Reverse Dictionary: FLAVOUR

ADJECTIVES
ACERB of flavour or food: sour or harsh-tasting → 1616
ACERBIC of flavour or food: sour or harsh-tasting → 1853
ARGUTE of flavour: acidic and intense → 1440 obs.
AUSTERE harsh in flavour → 1425
BITEY having a very strong flavour; sharp, piquant → 1847
► BRACKISH slightly flavoured, sweetish, sourish; not salty → 1909 Amer. dial.
► BUCKY having a strong or rank flavour → 1939 Amer. dial.
CONGUSTABLE having a like flavour or taste → 1647 obs.
CURIOUS excellent or fine in flavour → 1475 obs.
► DASHED flavoured → 1800 Eng. dial.
DEAD having lost its flavour or scent; especially said of a drink → 1552
DEEP of a flavour or smell: rich, full-bodied → 1651
FARM-FRESH of flavour, food , or drink: very fresh, as if coming straight from the farm → 1920
FIVE-ALARM of food or its flavour: very hot and spicy due to the presence of chili peppers, etc. → 1965
FLAVORIFEROUS FLAVOURIFEROUS bearing flavour; fragrant → 1773
FLAVOROUS full of flavour; pleasing to the taste and smell → 1697
FLAVORSOME FLAVOURSOME full of flavour → 1853
FLAVORY FLAVOURY full of flavour → 1727
FULL-FLAVORED FULL-FLAVOURED having a full or strong flavour → 1736
FUNKY of food or drink: having as rich, intense, or overripe flavour or smell → 1784
GAMELIKE having a strong flavour or smell like that of game → 1820
► GAMEY ► GAMY having the flavour of game that has been kept till it is ‘high’; strong-tasting → 1820
GUSTFUL full of flavour; pleasant to the taste → 1647 obs.
HIGH of food or drink: rich in flavour or quality → 1430
ILL-SEASONED badly seasoned or flavoured → 1612
INELEGANT not of delicate taste or flavour → 1708 obs.
INSIPID not having sufficient flavour to gratify the palate; tasteless → 1620
LIVELY of flavour: sharp, piquant → 1770
LOUD of flavour or smell: powerful, offensive → 1641
MATURE of food or drink: fully developed in respect of flavour → 1833
MELLOW of flavour or odour: indicative of ripeness→ 1563 obs.
NAUGHTY of flavour or a smell: unpleasant, disagreeable → 1578 obs.
NAUSEOUS of a flavour or smell: nasty, repellent → 1649
PLUMP full and round in flavour → 1635
► POLYTASTED having many flavours or tastes → 1709 obs.
RELISHED having a specified taste, flavour, or relish → 1567 obs.
REMISS of flavour or taste: faint, slight → 1655 obs.
SAPID having taste or flavour → 1634
► SAPORIFIC imparting flavour or taste → 1675
► SAPOROUS having flavour or taste → 1670
SAVOROUS SAVOUROUS having a flavour or odour, usually pleasant → 1425
► SAWCIE ► SAWSY flavoured with or pertaining to sauce; resembling sauce; savoury → 1508 obs.
► SIPID full of flavour; savoury; tasty → 1623
SNAPPY having a brisk flavour → 1892
SPIRITED of the taste or flavour of food or drink: strong or distinctive, piquant → 1665
SPRIGHTLY of flavour or food: piquant, tangy → 1748
SUNNY of a flavour, taste, etc.: suggestive of sunshine, usually with reference to freshness, lightness, etc. → 1825
SWARTHY of a flavour: intense, pungent, shasp → 1890
TASTEFUL highly-flavoured; full of taste → 1881
TRAINY of taste or flavour: rank and fishy → 1716
UNRELISHING lacking in flavour, unappetizing → 1611
VAPID of taste or flavour: insipid, tasteless → 1682
VEHEMENT strong or pungent in flavour or odour → 1490
► WABBLE having a weak and watery flavour → 1866 Sc.
► WALSH lacking in flavour, insipid → 1802 Sc. obs.
► WAM tasteless,  unpleasant in flavour → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
WARISH WEARISH of food or drink: lacking in flavour → 1450
WELL-SAVOURING having a pleasant flavour or odour → 1450 obs.
WELL-TASTED having a pleasant flavour, tasty → 1500 arch.
ZESTY full of flavour; piquant, tangy → 1826
ZINGY of food or drink: having a zesty or tangy flavour → 1942
ZIPPY of food or drink: having a zesty or piquant flavour → 1911

NOUNS
► AFTER-SMATCH the flavour of anything after it is swallowed → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BITE strong flavour, esp. spiciness or pungency → 1955
► FANG an ill flavour or taste → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
FLASHINESS want of flavour, insipidity → 1626 obs.
FLATNESS deficiency in flavour, insipidity → 1707
► FUNKINESS a having a strong, unpleasant, or pungent flavour or smell → 1843 orig. US
► GEUMOPHOBIA fear of flavours or tastes → 1991 (Bk.)
GOÛT flavour or savour of food, etc. → 1751
GRACE pleasantness of flavour → 1551 obs.
GUST flavour or savour of food, etc. → 1540
► GUSTO flavour or savour of food, etc. → 1713 obs.
HARDNESS harshness of flavour → 1697
► HAUT-GOÛT 1. a high or piquant flavour; a strong relish; something that gives a relish, seasoning → c1645 obs.
2. a highly flavoured or seasoned dish → 1656 obs.
HIGH-GOÛT flavour or savour of food, etc. → 1751
HOGO 1. a highly flavoured or seasoned dish → 1649 obs.
2. a strong or piquant favour, a pleasant taste → 1653 obs.
LIGHTNESS delicacy or freshness or flavour, aroma, etc. → 1799
MAWKISHNESS nauseating or sickly flavour; insipidity → 1727
► NAG an unpleasant flavour; a sour taste; generally said of liquor → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NASTINESS unpleasantness of flavour → 1868
OFF-FLAVOR OFF-FLAVOUR a stale or unnatural flavour in good → 1913
PALATABILITY pleasant or agreeable flavour → 1850
RELISH 1. a taste or flavour; the distinctive taste of anything → 1530 obs.
2. pleasing or appetizing flavour or quality → 1598
ROUNDNESS mellowness or richness of flavour → 1826
► SAPIDITY a having flavour and taste → 1646
► SAPIDNESS a having flavour and taste → 1649 obs.
► SAPOR ► SAPOUR a flavour, taste, savour; the taste of a substance, esp. of food or drink → 1477
► SAPOROSITY flavour, taste; that property of a body by which it imparts the sensation of taste → 1794
► SCHMECK ► SHMECK a flavour or taste → 20C Brit. sl.
► SIPIDITY flavour, savour → 1880
► SMACK a flavour or taste; the distinctive or peculiar taste of something → a1000
► SMATCH flavour, taste; the sense of taste → a1200
► TACHE a slight flavour or taste; a smack → 1607 obs.
► TACK a flavour, smack, or taste of something; esp. a peculiar or ill flavour → 1602 obs.
► TARAGE ► TARRAGE flavour, taste → c1407 obs.
► TATCH an unpleasant flavour → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWANG a persisting or penetrating taste, flavour, or odour, usually disagreeable → 1611
► VAAM ► VAMM flavour, odour, smell, aroma → 1866 Sc.
► WAFT a flavour or taste, esp. an ill taste → 1542 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WALSHNESS want of flavour; insipidity → 1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WAYGANG a lingering flavour or taste, an aftertaste → 1754 Sc.
WEFFE flavour; taste; ill-savour → 1440 obs.
WHANG a pungent or unpleasant flavour or aftertaste → 1905 Amer. dial.
WHIFF flavour, savour → 1872
ZEST something that adds flavour to a meal, especially as an accompaniment; flavoursome quality → 1704

VERBS
BITE to have a strong flavour or tang of → 1735 obs.
BRIGHTEN to make a flavour or aroma lighter, crisper, or more tangy → 1833
► DASH to mingle, infuse flavour; to insert a small quantity of one thing, usually of an inferior quality, into another; generally used of liquids → 1889 Eng. dial.
DISRELISH to destroy the relish or flavour of; to make distasteful → 1548 obs.
DISSEASON to take away or change the flavour of → 1582 obs.
ENRICH to make ‘richer’ in flavour, quality, etc. → 1620
RELESE to have the flavour of something → 1500 obs.
► SMACK to have a flavour or taste → 1398
► SMATCH to have a flavour or taste → c1000 obs.
► TARAGE to have a flavour or taste → c1407 obs.
TINGE to modify in flavour, scent, etc. → 1690
ZEST to add flavour or piquancy to → 1705
ZING to add a piquant or zesty flavour to food → 1953