noun] The state of being defective. | [noun] (chiefly South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon | [verb] To go wrong or become defective. FRIZZ (26) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. | [noun] A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair. FROCK (14) [noun] A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body. | [noun] An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit. | [noun] A sailor's jersey. | [noun] A frog. FROES (8) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. FROGS (9) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. FROND (9) [noun] The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. | [noun] Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf. FRONS (8) [noun] In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. | [noun] The front part of the epicranium or head capsule of many insects; generally speaking the frons is the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Generally it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head. | [noun] (of Diptera) the postfrons FRONT (8) [noun] The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. | [noun] The side of a building with the main entrance. | [noun] A field of activity. FRORE (8) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FROSH (11) [noun] A frog. | [noun] A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities. | [verb] To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way. FROST (8) [noun] A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. | [noun] The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. | [noun] Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. FROTH (11) [noun] Foam | [noun] Unimportant events or actions; drivel | [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). FROWN (11) [noun] A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. | [noun] A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down. | [verb] To have a frown on one's face. FROWS (11) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. | [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. FROZE (17) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FRUGS (9) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. FRUIT (8) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FRUMP (12) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FRYER (11) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet FUBSY (13) [adjective] Short and stout; low and wide FUCKS (14) [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially a casual one. | [noun] A highly contemptible person. FUCUS (10) [noun] Any alga of the genus Fucus. FUDGE (10) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUELS (8) [noun] Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. | [noun] Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. | [noun] Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. FUGAL (9) [adjective] Relating to a fugue | [adjective] Relating to flight (fleeing) FUGGY (13) [adjective] Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation FUGIO (9) FUGLE (9) FUGUE (9) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUGUS (9) FUJIS (15) [noun] A plain spun silk fabric. | [noun] A Nigerian musical genre. FULLS (8) [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FULLY (11) [adverb] In a full manner; without lack or defect. | [adverb] In a full degree; to a full extent. | [adverb] As a minimum; at least. FUMED (11) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMER (10) FUMES (10) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMET (10) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. | [noun] The dung of deer, hares, etc. FUNDI (9) [noun] (Zimbabwe) expert, guru, maven | [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNDS (9) [noun] A sum or source of money. | [noun] An organization managing such money. | [noun] A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. FUNGI (9) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. | [noun] A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of ukulele, banjo, guitar and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm. | [noun] A cornmeal dish eaten in the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish or chicken; variant recipes are also known as cou-cou (coucou) or coo-coo (coocoo). FUNGO (9) [noun] A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught. | [noun] A fungo bat. FUNKS (12) [noun] Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor. | [noun] A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the one, and much syncopation. | [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. FUNKY (15) [adjective] Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | [adjective] Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context. | [adjective] Cool; great; excellent. FUNNY (11) [noun] A joke. | [noun] A comic strip. | [adjective] Amusing; humorous; comical. | [noun] A narrow clinker-built boat for sculling. FURAN (8) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. FURLS (8) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FUROR (8) [noun] A general uproar or commotion | [noun] Violent anger or frenzy | [noun] A state of intense excitement FURRY (11) [noun] An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture. | [noun] A member of the furry fandom. | [noun] Someone who roleplays or identifies with a furry character. (Compare therianthrope.) FURZE (17) [noun] A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland. FURZY (20) FUSED (9) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUSEE (8) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. | [noun] The track of a buck. | [noun] One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion. FUSEL (8) FUSES (8) [noun] A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | [noun] The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | [noun] A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. FUSIL (8) [noun] A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. | [noun] A light flintlock musket or firelock. | [adjective] That can be melted; meltable. FUSSY (11) [adjective] Anxious or particular about petty details. | [adjective] Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies). FUSTY (11) [adjective] Moldy or musty. | [adjective] Stale-smelling or stuffy. | [adjective] (by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. FUTON (8) [noun] A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. | [noun] A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. FUZED (18) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. | [adjective] Being equipped with a fuze FUZEE (17) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUZES (17) [noun] (professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition. | [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZIL (17) FUZZY (29) [noun] (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material. | [noun] Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy. | [noun] A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering. FYCES (13) FYKES (15) [noun] A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops. FYTTE (11) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

FABLED (12) [verb] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. | [verb] To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable. | [adjective] Known only in fables; fictitious. FABLER (11) FABLES (11) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FABRIC (13) [noun] An edifice or building. | [noun] The act of constructing, construction, fabrication. | [noun] The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make. FACADE (12) [noun] The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation. | [noun] (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ. | [noun] A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front. FACERS (11) [noun] An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat. | [noun] One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. | [noun] A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. FACETE (11) FACETS (11) [noun] Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. | [noun] One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. | [noun] One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. FACEUP (13) FACIAL (11) [noun] A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face. | [noun] A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor. | [noun] (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face. FACIAS (11) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FACIES (11) [noun] Appearance. | [noun] Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions. | [noun] A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting the way it was formed. FACILE (11) [adjective] Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy. | [adjective] Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with. | [adjective] Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.). FACING (12) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. FACTOR (11) [noun] A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. | [noun] An agent or representative. | [noun] A commission agent. FACULA (11) [noun] A bright spot or patch between sunspots FADERS (10) [noun] A device used to control sound volume. | [noun] A program or algorithm for fading out colors. FADGED (12) FADGES (11) [verb] To be suitable (with or to something). | [verb] To agree, to get along (with). | [verb] To get on well; to cope, to thrive. FADING (11) [verb] To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. | [verb] To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. | [verb] To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. FAECAL (11) [adjective] Of or relating to feces. FAECES (11) [noun] Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement. FAENAS (9) FAERIE (9) [noun] Realm of the fays, fairyland. | [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. FAGGED (12) [verb] (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. | [verb] To droop; to tire. | [verb] For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. FAGGOT (11) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAGINS (10) FAGOTS (10) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAILED (10) [verb] To be unsuccessful. | [verb] Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) | [verb] To neglect. FAILLE (9) [noun] A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs. FAINER (9) FAINTS (9) [noun] The act of fainting, syncope. | [noun] The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. | [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). FAIRED (10) [verb] To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). | [verb] To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). | [verb] To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance. FAIRER (9) [adjective] Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. | [adjective] Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent. | [adjective] Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair. FAIRLY (12) [adverb] (manner) In a fair manner; fair; not biased or skewed or favouring a certain party | [adverb] Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously. | [adverb] Honestly; properly. FAITHS (12) [noun] A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. | [noun] The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation. | [noun] A religious or spiritual belief system. FAJITA (16) [noun] A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling. FAKEER (13) [noun] An Eastern religious ascetic or monk. FAKERS (13) [noun] One who fakes something. | [noun] An impostor or impersonator. | [noun] A thief. FAKERY (16) FAKING (14) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAKIRS (13) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FALCES (11) FALCON (11) [noun] Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey. | [noun] A female such bird, a male being a tiercel. | [noun] A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet. FALLAL (9) FALLEN (9) [verb] (heading) To be moved downwards. | [verb] To move downwards. | [verb] To happen, to change negatively. FALLER (9) [noun] One who falls. | [noun] A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked. | [noun] A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. FALLOW (12) [noun] Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. | [noun] Uncultivated land. | [noun] The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. | [verb] To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. | [adjective] (color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun. FALSER (9) [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. | [adjective] Spurious, artificial. FALSIE (9) FALTER (9) [noun] Unsteadiness. | [verb] To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off. | [verb] To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner. FAMILY (14) [noun] A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. | [noun] An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. | [noun] A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. FAMINE (11) [noun] Extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] Starvation or malnutrition. FAMING (12) FAMISH (14) [verb] To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger. | [verb] To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger. | [verb] To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. FAMOUS (11) [verb] To make famous; to bring renown to. | [adjective] Well known. | [adjective] In the public eye. FAMULI (11) [noun] A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar. FANDOM (12) [noun] The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group. | [noun] The subculture of fans. | [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being a fan. FANEGA (10) FANGAS (10) FANGED (11) [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. FANION (9) FANJET (16) [noun] A turbofan engine. | [noun] An airplane powered by turbofan engines. FANNED (10) [verb] To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. | [verb] To slap (a behind, especially). | [verb] (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. FANNER (9) FANONS (9) FANTOD (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A state of worry or nervous anxiety, irritability. | [noun] An irritable outburst. FANTOM (11) FANUMS (11) FAQIRS (18) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FAQUIR (18) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FARADS (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F FARCED (12) FARCER (11) FARCES (11) [noun] A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. | [noun] A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | [noun] A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. FARCIE (11) FARDED (11) FARDEL (10) [noun] A fourth part: a quarter of anything. | [noun] An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. | [noun] A bundle or burden. FARERS (9) FARFAL (12) FARFEL (12) FARINA (9) [noun] A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. FARING (10) [noun] A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag | [noun] A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. | [noun] Something edible; fare. FARLES (9) FARMED (12) [verb] To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | [verb] To devote (land) to farming. | [verb] To grow (a particular crop). FARMER (11) [noun] A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm. | [noun] Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms. | [noun] One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. FARROW (12) [noun] A litter of piglets. | [verb] To give birth to a (litter of piglets). | [adjective] (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren. FARTED (10) [verb] (impolite) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate. | [verb] (usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing. | [verb] To emit (fumes, gases, etc.). FASCES (11) [noun] A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism FASCIA (11) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FASHED (13) [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. FASHES (12) [noun] A worry; trouble; bother. | [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. FASTED (10) [verb] To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or medical reasons. FASTEN (9) [verb] To attach or connect in a secure manner. | [verb] To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land. FASTER (9) [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [adjective] (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) | [noun] One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating. FATHER (12) [noun] A (generally human) male who begets a child. | [noun] A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. | [noun] A term of respectful address for an elderly man. FATHOM (14) [noun] Grasp, envelopment, control. | [noun] (now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m). | [noun] Various similar units in other systems. FATING (10) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. FATSOS (9) [noun] Someone who is overweight. FATTED (10) [adjective] Made fat; fattened. FATTEN (9) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. | [verb] (of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter. | [verb] To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money). FATTER (9) [adjective] Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. | [adjective] Thick. | [adjective] Bountiful. FATWAS (12) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. FAUCAL (11) FAUCES (11) [noun] The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue. | [noun] The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc. | [noun] That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture. FAUCET (11) [noun] An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. | [noun] (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation FAULDS (10) FAULTS (9) [noun] A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A weakness of character; a failing. FAULTY (12) [adjective] Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable. | [adjective] At fault, to blame; guilty. FAUNAE (9) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUNAL (9) FAUNAS (9) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FAUVES (12) FAVELA (12) [noun] A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil FAVISM (14) FAVORS (12) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVOUR (12) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAWNED (13) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FAWNER (12) [noun] One who fawns; a sycophant. FAXING (17) [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYING (13) FAZING (19) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEALTY (12) [noun] Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord | [noun] The oath by which this obligation was assumed. FEARED (10) [verb] To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm. | [verb] To feel fear (about something). | [verb] (used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. FEARER (9) FEASED (10) FEASES (9) FEASTS (9) [noun] A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | [noun] Something delightful | [noun] A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. FEATER (9) FEATLY (12) FEAZED (19) FEAZES (18) FECIAL (11) FECKLY (18) FECULA (11) FECUND (12) [adjective] Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. | [adjective] Leading to new ideas or innovation. FEDORA (10) [noun] A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down. FEEBLE (11) [verb] To make feeble; to enfeeble. | [adjective] Deficient in physical strength | [adjective] Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint. FEEBLY (14) [adverb] In a feeble manner. FEEDER (10) [noun] One who feeds, or gives food to another. | [noun] One who feeds, or takes in food. | [noun] One who, or that which, feeds material into something. FEEING (10) [verb] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. | [noun] The hiring of servants for a fee FEELER (9) [noun] Someone or something that feels. | [noun] An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect. | [noun] Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position. FEEZED (19) FEEZES (18) FEIGNS (10) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FEIJOA (16) [noun] A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana). | [noun] The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste. FEINTS (9) [noun] A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy. | [noun] That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem. | [noun] (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance FEIRIE (9) FEISTS (9) FEISTY (12) [adjective] Tenacious, energetic, spunky. | [adjective] Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage. | [adjective] Easily offended and ready to bicker. FELIDS (10) [noun] Any member of the cat family (Felidae). FELINE (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to cats. | [adjective] Catlike (resembling a cat) | [noun] A cat; member of the cat family Felidae. FELLAH (12) [noun] A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. | [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. FELLAS (9) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. FELLED (10) [verb] To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. | [verb] To strike down, kill, destroy. | [verb] To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. FELLER (9) [noun] A person who fells trees; a lumberjack | [noun] A machine for felling trees. | [noun] A person who fells a seam. | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [adjective] Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. FELLOE (9) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. FELLOW (12) [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. | [noun] A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. FELONS (9) [noun] A person who has committed a felony. | [noun] A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony. | [noun] A wicked person. FELONY (12) [noun] A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or by death. FELTED (10) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FEMALE (11) [noun] One of the female (feminine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.) FEMMES (13) [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. | [noun] A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. FEMORA (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FEMURS (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FENCED (12) [verb] To enclose, contain or separate by building fence. | [verb] To defend or guard. | [verb] To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods. FENCER (11) FENCES (11) [noun] A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter. | [noun] Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods. | [noun] Skill in oral debate. FENDED (11) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FENDER (10) [noun] Panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels | [noun] A shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water | [noun] Any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute FENNEC (11) [noun] A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears. FENNEL (9) [noun] A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor. | [noun] The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking. FEOFFS (15) FERBAM (13) FERIAE (9) FERIAL (9) [noun] A feria. | [adjective] Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast. | [adjective] Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday. FERIAS (9) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FERINE (9) FERITY (12) [noun] The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness. FERLIE (9) FERMIS (11) FERREL (9) [noun] A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. | [noun] A band holding parts of an object together. FERRET (9) [noun] An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals. | [noun] The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes. | [noun] A diligent searcher. | [noun] A tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc. or along the edge of fabric. FERRIC (11) [adjective] Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. | [adjective] Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 3 FERRUM (11) FERULA (9) [noun] A ferule. | [noun] A stroke from a cane. | [noun] The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire. FERULE (9) [noun] A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand. | [verb] To punish with a ferule. FERVID (13) [adjective] Intensely hot, emotional, or zealous. FERVOR (12) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FESCUE (11) [noun] A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. | [noun] A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca. | [noun] An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. FESSED (10) [verb] To confess; to admit. FESSES (9) [noun] A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. FESTAL (9) [adjective] Festive, relating to a festival or feast FESTER (9) [noun] A fistula. | [noun] A sore or an ulcer of the skin. | [noun] The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment. FETIAL (9) FETICH (14) [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. | [noun] Sexual attraction to or arousal at something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body. | [noun] An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. FETING (10) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FETISH (12) [noun] Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. | [noun] Sexual attraction to or arousal at something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body. | [noun] An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. FETORS (9) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FETTED (10) FETTER (9) [noun] A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural). | [noun] Anything that restricts or restrains. | [verb] To shackle or bind up with fetters. FETTLE (9) [noun] A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim. | [noun] One's mental state; spirits. | [noun] Sand used to line a furnace. FEUARS (9) FEUDAL (10) [adjective] Of, or relating to feudalism. FEUDED (11) [verb] To carry on a feud. FEUING (10) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FEVERS (12) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FEWEST (12) FEYEST (12) FEZZED (28) FEZZES (27) [noun] A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached. FIACRE (11) [noun] A small carriage for hire. FIANCE (11) [verb] To betroth; to affiance. | [noun] A man who is engaged to be married. | [noun] A person engaged to be married. FIASCO (11) [noun] A sudden or unexpected failure. | [noun] A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong. | [noun] A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket. FIBBED (14) [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. FIBBER (13) FIBERS (11) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRES (11) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FIBRIL (11) [noun] A fine fibre or filament | [noun] Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants FIBRIN (11) [noun] A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood. | [noun] An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood. | [noun] An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin. FIBULA (11) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FICHES (14) [noun] A microfiche FICHUS (14) [noun] A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest. FICINS (11) FICKLE (15) [adjective] Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable. | [adjective] Changeable. | [verb] To deceive, flatter. FICKLY (18) FICOES (11) FIDDLE (11) [noun] Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. | [noun] A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument. | [noun] An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw. FIDDLY (14) [adjective] Requiring dexterity to operate. | [adjective] (by extension) Having many small bits or embellishments. | [adjective] Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting. FIDGED (12) FIDGES (11) FIDGET (11) [noun] A nervous wriggling or twitching motion. | [noun] A person who fidgets, especially habitually. | [noun] A toy intended to be fidgeted with. FIELDS (10) [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | [noun] A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | [noun] A place where competitive matches are carried out. FIENDS (10) [noun] A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. | [noun] A very evil person. | [noun] An enemy; a foe. FIERCE (11) [adjective] Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage. | [adjective] Resolute or strenuously active. | [adjective] Threatening in appearance or demeanor. FIESTA (9) [noun] (In Spanish speaking countries) A religious festival. | [noun] A festive occasion. FIFERS (12) FIFING (13) [verb] To play this instrument. FIFTHS (15) [noun] The person or thing in the fifth position. | [noun] One of five equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The fifth gear of an engine. FIGGED (12) [verb] To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. | [verb] To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. | [verb] (soap-making) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. FIGHTS (13) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. FIGURE (10) [noun] A drawing or diagram conveying information. | [noun] The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. | [noun] A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. FILERS (9) FILETS (9) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILIAL (9) [adjective] Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter. | [adjective] Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents. | [adjective] Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one. FILING (10) [verb] To commit (official papers) to some office. | [verb] To place in an archive in a logical place and order | [verb] To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. FILLED (10) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. FILLER (9) [noun] One who fills. | [noun] Something added to fill a space or add weight or size. | [noun] Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores. FILLES (9) FILLET (9) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILLIP (11) [noun] The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick. | [noun] A smart strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means. | [noun] (by extension) Something unimportant, a trifle; also, the brief time it takes to flick one's finger (see noun sense 1); a jiffy. FILLOS (9) FILMED (12) [verb] To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | [verb] To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | [adjective] Covered with a film. FILMER (11) FILMIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to movies; cinematic. FILOSE (9) FILTER (9) [noun] A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another. | [noun] Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies. | [noun] Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate. FILTHS (12) FILTHY (15) [verb] To make very dirty; to cover in filth. | [adjective] Covered with filth; very dirty. | [adjective] Obscene or offensive. FIMBLE (13) FINALE (9) [noun] The grand end of something, especially a show or piece of music. | [noun] The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works. FINALS (9) [noun] A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class. | [noun] The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined. | [noun] A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.). FINDER (10) [noun] One who finds or discovers something. | [noun] An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest FINELY (12) [adverb] So as to produce a fine texture. | [adverb] In a fine, handsome or attractive way; very well. FINERY (12) [noun] Fineness; beauty. | [noun] Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. | [noun] (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. FINEST (9) [adjective] Senses referring to subjective quality. | [adjective] Senses referring to objective quality. | [adjective] Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. FINGER (10) [noun] A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, exclusive of the thumb. | [noun] Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly: | [noun] Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly: FINIAL (9) [noun] The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture. | [noun] Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post. FINING (10) [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [verb] To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | [verb] To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. FINISH (12) [noun] An end; the end of anything. | [noun] A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces. | [noun] The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth. FINITE (9) [adjective] Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number. | [adjective] (grammar, as opposed to infinite or nonfinite) limited by person or number. FINKED (14) [verb] To betray a trust; to inform on. FINNED (10) [verb] To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc. | [verb] (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water. | [verb] To swim in the manner of a fish. FIORDS (10) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FIPPLE (13) [noun] The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway. FIQUES (18) FIRERS (9) FIRING (10) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIRKIN (13) [noun] A varying measure of capacity, usually being a quarter of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. | [noun] A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, used for butter, lard, etc. | [noun] A weight measure for butter, equalling 56 pounds. FIRMAN (11) [noun] A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey. FIRMED (12) [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. | [verb] To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. | [verb] To become firm; stabilise. FIRMER (11) [adjective] Steadfast, secure, solid (in position) | [adjective] Fixed (in opinion) | [adjective] Durable, rigid (material state) FIRMLY (14) [adverb] (manner) In a firm or definite or strong manner. | [adverb] (manner) Securely. FIRSTS (9) [noun] The person or thing in the first position. | [noun] The first gear of an engine. | [noun] Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. FIRTHS (12) [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] Peace; security. | [noun] Sanctuary, asylum. FISCAL (11) [noun] A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue. | [noun] Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor. | [noun] In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general. | [noun] Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius. FISHED (13) [verb] To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. | [verb] To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. | [verb] To use as bait when fishing. FISHER (12) [noun] A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport. | [noun] A person attempting to catch fish. | [noun] A North American marten, Martes pennanti, that has thick brown fur. FISHES (12) [noun] A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. | [noun] Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | [noun] The flesh of the fish used as food. FISTED (10) [verb] To strike with the fist. | [verb] To close (the hand) into a fist. | [verb] To grip with a fist. FISTIC (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to boxing or fighting with fists. FITCHY (17) [adjective] Sharpened to a point; pointed. FITFUL (12) [adjective] Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. FITTED (10) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FITTER (9) [adjective] Suitable, proper. | [adjective] Adapted to a purpose or environment. | [adjective] In good shape; physically well. FIVERS (12) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FIXATE (16) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIXERS (16) [noun] Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes. | [noun] A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions. | [noun] (criminal justice) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit. FIXING (17) [verb] To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | [verb] To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | [verb] To mend, to repair. FIXITY (19) [noun] The state or condition of being fixed. | [noun] Something fixed. | [noun] The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix). FIXURE (16) FIZGIG (20) [noun] A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. | [noun] Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket. | [verb] To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant. | [noun] A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise. | [noun] A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon. | [noun] A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone elseor provoke them to commit a crime. | [noun] The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris). FIZZED (28) [verb] To emit bubbles. | [verb] To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound. | [verb] To shoot or project something moving at great velocity. FIZZER (27) [noun] Something which fizzes. | [noun] A party or social gathering which turns out to be a disappointment. | [noun] A disciplinary charge. FIZZES (27) [noun] An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles. | [noun] The sound of such an emission. | [noun] A carbonated beverage, especially champagne. FIZZLE (27) [noun] A spluttering or hissing sound. | [noun] Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing. | [noun] An abortive effort; a flop or dud. FJELDS (17) FJORDS (17) [noun] A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. FLABBY (16) [adjective] Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. | [adjective] (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. | [adjective] (of writing, etc.) overwrought. FLACKS (15) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. FLACON (11) [noun] A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume. FLAGGY (14) FLAGON (10) [noun] A large bottle for drinks such as wine, cider or beer. | [noun] The amount that such a bottle holds, about 1.13 litres. | [noun] A large vessel usually with a handle, spout and lid, for drinks such as wine or cider. FLAILS (9) [noun] A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material. | [noun] A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. | [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. FLAIRS (9) FLAKED (14) [verb] To break or chip off in a flake. | [verb] To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. | [verb] To store an item such as rope or sail in layers FLAKER (13) FLAKES (13) [noun] Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently. | [noun] A trick; a swindle. | [noun] A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. FLAKEY (16) [adjective] Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. | [adjective] (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. | [adjective] (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction. FLAMBE (13) [noun] A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. | [noun] A flambéed dish. | [verb] To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. FLAMED (12) [verb] To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. | [verb] To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour. | [verb] To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). FLAMEN (11) [noun] A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. FLAMER (11) [noun] A very flamboyant ("flaming"), effeminate gay male. | [noun] One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism. FLAMES (11) [noun] The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | [noun] A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair. | [noun] Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FLANES (9) FLANGE (10) [noun] An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place. | [noun] The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component. | [noun] An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees. FLANKS (13) [verb] To attack the flank(s) of. | [verb] To defend the flank(s) of. | [verb] To place to the side(s) of. FLAPPY (16) FLARED (10) [verb] To cause to burn. | [verb] To cause inflammation; to inflame. | [verb] To open outward in shape. FLARES (9) [noun] A sudden bright light. | [noun] A source of brightly burning light or intense heat. | [noun] A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up. FLASHY (15) [adjective] Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing. | [adjective] Flashing; producing flashes. | [adjective] Drunk; tipsy FLASKS (13) [noun] A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. | [noun] A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask. | [noun] Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base. FLATLY (12) [adverb] In a physically flat or level manner. | [adverb] In a definite manner; in a manner showing complete certainty. | [adverb] In a manner that shows no emotion. FLATUS (9) [noun] Gas generated in the digestive tract. | [noun] Expulsion of such gas through the anus. | [noun] Morbid inflation or swelling. FLAUNT (9) [noun] Anything displayed for show. | [verb] To wave or flutter smartly in the wind. | [verb] To parade, display with ostentation. | [verb] To flout. FLAVIN (12) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD) FLAVOR (12) [noun] The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. | [noun] A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. | [noun] A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. FLAWED (13) [adjective] Having a flaw or imperfection. FLAXEN (16) [adjective] Made of or resembling flax fibers. | [adjective] A pale yellow brown; the colour of dried flax stalks and of the fiber obtained therefrom. FLAXES (16) FLAYED (13) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLAYER (12) FLEAMS (11) FLECHE (14) [noun] An arrow. | [noun] Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board. | [noun] A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof. FLECKS (15) [noun] A flake | [noun] A lock, as of wool. | [noun] A small spot or streak; a speckle. FLECKY (18) FLEDGE (11) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEDGY (14) FLEECE (11) [noun] Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal | [noun] Insulating skin with the wool attached | [noun] A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. FLEECH (14) FLEECY (14) [adjective] Resembling or covered in fleece. FLEERS (9) [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. FLEETS (9) [noun] A group of vessels or vehicles. | [noun] Any group of associated items. | [noun] A large, coordinated group of people. FLENCH (14) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLENSE (9) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLESHY (15) [adjective] Of, related to, or resembling flesh. | [adjective] (of a person) Having considerable flesh; plump. FLETCH (14) [noun] The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight. | [noun] (fisheries) A large boneless fillet of halibut, swordfish or tuna. | [verb] To feather, as an arrow. FLEURY (12) [adjective] (especially of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis. FLEXED (17) [verb] To bend something. | [verb] To repeatedly bend one of one's joints. | [verb] To move part of the body using one's muscles. FLEXES (16) [noun] Flexibility, pliancy. | [noun] The or an act of flexing. | [noun] Any flexible insulated electrical wiring. FLEXOR (16) [noun] A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb. FLEYED (13) FLICKS (15) [noun] A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. | [noun] A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema. | [noun] A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target. FLIERS (9) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLIEST (9) FLIGHT (13) [noun] The act of flying. | [noun] An instance of flying. | [noun] The act of fleeing. | [noun] The act of fleeing. FLIMSY (14) [noun] Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies. | [noun] A service certificate | [noun] (in the plural) Skimpy underwear. FLINCH (14) [noun] A reflexive jerking away. | [noun] The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. | [verb] To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe. | [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLINGS (10) [noun] An act of throwing, often violently. | [noun] An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. | [noun] An act or period of unrestrained indulgence. FLINTS (9) [noun] A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. | [noun] A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. | [noun] A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. FLINTY (12) [adjective] Resembling or containing flint. | [adjective] Siliceous (including basanite). | [adjective] Showing a lack of emotion. FLIPPY (16) [noun] A flippy disk. | [adjective] Having a tendency to flip. FLIRTS (9) [noun] A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion | [noun] Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. | [noun] An act of flirting. FLIRTY (12) [adjective] Flirting, or seeming to flirt. FLITCH (14) [noun] The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon. | [noun] A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber). | [verb] To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips. FLITED (10) FLITES (9) FLOATS (9) [noun] A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. | [noun] A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. | [noun] A float board. FLOATY (12) [noun] A lilo or similar item that floats on water and can be sat on. | [noun] A particle of food, etc. found floating in liquid. | [adjective] Buoyant, tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas FLOCCI (13) [noun] A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera. | [noun] A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds. FLOCKS (15) [noun] A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration. | [noun] A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together. | [noun] Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd. FLOCKY (18) FLONGS (10) FLOODS (10) [noun] A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. | [noun] A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. | [noun] The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. FLOOEY (12) FLOOIE (9) FLOORS (9) [noun] The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | [noun] Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground). | [noun] The lower inside surface of a hollow space. FLOOSY (12) FLOOZY (21) [noun] A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern. | [noun] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. FLOPPY (16) [noun] A floppy disk. | [noun] (Rhodesia) An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot. | [noun] A comic book. FLORAE (9) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLORAL (9) [noun] A design involving flowers | [noun] A perfume redolent of flowers | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers. FLORAS (9) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLORET (9) [noun] A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower. FLORID (10) [adjective] Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy. | [adjective] Elaborately ornate; flowery. | [adjective] (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state. FLORIN (9) [noun] The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ. | [noun] A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence. | [noun] A guilder (former currency unit of the Netherlands). FLOSSY (12) [adjective] Resembling floss. | [adjective] Extravagantly showy; flashy FLOTAS (9) FLOURS (9) [noun] Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. | [noun] The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents. | [noun] Powder of other material. FLOURY (12) [adjective] Resembling flour. | [adjective] Covered in flour. FLOUTS (9) [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. | [verb] To scorn. FLOWED (13) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLOWER (12) [noun] A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. | [noun] A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil. | [noun] A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood. | [noun] Something that flows, such as a river. FLUENT (9) [noun] A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions. | [adjective] That flows; flowing, liquid. | [adjective] Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way. FLUFFS (15) [noun] Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers. | [noun] Anything inconsequential or superficial. | [noun] A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines. FLUFFY (18) [noun] Someone or something that has a fluffy texture. | [noun] A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness. | [noun] A babycino (frothy milk drink). FLUIDS (10) [noun] Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. | [noun] A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). | [noun] (specifically, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. FLUKED (14) [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. | [adjective] Having flukes. FLUKES (13) [noun] A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | [noun] A flounder. | [noun] A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. FLUKEY (16) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUMED (12) FLUMES (11) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMPS (13) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FLUNKS (13) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUNKY (16) [noun] An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | [noun] One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. | [noun] One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. FLUORS (9) FLURRY (12) [noun] A light, brief snowfall. | [noun] A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze. | [noun] A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind. FLUTED (10) [verb] To play on a flute. | [verb] To make a flutelike sound. | [verb] To utter with a flutelike sound. FLUTER (9) FLUTES (9) [noun] A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. | [noun] A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | [noun] A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. FLUTEY (12) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUXED (17) [verb] To use flux on. | [verb] To melt. | [verb] To flow as a liquid. FLUXES (16) [noun] The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. | [noun] A state of ongoing change. | [noun] A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. FLUYTS (12) FLYBOY (17) [noun] An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft. FLYBYS (17) [noun] A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations. | [noun] A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade. | [noun] A brief visit. FLYERS (12) [noun] That which flies, as a bird or insect. | [noun] A machine that flies. | [noun] An airplane pilot. FLYING (13) [verb] To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [noun] An act of flight. FLYMAN (14) [noun] Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly. | [noun] Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre. FLYMEN (14) [noun] Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly. | [noun] Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre. FLYOFF (18) FLYSCH (17) [noun] A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary. FLYTED (13) FLYTES (12) FLYWAY (18) [noun] A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas. FOALED (10) [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. FOAMED (12) [verb] To form or emit foam. | [verb] To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth. FOAMER (11) FOBBED (14) [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. | [verb] To beat; to maul. FODDER (11) [noun] Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc. | [noun] A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg. | [noun] (drafting) Tracing paper. FODGEL (11) FOEHNS (12) [noun] A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | [noun] A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain. FOEMAN (11) FOEMEN (11) FOETAL (9) [adjective] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus. FOETID (10) [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking. FOETOR (9) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FOETUS (9) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FOGBOW (15) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOGDOG (12) FOGEYS (13) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOGGED (12) [verb] To become covered with or as if with fog. | [verb] To become obscured in condensation or water. | [verb] To become dim or obscure. FOGGER (11) FOGIES (10) [noun] A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow. FOIBLE (11) [noun] A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly. | [noun] A weakness or failing of character. | [noun] Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte. FOILED (10) [verb] To cover or wrap with foil. | [verb] To prevent (something) from being accomplished. | [verb] To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something. FOINED (10) FOISON (9) FOISTS (9) [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [verb] To pass off as genuine or worthy. FOLATE (9) [noun] A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex. FOLDED (11) [verb] To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. | [verb] To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. | [verb] To become folded; to form folds. FOLDER (10) [noun] An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet. | [noun] A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related. | [noun] A machine or person that folds things. FOLIAR (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves FOLIOS (9) [noun] A leaf of a book or manuscript | [noun] A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book. | [noun] A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages. FOLIUM (11) [noun] A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate. | [noun] A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop. FOLKIE (13) [noun] A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music. | [adjective] Of, or relating to folk music FOLKSY (16) [adjective] Characteristic of simple country life. | [adjective] Informal, affable and familiar. FOLLES (9) FOLLIS (9) [noun] A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire. FOLLOW (12) [noun] (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. | [noun] The act of following another user's online activity. | [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. FOMENT (11) [noun] Fomentation. | [verb] To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. | [verb] To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. FOMITE (11) [noun] An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts. FONDED (11) FONDER (10) [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Indulgent. FONDLE (10) [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. | [verb] To grasp. FONDLY (13) [adverb] In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. | [adverb] Foolishly. FONDUE (10) [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. | [verb] To prepare or serve as a fondue. FONDUS (10) FONTAL (9) FOODIE (10) [noun] A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. FOOLED (10) [verb] To trick; to deceive | [verb] To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly FOOTED (10) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet. FOOTER (9) [noun] A footgoer; pedestrian | [noun] A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare foot, 13). | [noun] (in combination) something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer. | [noun] Football / soccer. | [verb] To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful. FOOTIE (9) [noun] (especially in plural) pyjamas or a similar covering that covers the feet | [noun] Alternative spelling of footy FOOTLE (9) [noun] Nonsense; foolishness. | [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. FOOTSY (12) [noun] A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude. | [noun] A foot. | [noun] A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet. FOOZLE (18) [noun] A fogey. | [noun] A mistaken shot in golf. | [noun] The final boss character in a game. FOPPED (14) FORAGE (10) [noun] Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. | [noun] An act or instance of foraging. | [noun] The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population FORAMS (11) FORAYS (12) [noun] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. | [noun] A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere. | [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. FORBAD (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBID (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBYE (14) [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. | [preposition] Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover. FORCED (12) [verb] To violate (a woman); to rape. | [verb] To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. | [verb] To compel (someone or something) to do something. FORCER (11) FORCES (11) [noun] Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | [noun] Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | [noun] Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. FORDED (11) [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. FORDID (11) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREBY (14) FOREDO (10) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREGO (10) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. FOREST (9) [noun] A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods. | [noun] Any dense collection or amount. | [noun] A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas. FORGAT (10) FORGED (11) [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] To form or create with concerted effort. | [verb] To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. FORGER (10) [noun] A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter. | [noun] A person who forges metals. FORGES (10) [noun] Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. | [noun] Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. | [noun] The act of beating or working iron or steel. FORGET (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORGOT (10) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORINT (9) [noun] The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér. FORKED (14) [verb] To divide into two or more branches. | [verb] To move with a fork (as hay or food). | [verb] To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. FORKER (13) FORMAL (11) [noun] Formalin. | [noun] An evening gown. | [noun] An event with a formal dress code. FORMAT (11) [noun] The layout of a publication or document. | [noun] (hence) The form of presentation of something. | [noun] The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc. FORMED (12) [verb] To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | [verb] To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | [verb] To take shape. FORMEE (11) FORMER (11) [adjective] Previous. | [adjective] First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun. | [noun] Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder. FORMES (11) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORMIC (13) FORMOL (11) [noun] A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water. FORMYL (14) [noun] The univalent radical -CHO, derived from formaldehyde, that is characteristic of aldehydes FORNIX (16) [noun] An archlike structure or fold. | [noun] Specifically, the arched bundle of fibres or axons at the base of the brain. FORRIT (9) FORTES (9) [noun] A strength or talent. | [noun] The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt. | [noun] A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. FORTIS (9) [noun] A fortis consonant. | [adjective] Strongly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiceless. FORUMS (11) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FORWHY (18) FOSSAE (9) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. FOSSAS (9) [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOSSES (9) [noun] Waterfall (permanent flow of water over the edge of a cliff). | [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. FOSSIL (9) [noun] The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. | [noun] Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals. | [noun] A fossil word. FOSTER (9) [noun] A foster parent. | [noun] The care given to another; guardianship. | [verb] To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child. | [noun] A forester. FOUGHT (13) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. FOULED (10) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To clog or obstruct. FOULER (9) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. FOULLY (12) FOUNDS (10) [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To begin building. | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. FOUNTS (9) [noun] Something from which water flows. | [noun] A device from which poultry may drink. | [noun] That from which something flows or proceeds; a source. FOURTH (12) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position. | [noun] (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. | [noun] (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine. FOVEAE (12) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FOVEAL (12) FOVEAS (12) FOWLED (13) FOWLER (12) FOXIER (16) [adjective] Having the qualities of a fox. | [adjective] Cunning, sly. | [adjective] Attractive, sexy (of a woman). FOXILY (19) FOXING (17) [verb] To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. | [verb] To confuse or baffle (someone). | [verb] To act slyly or craftily. FOYERS (12) [noun] A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc. | [noun] The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. | [noun] A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people. FOZIER (18) FRACAS (11) [noun] A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap. FRACTI (11) FRAENA (9) FRAILS (9) [noun] A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. | [noun] The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. | [noun] A rush for weaving baskets. FRAISE (9) [verb] To put in danger, in terror, or at risk. | [noun] A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. | [noun] A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century. | [noun] A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it. | [noun] A stylized strawberry with leaves. | [noun] Commotion. FRAMED (12) [verb] To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | [verb] To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | [verb] To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. FRAMER (11) [noun] A person who makes frames for paintings. | [noun] A person who assembles the frame of a ship. | [noun] A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building. FRAMES (11) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FRANCS (11) [noun] A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. | [noun] Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies. FRANKS (13) [noun] Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article). | [noun] The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found. | [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. FRAPPE (13) [noun] Liqueur poured over shaved ice. | [noun] A thick milkshake containing ice cream. | [noun] (Greece) An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink. FRATER (9) [noun] A monk. | [noun] A frater house. | [noun] A comrade. FRAUDS (10) [noun] The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. | [noun] Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. | [noun] The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. FRAYED (13) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FRAZIL (18) [noun] A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water. FREAKS (13) [noun] A sudden change of mind | [noun] Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | [noun] A hippie. FREAKY (16) [adjective] Resembling a freak. | [adjective] Odd; bizarre; unusual. | [adjective] Scary; frightening. FREELY (12) [adjective] Free; frank. | [adjective] Generous; noble; excellent; beautiful; lovely. | [adverb] In a free manner. FREERS (9) FREEST (9) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. | [adjective] (social) Unconstrained. FREEZE (18) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. | [noun] A period of intensely cold weather. | [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. FRENCH (14) [verb] To prepare food by cutting it into strips. | [verb] To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth. | [verb] To kiss in this manner. FRENUM (11) [noun] A frenulum. FRENZY (21) [noun] A state of wild activity or panic. | [noun] A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage. | [verb] To render frantic. FRERES (9) FRESCO (11) [noun] A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade. | [noun] An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. | [noun] The technique used to make such an artwork. FRETTY (12) FRIARS (9) [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | [noun] A white or pale patch on a printed page. | [noun] An American fish, the silverside. FRIARY (12) [noun] House or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live | [adjective] Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent. FRIDGE (11) [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To place inside of a refrigerator. | [verb] To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a character, usually female, from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character, usually male, and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). | [verb] To rub, chafe. FRIEND (10) [noun] A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. | [noun] An associate who provides assistance. | [noun] A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. FRIERS (9) [noun] A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | [noun] A white or pale patch on a printed page. | [noun] An American fish, the silverside. FRIEZE (18) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. | [verb] To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. | [noun] That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. FRIGHT (13) [noun] A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. | [noun] Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. | [verb] To frighten. | [adjective] Frightened; afraid; affright FRIGID (11) [adjective] Very cold; lacking warmth; icy. | [adjective] Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive. | [adjective] Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman. FRIJOL (16) FRILLS (9) [noun] A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. | [noun] A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. | [noun] A wrinkled edge to a film. FRILLY (12) [adjective] Having frills; frilled. | [adjective] Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance. FRINGE (10) [noun] Hair hanging over the forehead. | [noun] A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. FRINGY (13) FRISES (9) FRISKS (13) [verb] To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. | [verb] To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing. FRISKY (16) [adjective] Abounding in energy or playfulness | [adjective] Sexually aroused FRITHS (12) [noun] An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. | [noun] Peace; security. | [noun] Sanctuary, asylum. FRITTS (9) FRIVOL (12) [noun] An unserious person; a shallow person. | [noun] An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity. | [verb] To behave frivolously. FRIZED (19) FRIZER (18) FRIZES (18) FRIZZY (30) [noun] A small amount of unkempt, curly hair | [adjective] Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions. FROCKS (15) [noun] A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body. | [noun] An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit. | [noun] A sailor's jersey. FROGGY (14) [noun] A frog. | [noun] A Frenchman. | [adjective] Froglike. FROLIC (11) [noun] Gaiety; merriment. | [noun] A playful antic. | [noun] A social gathering. FRONDS (10) [noun] The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. | [noun] Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf. FRONTS (9) [noun] The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. | [noun] The side of a building with the main entrance. | [noun] A field of activity. FROSTS (9) [noun] A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. | [noun] The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. | [noun] Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. FROSTY (12) [adjective] Cold, chilly. | [adjective] Having frost on it. | [adjective] Having an aloof or inhospitable manner. FROTHS (12) [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). | [verb] (of a liquid) To bubble. | [verb] To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. FROTHY (15) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A serving of beer. | [adjective] Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles. | [adjective] Lightweight; lacking depth or substance FROUZY (21) FROWNS (12) [noun] A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. | [noun] A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down. | [verb] To have a frown on one's face. FROWST (12) [noun] Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room. | [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWSY (15) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWZY (24) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROZEN (18) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FRUGAL (10) [adjective] Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste. FRUITS (9) [noun] (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. | [noun] Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. | [noun] A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: FRUITY (12) [adjective] Containing fruit or fruit flavoring. | [adjective] Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit. | [adjective] Mad, crazy. FRUMPS (13) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FRUMPY (16) [adjective] Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable. | [adjective] Bad-tempered. FRUSTA (9) [noun] A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base. | [noun] A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes. FRYERS (12) [noun] A container for frying food. | [noun] A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet FRYING (13) [verb] A method of cooking food. | [verb] To be affected by extreme heat or current. | [noun] The action of the verb fry. FRYPAN (14) [noun] A frying pan. FUBBED (14) FUCKED (16) [verb] To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. FUCKER (15) [noun] An undesirable person. | [noun] The object of some effort. | [noun] People, friends, especially of very high solidarity. FUCKUP (17) [noun] A serious mistake. | [noun] One who continually makes mistakes. | [noun] An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot FUCOID (12) [noun] A fucoid seaweed. | [adjective] Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus. | [adjective] Of sandstone: bearing seaweed-like markings. FUCOSE (11) FUCOUS (11) FUDDLE (11) [noun] Intoxication. | [noun] Intoxicating drink; liquor. | [noun] Muddle, confusion. FUDGED (12) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUDGES (11) [noun] A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge. | [noun] Light or frothy nonsense. | [noun] A deliberately misleading or vague answer. FUELED (10) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. FUELER (9) FUGATO (10) [noun] A fugal passage in a composition that is not a strict or complete fugue. FUGGED (12) FUGIOS (10) FUGLED (11) FUGLES (10) FUGUED (11) FUGUES (10) [noun] A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. | [noun] Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. | [noun] A fugue state. FUHRER (12) [noun] A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant | [noun] (definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany FULCRA (11) [noun] The support about which a lever pivots. | [noun] A crux or pivot; a central point. FULFIL (12) [verb] To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). | [verb] To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | [verb] To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). FULGID (11) FULHAM (14) FULLAM (11) FULLED (10) [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. | [verb] To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk FULLER (9) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. | [noun] A person who fulls cloth. | [noun] A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal. FULMAR (11) [noun] Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs. FUMBLE (13) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. FUMERS (11) FUMETS (11) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. FUMIER (11) FUMING (12) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMULI (11) FUNDED (11) [verb] To pay for. | [verb] To place (money) in a fund. | [verb] To form a debt into a stock charged with interest. FUNDIC (12) FUNDUS (10) [noun] The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially FUNEST (9) FUNGAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi. FUNGIC (12) FUNGUS (10) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. FUNKED (14) [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [verb] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | [verb] To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. FUNKER (13) FUNKIA (13) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta). FUNNED (10) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FUNNEL (9) [noun] A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening. | [noun] A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like. | [verb] To use a funnel. | [noun] A hinny; hybrid of male horse and female donkey. FUNNER (9) [adjective] Enjoyable, amusing | [adjective] Whimsical, flamboyant FURANE (9) FURANS (9) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O. FURFUR (12) FURIES (9) [noun] Extreme anger. | [noun] Strength or violence in action. | [noun] An angry or malignant person. FURLED (10) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) FURLER (9) FURORE (9) [noun] Uproar; enthusiastic anger. | [noun] Excitement or commotion. FURORS (9) [noun] A general uproar or commotion | [noun] Violent anger or frenzy | [noun] A state of intense excitement FURRED (10) [verb] To cover with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To level a surface by applying furring to it. FURROW (12) [noun] A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. | [noun] Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. | [noun] A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. FURZES (18) FUSAIN (9) [noun] Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. | [noun] A drawing made with it. FUSEES (9) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUSELS (9) FUSILE (9) FUSILS (9) [noun] A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. | [noun] A light flintlock musket or firelock. FUSING (10) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUSION (9) [noun] The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof. | [verb] To combine; to fuse FUSSED (10) [verb] To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. | [verb] To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust | [verb] (especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured. FUSSER (9) FUSSES (9) [noun] Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something. | [noun] A complaint or noise; a scene. | [noun] An exhibition of affection or admiration. FUSTIC (11) [noun] A tropical American tree, Maclura tinctoria, whose wood produces a yellow dye. | [noun] A European tree, Eurasian smoketree, Cotinus coggygria, whose wood produces an orange dye. | [noun] The wood of these trees. FUTILE (9) [adjective] Incapable of producing results; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. FUTONS (9) [noun] A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. | [noun] A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. FUTURE (9) [noun] The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. | [noun] Something that will happen in moments yet to come. | [noun] Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. FUTZED (19) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUTZES (18) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZEES (18) [noun] A light musket or firelock. | [noun] A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks. | [noun] A large friction match. FUZILS (18) FUZING (19) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. FUZZED (28) [verb] To make fuzzy. | [verb] To become fuzzy. | [verb] To make drunk. FUZZES (27) [noun] A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. | [noun] Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. | [noun] The random data used in fuzz testing. FYLFOT (15) [noun] A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction. FYTTES (12) [noun] The degree to which something fits. | [noun] Conformity of elements one to another. | [noun] The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

FABLERS (12) FABLIAU (12) [noun] A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. FABLING (13) [verb] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. | [verb] To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable. | [noun] The act of telling fables. FABRICS (14) [noun] An edifice or building. | [noun] The act of constructing, construction, fabrication. | [noun] The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make. FABULAR (12) FACADES (13) [noun] The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation. | [noun] (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ. | [noun] A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front. FACETED (13) [verb] To cut a facet into a gemstone. | [adjective] Having facets. FACIALS (12) [noun] A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face. | [noun] A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor. | [noun] (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face. FACIEND (13) FACINGS (13) [noun] The most external portion of exterior siding. | [noun] Fabric applied to a garment edge on the underside. | [noun] A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting. FACTFUL (15) FACTION (12) [noun] A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group. | [noun] Strife; discord. | [noun] A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction FACTOID (13) [noun] An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media. | [noun] (originally North America) An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact. FACTORS (12) [noun] A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. | [noun] An agent or representative. | [noun] A commission agent. FACTORY (15) [noun] A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. | [noun] The position or state of being a factor. | [noun] A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. FACTUAL (12) [adjective] Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims. | [adjective] True, accurate, corresponding to reality. FACTURE (12) [noun] The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. | [noun] An invoice or bill of parcels. FACULAE (12) [noun] A bright spot or patch between sunspots FACULAR (12) FACULTY (15) [noun] The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff. | [noun] A division of a university. | [noun] An ability, skill, or power, often plural. FADABLE (13) FADDIER (12) [adjective] Having characteristics of a fad. | [adjective] Fussy, having particular tastes or whims FADDISH (15) FADDISM (14) FADDIST (12) FADEDLY (15) FADGING (13) FADINGS (12) FAERIES (10) [noun] Realm of the fays, fairyland. | [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. FAGGING (13) [verb] (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. | [verb] To droop; to tire. | [verb] For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. FAGGOTS (12) [noun] (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) | [noun] Burdensome baggage. | [noun] A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding. FAGGOTY (15) [adjective] Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood. | [adjective] Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones. FAGOTED (12) [verb] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle. FAGOTER (11) FAIENCE (12) [noun] A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic. | [noun] The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.) FAILING (11) [verb] To be unsuccessful. | [verb] Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) | [verb] To neglect. FAILLES (10) [noun] A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs. FAILURE (10) [noun] State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. | [noun] An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success. | [noun] Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. FAINEST (10) FAINTED (11) [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). | [verb] To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. | [verb] To decay; to disappear; to vanish. FAINTER (10) [adjective] (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness | [adjective] Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected | [adjective] Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp FAINTLY (13) [adverb] In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly. FAIREST (10) [adjective] Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. | [adjective] Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent. | [adjective] Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair. FAIRIES (10) [noun] The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion. | [noun] A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism. | [noun] An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm. FAIRING (11) [verb] To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). | [verb] To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). | [verb] To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance. FAIRISH (13) FAIRWAY (16) [noun] The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short. | [noun] Any tract of land free from obstacles. | [noun] (Military) A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6) FAITHED (14) FAITOUR (10) FAJITAS (17) [noun] A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling. FAKEERS (14) [noun] An Eastern religious ascetic or monk. FALAFEL (13) [noun] A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas and other ingredients. Often served in a pita. | [noun] A pita with falafel balls inside (like a sandwich or a wrap). | [noun] A single falafel ball. FALBALA (12) FALCATE (12) [adjective] Shaped like a sickle. FALCONS (12) [noun] Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey. | [noun] A female such bird, a male being a tiercel. | [noun] A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet. FALLACY (15) [noun] Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind. | [noun] An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument. FALLALS (10) FALLERS (10) [noun] One who falls. | [noun] A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked. | [noun] A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. FALLING (11) [verb] (heading) To be moved downwards. | [verb] To move downwards. | [verb] To happen, to change negatively. FALLOFF (16) [noun] A reduction or decline. FALLOUT (10) [noun] The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc. | [noun] The particles themselves. | [noun] A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence. FALLOWS (13) [noun] Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. | [noun] Uncultivated land. | [noun] The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. FALSELY (13) [adverb] In a false manner. FALSEST (10) [adjective] Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. | [adjective] Based on factually incorrect premises. | [adjective] Spurious, artificial. FALSIES (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) padding worn inside a brassiere to make the breasts appear larger | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) a false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement FALSIFY (16) [verb] To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect. | [verb] To misrepresent. | [verb] To prove to be false. FALSITY (13) [noun] Something that is false; an untrue assertion. | [noun] The characteristic of being untrue. FALTERS (10) [verb] To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off. | [verb] To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner. | [verb] To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought. FAMINES (12) [noun] Extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] Starvation or malnutrition. FAMULUS (12) [noun] A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar. FANATIC (12) [noun] A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion. | [adjective] Fanatical. | [adjective] Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous. FANCIED (13) [adjective] Imagined. | [verb] To appreciate without jealousy or greed. | [verb] Would like FANCIER (12) [noun] One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something. An aficionado. | [noun] A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence. | [noun] One who fancies or imagines. FANCIES (12) [noun] The imagination. | [noun] An image or representation of anything formed in the mind. | [noun] An opinion or notion formed without much reflection. FANCIFY (18) FANCILY (15) FANDOMS (13) [noun] The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group. | [noun] The subculture of fans. | [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being a fan. FANEGAS (11) FANFARE (13) [noun] A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. | [noun] A show of ceremony or celebration. | [verb] To play a fanfare. FANFOLD (14) FANIONS (10) FANJETS (17) [noun] A turbofan engine. | [noun] An airplane powered by turbofan engines. FANLIKE (14) FANNERS (10) FANNIES (10) [noun] The female genitalia. | [noun] The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms. | [noun] Sexual intercourse with a woman. FANNING (11) [verb] To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. | [verb] To slap (a behind, especially). | [verb] (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. FANTAIL (10) [noun] Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand. | [noun] Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail. | [noun] Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail. FANTASM (12) FANTAST (10) [noun] One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful. FANTASY (13) [noun] That which comes from one's imagination. | [noun] The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. | [noun] A fantastical design. FANTODS (11) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A state of worry or nervous anxiety, irritability. | [noun] An irritable outburst. FANTOMS (12) FANWISE (13) FANWORT (13) FANZINE (19) [noun] A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest FAQUIRS (19) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FARADAY (14) [noun] The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately −96,487 coulombs. FARADIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to electricity, especially to electrical induction. | [adjective] Of a current that is alternating, as opposed to galvanic. FARAWAY (16) [adjective] Distant. | [adjective] Not mentally present, as when daydreaming. FARCERS (12) FARCEUR (12) [noun] A person who writes farces, or who performs in them. | [noun] A farcical comedian. FARCIES (12) FARCING (13) FARDELS (11) [noun] A fourth part: a quarter of anything. | [noun] An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. | [noun] A bundle or burden. FARDING (12) FARFALS (13) FARFELS (13) FARINAS (10) [noun] A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. FARINHA (13) FARMERS (12) [noun] A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm. | [noun] Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms. | [noun] One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. FARMING (13) [verb] To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | [verb] To devote (land) to farming. | [verb] To grow (a particular crop). FARNESS (10) [noun] The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness FARRAGO (11) [noun] A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things. FARRIER (10) [noun] A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoof and fitting of horseshoes. | [verb] To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. FARROWS (13) [noun] A litter of piglets. | [verb] To give birth to a (litter of piglets). FARSIDE (11) [noun] The side of a moon that faces away from the planet that it orbits FARTHER (13) [verb] To help forward; to assist. | [verb] To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote. FARTING (11) [verb] (impolite) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate. | [verb] (usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing. | [verb] To emit (fumes, gases, etc.). FASCIAE (12) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FASCIAL (12) FASCIAS (12) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FASCINE (12) [noun] (fortification) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc. FASCISM (14) FASCIST (12) FASHING (14) [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. FASHION (13) [noun] A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. | [noun] Popular trends. | [noun] A style or manner in which something is done. FASTENS (10) [verb] To attach or connect in a secure manner. | [verb] To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land. FASTEST (10) [adjective] Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. | [adjective] Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. | [adjective] (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) FASTING (11) [verb] To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or medical reasons. | [noun] Abstinence from food FATALLY (13) [adverb] In a fatal manner; lethally. | [adverb] Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something. | [adverb] Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom. FATBACK (18) [noun] A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard | [noun] A fish, the menhaden. FATBIRD (13) FATEFUL (13) [adjective] Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate. | [adjective] Determined in advance by fate, fated. FATHEAD (14) [noun] An idiot; a fool. | [noun] A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow. | [noun] A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher. FATHERS (13) [noun] A (generally human) male who begets a child. | [noun] A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. | [noun] A term of respectful address for an elderly man. FATHOMS (15) [noun] Grasp, envelopment, control. | [noun] (now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m). | [noun] Various similar units in other systems. FATIDIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic FATIGUE (11) [noun] A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion. | [noun] (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military. | [noun] Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material. FATLESS (10) FATLIKE (14) FATLING (11) [noun] A young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter. FATNESS (10) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being fat. FATSOES (10) FATTENS (10) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. | [verb] (of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter. | [verb] To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money). FATTEST (10) [adjective] Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. | [adjective] Thick. | [adjective] Bountiful. FATTIER (10) [adjective] Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. | [adjective] Like fat; greasy. | [adjective] Literally or figuratively large. FATTIES (10) [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large marijuana cigar; a blunt. FATTILY (13) FATTING (11) [verb] To make fat; to fatten. | [verb] To become fat; to fatten. FATTISH (13) FATUITY (13) FATUOUS (10) [adjective] Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness. FATWOOD (14) FAUCALS (12) FAUCETS (12) [noun] An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. | [noun] (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation FAUCIAL (12) FAULTED (11) [verb] To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. | [verb] To fracture. | [verb] To commit a mistake or error. FAUVISM (15) [noun] An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors. FAUVIST (13) FAVELAS (13) [noun] A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil FAVELLA (13) FAVISMS (15) FAVORED (14) [verb] To look upon fondly; to prefer. | [verb] To encourage, conduce to | [verb] To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward. FAVORER (13) FAVOURS (13) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVUSES (13) FAWNERS (13) [noun] One who fawns; a sycophant. FAWNIER (13) FAWNING (14) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FAZENDA (20) [noun] A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period. FEARERS (10) FEARFUL (13) [adjective] Frightening. | [adjective] Tending to fear; timid. | [adjective] Terrible; shockingly bad. FEARING (11) [verb] To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm. | [verb] To feel fear (about something). | [verb] (used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. FEASING (11) FEASTED (11) [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. | [verb] To dwell upon (something) with delight. | [verb] To hold a feast in honor of (someone). FEASTER (10) FEATEST (10) FEATHER (13) [noun] A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display. | [noun] Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair. | [noun] One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. FEATURE (10) [noun] One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions. | [noun] An important or main item. | [noun] A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. FEAZING (20) FEBRILE (12) [adjective] Feverish, or having a high temperature. | [adjective] Full of nervous energy. FECIALS (12) FECULAE (12) FEDAYEE (14) FEDERAL (11) [noun] A law-enforcement official of the FBI; a federal agent. | [noun] A supporter of federation. | [noun] A unionist soldier in the American Civil War. FEDORAS (11) [noun] A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down. FEEBLER (12) [adjective] Deficient in physical strength | [adjective] Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint. FEEDBAG (14) [noun] A horse's nosebag. FEEDBOX (20) [noun] A box containing animal feed. FEEDERS (11) [noun] One who feeds, or gives food to another. | [noun] One who feeds, or takes in food. | [noun] One who, or that which, feeds material into something. FEEDING (12) [verb] (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. | [verb] To eat (usually of animals). | [verb] To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. FEEDLOT (11) [noun] Land on which livestock are fattened for market. FEELERS (10) [noun] Someone or something that feels. | [noun] An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect. | [noun] Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position. FEELESS (10) FEELING (11) [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. | [verb] (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. | [verb] To be or become aware of. FEEZING (20) FEIGNED (12) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FEIGNER (11) FEIJOAS (17) [noun] A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana). | [noun] The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste. FEINTED (11) [verb] To make a feint, or mock attack. FELAFEL (13) [noun] A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas and other ingredients. Often served in a pita. | [noun] A pita with falafel balls inside (like a sandwich or a wrap). | [noun] A single falafel ball. FELINES (10) [noun] A cat; member of the cat family Felidae. FELLAHS (13) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. | [noun] A colleague or partner. FELLATE (10) [verb] To perform oral sex on (a man); to stimulate (a penis or testicles) using the mouth. | [verb] (by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio. | [verb] To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to. FELLERS (10) [noun] A person who fells trees; a lumberjack | [noun] A machine for felling trees. | [noun] A person who fells a seam. FELLEST (10) FELLIES (10) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. FELLING (11) [verb] To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. | [verb] To strike down, kill, destroy. | [verb] To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. FELLOES (10) [noun] The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes. FELLOWS (13) [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. | [noun] A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. FELONRY (13) [noun] Felons as a group. | [noun] The convict population of a penal colony. FELSITE (10) FELSPAR (12) [noun] Any of a large group of rock-forming minerals that, together, make up about 60% of the earth's outer crust. The feldspars are all aluminum silicates of the alkali metals sodium, potassium, calcium and barium. Feldspars are the principal constituents of igneous and plutonic rocks. FELTING (11) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FELUCCA (14) [noun] A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails. FELWORT (13) [noun] A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family. | [noun] Any member of any species in genus Swertia. | [noun] Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae FEMALES (12) [noun] One of the female (feminine) sex or gender. FEMINIE (12) FEMORAL (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh. FENAGLE (11) FENCERS (12) FENCING (13) [verb] To enclose, contain or separate by building fence. | [verb] To defend or guard. | [verb] To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods. FENDERS (11) [noun] Panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels | [noun] A shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water | [noun] Any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute FENDING (12) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FENLAND (11) [noun] A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy FENNECS (12) [noun] A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears. FENNELS (10) FENURON (10) FEODARY (14) [noun] An accomplice. | [noun] An ancient officer of the Court of Wards. FEOFFED (17) FEOFFEE (16) [noun] A vassal holding a fief. FEOFFER (16) FEOFFOR (16) FERBAMS (14) FERLIES (10) FERMATA (12) [noun] The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest. FERMATE (12) FERMENT (12) [noun] Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation. | [noun] A state of agitation or of turbulent change. | [noun] A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. FERMION (12) [noun] (Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark; (slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions. FERMIUM (14) [noun] A transuranic chemical element (symbol Fm) with an atomic number of 100. FERNERY (13) FERNIER (10) FERRATE (10) [noun] The anion FeO42- in which iron is in a +6 formal oxidation state. FERRELS (10) [noun] A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. | [noun] A band holding parts of an object together. FERRETS (10) [noun] An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals. | [noun] The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes. | [noun] A diligent searcher. FERRETY (13) FERRIED (11) [verb] To carry; transport; convey. | [verb] To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly. | [verb] To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores. FERRIES (10) [noun] A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. | [noun] A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. | [noun] The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service. FERRITE (10) [noun] The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron. | [noun] Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers. | [noun] The anion FeO22-, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it. FERROUS (10) [adjective] Of or containing iron. | [adjective] Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2. FERRULE (10) [noun] A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. | [noun] A band holding parts of an object together. | [verb] To equip with a ferrule. FERRUMS (12) FERTILE (10) [adjective] (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive | [adjective] Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful | [adjective] Capable of developing past the egg stage FERULAE (10) FERULAS (10) [noun] A ferule. | [noun] A stroke from a cane. | [noun] The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire. FERULED (11) FERULES (10) [noun] A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand. FERVENT (13) [adjective] Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief. | [adjective] Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion. | [adjective] Glowing, burning, very hot. FERVORS (13) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FERVOUR (13) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardour. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FESCUES (12) [noun] A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. | [noun] A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca. | [noun] An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. FESSING (11) [verb] To confess; to admit. FESTERS (10) [verb] To become septic; to become rotten. | [verb] To worsen, especially due to lack of attention. | [verb] To cause to fester or rankle. FESTIVE (13) [adjective] Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | [adjective] In the mood to celebrate. FESTOON (10) [noun] An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots. | [noun] A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament. | [noun] A raised cable with light globes attached. FETCHED (16) [verb] To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. | [verb] To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. | [verb] To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. FETCHER (15) FETCHES (15) [verb] To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. | [verb] To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. | [verb] To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. FETIALS (10) FETIDLY (14) FETLOCK (16) [noun] A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof. | [noun] The tuft of hair that grows at this joint. FETTERS (10) [noun] A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural). | [noun] Anything that restricts or restrains. | [verb] To shackle or bind up with fetters. FETTING (11) FETTLED (11) [verb] To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. | [verb] To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. | [verb] To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal. FETTLES (10) [noun] A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim. | [noun] One's mental state; spirits. | [noun] Sand used to line a furnace. FETUSES (10) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FEUDARY (14) FEUDING (12) [verb] To carry on a feud. | [noun] Participation in feuds. FEUDIST (11) [noun] One who takes part in feuds. | [noun] A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. FEVERED (14) [verb] To put into a fever; to affect with fever. | [verb] To become fevered. | [adjective] Affected by a fever; feverish. FEWNESS (13) FEYNESS (13) FIACRES (12) [noun] A small carriage for hire. FIANCEE (12) [noun] A woman who is engaged to be married. FIANCES (12) [noun] A man who is engaged to be married. | [noun] A person engaged to be married. FIASCHI (15) FIASCOS (12) [noun] A sudden or unexpected failure. | [noun] A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong. | [noun] A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket. FIBBERS (14) FIBBING (15) [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. | [noun] Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating. FIBERED (13) FIBRILS (12) [noun] A fine fibre or filament | [noun] Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants FIBRINS (12) FIBROID (13) [noun] A benign tumour of the uterus that is composed of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle. | [noun] A fibroma. FIBROIN (12) [noun] A tough elastic protein that is the main component of silk and of spider's webs FIBROMA (14) [noun] A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue. FIBROUS (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to fibre. | [adjective] Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food. FIBULAE (12) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FIBULAR (12) FIBULAS (12) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FICKLER (16) [adjective] Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable. | [adjective] Changeable. FICTILE (12) [adjective] Capable of being molded into the shape of an artifact or art work | [adjective] (of an art work or artifact) Molded of clay or earth | [adjective] Of or relating to earthenware FICTION (12) [noun] Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. | [noun] A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead). | [noun] A legal fiction. FICTIVE (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional. | [adjective] Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented. | [adjective] Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal. FICUSES (12) FIDDLED (13) [verb] To play aimlessly. | [verb] To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud. | [verb] To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style. FIDDLER (12) [noun] One who plays the fiddle. | [noun] One who fiddles. | [noun] A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle. FIDDLES (12) [noun] Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. | [noun] A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument. | [noun] An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw. FIDEISM (13) [noun] The doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge FIDEIST (11) FIDGETS (12) [noun] A nervous wriggling or twitching motion. | [noun] A person who fidgets, especially habitually. | [noun] A toy intended to be fidgeted with. FIDGETY (15) [adjective] Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless. FIDGING (13) FIEFDOM (16) [noun] The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief. | [noun] (by extension) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual. FIELDED (12) [verb] To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. | [verb] (and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. | [verb] To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. FIELDER (11) [noun] A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring. | [noun] A defensive player in the field. | [noun] A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field. FIERCER (12) [adjective] Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage. | [adjective] Resolute or strenuously active. | [adjective] Threatening in appearance or demeanor. FIERIER (10) [adjective] Of or relating to fire. | [adjective] Burning or glowing. | [adjective] Inflammable or easily ignited. FIERILY (13) FIESTAS (10) [noun] (In Spanish speaking countries) A religious festival. | [noun] A festive occasion. FIFTEEN (13) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16). FIFTHLY (19) FIFTIES (13) [noun] The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc. | [noun] The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59. | [noun] (temperature, rates) The range between 50 and 59. FIGGING (13) [noun] The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, originally applied to slaves and prisoners as a punishment, then to horses as a form of deception as to the horse's condition, and later used in BDSM. | [verb] To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. | [verb] To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. FIGHTER (14) [noun] A person who fights; a combatant. | [noun] A warrior; fighting soldier. | [noun] A pugnacious, competitive person. FIGMENT (13) [noun] A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious. FIGURAL (11) [adjective] Representing by means of a figure; emblematic. | [adjective] Figurative, not literal. | [adjective] Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure. FIGURED (12) [verb] To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. | [verb] To come to understand. | [verb] To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. FIGURER (11) FIGURES (11) [noun] A drawing or diagram conveying information. | [noun] The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. | [noun] A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. FIGWORT (14) [noun] Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia. | [noun] Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria. FILAREE (10) FILARIA (10) [noun] Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis. FILBERT (12) [noun] The hazelnut. | [noun] The hazel tree. | [noun] A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head. FILCHED (16) [verb] To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal. FILCHER (15) FILCHES (15) [noun] Something which has been filched or stolen. | [noun] An act of filching; larceny, theft. | [noun] A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief. FILEMOT (12) FILETED (11) FILIATE (10) FILIBEG (13) [noun] A little kilt. FILINGS (11) [noun] Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving. | [noun] The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving. | [noun] Something that has been officially filed; a document on file. FILLERS (10) [noun] One who fills. | [noun] Something added to fill a space or add weight or size. | [noun] Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores. FILLETS (10) [noun] A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. | [noun] A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses. | [noun] A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. FILLIES (10) [noun] A young female horse. | [noun] A young attractive female. FILLING (11) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. FILLIPS (12) [noun] The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick. | [noun] A smart strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means. | [noun] (by extension) Something unimportant, a trifle; also, the brief time it takes to flick one's finger (see noun sense 1); a jiffy. FILMDOM (15) FILMERS (12) FILMIER (12) [adjective] Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy | [adjective] Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy FILMILY (15) FILMING (13) [verb] To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | [verb] To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | [noun] The action of the verb to film. FILMSET (12) [noun] The enclosure in which a film scene is shot; includes scenery and props | [verb] To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates. | [adjective] Created using a process of filmsetting. FILTERS (10) [noun] A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another. | [noun] Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies. | [noun] Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate. FIMBLES (14) FIMBRIA (14) [noun] Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. | [noun] Hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects. FINABLE (12) FINAGLE (11) [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts. | [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery. | [verb] To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object) FINALES (10) [noun] The grand end of something, especially a show or piece of music. | [noun] The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works. FINALIS (10) FINALLY (13) [adverb] At the end or conclusion; ultimately. | [adverb] (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present). | [adverb] (manner) Definitively, comprehensively. FINANCE (12) [noun] The management of money and other assets. | [noun] The science of management of money and other assets. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company. FINBACK (18) [noun] A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale. FINCHES (15) [noun] Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak. FINDERS (11) [noun] One who finds or discovers something. | [noun] An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest FINDING (12) [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | [verb] To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. FINESSE (10) [noun] Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. | [noun] The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. | [noun] An adroit manoeuvre. FINFISH (16) FINFOOT (13) [noun] Three species in three monospecific genera of aquatic bird in the family Heliornithidae. FINGERS (11) [noun] A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, exclusive of the thumb. | [noun] Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly: | [noun] Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly: FINIALS (10) [noun] The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture. | [noun] Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post. FINICAL (12) [adjective] Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate. FINICKY (19) [adjective] (of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details. | [adjective] Demanding; requiring above-normal care. FINIKIN (14) FININGS (11) [noun] Substances added to wine, beer and certain other beverages to remove organic compounds in order to improve clarity or to adjust the flavour or aroma. FINISES (10) FINITES (10) FINKING (15) [verb] To betray a trust; to inform on. FINLESS (10) FINLIKE (14) FINMARK (16) FINNIER (10) FINNING (11) [verb] To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc. | [verb] (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water. | [verb] To swim in the manner of a fish. FIPPLES (14) [noun] The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway. FIREARM (12) [noun] A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead. FIREBOX (19) [noun] The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned. | [noun] The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned. | [noun] A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or her red pubic hair. FIREBUG (13) [noun] Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae. | [noun] A pyromaniac or arsonist. FIREDOG (12) [noun] A Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar. | [noun] (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace FIREFLY (16) [noun] Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight. FIRELIT (10) [adjective] Illuminated by a fire FIREMAN (12) [noun] Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire. | [noun] A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship. | [noun] By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not. FIREMEN (12) [noun] Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire. | [noun] A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship. | [noun] By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not. FIREPAN (12) FIREPOT (12) FIRINGS (11) [noun] The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery. | [noun] The fuel for a fire. | [noun] The act of adding fuel to a fire. FIRKINS (14) [noun] A varying measure of capacity, usually being a quarter of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. | [noun] A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, used for butter, lard, etc. | [noun] A weight measure for butter, equalling 56 pounds. FIRMANS (12) [noun] A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey. FIRMERS (12) FIRMEST (12) [adjective] Steadfast, secure, solid (in position) | [adjective] Fixed (in opinion) | [adjective] Durable, rigid (material state) FIRMING (13) [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. | [verb] To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. | [verb] To become firm; stabilise. FIRSTLY (13) [adverb] In the first place; before anything else; first. FISCALS (12) [noun] A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue. | [noun] Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor. | [noun] In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general. FISHERS (13) [noun] A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport. | [noun] A person attempting to catch fish. | [noun] A North American marten, Martes pennanti, that has thick brown fur. FISHERY (16) [noun] Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood. | [noun] A place related to fishing, particularly: | [noun] A right to fish in a particular location; Territorial fishing waters. FISHEYE (16) [noun] An unfriendly or suspicious glance. | [noun] An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface. | [noun] An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow. FISHGIG (15) FISHIER (13) [adjective] Of, from, or similar to fish. | [adjective] Suspicious; inspiring doubt. | [adjective] Of drag queens: appearing feminine. FISHILY (16) FISHING (14) [noun] The act of catching fish. | [noun] The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish. | [noun] Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale. | [verb] To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. FISHNET (13) [noun] A net used to catch fish. | [noun] A fabric with an open diamond-shaped structure; normally used for stockings etc | [noun] (usually in plural) Stockings made of fishnet fabric. FISHWAY (19) [noun] A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish. FISSATE (10) FISSILE (10) [adjective] Able to be split | [adjective] Easily split along a grain | [adjective] Capable of undergoing nuclear fission, especially by collision with a thermal neutron FISSION (10) [noun] The process whereby one item splits to become two. | [noun] Short for nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles. | [noun] The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells. FISSURE (10) [noun] A crack or opening, as in a rock. | [noun] A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear; a sulcus. | [verb] To split, forming fissures. FISTFUL (13) [noun] The amount that can be held in a closed fist | [noun] A blow with the fist. FISTING (11) [verb] To strike with the fist. | [verb] To close (the hand) into a fist. | [verb] To grip with a fist. FISTULA (10) [noun] An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. | [noun] A tube, a pipe, or a hole. | [noun] The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice. FITCHEE (15) FITCHES (15) [noun] The European polecat, Mustela putorius. | [noun] The skin of the polecat FITCHET (15) FITCHEW (18) [noun] Polecat FITMENT (12) [noun] Something that suits or fits. | [noun] A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose. | [noun] An item of permanent furniture or equipment. FITNESS (10) [noun] The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate. | [noun] The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique. | [noun] An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring. FITTERS (10) [noun] A person who fits or assembles something. | [noun] An epileptic. | [noun] A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. FITTEST (10) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FITTING (11) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FIXABLE (19) FIXATED (18) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIXATES (17) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIXATIF (20) FIXEDLY (21) FIXINGS (18) [noun] The act of subverting (fixing) a vote. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc) | [noun] See fixings. FIXTURE (17) [noun] Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing. | [noun] A regular patron of a place or institution. | [noun] A lighting unit; a luminaire. FIXURES (17) FIZGIGS (21) [noun] A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. | [noun] Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket. | [verb] To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant. FIZZERS (28) [noun] Something which fizzes. | [noun] A party or social gathering which turns out to be a disappointment. | [noun] A disciplinary charge. FIZZIER (28) [adjective] (of a liquid) Containing bubbles. | [adjective] Lively, vivacious. | [adjective] Makes a hissing sound. FIZZING (29) [verb] To emit bubbles. | [verb] To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound. | [verb] To shoot or project something moving at great velocity. FIZZLED (29) [verb] To sputter or hiss. | [verb] To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. FIZZLES (28) [verb] To sputter or hiss. | [verb] To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. FLACCID (15) [adjective] Flabby. | [adjective] Soft; floppy. | [adjective] Lacking energy or vigor. FLACKED (17) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. FLACONS (12) [noun] A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume. FLAGGED (13) [verb] To furnish or deck out with flags. | [verb] To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something. | [verb] (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc. | [adjective] Paved with flagstones. | [adjective] Having split, bushy ends (of bristles). FLAGGER (12) FLAGMAN (13) [noun] A man who carries a flag, especially one used for signalling. FLAGMEN (13) [noun] A man who carries a flag, especially one used for signalling. FLAGONS (11) [noun] A large bottle for drinks such as wine, cider or beer. | [noun] The amount that such a bottle holds, about 1.13 litres. | [noun] A large vessel usually with a handle, spout and lid, for drinks such as wine or cider. FLAILED (11) [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. | [verb] To wave or swing vigorously | [verb] To thresh. FLAKERS (14) FLAKIER (14) [adjective] Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. | [adjective] (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. | [adjective] (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction. FLAKILY (17) FLAKING (15) [verb] To break or chip off in a flake. | [verb] To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. | [verb] To store an item such as rope or sail in layers FLAMBEE (14) FLAMBES (14) [noun] A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. | [noun] A flambéed dish. FLAMENS (12) [noun] A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. FLAMERS (12) [noun] A very flamboyant ("flaming"), effeminate gay male. | [noun] One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism. FLAMIER (12) FLAMING (13) [verb] To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. | [verb] To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour. | [verb] To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). FLAMMED (15) FLANEUR (10) [noun] One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. | [noun] An idler, a loafer. | [verb] To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace. FLANGED (12) FLANGER (11) [noun] An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound. | [noun] A mechanical device used to remove ice and snow from railway lines. FLANGES (11) [noun] An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place. | [noun] The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component. | [noun] An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees. FLANKED (15) [verb] To attack the flank(s) of. | [verb] To defend the flank(s) of. | [verb] To place to the side(s) of. FLANKEN (14) FLANKER (14) [noun] A player who plays in the back row of the scrum. | [noun] A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage. | [noun] A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body. FLANNEL (10) [noun] A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers. | [noun] A washcloth. | [noun] A flannel shirt. FLAPPED (15) [adjective] Fitted with a flap. FLAPPER (14) [noun] A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum; now particularly associated with the 1920s. | [noun] Something that flaps. | [noun] A young wild duck. FLARING (11) [verb] To cause to burn. | [verb] To cause inflammation; to inflame. | [verb] To open outward in shape. FLASHED (14) [verb] To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. | [verb] To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. | [verb] To be visible briefly. FLASHER (13) [noun] Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off. | [noun] An indicator or turn signal. | [noun] A person who exposes their genitals or female nipples. FLASHES (13) [noun] A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography. | [noun] A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. | [noun] A very short amount of time. FLASKET (14) FLATBED (13) [noun] An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. | [noun] A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. | [noun] A document scanner with a flat bed. FLATCAP (14) FLATCAR (12) [noun] A railroad freight car without sides or a roof. FLATLET (10) FLATTED (11) [verb] To make a flat call; to call without raising. | [verb] To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | [verb] To fall from the pitch. FLATTEN (10) [verb] To make something flat or flatter. | [verb] To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed. | [verb] To knock down or lay low. FLATTER (10) [adjective] Having no variations in height. | [adjective] (voice) Without variations in pitch. | [adjective] Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks. | [verb] To compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour. | [noun] A type of set tool used by blacksmiths. | [noun] Someone who lives in a rented flat. FLATTOP (12) [noun] A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top. | [noun] An aircraft carrier. | [noun] A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top. FLAUNTS (10) [verb] To wave or flutter smartly in the wind. | [verb] To parade, display with ostentation. | [verb] To show off, as with flashy clothing. FLAUNTY (13) FLAVINE (13) FLAVINS (13) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD) FLAVONE (13) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids FLAVORS (13) [verb] To add flavoring to something. FLAVORY (16) FLAVOUR (13) [noun] The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. | [noun] A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. | [noun] A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. FLAWIER (13) FLAWING (14) [verb] To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. | [verb] To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break. FLAXIER (17) FLAYERS (13) FLAYING (14) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLEABAG (13) [noun] A bed or sleeping bag. | [noun] A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment. | [noun] An unkempt mammal. FLEAPIT (12) [noun] A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema. FLECHES (15) [noun] An arrow. | [noun] Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board. | [noun] A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof. FLECKED (17) [verb] To mark with small spots FLEDGED (13) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEDGES (12) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEECED (13) [verb] To con or trick (someone) out of money. | [verb] To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, wool. FLEECER (12) FLEECES (12) [verb] To con or trick (someone) out of money. | [verb] To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, wool. FLEEING (11) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEERED (11) [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. FLEETED (11) [verb] To float. | [verb] To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of. | [verb] To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy. FLEETER (10) [adjective] Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place. | [adjective] Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. FLEETLY (13) FLEMISH (15) [noun] A rope that has been coiled into a neat mat; a flemish coil. | [verb] To coil a rope into a neat pattern on the deck of a ship. FLENSED (11) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLENSER (10) FLENSES (10) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLESHED (14) [adjective] Having flesh; corpulent. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified form of flesh or body. FLESHER (13) [noun] A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather. | [noun] A tool used to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather. | [noun] A butcher. FLESHES (13) [noun] The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. | [noun] The skin of a human or animal. | [noun] (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso. FLESHLY (16) [adjective] Of or relating to the body. | [adjective] Of, relating to or resembling flesh; composed of flesh; having a lot of flesh. | [adjective] Of or relating to pleasurable (often sexual) sensations. FLEXILE (17) [adjective] Flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking FLEXING (18) [verb] To bend something. | [verb] To repeatedly bend one of one's joints. | [verb] To move part of the body using one's muscles. FLEXION (17) [noun] The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension. | [noun] The state of being bent or flexed. | [noun] Deviation from straightness. FLEXORS (17) [noun] A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb. FLEXURE (17) [noun] The act of bending or flexing; flexion. | [noun] A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. | [noun] A curve or bend in a tubular organ. FLEYING (14) FLICKED (17) [verb] To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion. FLICKER (16) [noun] An unsteady flash of light. | [noun] A short moment. | [verb] To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light. | [noun] Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes. | [noun] One who flicks. FLIGHTS (14) [noun] The act of flying. | [noun] An instance of flying. | [noun] The act of fleeing. FLIGHTY (17) [adjective] Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions. | [adjective] (of a bird) That flies easily or often. | [adjective] Swift. FLINDER (11) [noun] A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter | [noun] A butterfly. | [verb] To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner FLINGER (11) FLINTED (11) FLIPPED (15) [verb] To throw so as to turn over. | [verb] To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger. | [verb] To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections FLIPPER (14) [noun] In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. | [noun] A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. | [noun] A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. FLIRTED (11) [verb] To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. | [verb] To jeer at; to mock. | [verb] To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. FLIRTER (10) FLITING (11) FLITTED (11) [verb] To move about rapidly and nimbly. | [verb] To move quickly from one location to another. | [verb] To unpredictably change state for short periods of time. FLITTER (10) [noun] A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment. | [noun] Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis. | [noun] A small aircraft or spacecraft. FLIVVER (16) [noun] An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. FLOATED (11) [verb] Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface. | [verb] To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density. | [verb] To be capable of floating. FLOATEL (10) [noun] A floating hotel; a boatel FLOATER (10) [noun] Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats. | [noun] An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away. | [noun] An unaffiliated player. FLOCCED (15) FLOCCUS (14) [noun] A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera. | [noun] A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds. FLOCKED (17) [verb] To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. | [verb] To flock to; to crowd. | [verb] To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles. FLOGGED (13) [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [verb] To sell. FLOGGER (12) [noun] One who flogs. | [noun] (BDSM) A lightweight whip with multiple lashes. FLOKATI (14) [noun] A handwoven woolen rug with a thick pile. FLOODED (12) [verb] To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. | [verb] To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. | [verb] To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. FLOODER (11) FLOORED (11) [verb] To cover or furnish with a floor. | [verb] To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. | [verb] (driving) To accelerate rapidly. FLOORER (10) FLOOSIE (10) [noun] A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern. | [noun] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. FLOOZIE (19) [noun] A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern. | [noun] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. FLOPPED (15) [verb] To fall heavily due to lack of energy. | [verb] To cause to drop heavily. | [verb] To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). FLOPPER (14) [noun] One who flops. | [noun] (skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go. | [noun] A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation. FLORALS (10) [noun] A design involving flowers | [noun] A perfume redolent of flowers FLORETS (10) [noun] A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower. FLORINS (10) [noun] The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ. | [noun] A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence. | [noun] A guilder (former currency unit of the Netherlands). FLORIST (10) [noun] A person who sells flowers. | [noun] A person who cultivates flowers. | [noun] A person who studies or writes about flowers. FLORUIT (10) [noun] The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak. FLOSSED (11) [verb] To clean the area between the teeth using floss. | [verb] To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent. | [verb] To perform the floss dance move. FLOSSES (10) [noun] A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth. | [noun] Raw silk fibres. | [noun] The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans. FLOSSIE (10) FLOTAGE (11) FLOTSAM (12) [noun] Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck. FLOUNCE (12) [noun] A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.W | [noun] The act of flouncing. | [verb] To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner. FLOUNCY (15) FLOURED (11) [verb] To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. | [verb] To reduce to flour. | [verb] To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. FLOUTED (11) [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. | [verb] To scorn. FLOUTER (10) FLOWAGE (14) FLOWERS (13) [noun] A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. | [noun] A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil. | [noun] A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood. FLOWERY (16) [adjective] Pertaining to flowers. | [adjective] Decorated with or abundant in flowers. | [adjective] (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions FLOWING (14) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLUBBED (15) [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUBBER (14) FLUBDUB (15) FLUENCY (15) [noun] The quality of smoothness of flow. | [noun] The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language. | [noun] The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes FLUERIC (12) FLUFFED (17) [verb] To make something fluffy. | [verb] To become fluffy, puff up. | [verb] To move lightly like fluff. FLUIDAL (11) FLUIDIC (13) FLUIDLY (14) [adverb] In a fluid manner; smoothly. FLUKIER (14) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUKING (15) [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. FLUMING (13) FLUMMOX (21) [verb] To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast. FLUMPED (15) [verb] To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound. | [verb] To drop something heavily or with a dull sound. FLUNKED (15) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUNKER (14) FLUNKEY (17) [noun] An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | [noun] One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. | [noun] One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. FLUORIC (12) FLUORID (11) FLUORIN (10) FLUSHED (14) [verb] To cause to take flight from concealment. | [verb] To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. | [verb] To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. FLUSHER (13) FLUSHES (13) [noun] A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc. | [verb] To cause to take flight from concealment. | [verb] To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. FLUSTER (10) [noun] A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion. | [verb] To make hot and rosy, as with drinking. | [verb] (by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion. FLUTERS (10) FLUTIER (10) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a flute. FLUTING (11) [verb] To play on a flute. | [verb] To make a flutelike sound. | [verb] To utter with a flutelike sound. FLUTIST (10) [noun] One who plays the flute. FLUTTER (10) [noun] The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion. | [noun] A state of agitation. | [noun] An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. FLUVIAL (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream FLUXING (18) [verb] To use flux on. | [verb] To melt. | [verb] To flow as a liquid. FLUXION (17) [noun] The derivative of a function. | [noun] The action of flowing. | [noun] A difference or variation. FLYABLE (15) FLYAWAY (19) [noun] A stray hair that is difficult to style. | [noun] Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain. | [noun] A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists. FLYBELT (15) FLYBLEW (18) FLYBLOW (18) [noun] The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat. | [verb] To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty. | [verb] (by extension) To taint or contaminate. FLYBOAT (15) FLYBOYS (18) [noun] An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft. FLYINGS (14) FLYLEAF (16) [noun] A blank page at the front or back of a book. FLYLESS (13) FLYOFFS (19) FLYOVER (16) [noun] A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British). | [noun] A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. | [noun] A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes. FLYPAST (15) [noun] A low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US) FLYTIER (13) FLYTING (14) FLYTRAP (15) FLYWAYS (19) [noun] A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas. FOALING (11) [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. | [noun] Act of giving birth to a foal FOAMERS (12) FOAMIER (12) [adjective] Full of foam. FOAMILY (15) FOAMING (13) [verb] To form or emit foam. | [verb] To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth. | [noun] A process that forms foam. FOBBING (15) [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. | [verb] To beat; to maul. FOCALLY (15) FOCUSED (13) [verb] (followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention. | [verb] To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point. | [verb] To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane. FOCUSER (12) FOCUSES (12) [noun] A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. | [noun] A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. | [noun] The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. FODDERS (12) [noun] Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc. | [noun] A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg. | [noun] (drafting) Tracing paper. FOETORS (10) [noun] An unpleasant smell. FOGBOWS (16) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOGDOGS (13) FOGGAGE (13) FOGGERS (12) FOGGIER (12) [adjective] Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy | [adjective] Confused, befuddled, etc. FOGGILY (15) FOGGING (13) [verb] To become covered with or as if with fog. | [verb] To become obscured in condensation or water. | [verb] To become dim or obscure. FOGHORN (14) [noun] A very loud low-pitched horn, used especially in lighthouses and on large boats. FOGLESS (11) FOGYISH (17) FOGYISM (16) FOIBLES (12) [noun] A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly. | [noun] A weakness or failing of character. | [noun] Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte. FOILING (11) [verb] To cover or wrap with foil. | [verb] To prevent (something) from being accomplished. | [verb] To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something. FOINING (11) FOISONS (10) FOISTED (11) [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [verb] To pass off as genuine or worthy. FOLACIN (12) [noun] Folic acid FOLATES (10) [noun] A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex. FOLDERS (11) [noun] An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet. | [noun] A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related. | [noun] A machine or person that folds things. FOLDING (12) [verb] To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. | [verb] To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. | [verb] To become folded; to form folds. FOLDOUT (11) [noun] A gatefold. | [noun] A foldout bed. | [adjective] That folds out from a closed position FOLIAGE (11) [noun] The leaves of plants. | [noun] (short for) Fall foliage. | [noun] An architectural ornament representing foliage. FOLIATE (10) [verb] To form into leaves. | [verb] To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. | [verb] To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver. FOLIOED (11) FOLIOSE (10) [adjective] Leafy or leaf-like. FOLIOUS (10) FOLIUMS (12) FOLKIES (14) [noun] A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music. FOLKISH (17) [adjective] Popular; referring to the culture of ordinary people. | [adjective] In the style of folk music. FOLKMOT (16) FOLKWAY (20) [noun] Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society. FOLLIES (10) [noun] Foolishness. | [noun] Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence. | [noun] A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons. FOLLOWS (13) [noun] (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. | [noun] The act of following another user's online activity. | [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. FOMENTS (12) [verb] To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. | [verb] To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. FOMITES (12) [noun] The morbid matter created by a disease. | [noun] Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious. | [noun] An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts. FONDANT (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies. | [noun] A candy filled with such a preparation. | [noun] A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine. | [adjective] Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc. FONDEST (11) [adjective] (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for). | [adjective] Affectionate. | [adjective] Indulgent. FONDING (12) FONDLED (12) [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. | [verb] To grasp. FONDLER (11) FONDLES (11) [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. | [verb] To grasp. FONDUES (11) [noun] A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. | [verb] To prepare or serve as a fondue. FONTINA (10) [noun] A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy FOODIES (11) [noun] A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. FOOLERY (13) [noun] Foolish behaviour or speech. FOOLING (11) [verb] To trick; to deceive | [verb] To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly | [noun] The act of one who fools. FOOLISH (13) [adjective] (of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a fool. FOOTAGE (11) [noun] An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something. | [noun] A measurement in feet. FOOTBOY (15) FOOTERS (10) [noun] A footgoer; pedestrian | [noun] A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare foot, 13). | [noun] (in combination) something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer. FOOTIER (10) FOOTIES (10) [noun] (especially in plural) pyjamas or a similar covering that covers the feet FOOTING (11) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. FOOTLED (11) [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. FOOTLER (10) FOOTLES (10) [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. FOOTMAN (12) [noun] A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier. | [noun] A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc. | [noun] A servant who runs in front of his master's carriage. FOOTMEN (12) [noun] A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier. | [noun] A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc. | [noun] A servant who runs in front of his master's carriage. FOOTPAD (13) [noun] The soft underside of an animal's paw. | [noun] A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts. | [noun] A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road. FOOTSIE (10) [noun] A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude. | [noun] A foot. | [noun] A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet. FOOTWAY (16) [noun] A passage for pedestrians only. FOOZLED (20) [verb] To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle. FOOZLER (19) FOOZLES (19) [noun] A fogey. | [noun] A mistaken shot in golf. | [noun] The final boss character in a game. FOPPERY (17) [noun] The dress or actions of a fop. | [noun] Stupidity. FOPPING (15) FOPPISH (17) [adjective] Like a fop, a man overly concerned with his appearance; vain and showy. FORAGED (12) [verb] To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. | [verb] To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. | [verb] To rummage. FORAGER (11) [noun] An animal or person who forages FORAGES (11) [noun] Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. | [noun] An act or instance of foraging. | [noun] The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population FORAMEN (12) [noun] An opening, an orifice; a short passage. FORAYED (14) [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. | [verb] To pillage; to ravage. FORAYER (13) FORBADE (13) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBEAR (12) [verb] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. | [verb] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | [verb] To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. | [noun] An ancestor. FORBIDS (13) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBODE (13) FORBORE (12) [verb] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. | [verb] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | [verb] To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. FORCEPS (14) [noun] An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers. FORCERS (12) FORCING (13) [verb] To violate (a woman); to rape. | [verb] To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. | [verb] To compel (someone or something) to do something. FORDING (12) [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. | [noun] The act by which something is forded. | [noun] Fording place FORDOES (11) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FORDONE (11) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREARM (12) [noun] The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow. | [noun] A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To arm in preparation. FOREBAY (15) FOREBYE (15) FOREDID (12) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREGUT (11) [noun] The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum. FOREIGN (11) [noun] A foreign person, particularly: | [noun] A foreign ship. | [noun] Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse. FORELEG (11) [noun] Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal, a piece of furniture, etc. FOREMAN (12) [noun] The leader of a work crew. | [noun] The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf. | [noun] (during the era of slavery) A black (slave) assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands. FOREMEN (12) [noun] The leader of a work crew. | [noun] The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf. | [noun] (during the era of slavery) A black (slave) assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands. FOREPAW (15) [noun] Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans. FORERAN (10) [verb] To run in front. | [verb] To precede; to forecast or foreshadow. FORERUN (10) [verb] To run in front. | [verb] To precede; to forecast or foreshadow. FORESAW (13) [verb] To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict. | [verb] To provide. FORESEE (10) [verb] To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict. | [verb] To provide. FORESTS (10) [noun] A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods. | [noun] Any dense collection or amount. | [noun] A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas. FORETOP (12) [noun] The top of the head; the top of the forehead. | [noun] The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig. | [noun] In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity". FOREVER (13) [noun] An extremely long time. | [noun] A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come. | [adjective] Permanent, lasting FORFEIT (13) [noun] A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor. | [noun] A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc. | [noun] Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game. FORFEND (14) [verb] To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. FORGAVE (14) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FORGERS (11) [noun] A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter. | [noun] A person who forges metals. FORGERY (14) [noun] The act of forging metal into shape. | [noun] The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud. | [noun] That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited. FORGETS (11) [verb] To lose remembrance of. | [verb] To unintentionally not do, neglect. | [verb] To unintentionally leave something behind. FORGING (12) [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] To form or create with concerted effort. | [verb] To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. FORGIVE (14) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FORGOER (11) FORGOES (11) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORGONE (11) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORINTS (10) [noun] The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér. FORKERS (14) FORKFUL (17) FORKIER (14) FORKING (15) [verb] To divide into two or more branches. | [verb] To move with a fork (as hay or food). | [verb] To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. FORLORN (10) [verb] To abandon, forsake. | [noun] A forlorn hope. | [noun] A member of a forlorn hope. FORMALS (12) [noun] Formalin. | [noun] An evening gown. | [noun] An event with a formal dress code. FORMANT (12) [noun] A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants. | [noun] A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem. FORMATE (12) [noun] Any salt or ester of formic acid. | [verb] To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation. FORMATS (12) [noun] The layout of a publication or document. | [noun] (hence) The form of presentation of something. | [noun] The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc. FORMERS (12) [noun] Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder. | [noun] An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die. | [noun] (used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class). FORMFUL (15) FORMING (13) [verb] To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | [verb] To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | [verb] To take shape. FORMOLS (12) FORMULA (12) [noun] Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. | [noun] A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound. | [noun] A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result. FORMYLS (15) FORSAKE (14) [verb] To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce. FORSOOK (14) [verb] To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce. FORTIES (10) [noun] The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc. | [noun] The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49. | [noun] (temperature, rates) The range between 40 and 49. FORTIFY (16) [verb] To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces. | [verb] To impart strength or vigor to. | [verb] To add spirits to wine to increase the alcohol content. FORTUNE (10) [noun] Destiny, especially favorable. | [noun] A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller. | [noun] A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie. FORWARD (14) [noun] One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back). | [noun] A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. | [noun] An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey. | [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FORWENT (13) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORWORN (13) FOSSATE (10) FOSSICK (16) [verb] To search for something; to rummage. | [verb] (British dialect) To be troublesome. FOSSILS (10) [noun] The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. | [noun] Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals. | [noun] A fossil word. FOSTERS (10) [noun] A foster parent. | [noun] The care given to another; guardianship. | [verb] To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child. FOUETTE (10) FOULARD (11) [noun] A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern. | [noun] A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric. FOULEST (10) [adjective] Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | [adjective] (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | [adjective] Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. FOULING (11) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To clog or obstruct. FOUNDED (12) [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To begin building. | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. FOUNDER (11) [noun] One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state) | [noun] Someone for whose parents one has no data. | [noun] The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation. | [noun] A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves. FOUNDRY (14) [noun] A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc. | [noun] The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding. | [noun] A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry. FOURGON (11) FOURTHS (13) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position. | [noun] (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. | [noun] (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine. FOVEATE (13) FOVEOLA (13) FOVEOLE (13) FOWLERS (13) FOWLING (14) [verb] To hunt fowl. | [noun] A session of hunting fowl. FOWLPOX (22) FOXFIRE (20) [noun] Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood. | [noun] (by extension) Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood. FOXFISH (23) FOXHOLE (20) [noun] The burrow in the ground where a fox lives. | [noun] A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire. | [verb] To dig a military foxhole into, or convert into a foxhole by digging. FOXHUNT (20) [noun] A hunt for foxes, usually with dogs. | [noun] A hunt for radio transmitters; radiosport. | [verb] To hunt foxes, usually with dogs. FOXIEST (17) [adjective] Having the qualities of a fox. | [adjective] Cunning, sly. | [adjective] Attractive, sexy (of a woman). FOXINGS (18) FOXLIKE (21) FOXSKIN (21) FOXTAIL (17) [noun] The tail of a fox. | [noun] A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses | [noun] A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet. FOXTROT (17) [noun] A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm. | [noun] A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking. | [noun] The letter F in the ICAO spelling alphabet. FOZIEST (19) FRACTAL (12) [noun] A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension; a geometric figure that is self-similar at all scales. | [noun] An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property. | [adjective] Having the form of a fractal. FRACTED (13) FRACTUR (12) FRACTUS (12) FRAENUM (12) [noun] A frenulum. FRAGGED (13) [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. | [verb] To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade. | [verb] To kill. FRAGILE (11) [adjective] Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure. | [adjective] Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness. FRAILER (10) [adjective] Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish | [adjective] Weak; infirm. | [adjective] Mentally fragile. FRAILLY (13) FRAILTY (13) [noun] The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced. | [noun] A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. FRAISES (10) [noun] A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. | [noun] A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century. | [noun] An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century. FRAKTUR (14) [noun] A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries. | [noun] A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering. FRAMERS (12) [noun] A person who makes frames for paintings. | [noun] A person who assembles the frame of a ship. | [noun] A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building. FRAMING (13) [verb] To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | [verb] To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | [verb] To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. FRANKED (15) [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. | [verb] To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. | [verb] To send by public conveyance free of expense. FRANKER (14) [adjective] Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised. | [adjective] Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident | [adjective] Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. | [noun] Somebody or something which franks. FRANKLY (17) [adverb] (manner) In a frank, open or (too) honest manner. | [adverb] (sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth. FRANTIC (12) [noun] A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman. | [adjective] Insane, mentally unstable. | [adjective] In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush. FRAPPED (15) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. FRAPPES (14) [noun] Liqueur poured over shaved ice. | [noun] A thick milkshake containing ice cream. | [noun] (Greece) An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink. FRASSES (10) FRATERS (10) [noun] A monk. | [noun] A frater house. | [noun] A comrade. FRAUGHT (14) [noun] The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo. | [noun] Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight | [noun] The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat. | [verb] To load (a ship, cargo etc.). FRAYING (14) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FRAZILS (19) FRAZZLE (28) [noun] A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp. | [noun] The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end. | [verb] To fray or wear down, especially at the edges. FREAKED (15) [verb] To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance | [verb] To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug | [verb] To streak; to variegate FRECKLE (16) [noun] A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin. | [noun] Any small spot or discoloration. | [noun] A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands. FRECKLY (19) FREEBEE (12) [noun] Something which is free; a giveaway or handout. FREEBIE (12) [noun] Something which is free; a giveaway or handout. FREEDOM (13) [noun] The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. | [noun] The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained. | [noun] Frankness; openness; unreservedness. FREEING (11) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. | [noun] The act of making something free; liberation. FREEMAN (12) [noun] A free person, particularly: FREEMEN (12) [noun] A free person, particularly: FREESIA (10) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa. FREEWAY (16) [noun] A road designed for safe, high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections, usually divided and having at least two lanes in each direction; a dual carriageway with no at-grade crossings, a motorway. | [noun] A toll-free highway. FREEZER (19) [noun] An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit). | [noun] The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit). | [noun] (Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes. FREEZES (19) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FREIGHT (14) [noun] Payment for transportation. | [noun] Goods or items in transport. | [noun] Transport of goods. FRENULA (10) FRENUMS (12) [noun] A frenulum. FRESCOS (12) [noun] A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade. | [noun] An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. | [noun] The technique used to make such an artwork. FRESHED (14) FRESHEN (13) [verb] To become fresh. | [verb] (of wind) To become stronger. | [verb] (of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk. FRESHER (13) [adjective] Newly produced or obtained; recent. | [adjective] (of food) Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled. | [adjective] (of plant material) Still green and not dried. | [noun] A first year student at a university. FRESHES (13) FRESHET (13) [noun] A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw. | [noun] A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea. FRESHLY (16) [adverb] Recently, newly. | [adverb] In a rude or impertinent manner. FRESNEL (10) [noun] A unit of frequency equal to 1012 hertz, or one terahertz. | [noun] A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens FRETFUL (13) [adjective] Irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish. | [adjective] Unable to relax; fidgety or restless. FRETSAW (13) [noun] A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts. | [verb] To cut with a fretsaw. FRETTED (11) [verb] Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat. | [verb] To chafe or irritate; to worry. | [verb] To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple. FRETTER (10) FRIABLE (12) [adjective] Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. | [adjective] (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency. | [adjective] (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk FRIARLY (13) FRIBBLE (14) [noun] A trifling action. | [noun] A trifler. | [noun] A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. FRIDGES (12) [noun] A refrigerator. | [verb] To place inside of a refrigerator. | [verb] To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a character, usually female, from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character, usually male, and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). FRIENDS (11) [noun] A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. | [noun] An associate who provides assistance. | [noun] A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. FRIEZES (19) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. | [noun] That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. | [noun] Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. FRIGATE (11) [noun] An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle. | [noun] A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship. | [noun] A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose. FRIGGED (13) [verb] To fidget, to wriggle around | [verb] To masturbate | [verb] To fuck (misapplied euphemism) FRIGHTS (14) [noun] A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. | [noun] Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. | [verb] To frighten. FRIJOLE (17) [noun] (in Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies) Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris. | [noun] (in Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies) The bean-like seed of any of several related plants, such as the cowpea, used as food. FRILLED (11) FRILLER (10) FRINGED (12) [verb] To decorate with fringe. | [verb] To serve as a fringe. | [adjective] Possessing a fringe. FRINGES (11) [noun] Hair hanging over the forehead. | [noun] A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. FRISEUR (10) [noun] A hairdresser. FRISKED (15) [verb] To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. | [verb] To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing. FRISKER (14) FRISKET (14) [noun] A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask. FRISSON (10) [noun] A sudden surge of excitement. | [noun] A shiver, a thrill. FRITTED (11) [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [verb] To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. FRITTER (10) [noun] A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter. | [noun] A fragment; a shred; a small piece. | [verb] (often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination. FRITZES (19) [verb] To go wrong or become defective. FRIVOLS (13) [noun] An unserious person; a shallow person. | [noun] An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity. FRIZERS (19) FRIZING (20) FRIZZED (29) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. FRIZZER (28) FRIZZES (28) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. FRIZZLE (28) [noun] A curl; a lock of hair crisped. | [verb] To fry something until crisp and curled. | [verb] To scorch. FRIZZLY (31) FROCKED (17) FROGEYE (14) FROGGED (13) [verb] To hunt or trap frogs. | [verb] To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate. | [verb] To spatchcock (a chicken). FROGMAN (13) [noun] A diver, especially one in a diving suit (as opposed to one in scuba gear). | [noun] A military diver, e.g. a US Navy SEAL. FROGMEN (13) [noun] A diver, especially one in a diving suit (as opposed to one in scuba gear). | [noun] A military diver, e.g. a US Navy SEAL. FROLICS (12) [noun] Gaiety; merriment. | [noun] A playful antic. | [noun] A social gathering. FROMAGE (13) FRONDED (12) FRONTAL (10) [noun] The bone at the front of the skull, behind the forehead. | [noun] The façade of a building. | [noun] A drapery covering the front of an altar. FRONTED (11) [verb] To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction. | [verb] To face, be opposite to. | [verb] To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. FRONTER (10) FRONTES (10) FRONTON (10) [noun] A pediment. | [noun] A two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota. FROSTED (11) [noun] A kind of milkshake made with ice cream. | [adjective] Covered in frost; frosty. | [adjective] Appearing to be covered in frost. FROTHED (14) [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). | [verb] (of a liquid) To bubble. | [verb] To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. FROUNCE (12) [noun] A canker in the mouth of a hawk. | [noun] A plait or curl. | [verb] To curl. FROWARD (14) [adjective] Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition. | [preposition] Away from. FROWNED (14) [verb] To have a frown on one's face. | [verb] To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. | [verb] To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. FROWNER (13) FROWSTS (13) [noun] Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room. | [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWSTY (16) [adjective] Musty; stuffy (atmosphere) FRUGGED (13) [verb] To perform this dance. FRUITED (11) [verb] To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. | [adjective] Containing fruit; bearing fruit. FRUITER (10) [noun] Any organism that fruits. | [noun] A ship for transporting fruit. FRUSTUM (12) [noun] A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base. | [noun] A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes. FRYPANS (15) [noun] A frying pan. FUBBING (15) FUBSIER (12) [adjective] Short and stout; low and wide FUCHSIA (15) [noun] A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. | [noun] A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye. | [adjective] Having a purplish-red colour. FUCHSIN (15) [noun] A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride, C20H19N3·HCl) usually a deep red or magenta colour. FUCKERS (16) [noun] An undesirable person. | [noun] The object of some effort. | [noun] People, friends, especially of very high solidarity. FUCKING (17) [verb] To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. FUCKUPS (18) [noun] A serious mistake. | [noun] One who continually makes mistakes. | [noun] An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot FUCOIDS (13) [noun] A fucoid seaweed. FUCOSES (12) FUCUSES (12) FUDDLED (13) [verb] To confuse or befuddle. | [verb] To intoxicate. | [verb] To become intoxicated; to get drunk. FUDDLES (12) [verb] To confuse or befuddle. | [verb] To intoxicate. | [verb] To become intoxicated; to get drunk. FUDGING (13) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUEHRER (13) [noun] A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant | [noun] (definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany FUELERS (10) FUELING (11) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. | [noun] The act or process by which something is fueled. FUELLED (11) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. FUELLER (10) FUGALLY (14) FUGATOS (11) [noun] A fugal passage in a composition that is not a strict or complete fugue. FUGGIER (12) [adjective] Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation FUGGILY (15) FUGGING (13) FUGLING (12) FUGUING (12) FUGUIST (11) FUHRERS (13) [noun] A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant | [noun] (definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany FULCRUM (14) [noun] The support about which a lever pivots. | [noun] A crux or pivot; a central point. FULFILL (13) [verb] To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). | [verb] To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | [verb] To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). FULFILS (13) [verb] To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). | [verb] To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | [verb] To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). FULGENT (11) [adjective] Shining brilliantly; radiant. FULHAMS (15) FULLAMS (12) FULLERS (10) [noun] A person who fulls cloth. | [noun] A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal. | [noun] A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.). FULLERY (13) FULLEST (10) [adjective] Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. | [adjective] Complete; with nothing omitted. | [adjective] Total, entire. FULLING (11) [noun] Baptism. | [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. FULMARS (12) [noun] Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs. FULMINE (12) FULNESS (10) [noun] Being full; completeness. | [noun] The degree to which a space is full. | [noun] The degree to which fate has become known. FULSOME (12) [adjective] Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. | [adjective] Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). | [adjective] Marked by fullness; abundant, copious. FULVOUS (13) [adjective] Tawny-coloured. FUMARIC (14) FUMBLED (15) [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [verb] To blunder uncertainly. FUMBLER (14) FUMBLES (14) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. FUMETTE (12) FUMIEST (12) FUMULUS (12) FUNCTOR (12) [noun] (grammar) A function word. | [noun] A function object. | [noun] A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities. FUNDING (12) [verb] To pay for. | [verb] To place (money) in a fund. | [verb] To form a debt into a stock charged with interest. FUNERAL (10) [noun] A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon. | [adjective] Of or relating to a funeral. FUNFAIR (13) [noun] A travelling amusement park. FUNGALS (11) FUNGOES (11) [noun] A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught. | [noun] A fungo bat. FUNGOID (12) [noun] A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus. FUNGOUS (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to fungi; fungal. | [adjective] Of or containing a spongy, abnormal excrescence. FUNICLE (12) [noun] The stalk or stem of an ovule or seed. | [noun] Intermediate segments of the antenna of chalcid wasps adjoining the pedicel basally and the clava distally. FUNKERS (14) FUNKIAS (14) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta). FUNKIER (14) [adjective] Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | [adjective] Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context. | [adjective] Cool; great; excellent. FUNKING (15) [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [verb] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | [verb] To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. FUNNELS (10) [noun] A hinny; hybrid of male horse and female donkey. | [noun] A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening. | [noun] A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like. FUNNEST (10) [adjective] Enjoyable, amusing | [adjective] Whimsical, flamboyant FUNNIER (10) [adjective] Amusing; humorous; comical. | [adjective] Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant. | [adjective] Showing unexpected resentment. FUNNIES (10) [noun] A joke. | [noun] A comic strip. | [noun] A narrow clinker-built boat for sculling. FUNNILY (13) [adverb] In a funny or amusing manner. | [adverb] In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence. FUNNING (11) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FURANES (10) FURBISH (15) [verb] To polish or burnish. | [verb] To renovate or recondition. FURCATE (12) [verb] To fork or branch out. | [adjective] Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts. FURCULA (12) [noun] A forked process or structure, generally two-pronged. | [noun] The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought. | [noun] The (two-pronged) forked, somewhat tail-like organ held bent forward and secured by a catch beneath most species of Collembola (springtails), with which they jump by releasing the catch abruptly when alarmed. FURIOSO (10) [noun] A furious person; a violent madman. | [adverb] Rapidly and with passion. FURIOUS (10) [adjective] Feeling great anger; raging; violent. | [adjective] Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence. FURLERS (10) FURLESS (10) FURLING (11) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) | [noun] The act by which something is furled. FURLONG (11) [noun] A unit of length equal to 220 yards, 1/8 mile, or 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing. FURMETY (15) [noun] A porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise. FURMITY (15) FURNACE (12) [noun] An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics. | [noun] A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater. | [noun] Any area that is excessively hot. FURNISH (13) [noun] Material used to create an engineered product. | [verb] To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment. | [verb] To supply or give (something). FURORES (10) [noun] Uproar; enthusiastic anger. | [noun] Excitement or commotion. FURRIER (10) [noun] A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur. | [noun] A person who secures accommodation for an army. | [adjective] Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur. FURRILY (13) FURRING (11) [verb] To cover with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To level a surface by applying furring to it. FURROWS (13) [noun] A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. | [noun] Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. | [noun] A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. FURROWY (16) FURTHER (13) [verb] To help forward; to assist. | [verb] To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote. | [adjective] (comparative form of far) More distant; relatively distant. FURTIVE (13) [adjective] Stealthy. | [adjective] Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy. FURZIER (19) FUSAINS (10) FUSCOUS (12) [adjective] Dark in color, dark-hued; dusky, swarthy. FUSIBLE (12) [noun] Any substance that can be fused or melted. | [adjective] Able to be fused or melted. FUSIBLY (15) FUSILLI (10) [noun] Pasta in the shape of short spirals. FUSIONS (10) [noun] The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof. FUSSERS (10) FUSSIER (10) [adjective] Anxious or particular about petty details. | [adjective] Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies). FUSSILY (13) FUSSING (11) [verb] To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. | [verb] To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust | [verb] (especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured. FUSSPOT (12) [noun] A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things. FUSTIAN (10) [noun] A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff. | [noun] A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen. | [noun] Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech. FUSTICS (12) FUSTIER (10) [adjective] Moldy or musty. | [adjective] Stale-smelling or stuffy. | [adjective] (by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. FUSTILY (13) FUTHARC (15) FUTHARK (17) [noun] The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc. FUTHORC (15) [noun] The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. FUTHORK (17) [noun] The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. FUTTOCK (16) [noun] Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship. 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FABLIAUX (20) [noun] A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. FABULIST (13) [noun] One who writes or tells fables. | [noun] A liar. FABULOUS (13) [adjective] Of or relating to fable, myth or legend. | [adjective] Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible. | [adjective] Fictional or not believable; made up. FACEABLE (15) FACEDOWN (17) FACELESS (13) [adjective] Having no face | [adjective] Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous. | [adjective] Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics. FACETELY (16) FACETIAE (13) [noun] Witty or amusing writings or remarks. | [noun] Indecent books. 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FAITHING (15) FAITOURS (11) FAKERIES (15) FALBALAS (13) FALCATED (14) FALCHION (16) [noun] 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. | [noun] A billhook. | [verb] Attack with a falchion. FALCONER (13) [noun] A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game. | [noun] One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. FALCONET (13) [noun] A small or young falcon. | [noun] Any of various small, tropical Asian falcons of the genus Microhierax found in Southeast Asia. | [noun] A light cannon developed in the late 15th century and decorated with an image of a falcon. FALCONRY (16) [noun] The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks. FALDERAL (12) [noun] Nonsense or foolishness. | [noun] A decorative object of little value; a trifle or gewgaw. 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FANTASIA (11) [noun] A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. | [noun] (by extension) Any work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles. | [noun] A traditional festival of the Berbers of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship. FANTASIE (11) FANTASMS (13) FANTASTS (11) [noun] One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful. FANWORTS (14) FANZINES (20) [noun] A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest FARADAIC (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to electricity, especially to electrical induction FARADAYS (15) [noun] The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately −96,487 coulombs. 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Feldspars are the principal constituents of igneous and plutonic rocks. FELICITY (16) [noun] Happiness. | [noun] An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc. | [noun] (semiology) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity. FELINELY (14) FELINITY (14) FELLABLE (13) FELLAHIN (14) [noun] A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. FELLATED (12) [verb] To perform oral sex on (a man); to stimulate (a penis or testicles) using the mouth. | [verb] (by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio. | [verb] To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to. FELLATES (11) [verb] To perform oral sex on (a man); to stimulate (a penis or testicles) using the mouth. | [verb] (by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio. | [verb] To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to. FELLATIO (11) [noun] (sex) The stimulation of the penis (or testicles) using the mouth. 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FERITIES (11) FERMATAS (13) [noun] The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest. FERMENTS (13) [noun] Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation. | [noun] A state of agitation or of turbulent change. | [noun] A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. FERMIONS (13) [noun] (Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark; (slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions. 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FERRULED (12) FERRULES (11) [noun] A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. | [noun] A band holding parts of an object together. | [verb] To equip with a ferrule. FERRYING (15) [verb] To carry; transport; convey. | [verb] To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly. | [verb] To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores. FERRYMAN (16) FERRYMEN (16) FERULING (12) FERVENCY (19) FERVIDLY (18) FERVOURS (14) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardour. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FESSWISE (14) FESTALLY (14) FESTERED (12) [verb] To become septic; to become rotten. | [verb] To worsen, especially due to lack of attention. | [verb] To cause to fester or rankle. FESTIVAL (14) [noun] An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. | [noun] In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god. | [noun] Fried cornbread FESTOONS (11) [noun] An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots. | [noun] A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament. | [noun] A raised cable with light globes attached. FETATION (11) FETCHERS (16) FETCHING (17) [verb] To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. | [verb] To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. | [verb] To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. | [noun] The act by which something is fetched. 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FETOLOGY (15) FETTERED (12) [verb] To shackle or bind up with fetters. | [verb] To restrain or impede; to hamper. | [adjective] Bound by chains or shackles. FETTERER (11) FETTLING (12) [verb] To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. | [verb] To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. | [verb] To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal. FEUDALLY (15) FEUDISTS (12) [noun] One who takes part in feuds. | [noun] A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. FEVERFEW (20) [noun] A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches. FEVERING (15) [verb] To put into a fever; to affect with fever. | [verb] To become fevered. FEVERISH (17) [adjective] Having a fever, an elevated body temperature. | [adjective] Filled with excess energy. | [adjective] Morbidly eager. FEVEROUS (14) [adjective] Affected with fever or ague | [adjective] Having the nature of fever | [adjective] Having a tendency to produce fever FEWTRILS (14) FIANCEES (13) [noun] A woman who is engaged to be married. FIASCOES (13) FIBERIZE (22) FIBRANNE (13) FIBRILLA (13) FIBROIDS (14) [noun] A benign tumour of the uterus that is composed of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle. | [noun] A fibroma. FIBROINS (13) FIBROMAS (15) [noun] A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue. FIBROSES (13) FIBROSIS (13) [noun] The formation of (excess) fibrous connective tissue in an organ. FIBROTIC (15) FICKLEST (17) [adjective] Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable. | [adjective] Changeable. FICTIONS (13) [noun] Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. | [noun] A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead). | [noun] A legal fiction. FIDDLERS (13) [noun] One who plays the fiddle. | [noun] One who fiddles. | [noun] A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle. FIDDLING (14) [verb] To play aimlessly. | [verb] To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud. | [verb] To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style. FIDEISMS (14) FIDEISTS (12) FIDELITY (15) [noun] Faithfulness to one's duties. | [noun] Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs. | [noun] Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact. FIDGETED (14) [verb] To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly. | [verb] To cause to fidget; to make uneasy. FIDGETER (13) FIDUCIAL (14) [noun] In manufacturing, a small mark on a circuit board used to align components, a fiducial point. | [adjective] Accepted as a fixed basis of reference. | [adjective] Based on having trust. FIEFDOMS (17) [noun] The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief. | [noun] (by extension) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual. FIELDERS (12) [noun] A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring. | [noun] A defensive player in the field. | [noun] A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field. FIELDING (13) [verb] To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. | [verb] (and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. | [verb] To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. FIENDISH (15) [adjective] Sinister; evil; like a fiend. FIERCELY (16) [adverb] In a fierce manner. FIERCEST (13) [adjective] Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage. | [adjective] Resolute or strenuously active. | [adjective] Threatening in appearance or demeanor. FIERIEST (11) [adjective] Of or relating to fire. | [adjective] Burning or glowing. | [adjective] Inflammable or easily ignited. FIFTEENS (14) FIFTIETH (17) [noun] The person or thing in the fiftieth position. | [noun] One of fifty equal parts of a whole. | [adjective] The ordinal form of the number fifty. FIFTYISH (20) FIGEATER (12) FIGHTERS (15) [noun] A person who fights; a combatant. | [noun] A warrior; fighting soldier. | [noun] A pugnacious, competitive person. FIGHTING (16) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] The act or process of contending; violence or conflict. FIGMENTS (14) [noun] A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious. FIGULINE (12) FIGURANT (12) [noun] An actor or dancer in the background lacking an aural presence. FIGURATE (12) FIGURERS (12) FIGURINE (12) [noun] A small carved or molded figure; a statuette. FIGURING (13) [verb] To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. | [verb] To come to understand. | [verb] To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. FIGWORTS (15) [noun] Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia. | [noun] Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria. FILAGREE (12) [noun] A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire. | [noun] A design resembling such intricate ornamentation. | [verb] To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire. FILAMENT (13) [noun] A fine thread or wire. | [noun] Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve. | [noun] 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. FILAREES (11) FILARIAE (11) [noun] Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis. FILARIAL (11) FILARIAN (11) FILARIID (12) FILATURE (11) [noun] The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons. | [noun] A spool or bobbin used for the above. | [noun] A place where silk is reeled onto spools. FILBERTS (13) [noun] The hazelnut. | [noun] The hazel tree. | [noun] A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head. FILCHERS (16) FILCHING (17) [verb] To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal. | [noun] The act of one who filches; theft. FILEABLE (13) FILEFISH (17) [noun] Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies. FILETING (12) FILIALLY (14) FILIATED (12) FILIATES (11) FILIBEGS (14) [noun] A little kilt. FILICIDE (14) [noun] A person who kills their own child. | [noun] The killing of one's own child. FILIFORM (16) [adjective] Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous. | [adjective] Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size. FILIGREE (12) [noun] A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire. | [noun] A design resembling such intricate ornamentation. | [verb] To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire. FILISTER (11) FILLETED (12) [verb] To slice, bone or make into fillets. | [verb] To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to. FILLINGS (12) [noun] Anything that is used to fill something. | [noun] The contents of a pie, etc. | [noun] Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material. FILLIPED (14) [verb] To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick. | [verb] (by extension) To project quickly; to snap. | [verb] (by extension) To strike or tap smartly. FILMABLE (15) FILMCARD (16) FILMDOMS (16) FILMGOER (14) [noun] A moviegoer. FILMIEST (13) [adjective] Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy | [adjective] Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy FILMLAND (14) FILMSETS (13) [noun] The enclosure in which a film scene is shot; includes scenery and props | [verb] To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates. FILTERED (12) [verb] To sort, sift, or isolate. | [verb] To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused. | [verb] To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter. FILTERER (11) FILTHIER (14) [adjective] Covered with filth; very dirty. | [adjective] Obscene or offensive. | [adjective] Very unpleasant or disagreeable. FILTHILY (17) FILTRATE (11) [noun] The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from the filtride. | [verb] To filter. FIMBRIAE (15) [noun] Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. | [noun] Hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects. FIMBRIAL (15) FINAGLED (13) [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts. | [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery. | [verb] To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object) FINAGLER (12) FINAGLES (12) [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts. | [verb] To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery. | [verb] To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object) FINALISE (11) [verb] To make final or firm; to finish or complete. | [verb] To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer. FINALISM (13) [noun] Teleology FINALIST (11) [noun] Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. | [noun] A university student in his/her final year of study. FINALITY (14) [noun] The state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur. FINALIZE (20) [verb] To make final or firm; to finish or complete. | [verb] To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer. FINANCED (14) [verb] To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances. | [verb] To pay ransom. | [verb] To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking. FINANCES (13) [noun] The management of money and other assets. | [noun] The science of management of money and other assets. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company. FINBACKS (19) [noun] A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale. FINDABLE (14) FINDINGS (13) [noun] A result of research or an investigation. | [noun] A formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact. | [noun] That which is found, a find, a discovery. FINEABLE (13) FINENESS (11) FINERIES (11) [noun] Fineness; beauty. | [noun] Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. | [noun] (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. FINESPUN (13) [adjective] Spun into a fine thread | [adjective] Delicate and subtle, with fine detail FINESSED (12) [verb] To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem. | [verb] To play (a card) as a finesse. | [verb] To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. FINESSES (11) [verb] To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem. | [verb] To play (a card) as a finesse. | [verb] To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. FINFOOTS (14) [noun] Three species in three monospecific genera of aquatic bird in the family Heliornithidae. FINGERED (13) [verb] To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in. | [verb] To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers. | [verb] To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang FINGERER (12) FINIALED (12) FINICKIN (17) FINIKING (16) FINISHED (15) [verb] To complete (something). | [verb] To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar). | [verb] To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal. FINISHER (14) [noun] A person who finishes or completes something. | [noun] A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture. | [noun] The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding. FINISHES (14) [noun] An end; the end of anything. | [noun] A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces. | [noun] The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth. FINITELY (14) FINITUDE (12) [noun] The state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness. FINMARKS (17) FINNICKY (20) FINNIEST (11) FINNMARK (17) FINOCHIO (16) FIREABLE (13) FIREARMS (13) [noun] A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead. FIREBACK (19) [noun] Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura. | [noun] A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking. FIREBALL (13) [noun] A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion. | [noun] A meteor bright enough to cast shadows. | [noun] A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two. FIREBASE (13) [noun] An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base. FIREBIRD (14) FIREBOAT (13) [noun] A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires. FIREBOMB (17) [noun] A weapon that causes fire, an incendiary weapon. | [verb] To attack with a firebomb. FIREBRAT (13) [noun] A thysanuran insect, Thermobia domestica. FIREBUGS (14) [noun] Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae. | [noun] A pyromaniac or arsonist. FIRECLAY (16) [noun] A type of clay that is able to withstand intense heat; used to make firebricks, crucibles, and other ceramics FIREDAMP (16) [noun] An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air. FIREDOGS (13) [noun] A Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar. | [noun] (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace FIREFANG (15) FIREHALL (14) [noun] A fire station. FIRELESS (11) FIRELOCK (17) [noun] A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark. | [noun] A firearm using such a gunlock. FIREPANS (13) FIREPINK (17) FIREPLUG (14) [noun] A fire hydrant. FIREPOTS (13) FIREROOM (13) FIRESIDE (12) [noun] The area near a domestic fire or hearth. | [noun] (by extension, symbolic) One's home. | [noun] (by extension) Home life. FIRETRAP (13) [noun] A building with limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire. FIREWEED (15) [noun] A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae. FIREWOOD (15) [noun] Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat. FIREWORK (18) [noun] A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration. FIREWORM (16) FIRMNESS (13) [noun] The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution. FIRMWARE (16) [noun] 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. | [noun] Software intended for such embedded computer applications. FISCALLY (16) [adverb] In a fiscal manner; concerning finance FISHABLE (16) FISHBOLT (16) FISHBONE (16) [noun] A bone from a fish. FISHBOWL (19) [noun] A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium. | [noun] (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized. | [noun] A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules. FISHEYES (17) [noun] An unfriendly or suspicious glance. | [noun] An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface. | [noun] An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow. FISHGIGS (16) FISHHOOK (21) [noun] A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing | [noun] A jack (the playing card) FISHIEST (14) [adjective] Of, from, or similar to fish. | [adjective] Suspicious; inspiring doubt. | [adjective] Of drag queens: appearing feminine. FISHINGS (15) FISHLESS (14) FISHLIKE (18) FISHLINE (14) FISHMEAL (16) [noun] Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed. FISHNETS (14) [noun] A net used to catch fish. | [noun] A fabric with an open diamond-shaped structure; normally used for stockings etc | [noun] (usually in plural) Stockings made of fishnet fabric. FISHPOLE (16) FISHPOND (17) [noun] A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food FISHTAIL (14) [noun] The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this. | [noun] The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side. | [noun] A kind of chisel with a flared blade. FISHWAYS (20) [noun] A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish. FISHWIFE (20) [noun] A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. | [noun] A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. | [noun] A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. FISHWORM (19) FISSIONS (11) [noun] The process whereby one item splits to become two. | [noun] Short for nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles. | [noun] The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells. FISSIPED (14) FISSURED (12) [verb] To split, forming fissures. | [adjective] Having fissures. FISSURES (11) [noun] A crack or opening, as in a rock. | [noun] A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear; a sulcus. | [verb] To split, forming fissures. FISTFULS (14) [noun] The amount that can be held in a closed fist | [noun] A blow with the fist. FISTNOTE (11) FISTULAE (11) [noun] An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. | [noun] A tube, a pipe, or a hole. | [noun] The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice. FISTULAR (11) FISTULAS (11) [noun] An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. | [noun] A tube, a pipe, or a hole. | [noun] The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice. FITCHETS (16) FITCHEWS (19) [noun] Polecat FITFULLY (17) [adverb] In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily. FITMENTS (13) [noun] Something that suits or fits. | [noun] A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose. | [noun] An item of permanent furniture or equipment. FITTABLE (13) FITTINGS (12) [noun] A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine. | [noun] A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling | [noun] The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit. FIVEFOLD (18) [adjective] In fives; consisting of five in one; quintuple. | [adverb] By a factor of five. FIVEPINS (16) FIXATIFS (21) FIXATING (19) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIXATION (18) [noun] The act of fixing. | [noun] The state of being fixed or fixated. | [noun] The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements. FIXATIVE (21) [noun] A substance that fixes, protects, or preserves. | [noun] (perfumery) The components of a perfume that prolong or bolster the notes, and may or may not be the base note itself. | [adjective] Serving to fix or bind. FIXITIES (18) FIXTURES (18) [noun] Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing. | [noun] A regular patron of a place or institution. | [noun] A lighting unit; a luminaire. FIZZIEST (29) [adjective] (of a liquid) Containing bubbles. | [adjective] Lively, vivacious. | [adjective] Makes a hissing sound. FIZZLING (30) [verb] To sputter or hiss. | [verb] To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. | [noun] The sound of something that fizzles. FLABBIER (15) [adjective] Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. | [adjective] (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. | [adjective] (of writing, etc.) overwrought. FLABBILY (18) FLABELLA (13) FLACKERY (20) FLACKING (18) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. FLAGELLA (12) [noun] In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding. | [noun] In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion. | [noun] A whip FLAGGERS (13) FLAGGIER (13) FLAGGING (14) [verb] To furnish or deck out with flags. | [verb] To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something. | [verb] (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc. FLAGLESS (12) FLAGPOLE (14) [noun] A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown. | [verb] Exit a country momentarily and reenter. Usually this is done to satisfy immigration requirements. FLAGRANT (12) [adjective] Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous. | [adjective] On fire; flaming. FLAGSHIP (17) [noun] (maritime) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag. | [noun] (maritime) The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet. | [noun] (by extension) The most important one out of a related group. FLAILING (12) [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. | [verb] To wave or swing vigorously | [verb] To thresh. FLAKIEST (15) [adjective] Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. | [adjective] (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. | [adjective] (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction. FLAMBEAU (15) [noun] A burning torch, especially one carried in procession. FLAMBEED (16) [verb] To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. FLAMENCO (15) [noun] A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain. | [noun] A song or dance performed in such a style. | [verb] To dance flamenco. FLAMEOUT (13) [noun] The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing. | [noun] The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner. | [noun] The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel) FLAMIEST (13) FLAMINES (13) [noun] A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. FLAMINGO (14) [noun] A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae. | [noun] A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo. | [adjective] Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo. 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FLAPPIER (15) FLAPPING (16) [noun] An instance where one flaps. | [noun] A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically. | [noun] The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession. FLASHERS (14) [noun] Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off. | [noun] An indicator or turn signal. | [noun] A person who exposes their genitals or female nipples. FLASHGUN (15) [noun] An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb | [noun] Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography FLASHIER (14) [adjective] Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing. | [adjective] Flashing; producing flashes. | [adjective] Drunk; tipsy FLASHILY (17) FLASHING (15) [verb] To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. | [verb] To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. | [verb] To be visible briefly. FLASKETS (15) FLATBEDS (14) [noun] An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. | [noun] A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. | [noun] A document scanner with a flat bed. FLATBOAT (13) [noun] A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers. FLATCAPS (15) FLATCARS (13) [noun] A railroad freight car without sides or a roof. 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FLEISHIG (15) FLENCHED (17) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLENCHES (16) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. FLENSERS (11) FLENSING (12) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. | [noun] The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber. FLESHERS (14) [noun] A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather. | [noun] A tool used to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather. | [noun] A butcher. FLESHIER (14) [adjective] Of, related to, or resembling flesh. | [adjective] (of a person) Having considerable flesh; plump. FLESHING (15) [verb] To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh. | [verb] To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh. | [verb] To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. FLESHPOT (16) [noun] A place offering entertainment of a sensual or luxurious nature. FLETCHED (17) [verb] To feather, as an arrow. FLETCHER (16) [noun] One who fletches or feathers arrows. | [noun] A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows. | [noun] Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows. FLETCHES (16) [noun] The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight. | [noun] (fisheries) A large boneless fillet of halibut, swordfish or tuna. | [verb] To feather, as an arrow. FLEXAGON (19) FLEXIBLE (20) [noun] Something that is flexible. | [adjective] Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking. | [adjective] Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate. FLEXIBLY (23) [adverb] In a flexible manner FLEXIONS (18) [noun] The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension. | [noun] The state of being bent or flexed. | [noun] Deviation from straightness. FLEXTIME (20) [noun] An arrangement that allows employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must include certain periods (core time) when they must be at work. FLEXUOSE (18) FLEXUOUS (18) [adjective] Winding from side to side; sinuous FLEXURAL (18) FLEXURES (18) [noun] The act of bending or flexing; flexion. | [noun] A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. | [noun] A curve or bend in a tubular organ. FLICHTER (16) FLICKERS (17) [noun] An unsteady flash of light. | [noun] A short moment. | [verb] To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light. FLICKERY (20) FLICKING (18) [verb] To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion. | [noun] The act by which something is flicked. FLIGHTED (16) [verb] (of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual. | [verb] (by extension) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual. | [adjective] (of birds) Capable of flight. FLIMFLAM (18) [noun] Nonsense. | [noun] Deception. | [verb] To swindle or cheat. FLIMSIER (13) [adjective] Likely to bend or break under pressure. | [adjective] Weak; ill-founded. FLIMSIES (13) [noun] Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies. | [noun] A service certificate | [noun] (in the plural) Skimpy underwear. FLIMSILY (16) FLINCHED (17) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. | [verb] To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe. | [verb] To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty FLINCHER (16) FLINCHES (16) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. | [verb] To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe. | [verb] To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty FLINDERS (12) [noun] Fragments, splinters | [noun] A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter | [noun] A butterfly. FLINGERS (12) FLINGING (13) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. FLINKITE (15) FLINTIER (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing flint. | [adjective] Siliceous (including basanite). | [adjective] Showing a lack of emotion. FLINTILY (14) FLINTING (12) FLIPPANT (15) [adjective] Glib; speaking with ease and rapidity | [adjective] Nimble; limber. | [adjective] Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. FLIPPERS (15) [noun] In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. | [noun] A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. | [noun] A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. FLIPPEST (15) FLIPPING (16) [verb] To throw so as to turn over. | [verb] To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger. | [verb] To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections FLIRTERS (11) FLIRTIER (11) [adjective] Flirting, or seeming to flirt. 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FLOATAGE (12) FLOATELS (11) [noun] A floating hotel; a boatel FLOATERS (11) [noun] Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats. | [noun] An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away. | [noun] An unaffiliated player. FLOATIER (11) [adjective] Buoyant, tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | [adjective] (of a dress) lightweight, so as to rise when the wearer is walking. | [adjective] Light, hypnotic and relaxing. FLOATING (12) [verb] Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface. | [verb] To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density. | [verb] To be capable of floating. FLOCCING (16) FLOCCOSE (15) [adjective] Covered or growing in wooly tufts FLOCCULE (15) [noun] A small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc. FLOCCULI (15) [noun] A small fluffy tuft. | [noun] Either of two small lobes on the posterior border of the cerebellum. | [noun] A marking on the surface of the sun associated with a solar prominence. FLOCKIER (17) FLOCKING (18) [verb] To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. | [verb] To flock to; to crowd. | [verb] To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles. FLOGGERS (13) [noun] One who flogs. | [noun] (BDSM) A lightweight whip with multiple lashes. FLOGGING (14) [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [verb] To sell. FLOKATIS (15) [noun] A handwoven woolen rug with a thick pile. FLOODERS (12) FLOODING (13) [verb] To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. | [verb] To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. | [verb] To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. FLOODLIT (12) [verb] To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s). | [adjective] Lit by floodlights. FLOODWAY (18) [noun] An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected FLOORAGE (12) FLOORERS (11) FLOORING (12) [verb] To cover or furnish with a floor. | [verb] To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. | [verb] (driving) To accelerate rapidly. FLOOSIES (11) [noun] A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern. | [noun] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. FLOOZIES (20) [noun] A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern. | [noun] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. FLOPOVER (16) FLOPPERS (15) [noun] One who flops. | [noun] (skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go. | [noun] A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation. FLOPPIER (15) [adjective] Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible. FLOPPIES (15) [noun] A floppy disk. | [noun] (Rhodesia) An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot. | [noun] A comic book. FLOPPILY (18) FLOPPING (16) [verb] To fall heavily due to lack of energy. | [verb] To cause to drop heavily. | [verb] To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). FLORALLY (14) FLORENCE (13) FLORIDLY (15) FLORIGEN (12) FLORISTS (11) [noun] A person who sells flowers. | [noun] A person who cultivates flowers. | [noun] A person who studies or writes about flowers. FLORUITS (11) [noun] The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak. FLOSSIER (11) [adjective] Resembling floss. | [adjective] Extravagantly showy; flashy FLOSSIES (11) FLOSSILY (14) FLOSSING (12) [verb] To clean the area between the teeth using floss. | [verb] To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent. | [verb] To perform the floss dance move. FLOTAGES (12) FLOTILLA (11) [noun] A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships. FLOTSAMS (13) FLOUNCED (14) [verb] To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner. | [verb] To flounder; to make spastic motions. | [verb] To decorate with a flounce. FLOUNCES (13) [verb] To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner. | [verb] To flounder; to make spastic motions. | [verb] To decorate with a flounce. FLOUNDER (12) [noun] A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder, Platichthys flesus. | [noun] Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae. | [noun] A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts. | [verb] To flop around as a fish out of water. FLOURING (12) [verb] To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. | [verb] To reduce to flour. | [verb] To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. FLOURISH (14) [noun] A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. | [noun] An ornamentation. | [noun] A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. FLOUTERS (11) FLOUTING (12) [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. | [verb] To scorn. | [noun] The act by which something is flouted. FLOWAGES (15) FLOWERED (15) [verb] To put forth blooms. | [verb] To decorate with pictures of flowers. | [verb] To reach a state of full development or achievement. 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FLUIDICS (14) [noun] The branch of engineering and technology that is concerned with the construction of devices that use the flow and pressure of a fluid in circuits analogous to electronic ones FLUIDISE (12) [verb] To give particles of solid the properties of a fluid, either by shaking or by injecting gas FLUIDITY (15) [noun] The state of being fluid rather than viscous | [noun] A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity. | [noun] The quality of being fluid or free-flowing FLUIDIZE (21) [verb] To give particles of solid the properties of a fluid, either by shaking or by injecting gas FLUIDRAM (14) [noun] The dram (unit of volume). FLUKIEST (15) [adjective] Lucky | [adjective] Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes FLUMMERY (18) [noun] A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour. | [noun] Empty or meaningless talk, especially when used to flatter. | [noun] Pretentious trappings, useless ornaments used to impress. FLUMPING (16) [verb] To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound. | [verb] To drop something heavily or with a dull sound. FLUNKERS (15) FLUNKEYS (18) [noun] An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | [noun] One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. | [noun] One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. FLUNKIES (15) [noun] An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | [noun] One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. | [noun] One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. FLUNKING (16) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUORENE (11) FLUORIDE (12) [noun] Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride. | [noun] A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical. FLUORIDS (12) FLUORINE (11) [noun] The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals. | [noun] A single atom of this element. 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FOCALISE (13) [verb] To focus, or to adjust a focus | [verb] To sharpen an image by focusing | [verb] To concentrate on a particular location; to localize FOCALIZE (22) [verb] To focus, or to adjust a focus | [verb] To sharpen an image by focusing | [verb] To concentrate on a particular location; to localize FOCUSERS (13) FOCUSING (14) [verb] (followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention. | [verb] To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point. | [verb] To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane. FOCUSSED (14) [verb] (followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention. | [verb] To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point. | [verb] To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane. FOCUSSES (13) [noun] A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. | [noun] A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. | [noun] The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. FODDERED (14) [verb] To feed animals (with fodder). FOETUSES (11) [noun] An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. | [noun] A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. FOGBOUND (15) [adjective] Enveloped in fog to such an extent that movement is dangerous or impossible FOGFRUIT (15) FOGGAGES (14) FOGGIEST (13) [adjective] Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy | [adjective] Confused, befuddled, etc. FOGHORNS (15) [noun] A very loud low-pitched horn, used especially in lighthouses and on large boats. 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FOLIOING (12) FOLKLIFE (18) [noun] Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally. FOLKLIKE (19) FOLKLORE (15) [noun] The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population. FOLKMOOT (17) FOLKMOTE (17) FOLKMOTS (17) FOLKSIER (15) [adjective] Characteristic of simple country life. | [adjective] Informal, affable and familiar. FOLKSILY (18) FOLKTALE (15) [noun] A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place. FOLKWAYS (21) [noun] Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society. FOLLICLE (13) [noun] A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle. | [noun] A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants. FOLLOWED (15) [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. | [verb] To go or come after in a sequence. | [verb] To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). FOLLOWER (14) [noun] One who follows, comes after another. | [noun] Something that comes after another thing. | [noun] One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. FOMENTED (14) [verb] To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. | [verb] To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. FOMENTER (13) FONDANTS (12) [noun] (usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies. | [noun] A candy filled with such a preparation. | [noun] A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine. FONDLERS (12) FONDLING (13) [noun] A foolish person. | [noun] A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved. | [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. FONDNESS (12) [noun] The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity. FONTANEL (11) [noun] A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones. FONTINAS (11) FOODLESS (12) FOODWAYS (18) FOOFARAW (17) FOOLFISH (17) FOOLSCAP (15) [noun] A cap, usually brightly coloured with bells and tassels, as worn by a court jester or fool. | [noun] (strictly) Writing paper sheets measuring 13.25 x 16.5 inches | [noun] (more usually) Such a sheet folded or cut in half, thus approximately 8 x 13.25 inches. FOOTAGES (12) FOOTBALL (13) [noun] (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team. | [noun] Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. | [noun] American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. FOOTBATH (16) [noun] The act of soaking or washing the feet. | [noun] A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet. | [noun] A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet with. FOOTBOYS (16) FOOTFALL (14) [noun] The sound made by a footstep. | [noun] Foot (pedestrian) traffic. FOOTGEAR (12) [noun] Sturdy footwear FOOTHILL (14) [noun] A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range. FOOTHOLD (15) [noun] A solid grip with the feet. | [noun] (by extension) A secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged. | [noun] Airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement. FOOTIEST (11) FOOTINGS (12) [noun] A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. | [noun] A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold. | [noun] A relative condition; state. FOOTLERS (11) FOOTLESS (11) FOOTLIKE (15) FOOTLING (12) [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. | [adjective] Trivial, silly and irritating. | [noun] A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot will emerge first. A type of breech birth. FOOTMARK (17) [noun] Footprint (an impression made by a foot) FOOTNOTE (11) [noun] A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text. | [noun] (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related. | [noun] A qualification to the import of something. FOOTPACE (15) [noun] A walking pace or step. | [noun] A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. FOOTPADS (14) [noun] The soft underside of an animal's paw. | [noun] A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts. | [noun] A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road. FOOTPATH (16) [noun] A path for pedestrians. FOOTRACE (13) [noun] A race run on foot. FOOTREST (11) [noun] A support on which to rest the feet. FOOTROPE (13) FOOTSIES (11) [noun] A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude. | [noun] A foot. | [noun] A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet. FOOTSLOG (12) [noun] An instance of footslogging. | [verb] To walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge FOOTSORE (11) [adjective] Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much. FOOTSTEP (13) [noun] The mark or impression left by a foot; a track. | [noun] By extension, the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken. | [noun] The sound made by walking, running etc. FOOTWALL (14) [noun] The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall). | [noun] The under wall of an enclosed vein. FOOTWAYS (17) [noun] A passage for pedestrians only. FOOTWEAR (14) [noun] Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc. FOOTWORK (18) [noun] Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing. | [noun] A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s. FOOTWORN (14) FOOZLERS (20) FOOZLING (21) [verb] To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle. FORAGERS (12) [noun] An animal or person who forages FORAGING (13) [verb] To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. | [verb] To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. | [verb] To rummage. FORAMENS (13) FORAMINA (13) [noun] An opening, an orifice; a short passage. FORAYERS (14) FORAYING (15) [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. | [verb] To pillage; to ravage. FORBEARS (13) [verb] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. | [verb] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | [verb] To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. FORBIDAL (14) FORBODED (15) FORBODES (14) FORBORNE (13) [verb] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. | [verb] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | [verb] To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. FORCEDLY (17) FORCEFUL (16) [adjective] Capable of either physical or coercive force; powerful. FORCIBLE (15) [adjective] Done by force, forced. | [adjective] (rare or obsolete) Having (physical) force, forceful. | [adjective] Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective. FORCIBLY (18) [adverb] In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will. | [adverb] In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly. FORCIPES (15) FORDABLE (14) FORDLESS (12) FORDOING (13) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREARMS (13) [noun] The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow. | [noun] A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady. FOREBAYS (16) FOREBEAR (13) [verb] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. | [verb] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | [verb] To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. FOREBODE (14) [noun] Prognostication; presage | [verb] To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device). | [verb] To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. FOREBODY (17) FOREBOOM (15) FORECAST (13) [noun] An estimation of a future condition. | [noun] (betting) exacta | [verb] To estimate how something will be in the future. FOREDATE (12) FOREDECK (18) [noun] The part of the deck of a ship or boat that lies forward of the mast FOREDOES (12) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREDONE (12) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREDOOM (14) [noun] A doom that is predicted; destiny. | [verb] To predestine to a doom. FOREFACE (16) FOREFEEL (14) FOREFEET (14) [noun] Either of the front feet of a quadruped. | [noun] A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem. FOREFELT (14) FOREFEND (15) [verb] To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. FOREFOOT (14) [noun] Either of the front feet of a quadruped. | [noun] A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem. | [verb] To repair the front area of (a shoe etc). FOREGOER (12) FOREGOES (12) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. FOREGONE (12) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [adjective] Previous, former | [adjective] Bygone FOREGUTS (12) [noun] The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum. FOREHAND (15) [noun] (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke. | [noun] (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger. | [noun] All of the part of a horse which is before the rider. FOREHEAD (15) [noun] The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline. | [noun] Confidence; audacity | [noun] The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen. FOREHOOF (17) FOREKNEW (18) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. FOREKNOW (18) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. FORELADY (15) [noun] The female equivalent of a foreman FORELAND (12) [noun] A headland. | [noun] In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited. FORELEGS (12) [noun] Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal, a piece of furniture, etc. FORELIMB (15) [noun] The anterior limb (or equivalent appendage) of an animal FORELOCK (17) [noun] The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead. | [noun] The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead. | [noun] A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place. FOREMAST (13) [noun] The mast nearest the bow, on a ship with more than one mast. FOREMILK (17) [noun] The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein. FOREMOST (13) [adjective] First, either in time or in space | [adjective] Most forward; front | [adjective] Of a higher rank or position; paramount FORENAME (13) [noun] A name that precedes the surname. FORENOON (11) [noun] The part of the day from dawn to noon. | [noun] The part of the day between midnight and noon. | [noun] The early part of anything. FORENSIC (13) [adjective] Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law. | [adjective] Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law. | [adjective] Relating to, or used in, debate or argument. FOREPART (13) [noun] The front or anterior part of something. FOREPAST (13) FOREPAWS (16) [noun] Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans. FOREPEAK (17) [noun] The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow FOREPLAY (16) [noun] In human sexual behavior, the acts at the beginning of a sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal. | [verb] To engage in foreplay. FORERANK (15) FORERUNS (11) [verb] To run in front. | [verb] To precede; to forecast or foreshadow. FORESAID (12) FORESAIL (11) [noun] (on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast | [noun] A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel. | [noun] (on a sloop) A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail. FORESEEN (11) [verb] To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict. | [verb] To provide. FORESEER (11) FORESEES (11) [verb] To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict. | [verb] To provide. FORESHOW (17) [verb] To show in advance; to foretell, predict. | [verb] To foreshadow or prefigure. | [noun] A manifestation in advance; a prior indication. FORESIDE (12) FORESKIN (15) [noun] The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other animals. | [verb] To remove the foreskin | [verb] To sexually stimulate by manipulating the foreskin. FORESTAL (11) FORESTAY (14) [noun] A stay that extends from the top of the foremast to the bow or bowsprit of a sailing ship | [verb] To stay beforehand; secure or fasten with or as with a forestay. | [verb] To stay, delay, postpone, or hinder beforehand; forestall; prevent. FORESTED (12) [verb] To cover an area with trees. | [adjective] Covered in forest. FORESTER (11) [noun] A person who practices forestry. | [noun] A person who lives in a forest. | [noun] A moth in the family Zygaenidae. FORESTRY (14) [noun] The science of planting and growing trees in forests. | [noun] The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests. | [noun] The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes. FORETELL (11) [verb] To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy. | [verb] To tell (a person) of the future. FORETIME (13) FORETOLD (12) [verb] To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy. | [verb] To tell (a person) of the future. FORETOPS (13) [noun] The top of the head; the top of the forehead. | [noun] The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig. | [noun] In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity". FOREVERS (14) FOREWARN (14) [verb] To warn in advance. FOREWENT (14) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. FOREWING (15) [noun] (in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head. FOREWORD (15) [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FOREWORN (14) FOREYARD (15) [noun] A yard in front; front yard | [noun] A yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. FORFEITS (14) [noun] A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor. | [noun] A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc. | [noun] Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game. FORFENDS (15) [verb] To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. FORGINGS (13) FORGIVEN (15) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FORGIVER (15) FORGIVES (15) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FORGOERS (12) FORGOING (13) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORJUDGE (20) FORKBALL (17) [noun] A baseball pitch, much like the sinker. FORKEDLY (19) FORKFULS (18) FORKIEST (15) FORKLESS (15) FORKLIFT (18) [noun] A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved | [verb] To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle. FORKLIKE (19) FORKSFUL (18) FORMABLE (15) FORMALIN (13) [noun] A solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant and to preserve biological specimens. FORMALLY (16) [adverb] In a formal manner. | [adverb] In accordance with official procedure. | [adverb] In accordance with rigorous rules. FORMANTS (13) [noun] A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants. | [noun] A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem. FORMATES (13) [verb] To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation. FORMERLY (16) [adverb] At some time in the past | [adverb] Previously; once FORMLESS (13) [adjective] Without form; shapeless. | [adjective] Without the use of forms or templates. FORMULAE (13) [noun] Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. | [noun] A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound. | [noun] A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result. FORMULAS (13) [noun] Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. | [noun] A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound. | [noun] A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result. FORMWORK (20) [noun] A temporary mould, made from planks, into which concrete is poured FORNICAL (13) FORNICES (13) [noun] An archlike structure or fold. | [noun] Specifically, the arched bundle of fibres or axons at the base of the brain. FORRADER (12) [adverb] Pronunciation spelling of forwarder. FORSAKEN (15) [verb] To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce. | [adjective] Deserted; abandoned. | [adjective] Helpless. FORSAKER (15) FORSAKES (15) [verb] To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce. FORSOOTH (14) [adverb] Used as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully. FORSPENT (13) FORSWEAR (14) [verb] To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | [verb] To commit perjury; to break an oath. FORSWORE (14) FORSWORN (14) [verb] To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | [verb] To commit perjury; to break an oath. | [adjective] Having lied under oath; perjured. FORTIETH (14) [noun] The person or thing in the fortieth position. | [noun] One of forty equal parts of a whole. | [adjective] The ordinal form of the number forty. FORTRESS (11) [noun] A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. | [noun] A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw. | [verb] To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify. FORTUITY (14) [noun] The state of being fortuitous. | [noun] A fortuitous event; an accident. FORTUNED (12) FORTUNES (11) [noun] Destiny, especially favorable. | [noun] A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller. | [noun] A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie. 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FREEBASE (13) [noun] The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution. | [noun] (specifically) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine. | [verb] To purify a drug by crystallization. FREEBEES (13) [noun] Something which is free; a giveaway or handout. FREEBIES (13) [noun] Something which is free; a giveaway or handout. FREEBOOT (13) [verb] To pillage or plunder. | [verb] To rehost (online media) without legal authorization. FREEBORN (13) [adjective] Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave FREEDMAN (14) [noun] A man who has been released from a condition of slavery. FREEDMEN (14) [noun] A man who has been released from a condition of slavery. FREEDOMS (14) [noun] The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. | [noun] The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained. | [noun] Frankness; openness; unreservedness. FREEFORM (16) [adjective] Having an unconventional, variable or asymmetric form. | [adjective] Referring to a roleplaying game which does not use a formal system of rules. FREEHAND (15) [verb] To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide. | [adjective] Drawn using the hand without any helping device. FREEHOLD (15) [noun] The tenure of property held in fee simple for life. | [noun] An estate held by a tenure of this type. | [verb] To dispense property in this way. FREELOAD (12) [verb] To live off the generosity or hospitality of others FREENESS (11) FREESIAS (11) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa. FREEWAYS (17) [noun] A road designed for safe, high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections, usually divided and having at least two lanes in each direction; a dual carriageway with no at-grade crossings, a motorway. | [noun] A toll-free highway. 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FRIENDLY (15) [noun] A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc. | [noun] A person or entity on the same side in a conflict. | [adjective] Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. | [adverb] In a friendly manner, like a friend. FRIGATES (12) [noun] An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle. | [noun] A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship. | [noun] A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose. FRIGGING (14) [verb] To fidget, to wriggle around | [verb] To masturbate | [verb] To fuck (misapplied euphemism) FRIGHTED (16) [verb] To frighten. FRIGHTEN (15) [verb] To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright. FRIGIDLY (16) FRIJOLES (18) [noun] (in Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies) Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris. | [noun] (in Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies) The bean-like seed of any of several related plants, such as the cowpea, used as food. FRILLERS (11) FRILLIER (11) [adjective] Having frills; frilled. | [adjective] Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance. FRILLING (12) [verb] To make into a frill. | [verb] To become wrinkled. | [verb] To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits. FRINGIER (12) FRINGING (13) [verb] To decorate with fringe. | [verb] To serve as a fringe. | [noun] A fringe or border. FRIPPERY (18) [noun] Ostentation, as in fancy clothing. | [noun] Useless things; trifles. | [noun] Cast-off clothes. 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FRITTERS (11) [noun] A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter. | [noun] A fragment; a shred; a small piece. | [verb] (often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination. FRITTING (12) [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [verb] To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. | [noun] The formation of frit or slag by heat with only incipient fusion. FRIVOLED (15) [verb] To behave frivolously. | [verb] To trifle. FRIVOLER (14) FRIZETTE (20) FRIZZERS (29) FRIZZIER (29) [adjective] Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions. FRIZZILY (32) FRIZZING (30) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 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FROTTAGE (12) [noun] A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal. | [noun] An image so made. | [noun] The practice of rubbing parts of the body against those of another person for sexual stimulation. FROTTEUR (11) [noun] One who commits an act of frotteurism. FROUFROU (14) [noun] A rustling sound, as of silk fabric. FROUNCED (14) FROUNCES (13) FROUZIER (20) FROWNERS (14) FROWNING (15) [verb] To have a frown on one's face. | [verb] To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. | [verb] To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. FROWSIER (14) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWSTED (15) [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWZIER (23) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWZILY (26) FROZENLY (23) FRUCTIFY (19) [verb] To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas. | [verb] To make productive or fruitful. | [verb] To be satisfied sexually. FRUCTOSE (13) [noun] A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6. FRUGALLY (15) FRUGGING (14) [noun] The process whereby a product marketer falsely purports to be a market researcher conducting a statistical survey, when in reality the "researcher" is attempting to solicit a donation. FRUITAGE (12) [noun] Fruit, collectively. | [noun] Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill. FRUITERS (11) [noun] Any organism that fruits. | [noun] A ship for transporting fruit. FRUITFUL (14) [adjective] Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren. | [adjective] Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits. FRUITIER (11) [adjective] Containing fruit or fruit flavoring. | [adjective] Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit. | [adjective] Mad, crazy. 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FUGGIEST (13) [adjective] Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation FUGITIVE (15) [noun] A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation. | [adjective] Fleeing or running away | [adjective] Transient, fleeting or ephemeral FUGLEMAN (14) [noun] The member of a military group who leads the way or demonstrates drill; hence, someone who keeps the beat or timing, and/or demonstrates motions in other contexts. | [noun] (by extension) A political leader, or a ringleader. FUGLEMEN (14) [noun] The member of a military group who leads the way or demonstrates drill; hence, someone who keeps the beat or timing, and/or demonstrates motions in other contexts. | [noun] (by extension) A political leader, or a ringleader. FUGUISTS (12) FULCRUMS (15) [noun] The support about which a lever pivots. | [noun] A crux or pivot; a central point. FULFILLS (14) [verb] To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). | [verb] To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | [verb] To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). FULLBACK (19) [noun] A player who plays on the left or right side of defence. | [noun] The player who wears the number 15 jersey at the start of play. The last line of defence responsible for catching punts. | [noun] An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays. FULLERED (12) [verb] To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer. FULLFACE (16) FULLNESS (11) [noun] Being full; completeness. | [noun] The degree to which a space is full. | [noun] The degree to which fate has become known. 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FUNCTORS (13) [noun] (grammar) A function word. | [noun] A function object. | [noun] A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities. FUNERALS (11) [noun] A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon. FUNERARY (14) [adjective] Of or relating to a funeral. FUNEREAL (11) [adjective] Of or relating to a funeral. | [adjective] Similar to a funeral in mood; dignified or solemn. FUNFAIRS (14) [noun] A travelling amusement park. FUNGIBLE (14) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Any fungible item. | [adjective] Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable. FUNGOIDS (13) [noun] A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus. FUNGUSES (12) [noun] Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. | [noun] A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound. FUNICLES (13) [noun] The stalk or stem of an ovule or seed. | [noun] Intermediate segments of the antenna of chalcid wasps adjoining the pedicel basally and the clava distally. FUNICULI (13) [noun] Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord | [noun] A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta FUNKIEST (15) [adjective] Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | [adjective] Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context. | [adjective] Cool; great; excellent. FUNNELED (12) [verb] To use a funnel. | [verb] To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow. | [verb] To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.). FUNNIEST (11) [adjective] Amusing; humorous; comical. | [adjective] Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant. | [adjective] Showing unexpected resentment. FUNNYMAN (16) [noun] Comedian FUNNYMEN (16) [noun] Comedian FURANOSE (11) FURBELOW (16) [noun] A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc. | [noun] A small, showy ornamentation. | [verb] To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. FURCATED (14) [adjective] Forked or branched FURCATES (13) [verb] To fork or branch out. 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FURMENTY (16) FURNACED (14) FURNACES (13) [noun] An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics. | [noun] A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater. | [noun] Any area that is excessively hot. FURRIERS (11) [noun] A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur. | [noun] A person who secures accommodation for an army. FURRIERY (14) [noun] Furs in general. | [noun] The business of a furrier; trade in furs. FURRIEST (11) [adjective] Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur. | [adjective] Of or related to the furry subculture. FURRINER (11) FURRINGS (12) FURROWED (15) [verb] To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.). | [verb] To wrinkle. | [verb] To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc. FURROWER (14) FURTHERS (14) [verb] To help forward; to assist. | [verb] To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote. FURTHEST (14) FURUNCLE (13) [noun] A boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore. FURZIEST (20) FUSELAGE (12) [noun] (aeronautical) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo. FUSELESS (11) FUSIFORM (16) [adjective] Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end. FUSILEER (11) [noun] An infantryman armed with a form of flintlock musket | [noun] A soldier in any of several regiments that once fought with such weapons | [noun] A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers FUSILIER (11) [noun] An infantryman armed with a form of flintlock musket | [noun] A soldier in any of several regiments that once fought with such weapons | [noun] A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers FUSILLIS (11) FUSSIEST (11) [adjective] Anxious or particular about petty details. | [adjective] Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies). FUSSPOTS (13) [noun] A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things. FUSTIANS (11) FUSTIEST (11) [adjective] Moldy or musty. | [adjective] Stale-smelling or stuffy. | [adjective] (by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. FUTHARCS (16) FUTHARKS (18) [noun] The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc. FUTHORCS (16) [noun] The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. FUTHORKS (18) [noun] The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. FUTILELY (14) FUTILITY (14) [noun] The quality of being futile or useless. | [noun] Something, especially an act, that is futile. | [noun] Unimportance. FUTTOCKS (17) [noun] Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship. FUTURISM (13) [noun] An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions. | [noun] The study and prediction of possible futures. | [noun] The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future rather than recognizing him in the presence of Christ. FUTURIST (11) [noun] An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism. | [noun] One who studies and predicts possible futures. | [adjective] In the style of futurism. FUTURITY (14) [noun] The future. | [noun] The state of being in the future. | [noun] A future event. FUZZIEST (29) [adjective] Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals | [adjective] Vague or imprecise. | [adjective] Not clear; unfocused.