| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fabaceous | adjective | Having the nature of a bean; like a bean. |
| fabricked | imp. & past participle | of Fabric |
| fabricant | noun | One who fabricates; a manufacturer. |
| fabricate | verb t. | To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship., To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens., To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. |
| fabulized | imp. & past participle | of Fabulize |
| facetious | adjective | Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion., Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply. |
| facsimile | noun | A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness., To make a facsimile of. |
| factioner | noun | One of a faction. |
| factitive | adjective | Causing; causative., Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. |
| factoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Factor, The act of resolving into factors. |
| factorage | noun | The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; — called also a commission. |
| factoress | noun | A factor who is a woman. |
| factorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a factory., Related to factorials., A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials., The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number. |
| factorize | verb t. | To give warning to; — said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff., To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. |
| factories | plural | of Factory |
| factotums | plural | of Factotum |
| faculties | plural | of Faculty |
| facundity | noun | Eloquence; readiness of speech. |
| fahlunite | noun | A hydration of iolite. |
| faintling | adjective | Timorous; feeble-minded. |
| faintness | noun | The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control., Want of vigor or energy., Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description., Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. |
| fairyland | noun | The imaginary land or abode of fairies. |
| fairylike | adjective | Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music. |
| faithless | adjective | Not believing; not giving credit., Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion., Not observant of promises or covenants., Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife., Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. |
| falcation | noun | The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. |
| falcidian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. |
| falciform | adjective | Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. |
| falconine | adjective | Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae |
| falculate | adjective | Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon. |
| faldstool | noun | A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. |
| falernian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine. |
| fallacies | plural | of Fallacy |
| fallopian | adjective | Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. |
| fallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fallow |
| fallowist | noun | One who favors the practice of fallowing land. |
| falsehood | noun | Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity., A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie., Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness., A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. |
| falseness | noun | The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer’s notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word. |
| falsettos | plural | of Falsetto |
| falsifier | noun | One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. |
| falsified | imp. & past participle | of Falsify |
| falsities | plural | of Falsity |
| faltering | present participle & vb. noun | of Falter, Hesitating; trembling., Falter; halting; hesitation. |
| familiary | adjective | Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. |
| famishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Famish |
| fanatical | adjective | Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. |
| fanciless | adjective | Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. |
| fancywork | noun | Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. |
| fantasied | adjective | Filled with fancies or imaginations. |
| fantastic | adjective | Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical., Having the nature of a phantom; unreal., Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress., Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque., A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. |
| fantasies | plural | of Fantasy |
| farandams | noun | A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. |
| farcement | noun | Stuffing; forcemeat. |
| farcilite | noun | Pudding stone. |
| farmeress | noun | A woman who farms. |
| farmhouse | noun | A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer’s residence. |
| farmstead | noun | A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. |
| farrowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Farfow |
| farseeing | adjective | Able to see to a great distance; farsighted., Having foresight as regards the future. |
| fasciated | adjective | Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage., Banded or compacted together., Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb., Broadly banded with color. |
| fascicled | adjective | Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair. |
| fasciculi | plural | of Fasciculus |
| fascinate | verb t. | To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant., To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms. |
| fascinous | adjective | Caused or acting by witchcraft. |
| fasciolae | plural | of Fasciola |
| fashioned | imp. & past participle | of Fashion, Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned. |
| fashioner | noun | One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. |
| fastening | present participle & vb. noun | of Fasten, Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc. |
| fatalness | noun | Quality of being fatal. |
| fathering | present participle & vb. noun | of Father |
| fathoming | present participle & vb. noun | of Fathom |
| fatidical | adjective | Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. |
| fatigable | adjective | Easily tired. |
| fatiguing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fatigue |
| fattining | present participle & vb. noun | of Fatten |
| fattiness | noun | State or quality of being fatty. |
| fatuitous | adjective | Stupid; fatuous. |
| fat-wited | adjective | Dull; stupid. |
| faulchion | noun | See Falchion. |
| faultless | adjective | Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. |
| faveolate | adjective | Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose. |
| favillous | adjective | Of or pertaining to ashes. |
| favorable | noun | Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly., Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient., Beautiful; well-favored. |
| favoredly | adverb | In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. |
| favorless | adjective | Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support., Unpropitious; unfavorable. |
| favosites | noun | A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls. |
| fawningly | adverb | In a fawning manner. |
| fearfully | adverb | In a fearful manner. |
| feathered | imp. & past participle | of Feather, Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow., Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees., Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog., Having feathers; — said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft. |
| featherly | adjective | Like feathers. |
| featurely | adjective | Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. |
| febrifuge | noun | A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever., Antifebrile. |
| feculence | noun | The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness., That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs. |
| feculency | noun | Feculence. |
| fecundate | verb t. | To make fruitful or prolific., To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma. |
| fecundify | verb t. | To make fruitful; to fecundate. |
| fecundity | noun | The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers., The power of germinating; as in seeds., The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God’s creative power. |
| feelingly | adverb | In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. |
| felanders | noun pl. | See Filanders. |
| feldspath | noun | A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish. |
| fe-licify | verb t. | To make happy; to felicitate. |
| felonious | adjective | Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. |
| felonwort | noun | The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet. |
| femineity | noun | Womanliness; femininity. |
| fenceless | adjective | Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless. |
| fenci-ble | adjective | Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense. |
| fendliche | adjective | Fiendlike. |
| fenestrae | plural | of Fenestra |
| fenestral | adjective | Pertaining to a window or to windows., Of or pertaining to a fenestra., A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass. |
| fenianism | noun | The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians. |
| fensi-ble | adjective | Fencible. |
| fenugreek | noun | A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are |
| feodality | noun | Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality. |
| feodatory | noun | See Feudatory. |
| feoffment | noun | The grant of a feud or fee., A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession., The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. |
| feracious | adjective | Fruitful; producing abundantly. |
| feriation | noun | The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work. |
| fermented | imp. & past participle | of Ferment |
| fermental | adjective | Fermentative. |
| fermerere | noun | The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. |
| fermillet | noun | A buckle or clasp. |
| fernticle | noun | A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. |
| ferocious | adjective | Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. |
| ferrarese | adjective | Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy., A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara. |
| ferreting | present participle & vb. noun | of Ferret |
| ferrotype | noun | A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; — familiarly called tintype. |
| ferryboat | noun | A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters. |
| fertilely | adverb | In a fertile or fruitful manner. |
| fertility | noun | The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. |
| fertilize | verb t. | To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows., To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. |
| fessitude | noun | Weariness. |
| festering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fester |
| festinate | adjective | Hasty; hurried. |
| festi-val | noun | A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. |
| festivity | noun | The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety., A festival; a festive celebration. |
| festivous | adjective | Pertaining to a feast; festive. |
| festooned | imp. & past participle | of Festoon |
| festucine | adjective | Of a straw color; greenish yellow. |
| festucous | adjective | Formed or consisting of straw. |
| fetichism | noun | Alt. of Fetishism |
| fetishism | noun | The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches., Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration., Alt. of Fetishistic |
| fetichist | noun | Alt. of Fetishist |
| fetishist | noun | A believer in fetiches. |
| fetidness | noun | The quality or state of being fetid. |
| feudalism | noun | The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages. |
| feudalist | noun | An upholder of feudalism. |
| feudality | noun | The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. |
| feudalize | verb t. | To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism. |
| feudataty | adjective & noun | See Feudatory. |
| feudatory | noun | A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. |
| feverwort | noun | See Fever root, under Fever. |
| fiberless | adjective | Alt. of Fibreless |
| fibreless | adjective | Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber. |
| fibriform | adjective | Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber. |
| fibrillae | plural | of Fibrilla |
| fibrillar | adjective | Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings. |
| fibrinous | adjective | Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation. |
| fibrolite | noun | A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; — called also sillimanite, and bucholizite. |
| fibularia | plural | of Fibulare |
| fictional | adjective | Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic. |
| fodgeting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fidget |
| fidicinal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument. |
| fidiciary | adjective | Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity., Holding, held, or founded, in trust. |
| fiduciary | noun | One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee., One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian. |
| fieldfare | noun | a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; — called also fellfare. |
| fieldwork | noun | Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; — commonly in the plural. |
| fiendlike | adjective | Fiendish; diabolical. |
| fierasfer | noun | A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian. |
| fieriness | noun | The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper. |
| fifteenth | adjective | Next in order after the fourteenth; — the ordinal of fifteen., Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing., One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen., A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at., A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon., An interval consisting of two octaves. |
| fightwite | noun | A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. |
| fig-shell | noun | A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form. |
| figulated | adjective | Made of potter’s clay; molded; shaped. |
| figurable | adjective | Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape. |
| figurante | noun fem. | A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl. |
| figurated | adjective | Having a determinate form. |
| filaceous | adjective | Composed of threads. |
| filanders | noun pl. | A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; — called also backworm. |
| filiation | noun | The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father., The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation. |
| filigrain | noun | Alt. of Filigrane |
| filigrane | noun | Filigree. |
| filigreed | adjective | Adorned with filigree. |
| filleting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fillet, The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work., The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. |
| filliping | present participle & vb. noun | of Fillip |
| fillipeen | noun | See Philopena. |
| fillister | noun | The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty., A plane for making a rabbet. |
| filminess | noun | State of being filmy. |
| filoplume | noun | A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length. |
| filtering | present participle & vb. noun | of Filter |
| filtrated | imp. & past participle | of Filtrate |
| fimbriate | adjective | Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube., To hem; to fringe. |
| financial | adjective | Pertaining to finance. |
| financier | noun | One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer., One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters., To conduct financial operations. |
| findfault | noun | A censurer or caviler. |
| finedrawn | imp. & past participle | of Finedraw, Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations. |
| finessing | present participle & vb. noun | of Finesse |
| finestill | verb t. | To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation. |
| fingering | present participle & vb. noun | of Finger, The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers., The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc., The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers., Delicate work made with the fingers. |
| fingrigos | plural | of Fingrigo |
| finicking | adjective | Alt. of Finicky |
| finishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Finish, The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing., Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. |
| finlander | noun | A native or inhabitant of Finland. |
| fioriture | noun pl. | Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player. |
| fireboard | noun | A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use. |
| firebrand | noun | A piece of burning wood., One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. |
| firecrest | noun | A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; — called also fire-crested wren. |
| firedrake | noun | A fiery dragon., A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket., A worker at a furnace or fire. |
| fireflame | noun | The European band fish (Cepola rubescens). |
| fireflies | plural | of Firefly |
| fireplace | noun | The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; — usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. |
| fireproof | adjective | Proof against fire; incombustible. |
| firestone | noun | Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint., A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; — especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces. |
| firmament | verb & adjective | Fixed foundation; established basis., The region of the air; the sky or heavens., The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres. |
| firmitude | noun | Strength; stability. |
| firstborn | adjective | First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted. |
| firstling | noun | The first produce or offspring; — said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock., The thing first thought or done., Firstborn. |
| fishermen | plural | of Fisherman |
| fisherman | noun | One whose occupation is to catch fish., A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery. |
| fisheries | plural | of Fishery |
| fishiness | noun | The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. |
| fish-tail | adjective | Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. |
| fishwomen | plural | of Fishwoman |
| fishwoman | noun | A woman who retails fish. |
| fissility | noun | Quality of being fissile. |
| fissipara | noun pl. | Animals which reproduce by fission. |
| fisticuff | noun | A cuff or blow with the fist or hand, a fight with the fists; boxing. |
| fistulate | verb t. & i. | To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. |
| fistulose | adjective | Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. |
| fistulous | adjective | Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer., Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose. |
| five-leaf | noun | Cinquefoil; five-finger. |
| fixedness | noun | The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness., The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold. |
| flabellum | noun | A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. |
| flagellum | verb t. | A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses., A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata., An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail., A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped. |
| flageolet | noun | A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. |
| flagitate | verb t. | To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. |
| flagrance | noun | Flagrancy. |
| flagrancy | noun | A burning; great heat; inflammation., The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. |
| flagstaff | noun | A staff on which a flag is hoisted. |
| flagstone | noun | A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone. |
| flakiness | noun | The state of being flaky. |
| flambeaux | plural | of Flambeau |
| flambeaus | plural | of Flambeau |
| flamboyer | noun | A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia. |
| flameless | adjective | Destitute of flame. |
| flamingly | adverb | In a flaming manner. |
| flammable | adjective | Inflammable. |
| flammeous | adjective | Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame. |
| flankered | imp. & past participle | of Flanker |
| flanneled | adjective | Covered or wrapped in flannel. |
| flaringly | adverb | In a flaring manner. |
| flat foot | A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot. | |
| flattened | imp. & past participle | of Flatten |
| flattered | imp. & past participle | of Flatter |
| flatterer | noun | One who flatters. |
| flatlency | noun | The state or quality of being flatulent. |
| flatulent | adjective | Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy., Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach., Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor., Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. |
| flaunting | present participle & vb. noun | of Flaunt |
| flavoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Flavor |
| flavorles | adjective | Without flavor; tasteless. |
| flavorous | adjective | Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid. |
| flea-bite | noun | The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite., A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea. |
| fleckless | adjective | Without spot or blame. |
| fleetings | noun pl. | A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. |
| fleetness | noun | Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time. |
| fleshhood | noun | The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. |
| fleshings | noun pl. | Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. |
| fleshless | adjective | Destitute of flesh; lean. |
| fleshment | noun | The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. |
| fletching | present participle & vb. noun | of Fletch |
| flickered | imp. & past participle | of Flicker |
| flightily | adverb | In a flighty manner. |
| flinching | present participle & vb. noun | of Flinch |
| flingdust | noun | One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. |
| flintlock | noun | A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming., A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. |
| flintware | noun | A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. |
| flintwood | noun | An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis. |
| flip-flap | noun | The repeated stroke of something long and loose., With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. |
| flippancy | noun | The state or quality of being flippant. |
| flirtigig | noun | A wanton, pert girl. |
| floatable | adjective | That may be floated. |
| floccular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the flocculus. |
| flocculus | noun | A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. |
| flockling | noun | A lamb. |
| floorless | adjective | Having no floor. |
| floramour | noun | The plant love-lies-bleeding. |
| floriated | adjective | Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars. |
| florideae | noun pl. | A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; — so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species. |
| floridity | noun | The quality of being florid; floridness. |
| floriform | adjective | Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped. |
| florilege | noun | The act of gathering flowers. |
| florulent | adjective | Flowery; blossoming. |
| floscular | adjective | Flosculous. |
| flotation | noun | The act, process, or state of floating., The science of floating bodies. |
| flouncing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flounce |
| flowering | present participle & vb. noun | of Flower, Having conspicuous flowers; — used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc., The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification., The act of adorning with flowers. |
| flowerage | noun | State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. |
| flowerful | adjective | Abounding with flowers. |
| flowerpot | noun | A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. |
| flowingly | adverb | In a flowing manner. |
| fluctuant | adjective | Moving like a wave; wavering, showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor., Floating on the waves. |
| fluctuate | verb i. | To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air., To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate., To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion. |
| flugelman | noun | Same as Fugleman. |
| fluidized | imp. & past participle | of Fluidize |
| fluidness | noun | The state of being flluid; fluidity. |
| flukeworm | noun | Same as 1st Fluke, 2. |
| fluminous | adjective | Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama. |
| flunkydom | noun | The place or region of flunkies. |
| flunlyism | noun | The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. |
| fluoboric | adjective | Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron. |
| fluorated | adjective | Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride. |
| flurrying | present participle & vb. noun | of Flurry |
| flushness | noun | The state of being flush; abundance. |
| flustered | imp. & past participle | of Fluster |
| flustrate | verb t. | To fluster. |
| flutterer | noun | One who, or that which, flutters. |
| fluviatic | adjective | Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. |
| fluxation | noun | The act of fluxing. |
| fluxility | noun | State of being fluxible. |
| fluxional | adjective | Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. |
| foamingly | adverb | With foam; frothily. |
| focalized | imp. & past participle | of Focalize |
| focillate | verb t. | To nourish. |
| focimeter | noun | An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. |
| foddering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fodder |
| fodientia | nounpl. | A group of African edentates including the aard-vark. |
| foetation | noun | Same as Fetation. |
| foeticide | noun | Same as Feticide. |
| fogginess | noun | The state of being foggy. |
| foiningly | adverb | With a push or thrust. |
| foliating | present participle & vb. noun | of Foliate |
| foliation | noun | The process of forming into a leaf or leaves., The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud., The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina., The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses., The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery., The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure. |
| foliature | noun | Foliage; leafage., The state of being beaten into foil. |
| foliomort | adjective | See Feuillemort. |
| foliosity | noun | The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. |
| folk lore | Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. | |
| folkmoter | noun | One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. |
| following | present participle & vb. noun | of Follow, One’s followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively., Vocation; business; profession., Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day., (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth’s rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding. |
| fomalhaut | noun | A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish. |
| fomenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Foment |
| fool-born | adjective | Begotten by a fool. |
| fooleries | plural | of Foolery |
| foolhardy | adjective | Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. |
| foolishly | adverb | In a foolish manner. |
| footboard | noun | A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet, The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive., The foot-rest of a coachman’s box., A board forming the foot of a bedstead., A treadle. |
| footcloth | noun | Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. |
| footfight | noun | A conflict by persons on foot; — distinguished from a fight on horseback. |
| footglove | noun | A kind of stocking. |
| footlight | noun | One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith. |
| footpaths | plural | of Footpath |
| footplate | noun | See Footboard (a). |
| footprint | noun | The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, “Footprints of the Creator.” |
| foot-sore | adjective | Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle. |
| footstalk | noun | The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle., The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles., The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk., The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. |
| footstall | noun | The stirrup of a woman’s saddle., The plinth or base of a pillar. |
| footstone | noun | The stone at the foot of a grave; — opposed to headstone. |
| footstool | noun | A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting. |
| fopperies | plural | of Foppery |
| foramines | plural | of Foramen |
| forasmuch | conj. | In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; — followed by as. See under For, prep. |
| forbearer | noun | One who forbears. |
| forbidden | past participle | of Forbid, Prohibited; interdicted. |
| forbidder | noun | One who forbids. |
| forbruise | verb t. | To bruise sorely or exceedingly. |
| forceless | adjective | Having little or no force; feeble. |
| forcemeat | noun | Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. |
| forcement | noun | The act of forcing; compulsion. |
| forcipate | adjective | Alt. of Forcipated |
| foreboded | imp. & past participle | of Forebode |
| foreboder | noun | One who forebodes. |
| forebrace | noun | A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail. |
| forebrain | noun | The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain. |
| forecited | adjective | Cited or quoted before or above. |
| foreclose | verb t. | To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. |
| forefence | noun | Defense in front. |
| foregleam | noun | An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. |
| foregoing | present participle & vb. noun | of Forego |
| foreguess | verb t. | To conjecture. |
| foreigner | noun | A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. |
| forejudge | verb t. | To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge., To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. |
| foreknown | past participle | of Foreknow |
| foremeant | adjective | Intended beforehand; premeditated. |
| forenamed | adjective | Named before; aforenamed. |
| forenenst | preposition | Over against; opposite to. |
| fore part | noun | Alt. of Forepart |
| foreprize | verb t. | To prize or rate beforehand. |
| forereach | verb t. | To advance or gain upon; — said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled., To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. |
| foreright | adjective | Ready; directly forward; going before., Right forward; onward. |
| foreseize | verb t. | To seize beforehand. |
| foresight | noun | The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge., Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought., Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction., Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a. |
| foreskirt | noun | The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. |
| foreslack | verb t. | See Forslack. |
| forespeak | verb t. | See Forspeak., To foretell; to predict. |
| forespent | adjective | Already spent; gone by; past., See Forspent. |
| forestaff | noun | An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; — called also cross-staff. |
| forestage | noun | A duty or tribute payable to the king’s foresters., A service paid by foresters to the king. |
| forestall | verb t. | To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate., To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance., To deprive; — with of., To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. |
| forestick | noun | Front stick of a hearth fire. |
| foreswart | adjective | Alt. of Foreswart, See Forswat. |
| foretaste | noun | A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation., To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate., To taste before another. |
| foreteach | verb t. | To teach beforehand. |
| forethink | verb t. | To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate., To contrive (something) beforehend., To contrive beforehand. |
| foretoken | noun | Prognostic; previous omen., To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. |
| forewaste | verb t. | See Forewaste. |
| forewiten | pl. | of Forewite |
| forewiste | imp. sing. | of Forewite |
| forewomen | plural | of Forewoman |
| forewoman | noun | A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. |
| forfeited | imp. & past participle | of Forfeit |
| forfeiter | noun | One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture. |
| forficate | adjective | Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. |
| forficula | noun | A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1. |
| forgather | verb i. | To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. |
| forgeries | plural | of Forgery |
| forgotten | past participle | of Forget, p. p. of Forget. |
| forgetful | adjective | Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory., Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive., Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. |
| forgetive | adjective | Inventive; productive; capable. |
| forgetter | noun | One who forgets; a heedless person. |
| forgiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Forgive, Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. |
| forkbeard | noun | A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; — also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard., The European forked hake or hake’s-dame (Phycis blennoides); — also called great forked beard. |
| forkiness | noun | The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. |
| forlornly | adverb | In a forlorn manner. |
| formalism | noun | The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. |
| formalist | noun | One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. |
| formality | noun | The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc., Form without substance., Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality., An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode., The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal., That which is formal; the formal part., The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence., The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities. |
| formalize | verb t. | To give form, or a certain form, to; to model., To render formal., To affect formality. |
| formation | noun | The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping., The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart., A substance formed or deposited., Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations., A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation., The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. |
| formative | adjective | Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts., Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative., Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter., That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word., A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root. |
| formicary | noun | The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. |
| formicate | adjective | Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. |
| formulary | adjective | Stated; prescribed; ritual., A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents., Prescribed form or model; formula. |
| formulate | verb t. | To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. |
| formulize | verb t. | To reduce to a formula; to formulate. |
| fornicate | adjective | Alt. of Fornicated, To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse. |
| forsaking | present participle & vb. noun | of Forsake |
| forslugge | verb t. | To lsoe by idleness or slotch. |
| forsythia | adjective | A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms. |
| fortalice | noun | A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; — called also fortelace. |
| forthward | adverb | Forward. |
| forthwith | adverb | Immediately; without delay; directly., As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. |
| fortifier | noun | One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds. |
| fortified | imp. & past participle | of Fortify |
| fortilage | noun | A little fort; a blockhouse. |
| fortition | noun | Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. |
| fortitude | noun | Power to resist attack; strength; firmness., That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. |
| fortnight | noun | The space of fourteen days; two weeks. |
| fortunate | noun | Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment., Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one’s own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky. |
| fortunize | verb t. | To regulate the fortune of; to make happy. |
| forwander | verb i. | To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. |
| forwarded | imp. & past participle | of Forward |
| forwarder | noun | One who forwards or promotes; a promoter., One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant., One employed in forwarding. |
| forwardly | adverb | Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively. |
| forwweary | verb t. | To weary extremely; to dispirit. |
| foryetten | p. p. of Foryete. | |
| fossilism | noun | The science or state of fossils., The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions. |
| fossilist | noun | One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. |
| fossilize | verb t. | To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood., To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden., To become fossil., To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress. |
| fossorial | adjective | Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. |
| fossulate | adjective | Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows. |
| fostering | present participle & vb. noun | of Foster |
| fosterage | noun | The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. |
| fothering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fother |
| foundered | imp. & past participle | of Founder |
| foundling | verb t. | A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. |
| foundress | noun | A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. |
| foundries | plural | of Foundry |
| fourpence | noun | A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat., A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents. |
| fourscore | noun | Four times twenty; eighty., The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects. |
| foveolate | adjective | Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers. |
| fowlerite | noun | A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc. |
| fractious | adjective | Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. |
| fractural | adjective | Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture. |
| fractured | imp. & past participle | of Fracture |
| fraenulum | noun | A fraenum. |
| fragility | noun | The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility., Weakness; feebleness., Liability to error and sin; frailty. |
| fragrance | noun | Alt. of Fragrancy |
| fragrancy | noun | The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. |
| frailness | noun | Frailty. |
| frailties | plural | of Frailty |
| framework | noun | The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society., Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom. |
| franchise | adjective | Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty., A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote., The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary., Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility., To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. |
| francolin | noun | A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia. |
| frangible | adjective | Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. |
| frangulic | adjective | Alt. of Frangulinic |
| frangulin | noun | A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; — called also rhamnoxanthin. |
| frank-fee | noun | A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. |
| frank-law | noun | The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; — an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. |
| frankness | noun | The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality. |
| fraternal | adjective | Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. |
| fraudless | adjective | Free from fraud. |
| fraughted | imp. & past participle | of Fraught |
| freckling | present participle & vb. noun | of Freckle |
| fredstole | noun | See Fridstol. |
| freebooty | noun | Freebootery. |
| free-hand | adjective | Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing. |
| free-love | noun | The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. |
| freemason | noun | One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. |
| free-soil | adjective | Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; — esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. |
| freestone | noun | A stone composed of sand or grit; — so called because it is easily cut or wrought., Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches. |
| free will | A will free from improper coercion or restraint., The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity. | |
| freezable | adjective | Capable of being frozen. |
| freighted | imp. & past participle | of Freight |
| freighter | noun | One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship., One employed in receiving and forwarding freight., One for whom freight is transported., A vessel used mainly to carry freight. |
| frenchify | verb t. | To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. |
| frenchism | noun | A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. |
| frenchmen | plural | of Frenchman |
| frenchman | noun | A native or one of the people of France. |
| frenzical | adjective | Frantic. |
| frequence | noun | A crowd; a throng; a concourse., Frequency; abundance. |
| frequency | noun | The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles., A crowd; a throng. |
| frescoing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fresco |
| freshened | imp. & past participle | of Freshen |
| freshment | noun | Refreshment. |
| freshness | noun | The state of being fresh. |
| fresh-new | adjective | Unpracticed. |
| fribbling | adjective | Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious. |
| fricassee | noun | A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy. |
| fricassed | imp. & past participle | of Frlcassee |
| frlcassee | verb t. | To dress like a fricassee. |
| frication | noun | Friction. |
| fricative | adjective | Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; — said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc., A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc. |
| friending | present participle & vb. noun | of Friend, Friendliness. |
| frigatoon | noun | A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. |
| frigerate | e. t. | To make cool. |
| frighting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fright |
| frightful | adjective | Full of fright; affrighted; frightened., Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. |
| fringilla | adjective | A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling. |
| fripperer | noun | A fripper. |
| friskily’ | adverb | In a frisky manner. |
| frittered | imp. & past participle | of Fritter |
| frivolism | noun | Frivolity. |
| frivolity | noun | The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition. |
| frivolous | adjective | Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument., Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. |
| frizzling | present participle & vb. noun | of Frizzle |
| frockless | adjective | Destitute of a frock. |
| frogmouth | noun | One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); — so called from their very broad, flat bills. |
| frogs-bit | noun | Frogbit. |
| frogshell | noun | One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera. |
| frolicked | imp. & past participle | of Frolic |
| frolicful | adjective | Frolicsome. |
| fromwards | preposition | A way from; — the contrary of toward. |
| frondesce | verb i. | To unfold leaves, as plants. |
| frontless | adjective | Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. |
| frostbird | noun | The golden plover. |
| frostbite | noun | The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose., To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. |
| frostfish | noun | The tomcod; — so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod., The smelt., A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish. |
| frostless | adjective | Free from frost; as, a frostless winter. |
| frostweed | noun | An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. |
| frostwork | noun | The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone. |
| frostwort | noun | Same as Frostweed. |
| frothless | adjective | Free from froth. |
| frouncing | present participle & vb. noun | of Frounce |
| fructidor | noun | The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; — commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire. |
| fructuary | noun | One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything. |
| fructuous | adjective | Fruitful; productive; profitable. |
| frugality | noun | The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; — opposed to extravagance., A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise. |
| frugivora | noun pl. | The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit. |
| fruiterer | noun | One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits. |
| fruitless | adjective | Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage., Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. |
| frustrate | adjective | Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect., To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose., To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed. |
| fruticant | adjective | Full of shoots. |
| fruticose | adjective | Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. |
| fruticous | adjective | Fruticose. |
| fugacious | adjective | Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile., Fleeting; lasting but a short time; — applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. |
| fulciment | noun | A prop; a fulcrum. |
| fulfilled | imp. & past participle | of Fulfill |
| fulfiller | noun | One who fulfills. |
| fulgently | adverb | Dazzlingly; glitteringly. |
| fulgidity | noun | Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. |
| fulgurant | adjective | Lightening. |
| fulgurata | noun | A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. |
| fulgurate | verb i. | To flash as lightning. |
| fulgurite | noun | A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge. |
| full-butt | adverb | With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. |
| fulleries | plural | of Fullery |
| fulminant | adjective | Thundering; fulminating. |
| fulminate | verb i. | To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report., To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces., To cause to explode., To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; — said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority., A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic., A fulminating powder. |
| fumacious | adjective | Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco. |
| fumidness | noun | The state of being fumid; smokiness. |
| fumigated | imp. & past participle | of Fumigate |
| fumigator | noun | One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating. |
| funambulo | noun | Alt. of Funambulus |
| fundament | noun | Foundation., The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. |
| funebrial | adjective | Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. |
| fungibles | noun pl. | Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; — called also fungible things., Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. |
| fungicide | noun | Anything that kills fungi. |
| fungiform | adjective | Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. |
| fungology | noun | Mycology. |
| fungosity | noun | The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence. |
| funicular | adjective | Consisting of a small cord or fiber., Dependent on the tension of a cord., Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. |
| funiculus | noun | A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord., A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion., In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema. |
| furacious | adjective | Given to theft; thievish. |
| furbished | imp. & past participle | of Furbish |
| furbisher | noun | One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons. |
| furcation | noun | A branching like a. fork. |
| furfurine | noun | A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol. |
| furfurous | adjective | Made of bran; furfuraceous. |
| furniment | noun | Furniture. |
| furnished | imp. & past participle | of Furnish |
| furnisher | noun | One who supplies or fits out. |
| furniture | verb t. | That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment., Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc., The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc., The masts and rigging of a ship., The mountings of a gun., Builders’ hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings., Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase., A mixed or compound stop in an organ; — sometimes called mixture. |
| furrowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Furrow |
| furthered | imp. & past participle | of Further |
| fartherer | noun | One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter. |
| furtively | adverb | Stealthily by theft. |
| furzechat | noun | The whinchat; — called also furzechuck. |
| furzeling | noun | An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); — called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler. |
| fuscation | noun | A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. |
| fusel oil | A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol. | |
| fusillade | noun | A simultaneous discharge of firearms., To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. |
| fussiness | noun | The quality of being fussy. |
| fustigate | verb t. | To cudgel. |
| fustilugs | noun | A gross, fat, unwieldy person. |
| futurable | adjective | Capable of being future; possible to occur. |