English words: Firework Night to firstcomer
300 English words, part 34 of 85 of the words starting with F, A to Z. 17 have a page of their own.
English words Firework Night to firstcomer
- Firework Night noun: Synonym of Guy Fawkes Night.
- fireworker noun: A person in charge of the operation of a gun.
- fireworkless adjective: Without fireworks.
- fireworklike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
- fireworks noun /ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks/: An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
- fireworks display noun: a choreographed, public, or private event where pyrotechnic devices are ignited to create dramatic, colorful, and loud visual effects in the night sky
- fireworks night noun: Bonfire Night.
- fireworky adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
- fireworm noun: The larva of any of several tortricid moths (family Tortricidae).
- fireworship noun: Alternative form of fire-worship.
- fireworthiness noun: The state, condition, or quality of being fireworthy.
- fireworthy adjective: Worthy or capable of firing; able to be fired; combustible.
- firey noun /ˈfaɪəɹi/: A firefighter.
- firgun noun /ˈfɪə(ɹ)ɡuːn/: Genuine delight or pride in another person's achievement or in something good that has happened or may happen to another person.
- Firhill proper noun /ˈfɪɹhɪl/: An area of Glasgow, Scotland.
- firie noun: A firefighter.
- firinda noun: A Ugandan stew of mashed beans and then with ghee or fried using cooking oil.
- firing noun, verb /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/: The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- firing iron noun: An instrument used in cauterizing, especially on horses.
- firing line noun: The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle.
- firing party noun: Synonym of firing squad.
- firing pin noun: The part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer in order to ignite the gunpowder.
- firing point noun: A prepared fighting position from which infantry can defend territory with minimal exposure to return fire.
- firing range noun: Synonym of shooting range.
- firing solution noun: A set of aiming and guidance directions that, when input into a weapon, allow it to hit a specific target.
- firing squad noun: A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.
- firk noun, verb /fɜː(ɹ)k/: To carry away or about; carry; move.
- firka noun: A local revenue subdivision of the various districts of the states of India.
- firkin noun /ˈfɝkɪn/: A varying measure of capacity, usually being a quarter of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
- firkytoodle verb: To cuddle or fondle amorously.
- firless adjective: Without fir trees.
- firlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a fir.
- firlot noun: A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
- firm adjective, adverb, noun, verb /fɜːm/: A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
- firm error noun: A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and remains wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's...
- firm hand noun: Strong discipline.
- firm hand at the tiller noun: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
- firm hand on the tiller noun: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
- firm line noun: Synonym of hard line.
- firm link noun: A kind of link within a file system having aspects of both hard links and soft links.
- firm power noun: the guaranteed power provided by a power plant or transmission system
- firm up verb: To make (tentative plans) more definite.
- firmament noun /ˈfɜːməm(ə)nt/: The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
- firmament-wards adverb: In the direction of the sky or the heavens.
- firmamental adjective: Of, belonging to, or relating to the firmament or heavens; celestial.
- firmamentary adjective: Firmamental.
- firman noun /ˈfɜː.mən/: a royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- firmer adjective, noun: A physical exercise or cosmetic product intended to firm part of the body.
- firmhearted adjective /fɜɹm hɑɹtɪd/: Resolute.
- firmicute noun: Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
- Firmin proper noun: A male given name from Latin.
- firming adjective, verb: Of beauty products, intended to make the skin firmer.
- firming agent noun: Any food additive added to react with pectin and give the food product a stronger structure.
- firmish adjective: Somewhat firm.
- firmisternal adjective: Having the epicoracoid cartilages fused both anteriorly and posteriorly.
- firmitude noun: strength; stability
- firmity noun: strength; firmness; stability
- firmless adjective: Detached from physical substance.
- firmly adverb /ˈfɝmli/: In a firm or definite or strong manner.
- firmness noun /ˈfɝmnəs/: security; steadfastness; good grip
- firmographic adjective: Relating to firmographics.
- firmographics noun: The use of sets of characteristics to segment commercial organizations, analogous to demographics for people.
- firmoss noun /ˈfɜː(ɹ)mɒs/: Any of a group of lycophyte plants of the genus Huperzia
- firms noun, verb: plural of firm
- firmware noun: A permanent form of software that provides a low-level control of computing device hardware.
- firmware engineer noun: A professional who develops and maintains firmware, the software that controls electronic devices.
- firmwide adjective: Extending throughout a company, or firm
- firn noun /fɪə(ɹ)n/: A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as...
- firni noun: Alternative form of phirni (“Asian sweet rice pudding”).
- firnification noun: The production of firn by the recrystallization of old snow.
- FIRO noun: A service discipline for a queue in which the order of service is random.
- firocoxib noun: A cyclooxygenase inhibitor.
- firoin noun: A mannopyranosyl derivative of glyceric acid, an extremolyte found in Rhodothermus marinus
- firolid noun: Any sea snail in the family Firolidae.
- Firozabad proper noun: A city and district of Agra division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- Firpo proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- firring noun: Alternative form of furring.
- firry adjective /ˈfɜːɹi/: Abounding in firs.
- firsocostat noun: An acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor drug.
- first adjective, adverb, noun, verb /fɜːst/: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- first aid noun: Basic medical care that is administered to a victim of an injury, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is unavailable.
- first-aid box noun: A first aid kit; the box that contains the kit's contents.
- first aid kit noun: A collection of first aid supplies for treatment of minor injuries or stabilization of major injuries.
- first-aider noun: Someone who is able to administer first aid.
- First Amendment audit noun: A test of an owner's acceptance of the right to record a publicly accessible area of a building or other premises.
- First Amendment auditor noun: A person who records publicly accessible areas of a building or other premises in order to test the owner's acceptance of the right to record such material.
- first among equals noun: A person or position that is formally of equal rank to others in a group, but nonetheless takes a leading role within that group.
- first and foremost adverb: Primarily; most importantly.
- first and last adjective, adverb, noun: only
- first angle projection noun: A method of technical drawing where the front view of the object is placed in the first quadrant, the side view is to the left, and the top view is below...
- first annual phrase: Being the first occurrence of an event that is scheduled or hoped to become annual.
- first arch syndrome noun: Any of various congenital defects caused by a failure of neural crest cells to migrate into the first pharyngeal arch; they can produce facial anomalies.
- first article noun: A prototype or archetype.
- First Australian noun: An Aboriginal.
- first base noun: The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- first baseman noun: The infield defensive player that stands near first base.
- first basing noun: In blackjack, a form of hole carding in which a player peeks at the hole card as the dealer checks it.
- first best adjective, noun: Characterized by all optimality conditions being satisfiable.
- first bite free noun: The concept that a dog is not considered dangerous until it has bitten someone.
- First Bloke noun: The male partner of Australia's female prime minister.
- first blood noun: The condition in a duel in which the first one to draw blood from the other wins.
- first-born adjective: Alternative form of firstborn.
- first call noun: Priority on the use of somebody or something, especially an actor if required in a production.
- First Cat noun: The official term for a cat that resides with the President and their family at the White House.
- first catch your hare proverb: Make sure you have a thing before you decide what to do with it.
- first cause noun: An initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow.
- first chair noun: The premier of several musicians playing a particular instrument in an orchestra: seated closest to the audience, taking the lead for that instrument's...
- first-chance exception noun: An exception (error condition) when handled by a debugger, such that the programmer has the first chance to study it; such an exception would otherwise...
- first choice noun: The most suitable and most optimal choice.
- first-chop adjective: First-rate, excellent.
- First Citizen noun: The official title of a Roman emperor.
- first city noun: A country's most important city, usually the capital.
- first class adjective, noun: Belonging to the best or top group in a system of classification.
- first-class citizen noun: A member of a class of individuals that receive fair treatment.
- first-class continuation noun /ˈfɜːst ˈklɑːs kəntɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/: A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, granting it a powerful ability to control the flow of execution.
- first-class entity noun: Synonym of first-class object.
- first class match noun: A three- or five-day cricket match, with two innings per side, played under a set of conditions specified and officially recognised by an official governing...
- first-class object noun: An entity that can be constructed at run-time, passed as a parameter, returned from a function, or assigned into a variable.
- first-class value noun: Synonym of first-class object.
- first come first served adjective, noun, phrase: One will be dealt with in the order in which one arrives.
- First Communion noun: The first time that a person, usually a child, receives the sacrament of Communion.
- first conditional noun: A structure used to convey possible events in the present or future, containing an if clause (with a verb in the present tense) and a main clause (with the...
- first contact noun: The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.
- First Contact Day noun: April 5th, an annual occasion to celebrate Star Trek.
- first cosmic velocity noun: The velocity in a circular orbit.
- first cousin noun: A child of a parent's sibling; a nephew or niece of a parent; a child of one's uncle or aunt.
- first cousin once removed noun: A first cousin's child.
- first cousin thrice removed noun: great-grandchild of someone’s first cousin
- first cousin twice removed noun: grandchild of someone’s first cousin
- first cranial nerve noun: Synonym of olfactory nerve.
- first cross-cousin noun: The child of one's mother's brother of father's sister.
- First Daughter noun: The daughter of the chief executive of a country, such as that of a nation's president.
- first day cover noun: A letter or card with a new stamp, postmarked on the day that the stamp was first issued.
- first death adjective: Describing a joint life insurance policy that pays out (and then terminates) in the event that either of the lives assured die.
- first declension noun: In Latin, a pattern of inflection of a group of nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which have an -a- in their stems.
- first-degree adjective: The most severe level of felony, typically involving planning or other aggravating factors.
- first-degree burn noun: A mild burn that causes redness of the skin but no blistering.
- first-degree murder noun: The criminal offence of murder in a form considered by law to be the most serious; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves...
- first-degree relative noun: A blood relative who shares roughly half a person's DNA, such as a parent, full sibling, or child.
- first dibs noun: The first choice, a preference (on something).
- first digit noun: Synonym of thumb.
- first division noun: The half of the standings containing the teams with the best records.
- First Dog noun: The dog belonging to the President of the United States of America.
- first down noun: The first play in a series that has a maximum of four downs.
- first e-rights noun: The right to publish a work for the first time in electronic form.
- first edition noun: The first set of copies of a book printed from substantially the same setting of type.
- first eleven noun: The eleven primary players selected to be in the starting lineup of a sports team.
- first estate noun: The caste of clergy in medieval and early modern society, and in particular in France prior to 1789, as distinct from the nobility and the commoners.
- first-ever adjective: That has happened, been experienced, or recorded for the first time.
- first exit time noun: From A, the first hit time for S \ A, the complement of A in S.
- first family noun: A nuclear family that is or was a First Family, when speaking non-specifically.
- first fiddle noun: The fiddle part generally carrying the melody.
- first fifteen noun: The preferred starting lineup of a team.
- first finger noun: Of a bowed string instrument, the index finger.
- first-fit adjective: Of or relating to a fast but non-optimal algorithm for the Bin packing problem, placing each item into the first bin in which it will fit.
- first five-eighth noun: A position in Rugby football in the back line.
- first flight noun: The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc.
- first flight cover noun: A philatelically inspired letter flown on the first flight of a new airline service.
- first floor noun: The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor.
- first flush noun: The first growth of buds, flowers, seeds, or whatever is harvested from a plant.
- first folio noun: The 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. The first such collection printed in folio format.
- first-foot noun: The first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day.
- first footing noun: The practice, during Hogmanay, of visiting friends and family, especially to be the first person to cross a home's threshold after midnight on New Year's...
- first freedom rights noun: The right of an airline of one country to fly over the territory of another country without stopping.
- first fruits noun: The first part of a harvest; sometimes made into an offering
- first fundamental form noun: the Riemannian metric for 2-dimensional manifolds, i.e. given a surface with regular parametrization x(u,v), the first fundamental form is a set of three...
- first gear noun: The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except...
- first-generation adjective: Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
- first gentleman noun: The husband (or man of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.
- first grade noun: The first or second year of grade school depending on classification, the period in school that comes after kindergarten and before second grade. Children...
- first grader noun: A pupil who is in first grade.
- First Guy noun: Synonym of First Laddie
- first half adjective, noun: The period of play before half time, as opposed to the second half.
- first hand adjective, adverb: Alternative spelling of firsthand.
- first hit time noun: Synonym of hitting time.
- First Husband noun: Synonym of First Laddie
- first imperative noun: present imperative (second-person forms only); compare second imperative
- first impression noun: The event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of them. ᵂᵖ
- first in, best dressed phrase: Those who arrive or get in sooner will receive a more desirable outcome.
- first in first out noun: A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory.
- first inversion noun: a position of a chord when the third of the chord is the lowest note
- first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest phrase: A rhyme often singsonged by children to tease one another after a competition.
- First Laddie noun: A man who is the spouse of a sitting president.
- first lady noun: The wife of the chief executive of a nation; especially the wife of the President of a country; or a woman (e.g. a relative) who takes on similar public...
- First Lady of the Land noun: Former name of FLOTUS.
- First Lady of the Republic noun: Former name of FLOTUS.
- First Lady of the United States noun: Synonym of FLOTUS.
- first ladyship noun: The state or condition of being a first lady.
- first language noun: The first language one is taught to speak; one's native language.
- first leg noun: The first of the two matches or “legs” which are played between two teams in a two-legged tie. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score,...
- first lieutenant noun: The second lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, ranking above a second lieutenant and below a...
- first light noun: The time when light first appears in the morning; dawn, especially the start of dawn.
- first-line adjective: Of first resort.
- First Lord noun: Synonym of First Laddie
- first loser noun: Second place.
- first love noun: One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love.
- First Man noun: Synonym of First Laddie
- first mate noun: An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.
- first mile noun: The initial stage of delivery of goods, etc., from the seller or producer to a distribution centre, often involving greater effort or expense.
- first milk noun: Colostrum; beestings.
- first minister noun: The principal minister of a ruler or state.
- first mover noun: The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.
- first-mover disadvantage noun: A situation in which a company or individual that creates or introduces a new idea, product, or service is later at a disadvantage because others are able...
- first name noun, verb: The first element of a full name, particularly when it could also be surname in East Asian and other cultural traditions.
- first-nameless adjective: Without a first name.
- First Nation adjective, noun /ˌfɜːs(t)ˈneɪʃn/: A community of indigenous peoples of Canada (typically not including the Inuit or Metis), especially one officially recognized by the federal government.
- First Nation band noun: Synonym of band government
- First Nationer noun: A member of a Canadian First Nation.
- First Nations adjective, noun /ˌfɜːs(t)ˈneɪʃnz/: Of or pertaining to the indigenous peoples of Canada (typically not including the Inuit or Metis); Indian.
- first night noun: The first public performance of a play or other show, normally assumed to be held in the evening.
- first-nighter noun: One who attends the opening night of a play or other performance.
- first normal form noun: A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a separate table...
- first notice day noun: The first day on which an investor who holds a futures contract is notified that the commodity specified in the contract is about to be delivered.
- first of all adverb: Firstly; before anything else.
- first-of-its-kind adjective, noun: Unique and exceptionally different.
- first of never noun: A nonexistent day; a day that will never come.
- first off adverb: Firstly; before anything else. Often used to introduce the first in a list of points to be made in conversation.
- first officer noun: The copilot of an aircraft.
- first olive out of the bottle noun: An initial obstacle or hindrance, preventing further progress until it is dealt with.
- first olive out of the jar noun: Synonym of first olive out of the bottle.
- first-order adjective: Of one of a series of models, languages, relationship, forms of logical discourse, etc., being the simplest one or the first in a sequence.
- first-order hold noun: A mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals that could be done by a conventional digital-to-analog converter and an analog...
- first-order logic noun: A formal deductive system extended from propositional logic with the possibility to quantify over individuals of the domain of discourse.
- first order of the day noun: An item of business that will be discussed before any other item on a particular day when a legislature is sitting.
- first-order question noun: A direct question about facts or values, as opposed to a metaquestion.
- first-order spectrum noun: A spectrum produced by a diffraction grating whose adjacent slits are one wavelength apart.
- first order stream noun: A stream that has no permanent tributaries.
- first palatalization noun: A sound change occurring in Proto-Slavic, which caused palatalization of velar consonants under certain circumstances, resulting in the hushing sounds č...
- first partner noun: The partner of a chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.
- first party adjective, noun: Of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.
- first-party logistics noun: The situation where a company producing goods also maintains and operates its own vehicles for delivery, rather than using third-party carriers.
- first passage time noun: The time taken for a random walker to reach a specified target.
- first past the post noun: A voting system where the candidate with the most votes (a plurality) wins, without any form of preference transfer.
- first person adjective, noun: Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- first-person dual noun: The dual of the first-person form of a verb or pronoun, which in some languages can either be inclusive ("you and I") or exclusive ("he and I"). In other...
- first-person plural noun: The plural of the first-person form of a verb or pronoun, which in some languages can either be inclusive ("you and I") or exclusive ("them and I"). In...
- first-person shooter noun: A combat or video game in the genre characterized by a three-dimensional view from the player's perspective (POV, point of view) and the ability to fire a...
- first-person singular noun: The form of a verb used with the pronoun I (or its equivalent in other languages).
- first-personal adjective: Relating to the first person.
- first philosophy noun: Metaphysics.
- first pick noun: first choice
- First Pooch noun: Synonym of First Dog
- first port of call noun: The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage
- first position noun: A position with the heels together and the toes going outwards.
- First Presidency noun: The highest presiding or governing body of many churches in the Latter-day Saint movement.
- first principle noun: A basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
- first principles noun: The set of basic statements on which a method, theory, or organisation is founded.
- first quarter noun: The waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.
- first rain noun: The first rainfall of a season, at the start of spring in cold climates or the end of summer in hot, dry climates.
- first rate adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of first-rate.
- first-rateness noun: The state of being first-rate
- first-rater noun: A person or thing that is first-rate; a fine example of its kind.
- first reader noun: A book for children who are learning to read, usually consisting of pictures and some basic words or phrases.
- first reading noun: In the UK and various other countries, the initial presentation or announcement of a bill (proposed legislation) to a parliament or legislature, or chamber...
- first receiver noun: The first player to receive the ball from a scrum-half. This is often the fly-half, but may be a different player if the fly-half is unavailable, or a...
- first responder noun: A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency.
- first return time noun: The first hit time for the singleton set {X₀(ω)}, which is usually a given deterministic element of the state space, such as the origin of the coordinate...
- first-run adjective: made available for public screening for the first time
- first sale doctrine noun: A legal doctrine that limits the rights of a copyright or trademark owner by allowing certain forms of distribution, such as enabling individuals to sell...
- first school noun: In the three-tier education system, a school for children until the age of eight or nine.
- first sergeant noun: In the United States Army, a non-commissioned officer ranking above sergeant first class and below sergeant major; equal in rank to a master sergeant but...
- first session noun: The session of a day's play between start of play and lunch.
- first shift noun: A regularly scheduled period of work, the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; and often from 8:00 a.m....
- first sleep noun: Synonym of dead sleep (“the first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, before the watch”)
- first slip noun: The slip fielding position closest to the wicket keeper
- First Son noun: The son of the chief executive of a country, such as that of a nation's president.
- First Spouse noun: The spouse (or anyone of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the spouse of the President of a country.
- first strike noun: An attack (typically nuclear) launched without warning in the absence of a prior attack by one's opponent, with the intention of destroying one's opponent's...
- first string adjective, noun: describing the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on)
- first-stringer noun: A member of a first string.
- first success distribution noun: Shifted geometric distribution.
- first team noun: The first-choice lineup of players in a team who start the game.
- first-teamer noun: Someone in the first team.
- first thing adverb, noun: Early in the morning.
- first thing's first phrase: Uncommon spelling of first things first
- first things first phrase: Let's deal with matters of highest priority first; let's deal with matters in logical sequence.
- first time adjective, noun, verb /fɜːst taɪm/: Happening for the first time; doing something for the first time.
- first-time buyer noun: A person purchasing a house for the first time, as opposed to one who already owns a house and is selling it in order to buy another.
- first-timer noun: a person engaging in any activity for the first time
- first touch noun: A player's initial contact with the moving ball, used to get the ball under control.
- first truth noun: A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements...
- first unit noun: The team that shoots footage which is of primary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, including all scenes involving actors, or at least...
- first up adverb: Firstly; before anything else.
- first violin noun: The lead or primary violin role in an orchestra or other ensemble, or in a musical composition, that typically contains the melody and is often more...
- first violinist noun: A violinist who is assigned to play melody (usually more technically difficult music).
- first watch noun: Aboard a ship, a watch from 8 p.m. to midnight.
- first water noun: The highest quality of gemstones, especially of diamonds and pearls.
- first-wave feminism noun: The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of...
- first-waver noun: A feminist in the era of first-wave feminism.
- first woman noun: prima donna
- first world problem noun: A complaint or frustration regarded as trivial that is experienced only by inhabitants in wealthy or developed nations.
- First Worlder noun: Somebody from the First World.
- first-worldish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a First World country.
- first XI noun: Alternative form of first eleven
- first XV noun: Alternative form of first fifteen
- first year noun: A first-year student.
- firstable adverb: First of all; firstly
- firstborn adjective, noun /ˈfɜː(ɹ)stˌbɔː(ɹ)n/: The first child to be born to a parent or family.
- firstcomer noun: One who comes first; a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence.
Part 33 · Part 35 · English words: F
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.