English words: factitious to Fahmy

300 English words, part 3 of 85 of the words starting with F, A to Z. 40 have a page of their own.

English words factitious to Fahmy

factitious adjective /fækˈtɪʃəs/: Created by humans; artificial.
factitious disorder imposed on another noun: A factitious (artificial) mental disorder in which someone feigns a health issue in another person, typically a caregiver onto their child, in order to...
factitiously adverb: In a factitious manner.
factitiousness noun: The quality of being factitious.
factitive adjective /ˈfæktɪtɪv/: Taking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative.
factitively adverb: In a factitive way.
factitiveness noun: Synonym of factitivity.
factitivity noun: The quality of being factitive.
factitude noun: The property of being factual.
factive adjective, noun: Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
factively adverb: In a factive manner.
factiveness noun: The state or quality of being factive.
factivity noun: The state or condition of being factive.
factless adjective: Lacking facts; inaccurate or fictional.
factlessly adverb: In a factless manner
factlessness noun: Quality of being factless; absence of fact.
factlet noun: A minor fact; an item of trivia.
factly adverb: In a manner or tone that accords with a fact-based assertion.
factness noun: The quality of being based on facts.
factographer noun: A person involved in factography.
factographic adjective: Relating to factography.
factography noun: A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class.
factoid noun /ˈfæk.tɔɪd/: An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.
factoidal adjective: Of or relating to a factoid.
factor noun, verb /ˈfæk.tə/: A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
factor analysis noun: A statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).
factor graph noun: A bipartite graph representing the factorization of a function.
factor ideal noun: For given ring R, any ideal I such that Q = R / I, the set of cosets of elements of I in R, is a ring (the quotient ring of I in R).
factor II noun: Ellipsis of clotting factor II (“prothrombin”)
factor in verb: To consider as a factor.
factor IX noun: Synonym of Christmas factor.
factor market noun: The system or infrastructure for economic exchange within which factors of production (such as labor, materials, or capital) are purchased or sold.
factor of production noun: A resource used to produce goods and services, such as labor, land, or capital.
factor out verb: To isolate a common factor from an expression.
factor ring noun: A quotient ring.
factor space noun: A space obtained from another by identification of points that are equivalent to one another in some equivalence relation.
factor through verb: Said of a morphism: to be equal to a composition of two morphisms, one of which is the given morphism (that is being said to be "factored through").
factor VII noun: Synonym of proconvertin.
factor VIII noun: Synonym of antihemophilic factor A.
factorability noun: The condition of being factorable.
factorable adjective: Capable of being factored. For integers synonyms are composite, non-prime.
factoradic adjective: Relating to or involving the factorial number system (a mixed radix numeral system adapted to numbering permutations).
factorage noun: The commission paid to a factor
factored adjective, verb: Expressed in terms of factors (values that are multiplied together to form a whole)
factoress noun: A female factor (agent or representative).
factorial adjective, noun /fækˈtɔːɹi.əl/: The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For...
factorial experiment noun: An experiment that tests all combinations of multiple parameters or variables.
factorial prime noun: A prime number that is one more or one less than a factorial. For example, 7 is a factorial prime, since 3! + 1 = 7.
factorial table noun: A tabular presentation of data used to show the influence of two independent categorical variables on a dependent variable.
factoriality noun: The property of being factorial.
factorialization noun: The process of factorializing.
factorialize verb: To perform factor analysis on (a set of data).
factorially adverb: According to a factorial series or ratio.
factoried adjective: Produced in a factory.
factoring noun, verb: A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount.
factorion noun: A number that is equal to the sum of the factorials of its digits.
factorisable adjective: Alternative spelling of factorizable.
factorisation noun: Alternative spelling of factorization.
factorise verb: Alternative form of factorize.
factorist noun: A statistician who uses factor analysis.
factorizability noun: The condition of being factorizable.
factorizable adjective: Able to be factorized.
factorization noun: The process of creating a list of factors.
factorize verb /ˈfæktəɹaiz/: To create a list of the factors of.
factorizer noun: That which factorizes.
factorizing noun, verb: factorization
factorless adjective: Lacking a factor
factorship noun: The business of a factor (the agent).
factory adjective, noun /ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/: A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
factory-backed adjective: Wholly or substantially supported by financial or technical backing from a car manufacturer, but not necessarily contracted to it.
factory class noun: A class that creates an object having a non-trivial creation process, implementing the factory method pattern.
factory edge noun: The edge of a new knife. A new knife is not necessarily polished to its full potential or to the customer's liking.
factory farm noun: A very large, factory-style farm, especially one in which many livestock animals are confined at high stocking density.
factory head noun: The head formed when a rivet is manufactured, as opposed to the shank (or bucktail), the end of which will be upset to form the field head, after it is...
factory leg noun: A variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, once seen in young children who worked in factories.
factory mark noun: A mark such as a logo or date that a manufacturer puts on an item in order to authenticate it.
factory method pattern noun: A creational design pattern that decouples the object creation by using an abstract method in the class.
factory pattern noun: Synonym of factory method pattern.
factory reset noun, verb: A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.
factory second noun: A retail item that, through minor fault of manufacture, is sold to the public for a reduced rate.
factory setting noun: The default configuration of a device when it is first manufactured and sold.
factory ship noun: A vessel, usually part of a fleet, which processes catches of fish or whales while at sea.
factory team noun: A team that is wholly or substantially owned and run by (or on behalf of) a car manufacturer, either by an in house organization or an associated company.
factorylike adjective: Resembling a factory in any of various respects
factoryscape noun: A landscape dominated by factories.
factoryship noun: Alternative form of factory ship.
factorywise adjective: Of or pertaining to a factory.
factoryworker noun: One who works in a factory.
factotum noun /fækˈtəʊ.təm/: A person employed to perform all sorts of duties.
factress noun: A female factor.
factrix noun: A female factor (agent or representative).
facts interjection, noun /ˈfækts/: Used to express agreement.
facts don't care about your feelings proverb: Facts exist as they do independently of emotional biases.
facts, no printer interjection: Alternative form of fax, no printer.
facts of life noun: A knowledge of sexual reproduction.
facts on the ground noun: The situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract.
facts speak louder than words proverb: Facts are stronger than rhetoric; facts are more convincing than eloquent theories.
factsheet noun: Alternative spelling of fact sheet.
factual adjective, noun /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/: Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
factual relativism noun: The view that scientific facts about the world are not absolute, but are relative to historical eras and to evolving scientific theories.
factualism noun: A form of evaluation that emphasizes the usage of facts, falsifiability, logic and reason.
factualist noun: A proponent of factualism.
factualistic adjective: Of or relating to factualism.
factuality noun: The state or quality of being factual.
factualization noun: The addition or correction of facts.
factualize verb: To make factual.
factually adverb: In a factual manner.
factualness noun: Factuality.
factum noun: Somebody's own act and deed.
facture noun, suffix /ˈfæk.tʃə/: The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
facty adjective: Consisting principally of facts
facula noun /ˈfækjʊlə/: A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
facular adjective: Of or pertaining to the faculae.
faculous adjective: Of or relating to a facula.
facultative adjective /ˈfæ.kəl.tə.tɪv/: Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
facultatively adverb: In a facultative manner
facultativeness noun: The state or quality of being facultative.
facultativity noun: The state or quality of being facultative.
facultied adjective: Having a faculty or faculties of a specified kind.
facultise verb: Alternative form of facultize.
facultize verb: To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work.
facultized adjective, verb: Having many faculties; skillful.
faculty noun /ˈfæk.əl.ti/: The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
facund adjective: eloquent, articulate
facundious adjective: eloquent; wordy
facundity noun: eloquence; loquaciousness
Facundo proper noun: A surname from Spanish.
fad noun /fæd/: A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
fad diet noun /fæd ˈdaɪət/: A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
fada noun /ˈfɑːdə/: The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
fadable adjective: Capable of fading, or losing its colour.
fadaise noun: A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
FADD noun: Acronym of Fas-associated protein with death domain, an adaptor protein that bridges members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, such as the...
fadda noun: Pronunciation spelling of father.
Faddeev-Popov ghost noun: An extraneous field introduced into gauge quantum field theories to maintain the consistency of the path integral formulation.
Faddeevian adjective: Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of Russian physicist Ludvig Faddeev.
Fadden proper noun: A surname.
fadder noun: Pronunciation spelling of father
faddery noun: faddish behaviour or beliefs
faddily adverb: In a faddy manner.
faddiness noun: The quality of being faddy.
faddish adjective /ˈfædɪʃ/: Being or relating to a fad; trendy.
faddishly adverb: In a faddish way.
faddishness noun: The state or condition of being faddish.
faddism noun: The behaviour of a faddist; following fads.
faddist noun: A person or entity given to following fads.
faddle verb: To fiddle (play aimlessly).
faddy adjective: Having characteristics of a fad.
fade adjective, noun, verb /feɪd/: Weak; insipid; tasteless.
fade away noun, verb: To lose strength, become weaker; to wane; to disappear or reduce slowly.
fade in noun, verb: A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
fade out noun, verb: A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.
fade time noun: The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.
fade to black noun, verb: To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.
fade to white noun, verb: To employ a form of film punctuation in which the picture brightens until it is completely white.
fadeable adjective: Alternative spelling of fadable.
fadeaway noun: An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity.
FADEC noun: Acronym of full authority digital engine controls.
faded adjective, verb /ˈfeɪdɪd/: That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
Faded Giant noun: A reporting term to identify an event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident.
fadedly adverb /ˈfeɪdɪdli/: In a faded manner.
fadedness noun: The quality of being faded.
Fadel proper noun: A surname.
fadeless adjective: Not fading; eternal
fadelessly adverb: Without fading; lastingly or eternally.
fadelessness noun: The property of never fading.
fadeometer noun: A device that measures the degree to which an ink sample will fade when exposed to light.
fadeout noun: A gradual disappearance or fading away.
fadeproof adjective: Resistant to fading.
fader adjective, noun /ˈfeɪdə/: A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
fadesome adjective: Characterised or marked by fading; apt to fade
fadge noun, verb /fæd͡ʒ/: To be suitable (with or to something).
fadger noun: A glazier's frame.
fading noun, verb /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/: The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.
fading time noun: The amount of time required for a constant stimulus that is applied to a fixed area of the peripheral visual field to dissipate.
fadingly adverb: In a fading manner; becoming lighter or paler.
fadingness noun: The quality of fading or passing away.
fadish adjective: Having the characteristics of a fad.
fadista noun: A fado singer.
fadjr noun: Alternative form of fajr.
fadlike adjective: Having characteristics of a fad.
FADM noun: Abbreviation of fleet admiral.
fado noun /ˈfɑːdoʊ/: A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in...
fadolmidine noun: An adrenoceptor agonist used to treat spinal analgesia
fadometer noun: A device that irradiates materials in order to test the degree to which they fade from exposure to sunlight.
fadoodle noun: nonsense
fadrozole noun: An aromatase inhibitor used in the treatment of breast cancer.
fady adjective, noun /ˈfeɪdi/: faded
fae adjective, noun, pronoun: Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”).
faecal adjective: Alternative spelling of fecal.
faecal matter noun: Alternative spelling of fecal matter.
faecal transplant noun: Alternative spelling of fecal transplant.
faecalith noun: Alternative form of fecolith.
faecality noun: Alternative form of fecality.
faecally adverb: Alternative spelling of fecally.
faecaloid adjective: Alternative form of fecaloid.
faecaloma noun: Alternative form of fecaloma.
faecaluria noun: Alternative form of fecaluria.
faeces noun: Alternative spelling of feces.
faecolith noun: Alternative form of fecolith.
faeculence noun: Alternative form of feculence.
faeculent adjective: Alternative spelling of feculent.
faeder noun: A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.
faefolk noun: Synonym of fairy folk
faeling noun: A young fairy creature.
faena noun /fɑˈeɪ.nə/: A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword before the kill.
faer pronoun: Object case of fae.
faerie noun: Archaic spelling of fairy.
faerie godmother noun: Alternative spelling of fairy godmother.
faeriecore noun: Alternative form of fairycore.
faeriedom noun: Alternative form of fairydom.
faeriekind noun: All faeries, considered as a group.
Faeroe proper noun: The Faroe Islands.
Faeroe Islander noun: Alternative form of Faroe Islander.
Faeroes proper noun: Synonym of Faroe Islands.
Faeroese adjective, noun: Alternative form of Faroese.
faerself pronoun: Reflexive case of fae.
Faery Wiccan noun: An adherent of Faery Wicca
faerydom noun: Alternative form of fairydom.
faerykind noun: Alternative form of faeriekind.
faeryland noun: Alternative form of fairyland.
Faetar noun /faɪˈdɑɹ/: A Franco-Provençal variety spoken in the communities of Faeto and Celle di San Vito in Foggia, Italy.
fafda noun: A crispy fried Gujarati snack made from gram flour and spices.
Fafe proper noun: A city and municipality in Braga district, Portugal.
faff noun, verb /fæf/: An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
faff about verb: To waste time; to spend time idly.
faff around verb: Synonym of faff about.
faffage noun: Time-wasting or preparatory tasks; faffing about.
faffer noun: One who faffs around; an idler.
faffery noun: faffing about; unproductive wasting of time
faffle verb: To stammer or murmur.
faffy adjective /ˈfæfi/: Time-consuming or awkward; too complicated or fancy.
fafia noun /ˈfæfi.ə/: The state of exiting or becoming inactive in fandom due to other obligations.
fafiate noun, verb /ˈfæfiˌɪt/: A science fiction fan who has become inactive in the fandom community due to other obligations.
fafiation noun /ˌfæfiˈeɪʃən/: The act of fafiating; exiting involvement in fandom due to other obligations.
fafillion noun: An indefinitely large number.
Fafnir proper noun /ˈfɑːvnəɹ/: The son of the dwarf king Hreiddmar, who killed his father, transformed into a lindworm, a type of dragon, and was subsequently slain by Sigurd.
fafrotskies noun: Objects precipitated from the sky that are not normally expected, e.g. frogs, fish, coins etc.
fag noun, suffix, verb /fæɡ/: In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
fag basher noun: A gay basher
fag break noun: A brief cessation of work, activity etc. in order to have a cigarette.
fag end noun: The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.
fag lighter noun: Alternative spelling of faglighter.
fag out verb: To become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
fag packet noun: A cigarette packet.
fag tag noun: A small loop of material on the back of a shirt, used for hanging it.
fagaceous adjective: Of the family Fagaceae of beeches and similar trees.
Fagan proper noun /ˈfeɪɡən/: A surname.
Fagan inspection noun: A structured process of trying to find defects in source code, specifications, and other design documents.
fagbutt noun: The butt of a cigarette.
fagcent noun /ˈfæɡsənt/: Manner of speaking perceived as typical of a gay man, characterized by hyperarticulated sibilants, wide pitch range, breathiness, etc.
Fage proper noun: A surname.
Fagen proper noun: A surname.
Fager proper noun: A surname.
Fages proper noun: A nickname of the surname Fagan.
Faget sign noun: The unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia, seen in certain conditions such as yellow fever and typhoid fever.
Fagg proper noun: A surname.
fagged adjective, verb: Exhausted.
fagged out adjective, verb: Very tired, or exhausted by hard work or physical exercise.
fagger noun /ˈfæɡə/: A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
faggery noun /ˈfæɡəɹi/: The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
fagging noun, verb: The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
faggishly adverb: In a faggish manner.
faggishness noun: The quality of being faggish.
Faghfur noun: The emperor of China.
fagin noun /ˈfeɪɡɪn/: A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
Faginesque adjective: Resembling or characteristic of Fagin in Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838), a criminal who trains children as pickpockets.
fagless adjective: Without a cigarette.
faglighter noun: A car cigarette lighter.
fagmaster noun: A senior student who has a junior student as a fag, or servant.
fagomine noun: The iminosugar 1,5-imino-1,2,5-trideoxy-D-arabino-hexitol present in buckwheat and elsewhere in the form of a glycoside
fagonbush noun: Any plant of the genus Fagonia.
fagopyrin noun: Any of a group fluorescent red pigments, found in buckwheat (Fagopyrum), that cause hypersensitivity to sunlight if ingested.
fagopyrism noun: Photosensitivity of the skin caused by the ingestion of fagopyrin.
fagopyrismus noun: Dated form of fagopyrism.
fagot noun, verb /ˈfæɡ.ət/: Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
fagot iron noun: Iron produced by welding together fagots of iron bars or rods, typically used in forging or refining processes.
fagoter noun: A worker who gathers fuelwood.
fagoting noun, verb: A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches.
fagottino noun: Synonym of tenoroon.
fagottist noun: One who plays the fagotto, or bassoon.
fagotto noun: The bassoon.
Fagus proper noun: The Celtic god of beech trees.
fah adverb, interjection, noun: Alternative form of fa.
Fahad proper noun: A male given name from Arabic.
faham noun: The orchid (Jumellea fragrans), from the islands of Réunion and Mauritius, whose leaves were once used in France as a substitute for China tea.
Fahd proper noun: A male given name from Arabic.
Faheem proper noun: A male given name from Arabic.
Faherty proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Fahey proper noun /ˈfæhi/: A surname from Irish.
faheyite noun: A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
Fahim proper noun: A surname from Arabic.
fahl adjective: Alternative form of faal.
fahlband noun: A stratum in crystalline rock that contains metallic sulfides.
fahleite noun: An orthorhombic mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and zinc.
fahlerz noun: fahlband
Fahlman proper noun: A surname.
fahlore noun: Antimony-bearing copper arsenate
fahlunite noun: A variation of fahlunite.
Fahmy proper noun: A surname.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under F: 25,498 words, in 85 parts.