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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| famicide
| one who destroys another's reputation; slanderer
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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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| 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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| 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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| fatuous
| silly; purposeless
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| fiddley
| iron framework around hatchway opening
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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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| 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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| 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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| fixity
| fixed state; stability; permanence
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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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| 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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| flânerie
| idling; strolling about aimlessly
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| flummery
| anything insipid; empty compliment; humbug
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| fluorimeter
| instrument for measuring fluorescence
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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
|
| foremast
| mast nearest the bow of a ship
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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
|
| 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
|
| formate
| to join or fly in a formation
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| formic
| of, like or pertaining to ants
|
| formicate
| resembling an ant
|
| formication
| sensation like ants crawling on the skin
|
| formicide
| substance that kills ants
|
| formicine
| of, like or pertaining to ants
|
| formivorous
| eating ants
|
| 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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| fortuitism
| belief in evolution by chance variation
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| foss
| ditch, moat, trench or canal
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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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| 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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| 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
|
| 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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| 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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| frogmarch
| to carry an uncooperative drunkard or prisoner
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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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| 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
|
| frottage
| rubbing, especially for sexual gratification
|
| 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
|
| frutescent
| like or resembling a shrub
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| fruticose
| shrubby
|
| fub
| to put off; to fob
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| fucivorous
| eating seaweed
|
| fucoid
| shaped like seaweed
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| fuero
| code or body of laws; a constitution
|
| fug
| hot; close; smoky state of atmosphere
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| fugacious
| inclined to run away or flee
|
| fuji
| plain spun silk fabric
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| fulcible
| capable of being propped up
|
| fulciform
| shaped like or resembling a prop
|
| fulcrate
| supported with fulcrums
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| fulgent
| shining; bright
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| fulgid
| flashing
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| fulgorous
| flashing
|
| fulgour
| splendour
|
| fulgural
| of, like or pertaining to lightning
|
| fulgurate
| to flash like lightning
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| fulgurous
| resembling lightning
|
| 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
|
| fulminate
| express loudly; explode violently
|
| fulmineous
| of, like or pertaining to thunder and lightning
|
| fulsome
| nauseatingly affectionate, admiring or praiseful
|
| fulvous
| dull yellow; tawny
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| fumage
| hearth-tax
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| fumarole
| hole emitting gases in a volcanic region
|
| fumatorium
| a place for smoking
|
| fumet
| the scent of game when high
|
| fumiduct
| smoke vent; smokestack
|
| fumosity
| condition of fuming; an exhalation
|
| funambulism
| tightrope walking; show of mental agility
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| functionalism
| doctrine emphasising utility and function
|
| fundiform
| shaped like a sling
|
| fundus
| the bottom of anything
|
| funebral
| of, like or pertaining to a funeral
|
| funest
| deadly; lamentable
|
| fungible
| interchangeable
|
| fungiform
| shaped like a fungus
|
| fungous
| of or like fungus; soft; spongy
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| funicular
| of, like or pertaining to a string or cable
|
| funipendulous
| hanging by a rope or cord
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| furacious
| thievish
|
| furcate
| forked
|
| furciferous
| bearing a fork
|
| furciferous
| bearing a forked appendage; rascally
|
| furcular
| shaped like a fork
|
| furfur
| dandruff or scurf
|
| 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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| furuncular
| of, like or pertaining to boils
|
| 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
|
| fusiform
| shaped like a spindle
|
| fusillation
| death by shooting
|
| fustian
| coarse twilled cotton
|
| fustian
| pretentious writing or speech
|
| fustigate
| to cudgel
|
| fustilarian
| a term of abuse
|
| 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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