| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fucate | adjective | Alt. of Fucated |
| fucoid | adjective | Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character., In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds., A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a. |
| fudder | noun | See Fodder, a weight. |
| fuddle | verb t. | To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated., To drink to excess. |
| fudged | imp. & past participle | of Fudge |
| fueler | noun | One who, or that which, supplies fuel. |
| fugacy | noun | Banishment. |
| fugato | adjective | in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue., A composition resembling a fugue. |
| fulahs | noun pl. | Alt. of Foolahs |
| fulcra | noun pl. | See Fulcrum., of Fulcrum |
| fulgid | adjective | Shining; glittering; dazzling. |
| fulgor | noun | Dazzling brightness; splendor. |
| fulham | noun | A false die. |
| fulled | imp. & past participle | of Full |
| fullam | noun | A false die. See Fulham. |
| fuller | verb t. | One whose occupation is to full cloth., A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; — called also a creaser., To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. |
| fulmar | noun | One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea). |
| fulvid | adjective | Fulvous. |
| fumade | verb i. | Alt. of Fumado |
| fumado | verb i. | A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard. |
| fumage | noun | Hearth money. |
| fumble | verb i. | To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something., To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse., To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over., To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. |
| fuming | present participle & vb. noun | of Fume, Producing fumes, or vapors. |
| fumify | verb t. | To subject to the action of smoke. |
| fumlly | adverb | Smokily; with fume. |
| fummel | noun | A hinny. |
| fumous | adjective | Producing smoke; smoky., Producing fumes; full of fumes. |
| funded | imp. & past participle | of Fund, Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt., Invested in public funds; as, funded money. |
| fundus | noun | The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye. |
| funest | adjective | Lamentable; doleful. |
| fungal | adjective | Of or pertaining to fungi. |
| fungia | noun | A genus of simple, stony corals; — so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter. |
| fungic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid. |
| fungin | noun | A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms. |
| fungus | noun | Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, — the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each., A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. |
| funnel | verb t. | A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel., A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. |
| furred | imp. & past participle | of Fur |
| furdle | verb t. | To draw up into a bundle; to roll up. |
| furfur | noun | Scurf; dandruff. |
| furial | adjective | Furious; raging; tormenting. |
| furies | noun pl. | See Fury, 3., of Fury |
| furile | noun | A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin. |
| furoin | noun | A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol. |
| furore | noun | Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm. |
| furrow | noun | A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow., Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age., To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea., To mark with channels or with wrinkles. |
| furzen | adjective | Furzy; gorsy. |
| fusain | noun | Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement., A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal. |
| fuscin | noun | A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin. |
| fusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fuse |
| fusile | adjective | Same as Fusil, a. |
| fusion | verb t. | The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals., The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion., The union or blending together of things, as, melted together., The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues. |
| fusome | adjective | Handy; reat; handsome; notable. |
| fussed | imp. & past participle | of Fuss |
| fusted | adjective | Moldy; ill-smelling. |
| fustet | noun | The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. |
| fustic | noun | The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; — called also old fustic. |
| futile | verb t. | Talkative; loquacious; tattling., Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. |
| future | verb i. | That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present., Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come., The possibilities of the future; — used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him., A future tense. |
| fuzzle | verb t. | To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. |