heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
<noun.animal>

Fulmarus glacialis

fulmar

fulmar petrel

sudden and severe
<adj.all>

fulminant

sample sentences

"fulminant pain"
"fulminant fever"

a salt or ester of fulminic acid
<noun.substance>

fulminate

criticize severely
<verb.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fulminate

rail

sample sentences

"He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"
"She railed against the bad social policies"

cause to explode violently and with loud noise
<verb.change>

fulminate

come on suddenly and intensely
<verb.change>

fulminate

sample sentences

"the disease fulminated"

a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps
<noun.substance>

fulminate of mercury

fulminating mercury

mercury fulminate

a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps
<noun.substance>

fulminate of mercury

fulminating mercury

mercury fulminate

the act of exploding with noise and violence
<noun.act>

fulmination

sample sentences

"his fulminations frightened the horses"

thunderous verbal attack
<noun.communication>

diatribe

fulmination

(CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic acid
<noun.substance>

fulminic acid

unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

buttery

fulsome

oily

oleaginous

smarmy

soapy

unctuous

sample sentences

"buttery praise"
"gave him a fulsome introduction"
"an oily sycophantic press agent"
"oleaginous hypocrisy"
"smarmy self-importance"
"the unctuous Uriah Heep"
"soapy compliments"

in an unctuous manner
<adv.all>

fulsomely

smarmily

unctuously

smug self-serving earnestness
<noun.attribute>

fulsomeness

oiliness

oleaginousness

smarminess

unction

unctuousness

excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
<noun.communication>

fulsomeness

smarm

unction

a yellow to yellow-brown humic substance that is soluble in water under all pH conditions
<noun.substance>

fulvic acid

sample sentences

"they measured the fluvial fulvic acid"

a colorless crystalline acid with a fruity taste; used in making polyester resins
<noun.substance>

fumaric acid

(sports) dropping the ball
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fumble

muff

feel about uncertainly or blindly
<verb.contact>   freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4

fumble

grope

sample sentences

"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

handle clumsily
<verb.contact>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fumble

make one's way clumsily or blindly
<verb.motion>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

blunder

fumble

sample sentences

"He fumbled towards the door"

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
<verb.competition>

fumble

sample sentences

"fumble a grounder"

make a mess of, destroy or ruin
<verb.social>   freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

ball up

blow

bobble

bodge

bollix

bollix up

bollocks

bollocks up

botch

botch up

bumble

bungle

flub

fluff

foul up

fuck up

fumble

louse up

mess up

mishandle

muck up

muff

screw up

spoil

sample sentences

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
<noun.person>

blunderer

botcher

bumbler

bungler

butcher

fuckup

fumbler

sad sack

stumbler

showing lack of skill or aptitude
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bungling

clumsy

fumbling

incompetent

sample sentences

"a bungling workman"
"did a clumsy job"
"his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
<noun.phenomenon>   freq. cnt.: 65 freq. cnt.: 65

fume

smoke

be mad, angry, or furious
<verb.emotion>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

fume

be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
<verb.body>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fume

reek

treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
<verb.perception>

fume

fumigate

emit a cloud of fine particles
<verb.weather>

fume

smoke

sample sentences

"The chimney was fuming"

(of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes
<adj.all>

fumed

sample sentences

"fumed oak"

oak given a weathered appearance by exposure to fumes of ammonia; used for cabinetwork
<noun.plant>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

fumed oak

herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers
<noun.plant>

Corydalis solida

fumeroot

fumewort

delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally
<noun.plant>

Fumaria officinalis

fumeroot

fumewort

fumitory

gases ejected from an engine as waste products
<noun.substance>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

exhaust

exhaust fumes

fumes

herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers
<noun.plant>

Corydalis solida

fumeroot

fumewort

delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally
<noun.plant>

Fumaria officinalis

fumeroot

fumewort

fumitory

a chemical substance used in fumigation
<noun.substance>

fumigant

treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
<verb.perception>

fume

fumigate

the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
<noun.act>

fumigation

a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests
<noun.artifact>

fumigator

someone whose job is to fumigate
<noun.person>

fumigator

delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally
<noun.plant>

Fumaria officinalis

fumeroot

fumewort

fumitory

erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
<noun.plant>

Fumariaceae

family Fumariaceae

fumitory family