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