Word
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Definition
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fabaceous | bean-like
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fabiform | shaped like a bean
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fabulist | one who invents fables
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faburden | harmony in thirds and sixths
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face-cord | unit of wood measurement equal to a stack four by eight feet in volume
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facetiae | term for books of inappropriate or lewd nature
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facia | nameplate or sign above shop
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facinorous | atrociously wicked
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factious | turbulent; given to faction; seditious
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factitious | produced by humans or artificial forces
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factitive | signifying making or causing something to be
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factive | indicating causation
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factotum | lackey; person employed to do various jobs
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factualism | theory that facts alone can be used to draw moral conclusions
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facture | workmanship; the products of making
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facula | unusually bright spot on sun's surface
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facultative | optional; incidental; conferring privilege
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facundity | eloquence
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fadoodle | nonsense
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fagin | an adult who instructs others in crime
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fagottist | bassoon player
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faience | glazed coloured earthware
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faille | shiny closely woven silk, cotton or rayon fabric
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fain | happy; inclined; pleased
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fainéant | puppet ruler; do-nothing; idle person
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fairlead | ring through which rope is led to change its direction without friction
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falanouc | carnivorous mongoose-like mammal of Madagascar
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falcade | motion of a horse throwing itself on its haunches
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falcate | resembling a sickle
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falciform | shaped like a sickle
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falconet | small variety of falcon
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falconine | of, like or pertaining to falcons or hawks
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falderal | nonsense; meaningless refrain of a song
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faldstool | desk from which the Litany is read at church service
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fallibilism | the doctrine that empirical knowledge is uncertain
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falsidical | conveying a meaning that is false
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falsiloquence | deceitful speech
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famicide | one who destroys another's reputation; slanderer
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famigerate | to carry news from abroad
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familic | pertaining to a family; domestic
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familism | the tendency of a family to cohere as a group
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familistery | house for communal living
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famulus | private secretary or attendant
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fanal | lighthouse or beacon
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fandangle | pretentious tomfoolery
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fandango | lively Spanish dance performed by a couple
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fane | flag or banner; weather-cock
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fane | temple
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fanfaron | an empty boaster
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fanfaronade | grandiose trumpet blast
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fanion | cloth worn on priest's arm and used for handling holy vessels
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fanion | small flag used in surveying
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fantassin | infantry soldier
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fantasticate | to fantasize over something
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fantigue | anxiety or irritation
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fantod | a state of irritability or tension; an emotional fit
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farad | unit measuring electrical capacitance
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farandine | silk and wool cloth
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farandole | lively Provençal dance in which men and women hold hands
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farcinate | to fill the stomach with food
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farctate | full; stuffed
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fardage | wood placed in bottom of ship to keep cargo dry
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fardel | anything cumbersome or irksome
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farinaceous | mealy; consisting of cereals
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farinose | resembling or yielding flour
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farouche | wild; unpolished
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farraginous | disordered; jumbled; miscellaneous
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farrago | confused mass of objects or people; disordered mixture
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farrier | one who shoes horses or cares for horses
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farris | female blacksmith
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farrow | to give birth to piglets
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farruca | Spanish gypsy dance with sudden tempo and mood changes
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fasces | bundle of rods with an axe used to symbolise authority
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fascia | board over a shop-front
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fascicle | bundle; division of book published in parts
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fascine | bundle of brushwood used to fill ditches
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fasti | record or register
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fastigiate | pointed; conical
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fastigium | roof; peak; gable
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fastuous | haughty; ostentatious
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fatalism | doctrine that events are fixed and humans are powerless
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fathometer | instrument for measuring underwater depth using sound
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fatidical | prophetic; having the power to foretell the future
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fatiloquent | speaking prophetically; declaring fate
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fatuous | silly; purposeless
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fauld | horizontal plates of armor below the breastplate
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fauteuil | enclosed seat in theatre
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favela | slum area
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faveolate | honeycombed
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faviform | shaped like a honeycomb
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favonian | of, like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable
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feague | to whip; to perplex
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feak | lock of hair
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featous | shapely; well-made; handsome; neat
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febricant | causing fever
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febricity | feverishness
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febrifuge | something which reduces fever
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fecalith | stony heap or mass of feces
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feckless | feeble; helpless; futile; ineffectual
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feculent | covered with filth; filthy
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felicide | killing of a cat
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felicificative | tending to make happy
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feliform | having a catlike form or shape
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fell | barren or rocky hill or moor
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felloe | circular rim of a wheel
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felsenmeer | flat arctic area covered with angular boulders
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femerall | outlet for smoke in a roof
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femicide | killing of a woman
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fenestella | recess in church wall for storing communion vessels
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fenestral | of, like or pertaining to windows
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fennec | small long-eared African fox
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feracious | fruitful; fecund
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feretory | shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier
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feria | weekday of a church calendar on which no holiday falls
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ferial | of, like or pertaining to holidays
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ferity | state of savagery or barbarism
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fermi | unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a metre
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ferox | lake trout
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ferriferous | bearing iron
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ferronière | jewel held on the forehead by a chain
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ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
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ferrule | band on the end of a stick for reinforcing it
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ferula | flat piece of wood
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ferulaceous | like a cane or reed
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ferule | cane or rod used for punishment
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fescennine | marked by the use of vulgarity or obscene language
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fess | broad horizontal bar across heraldic field
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festilogy | treatise on ecclesiastical festivals
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festinate | to accelerate; to quicken
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fetial | heraldic; ambassadorial
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feticide | killing of a fetus
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fetlock | tuft of hair immediately above horse's hoof
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fettling | loose material thrown on furnace hearth for protection
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feuilleton | critical article at the bottom of a newspaper page
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fiacre | hackney coach; cab
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fiberscope | instrument using fiberoptics to examine inaccessible areas
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fibriform | shaped like a fibre
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fibrilliform | shaped like a small fibre
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fibula | brooch in the shape of a safety pin
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ficiform | shaped like a fig
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fictile | capable of being moulded; of, like or pertaining to pottery
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fictionalism | belief that the falsity of an idea does not render it useless
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fictor | sculptor; one who makes images from clay
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fid | conical wooden pin used to splice strands of rope
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fiddlededee | nonsense
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fiddle-faddle | trifling talk
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fiddley | iron framework around hatchway opening
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fideicide | killer of faith; one who breaks a trust
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fideism | doctrine that knowledge depends on faith over reason
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fidicinal | of, like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments
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fiduciary | held in trust; depending on trust
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fie | expression of disgust or disapproval
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fierasfer | small parasitic Mediterranean fish
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figuline | of, like or pertaining to earthenware
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figurant | ballet dancer who dances only in groups
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figuration | the act of giving figure or form
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figurehead | ornament or (usually female) bust attached to the bow of a ship
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filaceous | composed of threads
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filatory | machine for forming or spinning threads
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filature | drawing out of threads
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filemot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown
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filibeg | kilt
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filicide | killing of one's own child
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filiciform | shaped like a fern or frond
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filiferous | thread-bearing
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filiform | shaped like a thread
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filiopietistic | marked by excessive veneration of ancestors
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filipendulous | hanging by or strung on a thread
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fillister | groove in window pane into which glass is set
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filose | threadlike; having a threadlike end
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filoselle | coarse floss silk
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fimbriate | fringed; having a narrow border
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fimetic | of, like or pertaining to dung
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fimicolous | living in dung
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finalism | belief that an end has or can be reached
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fingent | moulding; shaping
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finial | decoration on the top of a gable or spire
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finical | excessively precise in trivial matters
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finitism | belief that the universe or God is finite in scope
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fipple | plug in the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
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firkin | old unit of capacity equal to one quarter of a barrel
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firkin | small keg
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fissicostate | having divided ribs
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fissilingual | with forked or cloven tongue
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fissility | ability to be split
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fissiparous | tending to break up into parts
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fissiped | animal with separated toes
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fistula | long narrow passage or duct
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fistuliform | shaped like a pipe
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fitch | brush made from hair of polecat
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fitchew | polecat
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fixity | fixed state; stability; permanence
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flabellate | fan-shaped
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flabellation | the act of fanning
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flabelliform | shaped like a fan
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flacon | scent-bottle
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flagellantism | the practice of whipping oneself or another
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flagelliferous | bearing a whip or flagellum
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flagelliform | shaped like a whip
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flagellomania | abnormal enthusiasm for flogging
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flageolet | small flute or recorder with two thumb holes
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flagitate | to entreat or importune
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flagitious | grossly wicked; guilty of heinous crimes
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flagstaff | flag pole at stern of a ship
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flam | humbug; trickery
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flambeau | flaming torch
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flamen | pagan priest
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flammeous | flame-coloured
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flammiferous | producing flame
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flammulated | ruddy
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flammulation | flamelike marking
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flammule | little flame
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flancard | armour for the thigh
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flânerie | idling; strolling about aimlessly
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flannel | ostentatious nonsense
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flapdoodle | gross flattery; nonsense
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flaught | snowflake
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flaughter | to flutter or flicker; to strip or skin
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flautino | small flute or piccolo
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flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow
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fleam | surgical instrument
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flèche | narrow wooden spire on church roof
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fleer | to mock; to jeer; to make faces in contempt
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flench | to cut up the blubber of; to flay
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fleshling | a sensualist
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fleuret | ornament resembling a small flower
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flews | drooping or pendulous lips
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flexiloquent | speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning
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flexion | a bend; a fold
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flexuose | full of windings and turnings; undulating
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flibbertigibbet | gossipy or flighty person
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flimflam | nonsense; trickery
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flinty | unyielding; stern
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flivver | cheap car or airplane
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floatant | agent causing flotation
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floccilation | fitful plucking at the bedclothes
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floccinaucinihilipilification | setting at little or no value
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floccose | woolly
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flocculate | to collect or mass together in tufts or masses
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floricide | killing or killer of flowers
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floricomous | crowned or topped with flowers
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floriferous | bearing flowers
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floriform | shaped like a flower
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florilegium | anthology of writings, especially of church fathers
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florimania | craze for flowers
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floriscope | instrument for inspecting flowers
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floristry | the art of cultivating and selling flowers
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florisugent | sucking honey from flowers
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floromancy | belief that flowers have feelings
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floruit | dates of a person's birth and death
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flounce | to move impatiently or abruptly
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flowmeter | instrument for measuring properties of flowing liquids
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fluke | part of an anchor that fastens in the ground
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flumen | right to direct excess rain water to neighbour's yard
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fluminous | having many rivers or streams
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flummadiddle | nonsense; humbug
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flummery | anything insipid; empty compliment; humbug
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fluorimeter | instrument for measuring fluorescence
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fluorography | radiographic imagery using a fluorescent screen
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fluoroscope | instrument using x-rays to examine internal structure of opaque object
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fluvialist | one stressing the role of rivers in explanation
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fluviology | study of watercourses
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fluxional | variable; inconstant
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flype | to strip back; to turn partially inside out
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flysch | sandstone deposit
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focimeter | instrument for measuring focal length of a lens
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fodient | of, like or pertaining to digging
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foehn | dry wind that blows down from mountaintops
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foeticide | killing a fetus
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foetiferous | bearing or carrying a fetus
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fogram | antiquated
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foin | to thrust with a sword or spear
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foinery | fencing; swordplay
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foison | plenty; plentiful yield
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foliaceous | bearing leaves; leaf-like
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foliate | to cover with leaf metal; to number the leaves of
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foliferous | bearing leaves
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foliform | shaped like a leaf
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foliophagous | eating leaves; eating folios of books
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folkloristics | study of folklore and fables
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fontinal | growing near springs
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fooliaminy | collective term for fools
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foolocracy | government by fools
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foothot | hastily; immediately; on the spot
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footlambert | unit of luminance of a surface emitting one lumen per square foot
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footle | to waste time; to act foolishly
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footling | inept; trivial
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foraminate | to pierce
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foraminated | perforated or pierced with small holes
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foraminiferous | bearing foramina
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foraneous | of, like or pertaining to forums
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forby | past; near
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forcipate | of, like or pertaining to forceps
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forcipiform | shaped like forceps
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fore | at an earlier time or period
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forebitt | post for fastening cables at a ship's foremast
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forecabin | cabin in fore part of ship
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forecastle | short raised deck at fore end of ship; fore of ship under main deck
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forecome | to come early; to come before
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forefoot | foremost end of ship's keel
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forel | parchment for covering books
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foremast | mast nearest the bow of a ship
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foreright | directly in front of
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foresail | lowest sail set on the foremast of square-rigged ship
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foreshots | first liquid to come out of a still
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forestay | stay leading from the foremast to the bow of a ship
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forfaiting | export finance where debts on goods are transacted
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forfend | to ward off or avert
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forfex | a pair of scissors or pincers
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forficate | forked; like scissors
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forficulate | like scissors
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forinsecal | foreign; alien; extrinsic
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forisfamiliate | to emancipate from parental authority
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formant | anything that limits, determines or defines
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formate | to join or fly in a formation
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formic | of, like or pertaining to ants
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formicate | resembling an ant
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formication | sensation like ants crawling on the skin
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formicide | substance that kills ants
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formicine | of, like or pertaining to ants
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formivorous | eating ants
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fornent | against; opposite
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fornicate | vaulted or arched
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forsooth | in truth; indeed
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forswink | to exhaust by labour
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fortalice | fortress; small outwork of a fortification
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forthwith | immediately
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forthy | for this reason; thus
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fortuitism | belief in evolution by chance variation
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forwhy | for what reason; why
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foss | ditch, moat, trench or canal
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fossa | carnivorous mongoose-like mammal of Madagascar
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fossane | striped civet of Madagascar
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fossarian | clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger
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fossick | to search by turning over earth or rock
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fossiliferous | bearing fossils
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fossor | grave-digger
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fossorial | adapted for digging
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fossulate | grooved; pitted
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foudroyant | thundering; dazzling
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fougade | piece of improvised artillery
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foulard | soft lightweight plain-woven or twilled silk fabric
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foulé | light woollen fulled cloth
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foumart | polecat
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fourchette | anything forked
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fourgon | baggage-wagon
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foursquare | forthright
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fouter | to mess about with aimlessly
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fovea | depression or pit
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foveate | pitted
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foveiform | shaped like a depression or pit
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fracedinous | creating heat through putrefaction
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fracedo | putrefying heat
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fractionalism | the state of consisting of discrete units
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fractious | irritable; peevish
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fragor | a crash
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francolin | type of Asian and African partridge
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francomania | craze or obsession with France and the French
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Francophile | one who loves France or the French
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Francophobia | fear of France or the French
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frangible | easily broken
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frankalmoign | land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant
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frantling | mating call of a peacock
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frap | to draw a sail tight with ropes or cables
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frazil | ground-ice; ice in small spikes in streams
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freeboard | distance between waterline and main deck of a ship
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freestone | building stone difficult to split into layers
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fremescent | growling or muttering
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fremitus | vibration; rumbling
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frescade | a cool walk; cool or shady place
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fresnel | unit of optical frequency equal to one terahertz
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fretum | strait
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friable | easily crumbled or pulverized
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friary | a fraternity or group of friars
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fribble | frivolous nonsense; a trifling thing or person
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fricandeau | thick slice of veal or similar meat
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frieze | rough heavy woollen cloth
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frigiferous | bearing or bringing cold
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frigolabile | susceptible to the cold
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frigorific | causing cold; freezing
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fringillaceous | of, like or pertaining to finches
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fringilliform | resembling a finch
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fringilline | of, like or pertaining to finches
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frisson | shiver; shudder; thrill
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frist | delay or respite, as for debt repayment
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frit | material from which glass is made
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frith | peace; sanctuary
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fritiniency | the noise of insects
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froghopper | leaping and spitting insect
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frogmarch | to carry an uncooperative drunkard or prisoner
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fromward | leading away from
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frondescence | the formation of leaves
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frondiferous | bearing or producing fronds
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frondose | having or like leaves
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frontal | cloth hanging over front of altar
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frontal | armour for the front of a horse's head
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frontogenesis | creation of a weather front by meeting of air currents
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frostwork | delicate figures and patterns in which frost forms on surfaces
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frottage | rubbing, especially for sexual gratification
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froward | turned away; self-willed; unreasonable; perverse; adverse
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frowst | to luxuriate in hot stuffiness and stupefaction
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fructiferous | bearing fruit
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fructivorous | feeding on fruit
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fructuary | person enjoying the fruits of anything
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fructuation | coming to fruit or bearing of fruit
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fructuous | fruitful
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frugiferous | bearing fruit
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frugivorous | eating fruit
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frumentaceous | resembling wheat or other grain
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frumentarious | of, like or pertaining to corn
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frutescent | like or resembling a shrub
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fruticose | shrubby
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fub | to put off; to fob
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fucivorous | eating seaweed
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fucoid | shaped like seaweed
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fuero | code or body of laws; a constitution
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fug | hot; close; smoky state of atmosphere
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fugacious | inclined to run away or flee
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fuji | plain spun silk fabric
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fulcible | capable of being propped up
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fulciform | shaped like or resembling a prop
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fulcrate | supported with fulcrums
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fulgent | shining; bright
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fulgid | flashing
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fulgorous | flashing
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fulgour | splendour
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fulgural | of, like or pertaining to lightning
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fulgurate | to flash like lightning
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fulgurous | resembling lightning
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fuliginous | sooty; dusky
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fuligo | soot
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fuliguline | of, like or pertaining to sea ducks
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fullonical | of, like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller
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fulminate | express loudly; explode violently
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fulmineous | of, like or pertaining to thunder and lightning
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fulsome | nauseatingly affectionate, admiring or praiseful
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fulvous | dull yellow; tawny
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fumage | hearth-tax
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fumarole | hole emitting gases in a volcanic region
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fumatorium | a place for smoking
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fumet | the scent of game when high
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fumiduct | smoke vent; smokestack
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fumosity | condition of fuming; an exhalation
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funambulism | tightrope walking; show of mental agility
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functionalism | doctrine emphasising utility and function
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fundiform | shaped like a sling
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fundus | the bottom of anything
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funebral | of, like or pertaining to a funeral
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funest | deadly; lamentable
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fungible | interchangeable
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fungiform | shaped like a fungus
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fungous | of or like fungus; soft; spongy
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funicular | of, like or pertaining to a string or cable
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funipendulous | hanging by a rope or cord
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furacious | thievish
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furcate | forked
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furciferous | bearing a forked appendage; rascally
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furcular | shaped like a fork
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furfur | dandruff or scurf
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furfuraceous | branny; scaly
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furibund | raging; furious
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furnicular | hanging from a rope or cable
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furuncle | inflammatory boil
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furuncular | of, like or pertaining to boils
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furunculoid | like a boil
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fusain | fine charcoal used in drawing
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fuscous | brown; tawny; dingy
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fusee | spindle in a watch on which the chain is wound
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fusiform | shaped like a spindle
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fusillation | death by shooting
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fustian | coarse twilled cotton
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fustian | pretentious writing or speech; inflated or nonsensical language
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fustigate | to cudgel
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fustilarian | a term of abuse
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futtock | rib of a ship
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futurition | future existence; time to come
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futurology | study of future
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