| AFFOORDING | • affoording v. Present participle of affoord. • AFFOORD v. (Spenser) to afford. |
| AFICIONADO | • aficionado n. (Obsolete) An amateur bullfighter. • aficionado n. A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting);… • AFICIONADO n. (Spanish) a devotee, admirer, an enthusiastic fan, also AFFICIONADO. |
| BRAINFOODS | • brainfoods n. Plural of brainfood. • BRAINFOOD n. any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils. |
| COFOUNDING | • cofounding v. Present participle of cofound. • co-founding v. Present participle of co-found. • COFOUND v. to found jointly. |
| CONFERVOID | • confervoid adj. Resembling conferva algae. • CONFERVOID adj. relating the confervae, freshwater algae. • CONFERVOID n. a freshwater alga. |
| DISULFOTON | • disulfoton n. A highly toxic organothiophosphate insecticide and acaricide, O,O-diethyl S-2-ethylthioethyl phosphorodithioate. • DISULFOTON n. an organophosphorus systemic insecticide. |
| FALCONOIDS | • FALCONOID n. an antioxidant compound found in tea and thought to resist cancer. |
| FLAVONOIDS | • flavonoids n. Plural of flavonoid. • FLAVONOID n. a kind of aromatic compound including many common pigments. |
| FLOODPLAIN | • floodplain n. (Geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain. • flood␣plain n. Alternative spelling of floodplain. • FLOODPLAIN n. an area bordering a stream over which water spreads when the stream tops its channel banks. |
| FOREBODING | • foreboding n. A sense of evil to come. • foreboding n. An evil omen. • foreboding adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty. |
| FOREORDAIN | • foreordain v. (Transitive) To predestine or preordain. • FOREORDAIN v. to ordain or appoint beforehand. |
| FOUNDATION | • foundation n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. • foundation n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the… • foundation n. (Figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise… |
| INFANTHOOD | • infanthood n. Infancy. • INFANTHOOD n. infancy. |
| MONADIFORM | • monadiform adj. (Biology) Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm. • MONADIFORM adj. having the form of a monad. |
| OFFLOADING | • offloading v. Present participle of offload. • offloading n. The act by which something is offloaded. • off-loading v. Present participle of off-load. |
| OPSONIFIED | • opsonified v. Simple past tense and past participle of opsonify. • OPSONIFY v. to form opsonins in, a substance of blood serum making bacteria vulnerable to phagocytic action. |
| REFLOODING | • reflooding v. Present participle of reflood. • reflooding n. An act of flooding again. • REFLOOD v. to flood again. |
| SPOONDRIFT | • spoondrift n. (Nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift. • spoon-drift n. Alternative form of spoondrift. • SPOONDRIFT n. the ocean spray which is blown by the wind, also SPINDRIFT. |
| WINDPROOFS | • windproofs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of windproof. • windproofs n. Trousers designed for cold, windy conditions. • WINDPROOF v. to make a fabric etc. proof against the wind. |