| AFFERENT | • afferent adj. Carrying towards. • afferent n. An afferent structure or connection. • AFFERENT adj. bearing, bringing or carrying towards. |
| AFFIANTS | • affiants n. Plural of affiant. • AFFIANT n. one who makes a written declaration under oath. |
| AFFINITY | • affinity n. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing. • affinity n. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister). • affinity n. A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal. |
| AFFLUENT | • affluent n. Somebody who is wealthy. • affluent n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary. • affluent adj. Abundant; copious; plenteous. |
| AFFRONTE | • affronte n. Obsolete form of affront. • affronté adj. (Heraldry) Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other. • affronté adj. (Heraldry) Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer. |
| AFFRONTS | • affronts n. Plural of affront. • affronts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affront. • AFFRONT v. to insult to one's face. |
| BOUFFANT | • bouffant adj. Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body. • bouffant n. A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high… • BOUFFANT n. (French) a woman's hairdo. |
| STAFFING | • staffing v. Present participle of staff. • staffing n. The practice of hiring and firing staff. • staffing n. The personnel required for some project. |
| STAFFMAN | • staffman n. A workman employed in silk throwing. • STAFFMAN n. a person who holds the levelling staff when a survey is being made. |
| STAFFMEN | • staffmen n. Plural of staffman. • STAFFMAN n. a person who holds the levelling staff when a survey is being made. |
| STANDOFF | • standoff n. A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign… • standoff n. A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists. • standoff adj. (Military) For use at a distance sufficient from the target to allow defensive fire to be evaded. |