| AFFICIONADO | • afficionado n. Alternative spelling of aficionado (“one who likes, knows about, and appreciates an interest”). • AFFICIONADO n. (Spanish) a devotee, admirer, an enthusiastic fan, also AFICIONADO. |
| AFFILIATING | • affiliating v. Present participle of affiliate. • AFFILIATE v. to adopt or attach as a member or branch. |
| AFFILIATION | • affiliation n. The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another. • affiliation n. (Law) The establishment of a child’s paternity or maternity. • affiliation n. A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union. |
| AFFIRMATION | • affirmation n. That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true. • affirmation n. (Law) The solemn declaration made by Quakers and others incapable of taking an oath. • affirmation n. A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion. |
| AFFIRMATIVE | • affirmative adj. Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming. • affirmative adj. Pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result. • affirmative adj. Positive. |
| AFFIXATIONS | • affixations n. Plural of affixation. • AFFIXATION n. the act of affixing. |
| AFFRICATING | • affricating v. Present participle of affricate. • AFFRICATE v. to sound a consonant in this way. |
| AFFRICATION | • affrication n. (Phonetics, uncountable, of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound. • affrication n. (Countable) A particular instance of such change. • AFFRICATION n. the act of making a sound affricative. |
| AFFRICATIVE | • affricative n. An affricate. • affricative adj. Of or relating to an affricate. • AFFRICATIVE n. a sound like an affricate. |
| FALSIFIABLE | • falsifiable adj. Logically capable of being proven false. • falsifiable adj. Capable of being falsified or forged. • falsifiable adj. (Epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by… |
| PARAFFINIER | • PARAFFINY adj. of or like paraffin. |
| PARAFFINING | • paraffining v. Present participle of paraffin. • paraffining v. Present participle of paraffine. • paraffining n. The action of coating with paraffin. |
| PARAFFINOID | • paraffinoid adj. (Obsolete, organic chemistry) Resembling paraffin; aliphatic. • PARAFFINOID adj. of or like paraffin, also PARAFFINIC. |