| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |