Word Meanings - DOUGHNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small cake fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

Related words: (words related to DOUGHNUT)

• FRIVOL
  To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er , Friv"ol*ler, n.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• FRIZZLER
  One who frizzles.
• FRIVOLISM
  Frivolity. Pristley.
• FRIBBLE
  Frivolous; trifling; sily.
• KETTLEDRUM
  A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Note: Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they
• FRIEZED
  Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t.,
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FRIESISH
  Friesic.
• KETTLE
  A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids. Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. Shelton. -- Kettle stitch , the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• FRICATION
  Friction. Bacon.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• FRIVOLITY
  The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
• FRIGERATE
  To make cool. Blount.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.