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Affiliable

Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

Affiliate

To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.

Affiliation

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Affinal

Related by marriage; from the same source.

Affined

Joined in affinity or by any tie.

Affirm

To declare or assert positively.

Affirmable

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

Affirmance

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Affirmation

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

Affirmative

That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.

affirmative action

a policy of making active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities available to members of minority groups or women; -- achieved by employers or schools by using various techniques, but excluding the use of simple quotas or outright discrimination against white males.

Affirmatively

In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.

Affix

That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

affixal

of or pertaining to an affix.

affixed

attached physically. Opposite of unaffixed.

Affixture

The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.

Afflation

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

Afflicting

Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.

Affliction

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

Afflictive

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Affluence

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.

Affluent

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Afflux

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

Afforce

To re/nforce; to strengthen.

Afford

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

Afforest

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

Affrap

To strike, or strike down.

Affray

The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.

Affreight

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

Affreighter

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

Affreightment

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

Affret

A furious onset or attack.

Affricate

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

Affright

Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.

Affrightment

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.

Affront

An encounter either friendly or hostile.

Affronte

Face to face, or front to front; facing.

Affronter

One who affronts, or insults to the face.

Affrontive

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.

Affusion

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease.

Affy

To trust or confide.

Afghan

A native of Afghanistan.

Afghani

a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.

Afield

To, in, or on the field.

Aflame

In flames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.

Aflat

Level with the ground; flat.

Aflaunt

In a flaunting state or position.

Afloat

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

Afoam

In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

Afore

Before (in all its senses).

Aforehand

Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand.

Aforesaid

Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.

Afoul

In collision; entangled.

Afraid

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

Afresh

Anew; again; once more; newly.

African

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

African wild dog

a dog (Lycaon pictus) with mottled fur found in Africa, notable for the strong social structure of its family groups.

African-American

an American whose ancestors were born in Africa, especially a United States citizen of African descent.

Africander

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a /colored/ mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

Africanism

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.

Africanize

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes.

Afro-American

of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture.

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