| CONFESSANT | • confessant n. (Obsolete) One who confesses to a priest. • CONFESSANT n. one who confesses to a priest. |
| CONFIDANTE | • confidante n. A female confidant. • confidante n. A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats. • CONFIDANTE n. (French) a (female) person confided in or entrusted with secrets, esp. in love affairs. |
| CONFIDANTS | • confidants n. Plural of confidant. • CONFIDANT n. (French) a (male) person confided in or entrusted with secrets, esp. in love affairs, also CONFIDENT. |
| CONFLATING | • conflating v. Present participle of conflate. • CONFLATE v. to combine (as two readings of a text). |
| CONFLATION | • conflation n. (Countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. • conflation n. (Uncountable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material… • CONFLATION n. a combining or blending of two or more versions of a text. |
| CONFRONTAL | • CONFRONTAL n. a confrontation. |
| ENFACEMENT | • enfacement n. The act, or the result of enfacing. • ENFACEMENT n. the act of enfacing, printing on the face of a bill etc. |
| FANTOCCINI | • fantoccini n. Puppets caused to enact dramatic scenes by means of machinery. • fantoccini n. The puppet shows in which they are used. • FANTOCCINI n. (Italian) mechanically worked puppets used in street theatre. |
| FUNCTIONAL | • functional adj. In good working order. • functional adj. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function. • functional adj. Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture. |
| INFARCTION | • infarction n. (Pathology) The process which causes an infarct. • infarction n. (Pathology) An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).. • INFARCTION n. necrosis, the death of tissues due to the blocking of (esp. the arterial) blood supply. |
| INFECTANTS | • infectants n. Plural of infectant. • INFECTANT n. a thing that infects or causes infection. |
| INFRACTING | • infracting v. Present participle of infract. • INFRACT v. to break a legal rule. |
| INFRACTION | • infraction n. (Law) A minor offence, petty crime. • infraction n. A violation; breach. • infraction n. (Ice hockey) A major violation of rules which leads to a penalty, if detected by the referee. |
| NONFACTORS | • nonfactors n. Plural of nonfactor. • NONFACTOR n. something that is not a factor. |
| NONFACTUAL | • nonfactual adj. Not factual; false or fictional. • non-factual adj. Alternative form of nonfactual. • NONFACTUAL adj. not factual. |
| NONFACULTY | • nonfaculty adj. Not of or pertaining to faculty. • NONFACULTY n. a position that is not part of an academic faculty. |
| OCEANFRONT | • oceanfront adj. Of property or real estate: adjacent to the ocean. • oceanfront n. A property that is adjacent to the ocean. • oceanfront n. The side of a property that faces the ocean. |
| UNFANCIEST | • UNFANCY adj. not fancy. |
| UNSANCTIFY | • unsanctify v. (Transitive) To reduce from a holy condition; to make profane. • UNSANCTIFY v. to remove the sanctity from. |