| AFFEERMENTS | • affeerments n. Plural of affeerment. • AFFEERMENT n. the act of affeering. |
| 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. |
| AFFORCEMENT | • afforcement n. (Obsolete) A reinforcement; a strengthening. • AFFORCEMENT n. the act of afforcing, strengthening a jury by adding skilled people. |
| AFFORESTING | • afforesting v. Present participle of afforest. • AFFOREST v. to cover with forest. |
| 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. |
| AFFRIGHTENS | • affrightens v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affrighten. • AFFRIGHTEN v. to frighten, also AFFRIGHT. |
| AFFRIGHTING | • affrighting v. Present participle of affright. • AFFRIGHT v. to frighten. |
| AFFRONTINGS | • affrontings n. Plural of affronting. • AFFRONTING n. the act of affronting. |
| DIFFERENTIA | • differentia n. (Semantics, logic, taxonomy) A distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus. • DIFFERENTIA n. a property which distinguishes one from another. |
| DIFFRACTING | • diffracting v. Present participle of diffract. • DIFFRACT v. to separate into parts. |
| DIFFRACTION | • diffraction n. (Physics) The bending of a wave around an obstacle. • diffraction n. (Quantum mechanics) The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e… • DIFFRACTION n. a modification which light undergoes esp. in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow openings and in which the rays appear to be deflected. |
| FAULTFINDER | • faultfinder n. A person who finds fault. • FAULTFINDER n. one given to faultfinding. |
| FORFAITINGS | • FORFAITING n. a method of export finance where debts on exported goods are bought and then sold on to banks etc. |
| FRANKFURTER | • frankfurter n. (UK, US, Canada) A moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered… • Frankfurter n. A native or inhabitant of Frankfurt, Germany. • FRANKFURTER n. (German) a small smoked sausage, also FRANKFORT, FRANKFURT. |
| GRAFFITIING | • graffitiing v. Present participle of graffiti. • GRAFFITI v. to deface with graffiti. |
| INSUFFLATOR | • insufflator n. Agent noun of insufflate: a person or device which insufflates. • insufflator n. A form of injector for forcing air into a furnace. • INSUFFLATOR n. one who insufflates. |
| SAFFRONIEST | • SAFFRONY adj. having a colour somewhat like saffron. |
| STROGANOFFS | • stroganoffs n. Plural of stroganoff. • STROGANOFF n. (Russian) of meat, cut thinly and cooked with onions. |
| TRAFFICKING | • trafficking v. Present participle of traffic. • trafficking v. Present participle of traffick. • trafficking n. Clipping of human trafficking. |