| DIFFICULT | • difficult adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort. • difficult adj. (Often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome. • difficult adj. (Obsolete) Unable or unwilling. |
| DIFFUSING | • diffusing v. Present participle of diffuse. • diffusing adj. (Of a category) broken down so that its elements are placed in its most specific subset available. • DIFFUSE v. to spread widely or thinly. |
| DIFFUSION | • diffusion n. The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion. • diffusion n. (Physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium. • diffusion n. (Physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation. |
| DIFFUSIVE | • diffusive adj. That is spread or dispersed across a wide area or among a large number of people. • diffusive adj. Involving or employing many words; expansive, discursive; (in negative sense) long-winded. • diffusive adj. That diffuses something; disseminating. |
| FISTICUFF | • fisticuff n. (Rare) A fistfight. • fisticuff n. (Obsolete) A cuff or blow administered with the fist. • fisticuff v. (Chiefly humorous) To engage in a physical fight. |
| FRUTIFIED | • frutified v. Simple past tense and past participle of frutify. • FRUTIFY v. (Shakespeare) Launcelot Gobbo's blunder for notify. |
| FRUTIFIES | • frutifies v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frutify. • FRUTIFY v. (Shakespeare) Launcelot Gobbo's blunder for notify. |
| OFFICIOUS | • officious adj. (Obsolete) Obliging, attentive, eager to please. • officious adj. Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services. • OFFICIOUS adj. volunteering one's services too eagerly. |
| SQUIFFIER | • squiffier adj. Comparative form of squiffy: more squiffy. • SQUIFFY adj. (colloquial) tipsy, drunk, also SQUIFF, SQUIFFED. |
| SUFFICING | • sufficing v. Present participle of suffice. • SUFFICE v. to be adequate. |
| SUFFIXING | • suffixing v. Present participle of suffix. • suffixing adj. (Linguistics) Of a language, characterised by heavy use of suffixes to create grammatical forms; as… • suffixing n. The act by which something is suffixed. |
| SUFFIXION | • suffixion n. The process of adding a suffix to something. • SUFFIXION n. the act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed. |
| ZIFFIUSES | • ZIFFIUS n. (Spenser) a sea-monster, perhaps a swordfish. |