| F: | F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet and a nonvocal consonant Its form and sound are from the Latin The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma w consonant The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phd2nician the ultimate source being probably Egyptian Etymologically f is most closely related to p k v and b as in E five Gr pente E wolf L lupus Gr lykos E fox vixen fragile break fruit brook v t E bear L ferre See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 178 179 188 198 230 |
| Fa: | A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization |
| fab: | extremely pleasing |
| Fabaceae: | a large family of trees shrubs vines and herbs bearing bean pods divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniacea Mimosaceae Papilionaceae |
| Fabaceous: | Having the nature of a bean like a bean |
| dFabella: | One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur in some mammals |
| Fabian: | Of pertaining to or in the manner of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus cautious dilatory avoiding a decisive contest |
| Fabian: | Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia |
| Fabian: | A member of or sympathizer with the Fabian Society |
| Fabiana: | a genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs |
| Fabianism: | the principles and beliefs of or similar to those of the Fabian Society advocating socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law |
| Fable: | A Feigned story or tale intended to instruct or amuse a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept an apologue See the Note under Apologue |
| Fable: | To compose fables hence to write or speak fiction to write or utter what is not true |
| Fable: | To feign to invent to devise and speak of as true or real to tell of falsely |
| Fabler: | A writer of fables a fabulist a dealer in untruths or falsehoods |
| dFabliau: | One of the metrical tales of the Trouv8ares or early poets of the north of France |
| Fabric: | The structure of anything the manner in which the parts of a thing are united workmanship texture make as cloth of a beautiful fabric |
| Fabric: | To frame to build to construct |
| Fabricant: | One who fabricates a manufacturer |
| Fabricate: | To form into a whole by uniting its parts to frame to construct to build as to fabricate a bridge or ship |
| fabricated: | formed or conceived by the fancy or imagination as a fabricated excuse for his absence |
| Fabrication: | The act of fabricating framing or constructing construction manufacture as the fabrication of a bridge a church or a government |
| Fabricator: | One who fabricates one who constructs or makes |
| Fabricatress: | A woman who fabricates |
| Fabrile: | Pertaining to a workman or to work in stone metal wood etc as fabrile skill |
| Fabulist: | One who invents or writes fables |
| Fabulize: | To invent compose or relate fables or fictions |
| Fabulosity: | Fabulousness |
| Fabulous: | Feigned as a story or fable related in fable devised invented not real fictitious as a fabulous description a fabulous hero |
| Faburden: | A species of counterpoint with a drone bass |
| Fac: | A large ornamental letter used esp by the early printers at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book |
| dFaade: | The front of a building esp the principal front having some architectural pretensions Thus a church is said to have its fa87ade unfinished though the interior may be in use |
| Face: | The exterior form or appearance of anything that part which presents itself to the view especially the front or upper part or surface that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator |
| Face: | To meet in front to oppose with firmness to resist or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing to confront to encounter as to face an enemy in the field of battle |
| Face: | To carry a false appearance to play the hypocrite |
| Faced: | Having such a face or so many faces as smoothfaced twofaced |
| faceharden: | to harden steel by adding carbon |
| facelift: | an operation to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from a persons face |
| facelift: | to perform cosmetic surgery on someones face |
| Facer: | One who faces one who puts on a false show a boldfaced person |
| facesaving: | allowing one to maintain ones dignity or prestige designed to avoid admitting something embarrassing as a facesaving compromise of actions |
| Facet: | A little face a small plane surface as the facets of a diamond |
| Facet: | To cut facets or small faces upon as to facet a diamond |
| Facete: | Facetious witty humorous |
| Faceted: | Having facets |
| dFaceti: | Witty or humorous writings or saying witticisms merry conceits |
| facetime: | Time spent speaking with a person facetoface contrasted with time spent communicating by electronic media such as telephone or email or via written communications as the chief of staff has the most face time with the president |
| Facetious: | Given to wit and good humor merry sportive jocular as a facetious companion |
| facetoface: | without intervening persons involving direct communication between persons in each others presence of conversation or confrontation as facetoface negotiations |
| Facette: | See Facet n |
| Facework: | The material of the outside or front side as of a wall or building facing |
| Facia: | See Fascia |
| Facial: | Of or pertaining to the face as the facial artery vein or nerve |
| Faciend: | The multiplicand See Facient 2 |
| Facient: | One who does anything good or bad a doer an agent |
| Facile: | Easy to be done or performed not difficult performable or attainable with little labor |
| Facilitate: | To make easy or less difficult to free from difficulty or impediment to lessen the labor of as to facilitate the execution of a task |
| facilitated: | freed from difficulty or impediment Contrasted with delayed |
| Facilitation: | The act of facilitating or making easy |
| facilitative: | freeing from difficulty or impediment as facilitative changes in the economic structure |
| facilitator: | someone who makes progress easier |
| facilitatory: | inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity |
| Facility: | The quality of being easily performed freedom from difficulty ease as the facility of an operation |
| Facing: | A covering in front for ornament or other purpose an exterior covering or sheathing as the facing of an earthen slope sea wall etc to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface |
| Facingly: | In a facing manner or position |
| Facinorous: | Atrociously wicked |
| Facound: | Speech eloquence |
| Facsimile: | 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 |
| Facsimile: | To make a facsimile of |
| Fact: | A doing making or preparing |
| factfinding: | designed to find information or ascertain facts as a factfinding committee |
| Faction: | One of the divisions or parties of charioteers distinguished by their colors in the games of the circus |
| Factionary: | Belonging to a faction being a partisan taking sides |
| Factioner: | One of a faction |
| Factionist: | One who promotes faction |
| Factious: | Given to faction addicted to form parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good turbulent seditious prone to clamor against public measures or men said of persons |
| Factitious: | Made by art in distinction from what is produced by nature artificial sham contrived formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional in distinction from a natural standard or rule not natural as factitious cinnabar or jewels a factitious taste |
| Factitive: | Causing causative |
| Factive: | Making having power to make |
| dFacto: | In fact by the act or fact |
| Factor: | One who transacts business for another an agent a substitute especially a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission a commission merchant or consignee He may be a home factor or a foreign factor He may buy and sell in his own name and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods and in these respects he differs from a broker |
| Factor: | To resolve a quantity into its factors |
| Factorage: | The allowance given to a factor as a compensation for his services called also a commission |
| Factoress: | A factor who is a woman |
| Factorial: | Of or pertaining to a factory |
| Factorial: | A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function Fx by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable Thus the product FxFx hFx 2h Fx n1h is called a factorial term and its several factors take the name of factorials |
| Factoring: | The act of resolving into factors |
| factorise: | to resolve into factors as of a polynomial same as factorize |
| factorize: | 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 |
| Factorship: | The business of a factor |
| Factory: | A house or place where factors or commercial agents reside to transact business for their employers |
| factorymade: | made in a factory Contrasted with homemade |
| factotum: | A person employed to do all kinds of work or business a person with many different responsibilities |
| factual: | of or pertaining to facts as factual inaccuracies |
| dFactum: | A mans own act and deed |
| Facture: | The act or manner of making or doing anything now used of a literary musical or pictorial production |
| dFacul: | 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: | Of or pertaining to the facul |
| Facultative: | Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty or authority privilege license or the like hence optional as facultative enactments or those which convey a faculty or permission the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition facultative studies opposed to obligatory and compulsory and sometimes used with to |
| Faculty: | 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 wellknown 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 |
| Facund: | Eloquent |
| Facundious: | Eloquement full of words |
| Facundity: | Eloquence readiness of speech |
| Fad: | A hobby freak whim |
| dFadaise: | A vapid or meaningless remark a commonplace nonsense |
| faddish: | intensely fashionable for a short time |
| faddist: | a person who subscribes to a variety of fads |
| Faddle: | To trifle to toy |
| Fade: | Weak insipid tasteless commonplace |
| Fade: | To become fade to grow weak to lose strength to decay to perish gradually to wither as a plant |
| Fade: | To cause to wither to deprive of freshness or vigor to wear away |
| Faded: | That has lost freshness color or brightness grown dim |
| Fadedly: | In a faded manner |
| Fadeless: | Not liable to fade unfading |
| Fader: | Father |
| Fadge: | To fit to suit to agree |
| Fadge: | A small flat loaf or thick cake also a fagot |
| Fading: | Losing freshness color brightness or vigor |
| Fading: | An Irish dance also the burden of a song |
| Fadme: | A fathom |
| Fady: | Faded |
| Fcal: | See Fecal |
| dFces: | Excrement ordure also settlings sediment after infusion or distillation |
| dFcula: | See Fecula |
| Fary: | Fairy |
| Faffle: | To stammer |
| Fag: | A knot or coarse part in cloth |
| fag: | a male homosexual always used disparagingly and considered offensive Shortened form of faggot |
| Fag: | To become weary to tire |
| Fag: | To tire by labor to exhaust as he was almost fagged out |
| Fagaceae: | a natural family of chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs including beeches chestnuts and oaks it includes the genera Castanea Castanopsis Chrysolepis Fagus Lithocarpus Nothofagus and Quercus |
| Fagend: | An end of poorer quality or in a spoiled condition as the coarser end of a web of cloth the untwisted end of a rope etc |
| fagged: | same as burnedout 1 |
| fagging: | Laborious drudgery esp the acting as a drudge for another at an English school |
| faggot: | a male homosexual always used disparagingly and considered offensive |
| Fagopyrum: | a genus of plants of the buckwheat family including the buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum |
| fagot: | A bundle of sticks twigs or small branches of trees used for fuel for raising batteries filling ditches or other purposes in fortification a fascine |
| Fagot: | To make a fagot of to bind together in a fagot or bundle also to collect promiscuously |
| dFagotto: | The bassoon so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage making as it were a small fagot |
| dFaham: | The leaves of an orchid Angraecum fragrans of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius used in France as a substitute for Chinese tea |
| dFahlband: | A stratum in crystalline rock containing metallic sulphides |
| Fahlerz: | Same as Tetrahedrite |
| Fahlunite: | A hydrated silica of alumina resulting from the alteration of iolite |
| Fahr: | an abbreviation of Fahrenheit used in designating temperatures as 72 Used as an alternative to celsius |
| Fahrenheit: | Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer of or relating to Fahrenheits thermometric scale Used as an alternative to celsius |
| faience: | Glazed earthenware esp a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze |
| Fail: | To be wanting to fall short to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner or to be altogether cut off from supply to be lacking as streams fail crops fail |
| Fail: | To be wanting to to be insufficient for to disappoint to desert |
| Fail: | Miscarriage failure deficiency fault mostly superseded by failure or failing except in the phrase without fail |
| Failance: | Fault failure omission |
| failed: | unsuccessful Opposite of successful |
| Failing: | A failing short a becoming deficient failure deficiency imperfection weakness lapse fault infirmity as a mental failing |
| dFaille: | A soft silk heavier than a foulard and not glossy |
| Failure: | Cessation of supply or total defect a failing deficiency as failure of rain failure of crops |
| Fain: | Wellpleased glad apt wont fond inclined |
| Fain: | With joy gladly with wold |
| Fain: | To be glad to wish or desire |
| Faineance: | Donothingness inactivity indolence |
| faineant: | Doing nothing shiftless disinclined to work or exertion |
| faineant: | A donothing an idle fellow a sluggard |
| Fainantdeity: | A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs hence not worshiped |
| Faint: | Lacking strength weak languid inclined to swoon as faint with fatigue hunger or thirst |
| Faint: | The act of fainting or the state of one who has fainted a swoon R See Fainting n |
| Faint: | To become weak or wanting in vigor to grow feeble to lose strength and color and the control of the bodily or mental functions to swoon sometimes with away See Fainting n |
| Faint: | To cause to faint or become dispirited to depress to weaken |
| Fainthearted: | Wanting in courage depressed by fear easily discouraged or frightened cowardly timorous dejected |
| Fainting: | Syncope or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain the face becoming pallid the respiration feeble and the heats beat weak |
| Faintish: | Slightly faint somewhat faint |
| Faintling: | Timorous feebleminded |
| Faintly: | In a faint weak or timidmanner |
| Faintness: | The state of being faint loss of strength or of consciousness and selfcontrol |
| Faints: | The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky the former being called the strong faints and the latter which is much more abundant the weak faints This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil |
| Fainty: | Feeble languid |
| Fair: | Free from spots specks dirt or imperfection unblemished clean pure |
| Fair: | Clearly openly frankly civilly honestly favorably auspiciously agreeably |
| Fair: | Fairness beauty |
| Fair: | To make fair or beautiful |
| Fair: | A gathering of buyers and sellers assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season or by special appointment for trade |
| fairandsquare: | justly honestly equitably impartially Opposite of unfairly |
| fairandsquare: | fair and honest just Opposite of unfair |
| Faircatch: | A catch made by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught He must not then be interfered with |
| fairground: | an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses Often used in plural |
| fairgrounds: | same as fairground |
| Fairhaired: | Having fair or lightcolored hair |
| Fairhood: | Fairness beauty |
| Fairily: | In the manner of a fairy |
| Fairing: | A present originally one given or purchased at a fair |
| Fairish: | Tolerably fair |
| Fairleader: | A block or ring serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope |
| Fairly: | In a fair manner clearly openly plainly fully distinctly frankly |
| Fairminded: | Unprejudiced just judicial honest |
| Fairnatured: | Welldisposed |
| Fairness: | The state of being fair or free form spots or stains as of the skin honesty as of dealing candor as of an argument etc |
| Fairspoken: | Using fair speech or uttered with fairness bland civil courteous plausible |
| Fairway: | 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 |
| Fairweather: | Made or done in pleasant weather or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice as a fairweather voyage |
| Fairworld: | State of prosperity |
| Fairy: | Enchantment illusion |
| Fairy: | Of or pertaining to fairies |
| Fairyland: | The imaginary land or abode of fairies |
| Fairylike: | Resembling a fairy or what is made or done be fairies as fairylike music |
| fairyslipper: | a rare north temperate bog orchid Calypso bulbosa bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above one basal leaf |
| fairytale: | a story about magical or mythological creatures such as fairies elves goblins trolls orcs unicorns wizards dragons etc usually composed for the amusement of children called also a fairy story |
| Faith: | Belief the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity reliance on testimony |
| Faith: | By my faith in truth verily |
| Faithed: | Having faith or a faith honest sincere |
| Faithful: | Full of faith or having faith disposed to believe especially in the declarations and promises of God |
| faithfulness: | the trait of being faithful |
| Faithless: | Not believing not giving credit |
| Faitour: | A doer or actor particularly an evil doer a scoundrel |
| Fake: | One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil a single turn or coil |
| Fake: | To coil a rope line or hawser by winding alternately in opposite directions in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form to prevent twisting when running out |
| Fake: | To cheat to swindle to steal to rob |
| Fake: | A trick a swindle |
| fakeer: | same as fakir |
| faker: | One who fakes something |
| Fakir: | an Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker |
| Fakir: | See Faker |
| dFalanaka: | A viverrine mammal of Madagascar Eupleres Goudotii allied to the civet called also Falanouc |
| Falcade: | 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: | Hooked or bent like a sickle as a falcate leaf a falcate claw said also of the moon or a planet when horned or crescentformed |
| Falcation: | The state of being falcate a bend in the form of a sickle |
| Falcer: | One of the mandibles of a spider |
| Falchion: | A broadbladed sword slightly curved shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword used in the Middle Ages |
| Falcidian: | Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius a Roman tribune |
| Falciform: | Having the shape of a scithe or sickle resembling a reaping hook as the falciform ligatment of the liver |
| Falcon: | One of a family Falconid of raptorial birds characterized by a short hooked beak strong claws and powerful flight |
| Falconer: | A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks |
| Falconet: | One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later |
| falcongentil: | any female falcon |
| Falconine: | Like a falcon or hawk belonging to the Falconid |
| Falconry: | The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game |
| dFalcula: | A curved and sharppointed claw |
| Falculate: | Curved and sharppointed like a falcula or claw of a falcon |
| Faldage: | 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 |
| Falderal: | Nonsense foolish talk |
| Faldfee: | A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground |
| Falding: | A frieze or roughnapped cloth |
| Faldistory: | The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel |
| Faldstool: | 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: | Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus in Italy as Falernianwine |
| Falk: | The razorbill |
| Fall: | To Descend either suddenly or gradually particularly to descend by the force of gravity to drop to sink as the apple falls the tide falls the mercury falls in the barometer |
| Fall: | To let fall to drop |
| Fall: | The act of falling a dropping or descending be the force of gravity descent as a fall from a horse or from the yard of ship |
| Fallacious: | Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy illogical fitted to deceive misleading delusive as fallacious arguments or reasoning |
| fallaciousness: | result of a fallacy or error in reasoning |
| Fallacy: | Deceptive or false appearance deceitfulness that which misleads the eye or the mind deception |
| Fallals: | Gay ornaments frippery gewgaws |
| Fallax: | Cavillation a caviling |
| fallback: | The act or process of falling back |
| Fallen: | Dropped prostrate degraded ruined decreased dead |
| Fallency: | An exception |
| Faller: | One who or that which falls |
| Fallfish: | A freshwater fish of the United States Semotilus bullaris called also silver chub and Shiner The name is also applied to other allied species |
| Fallibility: | The state of being fallible liability to deceive or to be deceived as the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser |
| Fallible: | Liable to fail mistake or err liable to deceive or to be deceived as all men are fallible our opinions and hopes are fallible |
| Fallibly: | In a fallible manner |
| Falling: | from Fall v i |
| falloff: | a noticeable decline in performance as a falloff in automobile sales |
| Fallopian: | 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 |
| fallout: | the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion |
| Fallow: | Pale red or pale yellow as a fallow deer or greyhound |
| Fallow: | Plowed land |
| Fallow: | To plow harrow and break up as land without seeding for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects and rendering it mellow as it is profitable to fallow cold strong clayey land |
| Fallowdeer: | A European species of deer Cervus dama much smaller than the red deer In summer both sexes are spotted with white It is common in England where it is often domesticated in the parks |
| Fallowist: | One who favors the practice of fallowing land |
| Fallowness: | A well or opening through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory through which goods are raised or lowered |
| fallwebworm: | The larva of any moth of the genus Hyphantria which spins a web around the foliage on which it feeds |
| Falsary: | A falsifier of evidence |
| False: | Uttering falsehood unveracious given to deceit dishnest as a false witness |
| False: | Not truly not honestly falsely |
| False: | To report falsely to falsify |
| Falsefaced: | Hypocritical |
| Falseheart: | Falsehearted |
| Falsehearted: | Hollow or unsound at the core treacherous deceitful perfidious |
| Falsehood: | Want of truth or accuracy an untrue assertion or representation error misrepresentation falsity |
| Falsely: | In a false manner erroneously not truly perfidiously or treacherously |
| Falseness: | 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 singers notes the falseness of a man or of his word |
| Falser: | A deceiver |
| Falsetto: | A false or artificial voice that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice the male counter tenor or alto voice See Head voice under Voice |
| dFalsicrimen: | The crime of falsifying |
| Falsifiable: | Capable of being falsified counterfeited or corrupted |
| Falsification: | The act of falsifying or making false a counterfeiting the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not |
| Falsificator: | A falsifier |
| Falsifier: | One who falsifies or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance a liar |
| Falsify: | To make false to represent falsely |
| Falsify: | To tell lies to violate the truth |
| Falsism: | That which is evidently false an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent opposed to truism |
| Falsity: | The quality of being false coutrariety or want of conformity to truth |
| Falstaff: | Sir John Falstaff a celebrated character in Shakespeares historical play Henry IV 1st and 2d parts and also in The Merry Wives of Windsor He is a very fat sensual and witty old knight a swindler drunkard and goodtempered liar and something of a coward Falstaff was originally called Sir John Oldcastle The first actor of the part was John Heminge |
| Falstaffian: | of or pertaining to Falstaff a character in Shakespeares plays |
| Falter: | To thrash in the chaff also to cleanse or sift as barley |
| Falter: | To hesitate to speak brokenly or weakly to stammer as his tongue falters |
| Falter: | To utter with hesitation or in a broken trembling or weak manner |
| Falter: | Hesitation trembling feebleness an uncertain or broken sound as a slight falter in her voice |
| Faltering: | Hesitating trembling |
| dFaluns: | A series of strata of the Middle Tertiary period of France abounding in shells and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision |
| Falwe: | Fallow |
| dFalx: | A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum esp one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain |
| Famble: | To stammer |
| Famble: | A hand |
| Fame: | Public report or rumor |
| Fame: | To report widely or honorably |
| Fameless: | Without fame or renown |
| familial: | relating to or having the characteristics of a family as children of the same familial background familial aggregation |
| Familiar: | Of or pertaining to a family domestic |
| Familiar: | An intimate a companion |
| familiarise: | to make familiar or acquainted same as familiarize |
| Familiarity: | The state of being familiar intimate and frequent converse or association unconstrained intercourse freedom from ceremony and constraint intimacy as to live in remarkable familiarity |
| Familiarization: | The act or process of making familiar the result of becoming familiar as familiarization with scenes of blood |
| Familiarize: | To make familiar or intimate to habituate to accustom to make well known by practice or converse as to familiarize ones self with scenes of distress we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings |
| familiarized: | having become familiar |
| familiarizing: | serving to familiarize |
| Familiarly: | In a familiar manner |
| Familiarness: | Familiarity |
| Familiary: | Of or pertaining to a family or household domestic |
| Familism: | The tenets of the Familists |
| Familist: | One of a fanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland and existing in England about 1580 called the Family of Love who held that religion consists wholly in love |
| Familistery: | A community in which many persons unite as in one family and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs |
| Familistic: | Pertaining to Familists |
| Family: | The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager a household including parents children and servants and as the case may be lodgers or boarders |
| Famine: | General scarcity of food dearth a want of provisions destitution |
| Famish: | To starve kill or destroy with hunger |
| Famish: | To die of hunger to starve |
| Famishment: | State of being famished |
| Famosity: | The state or quality of being famous |
| Famous: | Celebrated in fame or public report renowned mach talked of distinguished in story used in either a good or a bad sense chiefly the former often followed by for as famous for erudition for eloquence for military skill a famous pirate |
| Famoused: | Renowned |
| Famously: | In a famous manner in a distinguished degree greatly splendidly |
| Famousness: | The state of being famous |
| Famular: | Domestic familiar |
| Famulate: | To serve |
| Famulist: | A collegian of inferior rank or position corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge |
| Fan: | An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface |
| Fan: | To move as with a fan |
| dFanal: | A lighthouse or the apparatus placed in it for giving light |
| Fanatic: | Pertaining to or indicating fanaticism extravagant in opinions ultra unreasonable excessively enthusiastic especially on religious subjects as fanatic zeal fanatic notions |
| Fanatic: | A person affected by excessive enthusiasm particularly on religious subjects one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion |
| Fanatical: | Characteristic of or relating to fanaticism fanatic |
| Fanaticism: | Excessive enthusiasm unreasoning zeal or wild and extravagant notions on any subject especially religion politics or ideology religious frenzy |
| Fanaticize: | To cause to become a fanatic |
| Fanatism: | Fanaticism |
| Fancied: | Formed or conceived by the fancy unreal as a fancied wrong |
| Fancier: | One who is governed by fancy |
| Fanciful: | Full of fancy guided by fancy rather than by reason and experience whimsical as a fanciful man forms visionary projects |
| Fanciless: | Having no fancy without ideas or imagination |
| Fancy: | The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement wit or embellishment imagination |
| Fancy: | To figure to ones self to believe or imagine something without proof |
| Fancy: | To form a conception of to portray in the mind to imagine |
| Fancy: | Adapted to please the fancy or taste especially when of high quality or unusually appealing ornamental as fancy goods fancy clothes |
| Fancyfree: | Free from the power of love |
| Fancymonger: | A lovemonger a whimsical lover |
| Fancysick: | Lovesick |
| Fancywork: | Ornamental work with a needle or hook as embroidery crocheting netting etc |
| Fand: | imp of Find |
| Fandango: | A lively dance in 38 or 68 time much practiced in Spain and Spanish America Also the tune to which it is danced |
| Fane: | A temple a place consecrated to religion a church |
| Fane: | A weathercock |
| dFanega: | A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America varying from 1 to 2 bushels also a measure of land |
| Fanfare: | A flourish of trumpets as in coming into the lists etc also a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase |
| dFanfaron: | A bully a hector a swaggerer an empty boaster |
| Fanfaronade: | A swaggering vain boasting ostentation a bluster |
| Fanfoot: | 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 |
| Fang: | To catch to seize as with the teeth to lay hold of to gripe to clutch |
| Fang: | The tusk of an animal by which the prey is seized and held or torn a long pointed tooth esp one of the usually erectile venomous teeth of serpents Also one of the falcers of a spider |
| Fanged: | Having fangs or tusks as a fanged adder Also used figuratively |
| Fangle: | Something newfashioned a foolish innovation a gewgaw a trifling ornament |
| Fangle: | To fashion |
| Fangled: | New made hence gaudy showy vainly decorated Obs except with the prefix new See Newfangled |
| Fangleness: | Quality of being fangled |
| Fangless: | Destitute of fangs or tusks |
| Fangot: | A quantity of wares as raw silk etc from one hundred weight |
| Fanion: | A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade |
| Fanlike: | Resembling a fan |
| Fannel: | Same as Fanon |
| Fanner: | One who fans |
| Fannerved: | Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner said of certain leaves and of the wings of some insects |
| Fanon: | A term applied to various articles |
| Fanpalm: | Any palm tree having fanshaped or radiate leaves as the Chamrops humilis of Southern Europe the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies Florida etc and especially the great talipot tree Corypha umbraculifera of Ceylon and Malaya The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide and are used for umbrellas tents and roofs When cut up they are used for books and manuscripts |
| Fantad: | see fantod |
| Fantail: | A variety of the domestic pigeon so called from the shape of the tail |
| Fantailed: | Having an expanded or fanshaped tail as the fantailed pigeon |
| fantailgoldfish: | a type of goldfish bred artificially having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan as though forming a part of the surface of a cone Called also fantail |
| Fantan: | A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table usually under a cup and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four |
| Fantasia: | A continuous composition not divided into what are called movements or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design but in which the authors fancy roves unrestricted by set form |
| Fantasied: | Filled with fancies or imaginations |
| Fantasm: | Same as Phantasm |
| Fantast: | One whose manners or ideas are fantastic |
| Fantastic: | Existing only in imagination fanciful imaginary not real chimerical |
| Fantastic: | A person given to fantastic dress manners etc an eccentric person a fop |
| Fantastical: | Fanciful unreal whimsical capricious fantastic |
| Fantasticality: | Fantastically |
| Fantastically: | In a fantastic manner |
| Fantasticalness: | The quality of being fantastic |
| Fantasticism: | The quality of being fantastical fancifulness whimsicality |
| Fantasticly: | Fantastically |
| Fantasticness: | Fantasticalness |
| dFantastico: | A fantastic |
| Fantasy: | Fancy imagination especially a whimsical or fanciful conception a vagary of the imagination whim caprice humor |
| Fantasy: | To have a fancy for to be pleased with to like to fancy |
| Fantigue: | State of worry or excitment fidget ill humor |
| dFantoccini: | Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery also the representations in which they are used |
| Fantod: | State of worry or excitement fidget fuss also indisposition pet sulks |
| Fantom: | See Phantom |
| fanwort: | a common aquatic plant Cabomba caroliniana of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellowspotted flowers |
| Fap: | Fuddled |
| Faquir: | See Fakir |
| Far: | A young pig or a litter of pigs |
| Far: | Distant in any direction not near remote mutually separated by a wide space or extent |
| Far: | To a great extent or distance of space widely as we are separated far from each other |
| Farabout: | A going out of the way a digression |
| Farad: | The standard unit of electrical capacity the capacity of a condenser whose charge having an electromotive force of one volt is equal to the amount of electricity which with the same electromotive force passes through one ohm in one second the capacity which charged with one coulomb gives an electromotive force of one volt |
| faraday: | the quantity of electric charge that passed though an ionic solution will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions it is equal to about 96490 coulombs The number of univalent metal ions such as silver in a silver nitrate solution which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadros number 6023 x 1023 |
| Faradic: | 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 Faradays investigations of their laws |
| Faradism: | The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes |
| Faradize: | To stimulate with or subject to faradic or inducted electric currents |
| Farand: | See Farrand n |
| Farandams: | A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair |
| dFarandole: | A rapid dance in sixeight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures sometimes moving from room to room It originated in Provence |
| Farantly: | Orderly comely respectable |
| Farce: | To stuff with forcemeat hence to fill with mingled ingredients to fill full to stuff |
| Farce: | Stuffing or mixture of viands like that used on dressing a fowl forcemeat |
| Farcement: | Stuffing forcemeat |
| Farcical: | Pertaining to farce appropriated to farce ludicrous unnatural unreal |
| Farcical: | Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy See Farcy n |
| Farcilite: | Pudding stone |
| Farcimen: | Same as Farcy |
| Farcing: | Stuffing forcemeat |
| Farctate: | Stuffed filled solid as a farctate leaf stem or pericarp opposed to tubular or hollow |
| Farcy: | A contagious disease of horses associated with painful ulcerating enlargements esp upon the head and limbs It is of the same nature as glanders and is often fatal Called also farcin and farcimen |
| Fard: | Paint used on the face |
| Fard: | To paint said esp of ones face |
| dFardage: | See Dunnage |
| Fardel: | A bundle or little pack hence a burden |
| Fardel: | To make up in fardels |
| Fardingbag: | The upper stomach of a cow or other ruminant animal the rumen |
| Fardingdale: | A farthingale |
| Fardingdeal: | The fourth part of an acre of land |
| Fare: | To go to pass to journey to travel |
| Fare: | A journey a passage |
| Faren: | p p of Fare v i |
| faretheewell: | state of perfection the utmost degree as they polished the furniture to a faretheewell |
| Farewell: | Go well goodby adieu originally applied to a person departing but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain It is often separated by the pronoun as fare you well and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only as farewell the year farewell ye sweet groves that is I bid you farewell |
| Farewell: | A wish of happiness or welfare at parting the parting compliment a goodby adieu |
| Farewell: | Parting valedictory final as a farewell discourse his farewell bow |
| Farfet: | Farfetched |
| Farfetch: | To bring from far to seek out studiously |
| Farfetch: | Anything brought from far or brought about with studious care a deep strategem |
| Farfetched: | Brought from far or from a remote place |
| farflung: | widely spread or distributed as the farflung corners of the Empire |
| Farina: | A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables extracted by various processes and used in cookery |
| Farinaceous: | Consisting or made of meal or flour as a farinaceous diet |
| Farinose: | Yielding farina as farinose substances |
| Farl: | Same as Furl |
| Farlie: | An unusual or unexpected thing a wonder See Fearly |
| Farm: | The rent of land originally paid by reservation of part of its products |
| Farm: | To lease or let for an equivalent as land for a rent to yield the use of to proceeds |
| Farm: | To engage in the business of tilling the soil to labor as a farmer |
| Farmable: | Capable of being farmed |
| Farmer: | One who farms |
| Farmeress: | A woman who farms |
| farmerette: | a woman working on a farm a farmeress |
| Farmership: | Skill in farming |
| Farmery: | The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm a homestead |
| Farmhouse: | A dwelling house on a farm a farmers residence |
| Farming: | Pertaining to agriculture devoted to adapted to or engaged in farming as farming tools farming land a farming community |
| Farming: | The business of cultivating land |
| farmland: | a rural area where farming is practiced land actually under cultivation or capable of supporting crops |
| Farmost: | Most distant farthest |
| farmplace: | a farm together with its buildings |
| Farmstead: | A farm with the building upon it a homestead on a farm |
| Farmsteading: | A farmstead |
| Farmyard: | The yard or inclosure attached to a barn or the space inclosed by the farm buildings |
| Farness: | The state of being far off distance remoteness |
| Faro: | A gambling game at cards in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack |
| Faroese: | An inhabitant or collectively inhabitants of the Faroe islands |
| Faroff: | Remote as the faroff distance troops landing on faroff shores Cf Faroff under Far adv |
| farout: | strikingly unconventional |
| Farraginous: | Formed of various materials mixed as a farraginous mountain |
| dFarrago: | A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed a medley a mixture |
| Farrand: | Manner custom fashion humor |
| farreaching: | having a wide range or effect as farreaching or extensive forests a farreaching reform |
| Farreation: | Same as Confarreation |
| Farrier: | A shoer of horses a veterinary surgeon |
| Farrier: | To practice as a farrier to carry on the trade of a farrier |
| Farriery: | The art of shoeing horses |
| farright: | extremely conservative politically |
| Farrow: | A litter of pigs |
| Farrow: | To bring forth young said only of swine |
| Farrow: | Not producing young in a given season or year said only of cows |
| Farry: | A farrow |
| Farse: | An addition to or a paraphrase of some part of the Latin service in the vernacular common in English before the Reformation |
| Farseeing: | Able to see to a great distance farsighted |
| Farsighted: | Seeing to great distance hence of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions sagacious |
| Farsightedness: | Quality of bbeing farsighted |
| Farstretched: | Stretched beyond ordinary limits |
| Farther: | More remote more distant than something else |
| Farther: | At or to a greater distance more remotely beyond as let us rest with what we have without looking farther |
| Farther: | To help onward R See Further |
| Fartherance: | See Furtherance |
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