Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
fibrillation |
noun |
The state of being reduced to fibers. |
fiddledeedee |
interj. |
An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! |
fiddlestring |
noun |
One of the catgut strings of a fiddle. |
fieri facias |
|
A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed. |
figurability |
noun |
The quality of being figurable. |
financialist |
noun |
A financier. |
financiering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Financier |
findfaulting |
adjective |
Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. |
fippenny bit |
|
The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, — so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. |
fireprrofing |
noun |
The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process. |
fish-bellied |
adjective |
Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. |
fissilingual |
adjective |
Having the tongue forked. |
fissilinguia |
noun pl. |
A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards. |
fissipalmate |
adjective |
Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe’s foot. See Illust. under Aves. |
fissirostral |
adjective |
Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers. |
fissirostres |
noun pl. |
A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft. |
fistularioid |
adjective |
Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia. |