| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fabricating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fabricate |
| fabrication | noun | The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government., That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. |
| facilitated | imp. & past participle | of Facilitate |
| factorizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Factorize |
| fair-haired | adjective | Having fair or light-colored hair. |
| fair-leader | noun | A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope. |
| fair-minded | adjective | Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. |
| fallibility | noun | The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser. |
| fallow deer | A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks. | |
| false-faced | adjective | Hypocritical. |
| false-heart | adjective | False-hearted. |
| falsicrimen | The crime of falsifying. | |
| falsifiable | adjective | Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. |
| familiarity | noun | The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity., Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties. |
| familiarize | verb t. | To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one’s self with scenes of distress., To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one’s self with a business, a book, or a science. |
| familistery | noun | A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs. |
| fanaticized | imp. & past participle | of Fanaticize |
| fancymonger | noun | A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. |
| fanfaronade | noun | A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. |
| fantastical | adjective | Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. |
| fantasticly | adverb | Fantastically. |
| fantasticco | noun | A fantastic. |
| farding-bag | noun | The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. |
| fardingdale | noun | A farthingale. |
| fardingdeal | noun | The fourth part of an acre of land. |
| farinaceous | adjective | Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet., Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds., Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance. |
| farraginous | adjective | Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. |
| fartherance | noun | See Furtherance. |
| farthermore | adverb | See Furthermore. |
| farthermost | adjective | Most remote; farthest. |
| farthingale | noun | A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. |
| fasciculate | adjective | Alt. of Fasciculated |
| fascinating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fascinate |
| fascination | noun | The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence., The state or condition of being fascinated., That which fascinates; a charm; a spell. |
| fashionable | adjective | Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress., Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions., Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man., Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society., A person who conforms to the fashions; — used chiefly in the plural. |
| fashionably | adverb | In a fashionable manner. |
| fashionless | adjective | Having no fashion. |
| fast-handed | adjective | Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. |
| fastigiated | adjective | Narrowing towards the top., Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed., United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat. |
| fat-brained | adjective | Dull of apprehension. |
| fatiloquent | adjective | Prophetic; fatidical. |
| fatiloquist | noun | A fortune teller. |
| favoredness | noun | Appearance. |
| fearfulness | noun | The state of being fearful. |
| feasibility | noun | The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. |
| feat-bodied | adjective | Having a feat or trim body. |
| feathering. | present participle & vb. noun | of Feather |
| featherness | noun | The state or condition of being feathery. |
| featherless | adjective | Destitute of feathers. |
| featureless | adjective | Having no distinct or distinctive features. |
| febricitate | verb i. | To have a fever. |
| febriculose | adjective | Somewhat feverish. |
| febriferous | adjective | Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality. |
| fecundating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fecundate |
| fecundation | noun | The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization. |
| federalized | imp. & past participle | of Federalize |
| fee-faw-fum | noun | A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. |
| feldspathic | adjective | Alt. of Feldspathose |
| felicitated | imp. & past participle | of Felicitate |
| felos-de-se | plural | of Felo-de-se |
| female fern | a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern. | |
| fen cricket | The mole cricket. | |
| fenes-tella | noun | Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like. |
| fenestrated | adjective | Having windows; characterized by windows., Same as Fenestrate. |
| fergusonite | noun | A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; — so called after Robert Ferguson. |
| fermentable | adjective | Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable. |
| ferricyanic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. |
| ferriferous | adjective | Producing or yielding iron. |
| ferrocyanic | adjective | Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide. |
| ferruginous | adjective | Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron., Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red. |
| ferruminate | verb t. | To solder or unite, as metals. |
| fertileness | noun | Fertility. |
| fertilitate | verb t. | To fertilize; to fecundate. |
| fertilizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fertilize |
| ferulaceous | adjective | Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants. |
| festination | noun | Haste; hurry. |
| festivities | plural | of Festivity |
| fetichistic | adjective | Alt. of Fetishistic |
| fetishistic | adjective | Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism., See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a. |
| feudalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Feudalize |
| feudatories | plural | of Feudatory |
| feu de joie | A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy. | |
| feuillemort | adjective | Having the color of a faded leaf. |
| fiber-faced | adjective | Alt. of Fibre-faced |
| fibre-faced | adjective | Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; — applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc. |
| fibrillated | adjective | Furnished with fibrils; fringed. |
| fibrination | noun | The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin. |
| fiddlestick | noun | The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow. |
| fidejussion | noun | The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship. |
| fidgetiness | noun | Quality of being fidgety. |
| filamentary | adjective | Having the character of, or formed by, a filament. |
| filamentous | adjective | Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. |
| fillibuster | noun | See Filibuster. |
| fimble hemp | Light summer hemp, that bears no seed. | |
| fimbriating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fimbriate |
| financially | adverb | In a dfinancial manner. |
| financiered | imp. & past participle | of Financier |
| finchbacked | adjective | Streaked or spotted on the back; — said of cattle. |
| finedrawing | present participle & vb. noun | of Finedraw |
| finestiller | noun | One who finestills. |
| fire beetle | A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; — called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly. | |
| firecracker | noun | See Cracker., n., 3. |
| fire-fanged | adjective | Injured as by fire; burned; — said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition. |
| firmamental | adjective | Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. |
| first-class | adjective | Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. |
| fish-tackle | noun | A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block. |
| fissiparism | noun | Reproduction by spontaneous fission. |
| fissiparity | noun | Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism. |
| fissiparous | adjective | Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission. |
| fissipation | noun | Reproduction by fission; fissiparism. |
| fissuration | noun | The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured. |
| fistuliform | adjective | Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. |
| five-finger | noun | See Cinquefoil., A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens. |
| five-leafed | adjective | Alt. of Five-leaved |
| five-leaved | adjective | Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper. |
| flabbergast | verb t. | To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. |
| flagellated | imp. & past participle | of Flagellate |
| flagellator | noun | One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges. |
| flagitation | noun | Importunity; urgent demand. |
| flagrancies | plural | of Flagrancy |
| flammulated | adjective | Of a reddish color. |
| flat-footed | adjective | Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep., Firm-footed; determined. |
| flat-headed | adjective | Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail. |
| flatulently | adverb | In a flatulent manner; with flatulence. |
| flauntingly | adverb | In a flaunting way. |
| flavaniline | noun | A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline. |
| flavicomous | adjective | Having yellow hair. |
| flea-beetle | noun | A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species. |
| flea-bitten | adjective | Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face., White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; — said of the color of a horse. |
| fleshliness | noun | The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. |
| fleshmonger | noun | One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. |
| fletiferous | adjective | Producing tears. |
| flexanimous | adjective | Having power to change the mind. |
| flexibility | noun | The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. |
| flightiness | noun | The state or quality of being flighty. |
| flight-shot | noun | The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile. |
| flinchingly | adverb | In a flinching manner. |
| flint glass | A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; — so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass. | |
| flocculated | imp. & past participle | of Flocculate |
| flocculence | noun | The state of being flocculent. |
| floorwalker | noun | One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. |
| florescence | noun | A bursting into flower; a blossoming. |
| floricomous | adjective | Having the head adorned with flowers. |
| floriferous | adjective | Producing flowers. |
| floundering | present participle & vb. noun | of Flounder |
| flourishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flourish |
| floweriness | noun | The state of being flowery. |
| flowingness | noun | Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. |
| floxed silk | See Floss silk, under Floss. | |
| fluctuating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fluctuate |
| fluctuation | noun | A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea., A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices., The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion. |
| fluor albus | The whites; leucorrhaea. | |
| fluorescein | noun | A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; — so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin. |
| fluorescent | adjective | Having the property of fluorescence. |
| fluoroscope | noun | An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence. |
| fluosilicic | adjective | Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine. |
| flustration | noun | The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. |
| flute a bec | A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet. | |
| fluxibility | noun | The quality of being fluxible. |
| flying fish | A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. | |
| focillation | noun | Comfort; support. |
| folliculous | adjective | Having or producing follicles. |
| fomentation | noun | The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors., The lotion applied to a diseased part., Excitation; instigation; encouragement. |
| foolhardily | adverb | In a foolhardy manner. |
| foolhardise | noun | Foolhardiness. |
| foolishness | noun | The quality of being foolish., A foolish practice; an absurdity. |
| footbreadth | noun | The breadth of a foot; — used as a measure. |
| foot guards | pl. | Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. |
| footmanship | noun | Art or skill of a footman. |
| foraminated | adjective | Having small opening, or foramina. |
| foraminifer | noun | One of the foraminifera. |
| forbearance | noun | The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience., The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. |
| forbiddance | noun | The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. |
| forbiddenly | adverb | In a forbidden or unlawful manner. |
| forcipation | noun | Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers. |
| forealleged | imp. & past participle | of Foreallege |
| foreappoint | verb t. | To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. |
| foreclosing | present participle & vb. noun | of Foreclose |
| foreclosure | noun | The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager’s right of redeeming a mortgaged estate. |
| foredispose | verb t. | To bestow beforehand. |
| foreholding | noun | Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. |
| foreignness | noun | The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. |
| foreknowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Foreknow |
| forerecited | adjective | Named or recited before. |
| foreshorten | verb t. | To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective., Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. |
| foresighted | adjective | Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future. |
| foresignify | verb t. | To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. |
| forespurrer | noun | One who rides before; a harbinger. |
| forestalled | imp. & past participle | of Forestall |
| forestaller | noun | One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. |
| foretelling | present participle & vb. noun | of Foretell |
| forethought | adjective | Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate., A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. |
| foretokened | imp. & past participle | of Foretoken |
| forevouched | adjective | Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. |
| forewarning | present participle & vb. noun | of Forewarn |
| forgetfully | adverb | In a forgetful manner. |
| forgettable | adjective | Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. |
| forgiveness | noun | The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries., Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive. |
| fork-tailed | adjective | Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many birds. |
| forlornness | noun | State of being forlorn. |
| formalities | plural | of Formality |
| formalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Formalize |
| formicaroid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes. |
| formication | noun | A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. |
| formidolose | adjective | Very much afraid. |
| formularize | verb t. | To reduce to a forula; to formulate. |
| formularies | plural | of Formulary |
| formulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Formulate |
| formulation | noun | The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula. |
| formulizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Formulize |
| fornication | noun | Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery., Adultery., Incest., Idolatry. |
| forstraught | past participle & adjective | Distracted. |
| forswearing | present participle & vb. noun | of Forswear |
| forthcoming | adjective | Ready or about to appear; making appearance. |
| forthputing | adjective | Bold; forward; aggressive. |
| fortifiable | adjective | Capable of being fortified. |
| fortnightly | adjective | Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication., Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight. |
| fortunately | adverb | In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily. |
| fortuneless | adjective | Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. |
| forwardness | noun | The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel., An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness., Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth., Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty., A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil. |
| fossilizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fossilize |
| foul-spoken | adjective | Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. |
| fourdrinier | noun | A machine used in making paper; — so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery. |
| four-poster | noun | A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. |
| fox-hunting | adjective | Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes. |
| fractionary | adjective | Fractional. |
| fractionate | verb t. | To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids. |
| fragmentary | adjective | Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire., Composed of the fragments of other rocks. |
| fragmentist | noun | A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel. |
| franchising | present participle & vb. noun | of Franchise |
| frangipanni | noun | A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria. |
| frangulinic | adjective | Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. |
| frank-chase | noun | The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. |
| franklinite | noun | A kind of mineral of the spinel group. |
| frankpledge | noun | A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, — each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety., The tithing itself. |
| fraternized | imp. & past participle | of Fraternize |
| fraternizer | noun | One who fraternizes. |
| fratricelli | noun pl. | The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century., A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli. |
| fratricidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide. |
| fraudulence | noun | Alt. of Fraudulency |
| fraudulency | noun | The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. |
| freebootery | noun | The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. |
| freebooting | noun | Robbery; plunder; a pillaging., Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. |
| free-handed | adjective | Open-handed; liberal. |
| free-living | noun | Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites. |
| free-martin | noun | An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male. |
| freemasonic | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal. |
| freemasonry | noun | The institutions or the practices of freemasons. |
| free-minded | adjective | Not perplexed; having a mind free from care. |
| free-spoken | adjective | Accustomed to speak without reserve. |
| freethinker | noun | One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; — a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. |
| freightless | adjective | Destitute of freight. |
| frenchified | imp. & past participle | of Frenchify |
| frequencies | plural | of Frequency |
| frequenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Frequent |
| frequentage | noun | The practice or habit of frequenting. |
| fresh-water | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels., Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor., Unskilled; raw. |
| frightening | present participle & vb. noun | of Frighten |
| frightfully | adverb | In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree. |
| frigidarium | noun | The cooling room of the Roman thermae, furnished with a cold bath. |
| fringilline | adjective | Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike. |
| fritillaria | noun | A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial. |
| frivolities | plural | of Frivolity |
| frontlessly | adverb | Shamelessly; impudently. |
| frost-blite | noun | A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache., The lamb’s-quarters (Chenopodium album). |
| frounceless | adjective | Without frounces. |
| fructifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Fructify |
| fructuaries | plural | of Fructuary |
| fructuation | noun | Produce; fruit. |
| frue vanner | A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle. | |
| frugalities | plural | of Frugality |
| frugiferous | adjective | Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. |
| frugivorous | adjective | Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. |
| fruitestere | noun | A fruiteress. |
| frustrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Frustrate |
| frustrately | adverb | In vain. |
| frustration | noun | The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one’s designs |
| frustrative | adjective | Tending to defeat; fallacious. |
| frustratory | adjective | Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. |
| fruticulose | adjective | Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. |
| fudge wheel | A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole. | |
| fulfillment | noun | The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy., Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise. |
| fulgurating | adjective | Resembling lightning; — used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy. |
| fulguration | noun | The act of lightening., The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; — also called blick. |
| full-formed | adjective | Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. |
| full-manned | adjective | Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship. |
| full-sailed | adjective | Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. |
| full-winged | adjective | Having large and strong or complete wings., Beady for flight; eager. |
| fulminating | present participle & vb. noun | of Fulminate, Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner., Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. |
| fulmination | noun | The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation., The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority., That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. |
| fulminatory | adjective | Thundering; striking terror. |
| funambulate | verb i. | To walk or to dance on a rope. |
| funambulist | noun | A ropewalker or ropedancer. |
| functionate | verb i. | To execute or perform a function; to transact one’s regular or appointed business. |
| functionary | noun | One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries. |
| fundamental | adjective | Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom., A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. |
| fungivorous | adjective | Eating fungi; — said of certain insects and snails. |
| fungologist | noun | A mycologist. |
| furbelowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Furhelow |
| furbishable | adjective | Capable of being furbished. |
| furciferous | adjective | Rascally; scandalous. |
| furfuration | noun | Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation. |
| furloughing | present participle & vb. noun | of Furlough |
| furnishment | noun | The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. |
| furtherance | noun | The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. |
| furthermore | adverb | or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said. |
| furthermost | adjective | Most remote; furthest. |
| furthersome | adjective | Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. |
| fusillading | present participle & vb. noun | of Fusillade |
| fustigation | noun | A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. |
| fastilarian | noun | A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. |