| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fabella | noun | One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals. |
| fabling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fable |
| fabliau | noun | One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France. |
| fabrile | adjective | Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill. |
| faceted | imp. & past participle | of Facet, Having facets. |
| facette | noun | See Facet, n. |
| faciend | noun | The multiplicand. See Facient, 2. |
| facient | noun | One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent., One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient., The multiplier. |
| facound | noun | Speech; eloquence. |
| faction | noun | One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus., A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; — usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good., Tumult; discord; dissension. |
| factive | adjective | Making; having power to make. |
| factory | noun | A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers., The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory., A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. |
| factual | adjective | Relating to, or containing, facts. |
| facture | noun | The act or manner of making or doing anything; — now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production., An invoice or bill of parcels. |
| faculae | noun pl. | Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. |
| facular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the faculae. |
| faculty | noun | Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul., Special mental endowment; characteristic knack., Power; prerogative or attribute of office., Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation., A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect., The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. |
| fadedly | adverb | In a faded manner. |
| faecula | noun | See Fecula. |
| fagging | present participle & vb. noun | of Fag, Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school. |
| fagoted | imp. & past participle | of Fagot |
| fagotto | noun | The bassoon; — so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot. |
| fahlerz | noun | Alt. of Fahlband |
| faience | noun | Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color. |
| failing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fail, A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing., The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt. |
| failure | noun | Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops., Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise., Want of success; the state of having failed., Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight., A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business., A failing; a slight fault. |
| fainted | imp. & past participle | of Faint |
| faintly | adverb | In a faint, weak, or timidmanner. |
| fairily | adverb | In the manner of a fairy. |
| fairing | noun | A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. |
| fairish | adjective | Tolerably fair. |
| fairway | noun | The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. |
| fairies | plural | of Fairy |
| faithed | adjective | Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. |
| faitour | noun | A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. |
| falcade | noun | The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. |
| falcate | adjective | Alt. of Falcated |
| falcula | noun | A curved and sharp-pointed claw. |
| faldage | noun | A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; — often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. |
| faldfee | noun | A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. |
| falding | noun | A frieze or rough-napped cloth. |
| falling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fall, from Fall, v. i. |
| fallacy | noun | Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception., An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
| fallals | nounpl. | Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. |
| falsary | adjective | A falsifier of evidence. |
| falsely | adverb | In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. |
| falsify | adjective | To make false; to represent falsely., To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin., To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false., To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one’s faith or word., To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow., To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment., To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong., To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document., To tell lies; to violate the truth. |
| falsism | noun | That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; — opposed to truism. |
| falsity | adjective | The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth., That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. |
| famular | noun | Domestic; familiar. |
| fanning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fan |
| fanatic | adjective | Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions., A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. |
| fancied | verb t. | Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong., of Fancy |
| fancier | noun | One who is governed by fancy., One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc. |
| fancies | plural | of Fancy |
| fanfare | noun | A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. |
| fanfoot | noun | A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes., Any moth of the genus Polypogon. |
| fangled | adjective | New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. |
| fanlike | adjective | Resembling a fan;, folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate. |
| fantail | noun | A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail., Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. |
| fantasm | noun | Same as Phantasm. |
| fantast | noun | One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. |
| fantasy | noun | Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor., Fantastic designs., To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. |
| faradic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; — applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday’s investigations of their laws. |
| farcing | present participle & vb. noun | of Farce, Stuffing; forcemeat. |
| fardage | noun | See Dunnage. |
| farming | present participle & vb. noun | of Farm, Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community., The business of cultivating land. |
| farmery | noun | The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. |
| farmost | adjective | Most distant; farthest. |
| farness | adjective | The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. |
| faroese | noun sing. & pl. | An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands. |
| far-off | adjective | Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv. |
| farrago | noun | A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. |
| farrand | noun | Manner; custom; fashion; humor. |
| farrier | noun | A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon., To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. |
| farther | superl. | More remote; more distant than something else., Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further., At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther., Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event., To help onward. [R.] See Further. |
| fasciae | plural | of Fascia |
| fascial | adjective | Pertaining to the fasces., Relating to a fascia. |
| fascine | noun | A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc. |
| fashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fash |
| fashion | noun | The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution., The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion., Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion., Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way., To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold., To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; — with to., To make according to the rule prescribed by custom., To forge or counterfeit. |
| fasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fast |
| fastish | adjective | Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. |
| fatally | adverb | In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate., In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded. |
| fatback | noun | The menhaden. |
| fateful | adjective . | Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate., Significant of fate; ominous. |
| fathead | noun | A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); — called also black-headed minnow., A labroid food fish of California; the redfish. |
| fatigue | noun | Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength., The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war., The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains., To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire. |
| fatling | noun | A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; — said of such animals as are used for food. |
| fatness | noun | The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh., Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness., That which makes fat or fertile. |
| fattish | adjective | Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. |
| fatuity | noun | Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. |
| fatuous | adjective | Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous., Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. |
| faucial | adjective | Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal. |
| faulcon | noun | See Falcon. |
| faulted | imp. & past participle | of Fault |
| faulter | noun | One who commits a fault. |
| faunist | noun | One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. |
| favella | noun | A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae. |
| favored | imp. & past participle | of Favor, Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend., Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc. |
| favorer | noun | One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. |
| fawkner | noun | A falconer. |
| fawning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fawn |
| fayence | noun | See Fa/ence. |
| faytour | noun | See Faitour. |
| falness | noun | See Fullness. |