| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fabricking | present participle & vb. noun | of Fabric |
| fabricated | imp. & past participle | of Fabricate |
| fabricator | noun | One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. |
| fabulizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fabulize |
| fabulosity | noun | Fabulousness., A fabulous or fictitious story. |
| facilitate | verb t. | To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. |
| facilities | plural | of Facility |
| facinorous | adjective | Atrociously wicked. |
| facsimiles | plural | of Facsimile |
| factionary | adjective | Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. |
| factionist | noun | One who promotes faction. |
| factitious | adjective | Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. |
| factorized | imp. & past participle | of Factorize |
| factorship | noun | The business of a factor. |
| facundious | adjective | Eloquement; full of words. |
| fahrenheit | adjective | Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit’s thermometric scale., The Fahrenheit termometer or scale. |
| fair-world | noun | State of prosperity. |
| faldistory | noun | The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. |
| fallacious | adjective | Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. |
| fallowness | noun | A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. |
| falsifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Falsify |
| familiarly | adverb | In a familiar manner. |
| familistic | adjective | Alt. of Familistical |
| famishment | noun | State of being famished. |
| famousness | noun | The state of being famous. |
| fanaticism | noun | Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy. |
| fanaticize | verb t. | To cause to become a fanatic. |
| fancy-free | adjective | Free from the power of love. |
| fancy-sick | adjective | Love-sick. |
| fandangoes | plural | of Fandango |
| fangleness | noun | Quality of being fangled. |
| fan-nerved | adjective | Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; — said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects. |
| fan-tailed | adjective | Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. |
| fantoccini | noun pl. | Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used. |
| farfetched | adjective | Brought from far, or from a remote place., Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained. |
| farmership | noun | Skill in farming. |
| farreation | noun | Same as Confarreation. |
| farsighted | adjective | Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious., Hypermetropic. |
| fasciation | noun | The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated. |
| fascicular | adjective | Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root. |
| fasciculus | noun | A little bundle; a fascicle., A division of a book. |
| fascinated | imp. & past participle | of Fascinate |
| fashioning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fashion |
| fashionist | noun | An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. |
| fastidious | adjective | Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. |
| fastigiate | adjective | Alt. of Fastigiated |
| fatalistic | adjective | Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism. |
| fatalities | plural | of Fatality |
| fatherhood | noun | The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. |
| fatherland | noun | One’s native land; the native land of one’s fathers or ancestors. |
| fatherless | adjective | Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child., Without a known author. |
| fathership | noun | The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity. |
| fathomable | adjective | Capable of being fathomed. |
| fathomless | adjective | Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded., Incomprehensible. |
| fatiferous | adjective | Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. |
| fatigation | noun | Weariness. |
| fatiscence | noun | A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. |
| faultiness | noun | Quality or state of being faulty. |
| favaginous | adjective | Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb. |
| favoritism | noun | The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. |
| fearnaught | noun | A fearless person., A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment. |
| feathering | noun | Same as Foliation., The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t., A covering of feathers. |
| febrifugal | adjective | Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. |
| februation | noun | Purification; a sacrifice. |
| fecundated | imp. & past participle | of Fecundate |
| federalism | noun | the principles of Federalists or of federal union. |
| federalist | noun | An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington. |
| federalize | verb t. | To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. |
| federation | noun | The act of uniting in a league; confederation., A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. |
| federative | adjective | Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. |
| feebleness | noun | The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. |
| felicitate | adjective | Made very happy., To make very happy; to delight., To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one’s self) happy; to congratulate. |
| felicitous | adjective | Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. |
| felicities | plural | of Felicity |
| fellmonger | noun | A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts. |
| fellowfeel | verb t. | To share through sympathy; to participate in. |
| fellowless | adjective | Without fellow or equal; peerless. |
| fellowlike | adjective | Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. |
| fellowship | noun | The state or relation of being or associate., Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse., A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest., Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company., A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university., The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; — called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion., To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship. |
| felo-de-se | noun | One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide. |
| felspathic | adjective | See Feldspathic. |
| feminality | noun | Feminity. |
| femininely | adverb | In a feminine manner. |
| femininity | noun | The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness., The female form. |
| feneration | noun | The act of fenerating; interest. |
| fenestrate | adjective | Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds., Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies. |
| fenestrule | noun | One of the openings in a fenestrated structure. |
| fen-sucked | adjective | Sucked out of marches. |
| ferforthly | adverb | Ferforth. |
| fermenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Ferment |
| ferrandine | noun | A stuff made of silk and wool. |
| ferret-eye | noun | The spur-winged goose; — so called from the red circle around the eyes. |
| fertilized | imp. & past participle | of Fertilize |
| fertilizer | noun | One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid., That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc. |
| fervescent | adjective | Growing hot. |
| fescennine | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines., A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia. |
| festennine | noun | A fescennine. |
| festerment | noun | A festering. |
| festooning | present participle & vb. noun | of Festoon |
| fetiferous | adjective | Producing young, as animals. |
| fetterless | adjective | Free from fetters. |
| feudalized | imp. & past participle | of Feudalize |
| feuillants | noun pl. | A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France. |
| feuilleton | noun | A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed. |
| feverously | adverb | Feverishly. |
| fibrillary | adjective | Of of pertaining to fibrils. |
| fibrillose | adjective | Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages. |
| fibrillous | adjective | Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers. |
| fibrinogen | noun | An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation. |
| ficttelite | noun | A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria. |
| fickleness | noun | The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. |
| fictionist | noun | A writer of fiction. |
| fictitious | adjective | Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. |
| fiddlewood | noun | The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum. |
| fidejussor | noun | A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor. |
| fiducially | adverb | With confidence. |
| fieldpiece | noun | A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; — called also field gun. |
| fightingly | adverb | Pugnaciously. |
| figurately | adverb | In a figurate manner. |
| figuration | noun | The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form., Mixture of concords and discords. |
| figurative | adjective | Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative., Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; — applied to words and expressions., Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description., Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2. |
| figurehead | noun | The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship., A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief. |
| filametoid | adjective | Like a filament. |
| filchingly | adverb | By pilfering or petty stealing. |
| filibuster | noun | A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; — originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855., To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter., To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. |
| filiciform | adjective | Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. |
| filiferous | adjective | Producing threads. |
| filigraned | adjective | See Filigreed. |
| filthiness | noun | The state of being filthy., That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. |
| filtrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Filtrate |
| filtration | noun | The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it. |
| fimbriated | imp. & past participle | of Fimbriate, Having a fringed border; fimbriate., Having a very narrow border of another tincture; — said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary. |
| fimbricate | adjective | Fringed; jagged; fimbriate., fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects. |
| finalities | plural | of Finality |
| finedrawer | noun | One who finedraws. |
| fin-footed | adjective | Having palmate feet., Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe. |
| fingerling | noun | A young salmon. See Parr. |
| finicality | noun | The quality of being finical; finicalness. |
| finiteless | adjective | Infinite. |
| finiteness | noun | The state of being finite. |
| fireflaire | noun | A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); — called also fireflare and fiery flaw. |
| firewarden | noun | An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; — called also fireward. |
| first-hand | adjective | Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. |
| first-rate | adjective | Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation., A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
| fish-block | noun | See Fish-tackle. |
| fishmonger | noun | A dealer in fish. |
| fissipedal | adjective | Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.] |
| fissipedia | noun pl. | A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; — opposed to Pinnipedia. |
| fissurella | noun | A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; — called also keyhole limpet. |
| fistularia | noun | A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity. |
| fittedness | noun | The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. |
| flabbiness | noun | Quality or state of being flabby. |
| flabellate | adjective | Flabelliform. |
| flaccidity | noun | The state of being flaccid. |
| flagellant | noun | One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; — called also disciplinant. |
| flagellata | verb t. | An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad. |
| flagellate | verb t. | To whip; to scourge; to flog., Flagelliform., Of or pertaining to the Flagellata. |
| flagellums | plural | of Flagellum |
| flagginess | noun | The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness. |
| flagitious | adjective | Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; — said of acts, crimes, etc., Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; — said of persons., Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times. |
| flagrantly | adverb | In a flagrant manner. |
| flagration | noun | A conflagration. |
| flamboyant | adjective | Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; — said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style. |
| flamineous | adjective | Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical. |
| flamingoes | plural | of Flamingo |
| flaminical | adjective | Pertaining to a flamen. |
| flammation | noun | The act of setting in a flame or blaze. |
| flanconade | noun | A thrust in the side. |
| flankering | present participle & vb. noun | of Flanker |
| flapdragon | noun | A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing., The thing thus caught and eaten., To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. |
| flap-eared | adjective | Having broad, loose, dependent ears. |
| flashboard | noun | A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. |
| flashiness | noun | The quality of being flashy. |
| flattening | present participle & vb. noun | of Flatten |
| flattering | present participle & vb. noun | of Flatter, That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. |
| flatteries | plural | of Flattery |
| flatulence | noun | Alt. of Flatlency |
| flatuosity | noun | Flatulence. |
| flaundrish | adjective | Flemish. |
| flavescent | adjective | Turning yellow; yellowish. |
| flax-plant | noun | A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
| flea-louse | noun | A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri. |
| flectional | adjective | Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. |
| fledgeling | noun | A young bird just fledged. |
| fleeceless | adjective | Without a fleece. |
| fleeringly | adverb | In a fleering manner. |
| fleet-foot | adjective | Swift of foot. |
| fleetingly | adverb | In a fleeting manner; swiftly. |
| fleshiness | noun | The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. |
| fleshquake | noun | A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. |
| flibbergib | noun | A sycophant. |
| flibustier | noun | A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. |
| flickering | present participle & vb. noun | of Flicker |
| flimsiness | noun | The state or quality of being flimsy. |
| flintiness | noun | The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. |
| flippantly | adverb | In a flippant manner. |
| flirtation | noun | Playing at courtship; coquetry. |
| flirt-gill | noun | A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. |
| flirtingly | adverb | In a flirting manner. |
| flittiness | noun | Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. |
| flittingly | adverb | In a flitting manner. |
| floatation | noun | See Flotation. |
| floatingly | adverb | In a floating manner. |
| flocculate | verb i. | To aggregate into small lumps., Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects. |
| flocculent | adjective | Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly., Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds. |
| floorheads | noun pl. | The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel. |
| florentine | adjective | Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy., A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy., A kind of silk., A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. |
| florescent | adjective | Expanding into flowers; blossoming. |
| floridness | noun | The quality of being florid. |
| flosculous | adjective | Consisting of many gamopetalous florets. |
| flos-ferri | noun | A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; — common in beds of iron ore. |
| floundered | imp. & past participle | of Flounder |
| flourished | imp. & past participle | of Flourish |
| flourishes | plural | of Flourish |
| flourisher | noun | One who flourishes. |
| floutingly | adverb | With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly. |
| flowerless | adjective | Having no flowers. |
| fluctuated | imp. & past participle | of Fluctuate |
| fluentness | noun | The quality of being fluent. |
| fluidizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fluidize |
| fluidounce | noun | See Fluid ounce, under Fluid. |
| fluidrachm | noun | See Fluid dram, under Fluid. |
| fluoborate | noun | A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride. |
| fluoboride | noun | See Borofluoride. |
| fluocerine | noun | Alt. of Fluocerite |
| fluocerite | noun | A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral. |
| fluohydric | adjective | See Hydrofluoric. |
| fluorescin | noun | A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation. |
| fluor spar | See Fluorite. | |
| flushboard | noun | Same as Flashboard. |
| flushingly | adverb | In a flushing manner. |
| flustering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fluster |
| flutemouth | noun | A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout. |
| fluvialist | noun | One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. |
| fluviatile | adjective | Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. |
| fluxionary | adjective | Fluxional., Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage. |
| fluxionist | noun | One skilled in fluxions. |
| fly-bitten | adjective | Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. |
| flycatcher | noun | One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing. |
| focalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Focalize |
| foistiness | noun | Fustiness; mustiness. |
| foliaceous | adjective | Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike., Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar., Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral. |
| foliferous | adjective | Producing leaves. |
| fo’liolate | adjective | Of or pertaining to leaflets; — used in composition; as, bi-foliolate. |
| follicular | adjective | Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles., Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis. |
| fontanelle | noun | Same as Fontanel, 2. |
| fool-happy | adjective | Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. |
| fool-hasty | adjective | Foolishly hasty. |
| fool-large | adjective | Foolishly liberal. |
| footbridge | noun | A narrow bridge for foot passengers only. |
| footlicker | noun | A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. |
| foot pound | A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot. | |
| fop-doodle | noun | A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. |
| foraminous | adjective | Having foramina; full of holes; porous. |
| forbearing | present participle & vb. noun | of Forbear, Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. |
| forbearant | adjective | Forbearing. |
| forbidding | present participle & vb. noun | of Forbid, Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air. |
| force pump | A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston., A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger. | |
| forcipated | adjective | Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth. |
| fordrunken | adjective | Utterly drunk; very drunk. |
| foreadvise | verb t. | To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. |
| foreallege | verb t. | To allege or cite before. |
| foreboding | present participle & vb. noun | of Forebode, Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. |
| forecaster | noun | One who forecast. |
| forecastle | noun | A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy’s decks., That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels., In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live. |
| forechosen | adjective | Chosen beforehand. |
| foreclosed | imp. & past participle | of Foreclose |
| foredesign | verb t. | To plan beforehand; to intend previously. |
| forefather | noun | One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. |
| forefinger | noun | The finger next to the thumb; the index. |
| foreefront | noun | Foremost part or place. |
| foreganger | noun | A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached. |
| foregather | verb i. | Same as Forgather. |
| forewent 2 | imp. | of Forego |
| foreground | noun | On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. |
| forehanded | adjective | Early; timely; seasonable., Beforehand with one’s needs, or having resources in advance of one’s necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer., Formed in the forehand or fore parts. |
| forehearth | noun | The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp. |
| foreignism | noun | Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. |
| forejudger | noun | A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question. |
| foreknower | noun | One who foreknows. |
| foreleader | noun | One who leads others by his example; aguide. |
| foremostly | adverb | In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. |
| foremother | noun | A female ancestor. |
| fore-night | noun | The evening between twilight and bedtime. |
| forenotice | noun | Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. |
| forensical | adjective | Forensic. |
| foreordain | verb t. | To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. |
| forequoted | adjective | Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay. |
| forerunner | noun | A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever., A predecessor; an ancestor., A piece of rag terminating the log line. |
| foreshadow | verb t. | To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure. |
| foreshower | noun | One who predicts. |
| foresleeve | noun | The sleeve below the elbow. |
| forespeech | noun | A preface. |
| foretaster | noun | One who tastes beforehand, or before another. |
| foreteller | noun | One who predicts. |
| fore teeth | plural | of Fore tooth |
| fore tooth | One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor. | |
| forewarned | imp. & past participle | of Forewarn |
| forewisten | pl. | of Forewite |
| forewiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Forewite |
| forfalture | noun | Forfeiture. |
| forfeiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Forfeit |
| forfeiture | noun | The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act., That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct. |
| forgetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Forget |
| forgivable | adjective | Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial. |
| forinsecal | adjective | Foreign; alien. |
| formalized | imp. & past participle | of Formalize |
| formidable | adjective | Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. |
| formidably | adverb | In a formidable manner. |
| formulated | imp. & past participle | of Formulate |
| formulized | imp. & past participle | of Formulize |
| fornicated | adjective | Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched., Arching over; overarched. |
| fornicator | noun | An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication. |
| forslouthe | verb t. | To lose by sloth or negligence. |
| forswearer | noun | One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath. |
| forthgoing | noun | A going forth; an utterance., Going forth. |
| forthright | adverb | Straight forward; in a straight direction., Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man., A straight path. |
| fortifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Fortify |
| fortissimo | adverb | Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness. |
| fortresses | plural | of Fortress |
| fortuitous | adjective | Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms., Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. |
| forty-spot | noun | The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus). |
| forwarding | present participle & vb. noun | of Forward, The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others., The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. |
| fossilized | imp. & past participle | of Fossilize, Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. |
| fossorious | adjective | Adapted for digging; — said of the legs of certain insects. |
| fosterling | noun | A foster child. |
| fosterment | noun | Food; nourishment. |
| foundation | noun | The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect., That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis., The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry., A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment., That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity. |
| foundering | present participle & vb. noun | of Founder |
| founderous | adjective | Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. |
| founderies | plural | of Foundery |
| fourchette | noun | A table fork., A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva., The wishbone or furculum of birds., The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals., An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum., The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. |
| fourfooted | adjective | Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts. |
| fourhanded | adjective | Having four hands; quadrumanous., Requiring four “hands” or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards. |
| fourierism | noun | The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common. |
| fourierist | noun | Alt. of Fourierite |
| fourierite | noun | One who adopts the views of Fourier. |
| foursquare | adjective | Having four sides and four equal angles. |
| fourteenth | adjective | Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month., Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived., One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth., The octave of the seventh. |
| foveolated | adjective | Foveolate. |
| fractional | adjective | Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers., Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population. |
| fracturing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fracture |
| fragmentak | adjective | Fragmentary., Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc. |
| fragmental | noun | A fragmentary rock. |
| fragmented | adjective | Broken into fragments. |
| fraischeur | adjective | Freshness; coolness. |
| frambaesia | noun | The yaws. See Yaws. |
| franchised | imp. & past participle | of Franchise |
| franciscan | adjective | Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans., A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit. |
| francolite | noun | A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire. |
| frangipane | noun | A perfume of jasmine; frangipani., A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds. |
| frangipani | noun | Alt. of Frangipanni |
| franklinic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. |
| fraternate | verb i. | To fraternize; to hold fellowship. |
| fraternism | noun | Fraternization. |
| fraternity | noun | The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood., A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc., Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes. |
| fraternize | verb i. | To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings., To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy. |
| fratricide | noun | The act of one who murders or kills his own brother., One who murders or kills his own brother. |
| fraudulent | adjective | Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest., Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain., Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest. |
| fraughting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fraught, Constituting the freight or cargo. |
| fraughtage | noun | Freight; loading; cargo. |
| freebooter | noun | One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. |
| freedstool | noun | See Fridstol. |
| freeholder | noun | The possessor of a freehold. |
| free-liver | noun | One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking. |
| free-lover | noun | One who believes in or practices free-love. |
| freighting | present participle & vb. noun | of Freight |
| freightage | noun | Charge for transportation; expense of carriage., The transportation of freight., Freight; cargo; lading. Milton. |
| frenetical | adjective | Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. |
| frequented | imp. & past participle | of Frequent |
| frequenter | noun | One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily. |
| frequently | adverb | At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly. |
| freshening | present participle & vb. noun | of Freshen |
| friabiiity | noun | The quality of being friable; friableness. |
| fricandeau | noun | Alt. of Fricando |
| fricatrice | noun | A lewd woman; a harlot. |
| frictional | adjective | Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. |
| frithstool | noun | A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. |
| friendless | adjective | Destitute of friends; forsaken. |
| friendlily | adverb | In a friendly manner. |
| friendship | noun | The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will., Kindly aid; help; assistance,, Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. |
| frightened | imp. | of Frighten |
| frightless | adjective | Free from fright; fearless. |
| frightment | noun | Fear; terror. |
| frigidaria | plural | of Frigidarium |
| frigidness | noun | The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness. |
| frigorific | adjective | Alt. of Frigorifical |
| fringeless | adjective | Having no fringe. |
| friskiness | noun | State or quality of being frisky. |
| fritillary | noun | A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria., One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; — so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite. |
| fritinancy | noun | A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. |
| frittering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fritter |
| frolicking | present participle & vb. noun | of Frolic |
| frolicsome | adjective | Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. |
| frondation | noun | The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. |
| fron’tated | adjective | Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate. |
| frontiered | p. adjective | Placed on the frontiers. |
| frontignac | noun | Alt. of Frontignan |
| frontignan | noun | A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France., A grape of many varieties and colors. |
| frontingly | adverb | In a fronting or facing position; opposingly. |
| frontiniac | noun | See Frontignac. |
| frostiness | noun | State or quality of being frosty. |
| frothiness | noun | State or quality of being frothy. |
| frowningly | adverb | In a frowning manner. |
| frozenness | noun | A state of being frozen. |
| fructified | imp. & past participle | of Fructify |
| frugalness | noun | Quality of being frugal; frugality. |
| fruiteress | noun | A woman who sells fruit. |
| fruiteries | plural | of Fruitery |
| frustrable | adjective | Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated. |
| frustrated | imp. & past participle | of Frustrate |
| frustulent | adjective | Abounding in fragments. |
| frutescent | adjective | Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria. |
| fucivorous | adjective | Eating fucus or other seaweeds. |
| fugitively | adverb | In a fugitive manner. |
| fulfilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fulfill |
| fuliginous | adjective | Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky., Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke. |
| full-blown | adjective | Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose., Fully distended with wind, as a sail. |
| full-drive | adverb | With full speed. |
| full-grown | adjective | Having reached the limits of growth; mature. |
| fullonical | adjective | Pertaining to a fuller of cloth. |
| full-orbed | adjective | Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon. |
| fulminated | imp. & past participle | of Fulminate |
| fulmineous | adjective | Of, or concerning thunder. |
| fulminuric | adjective | Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. |
| fumblingly | adverb | In the manner of one who fumbles. |
| fumiferous | adjective | Producing smoke. |
| fumifugist | noun | One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes. |
| fumigating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fumigate |
| fumigation | noun | The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection., Vapor raised in the process of fumigating. |
| fumigatory | adjective | Having the quality of purifying by smoke. |
| fumishness | noun | Choler; fretfulness; passion. |
| funambulus | noun | A ropewalker or ropedancer. |
| functional | adjective | Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official., Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. |
| fundholder | adjective | One who has money invested in the public funds. |
| funebrious | adjective | Funebrial. |
| funeration | noun | The act of burying with funeral rites. |
| funiculate | adjective | Forming a narrow ridge. |
| funiliform | adjective | Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees. |
| funnelform | adjective | Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform. |
| furbelowed | imp. & past participle | of Furhelow |
| furbishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Furbish |
| furibundal | adjective | Full of rage. |
| furloughed | imp. & past participle | of Furlough |
| furnishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Furnish |
| furthering | present participle & vb. noun | of Further |
| faruncular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles. |
| fusibility | noun | The quality of being fusible. |
| fusillader | imp. & past participle | of Fusillade |
| fustianist | noun | A writer of fustian. |
| futureless | adjective | Without prospect of betterment in the future. |
| futuritial | adjective | Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future. |
| futurition | noun | The state of being future; futurity. |
| futurities | plural | of Futurity |