English words: false hemp to famine weed

300 English words, part 7 of 85 of the words starting with F, A to Z. 26 have a page of their own.

English words false hemp to famine weed

false hemp noun: An androdioecious flowering plant of species Datisca cannabina, used to making a fast yellow dye
false hermaphrodite noun: pseudohermaphrodite.
false holly noun: A flowering shrub or tree of species Osmanthus heterophyllus, in the olive family, native to East Asia.
false imprisonment noun: The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.
false ironwort noun: Synonym of knobweed (“Hyptis capitata”).
false jalap noun: Synonym of marvel of Peru.
false jewel beetle noun: Any beetle of the family Schizopodidae, which resemble and are closely related to jewel beetles (buprestids).
false keel noun: The timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the ship's lateral resistance.
false key noun: A picklock.
false killer whale noun: A dolphin of species Pseudorca crassidens, one of the larger dolphin species.
false light noun: A point of view resulting in a misleading or inaccurate representation of a person, situation, or fact.
false lily of the valley noun: Maianthemum bifolium, May lily, native from western Europe east to Siberia, China, and Japan
false loan noun: A pseudo-loan.
false loose smut noun: A fungal disease of barley caused by Ustilago avenae.
false mallow noun: Synonym of globe mallow (“Sphaeralcea”).
false map turtle noun: Graptemys pseudogeographica, a turtle endemic to the United States.
false mastic noun: Sideroxylon foetidissimum, a flowering plant in the chicle family, native to Florida, the Caribbean, and northern Central America.
false mayweed noun: A Northern European flower, Tripleurospermum maritimum
false measles noun: German measles.
false memory noun: A memory of something that did not happen, or is recalled differently from the way it actually happened.
false memory syndrome noun: A condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories which are factually incorrect but strongly believed.
false mermaid noun: Any of various plants in the family Limnanthaceae.
false mesquite noun: Synonym of mock mesquite
false miterwort noun: A plant of species Tiarella cordifolia, native in the US from Georgia to Maryland.
false modesty noun: Behavior that is intended to seem humble but comes across as fake and unflattering.
false monarch noun: Pseudacraea poggei, a species of butterfly.
false morel noun: Any of several Ascomycota mushrooms in the genus Gyromitra which bear a resemblance to the highly regarded true morels of the genus Morchella.
false move noun: Synonym of false step.
false negative noun /ˈfɔːls ˈnɛɡətɪv/: A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.
false nine noun: An unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.
false northing noun: A value relating to distance north of a standard latitude but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM, the Southern...
false note noun: An incorrect note which is sung or played in a musical performance.
false number 9 noun: An unconventional lone striker or centre-forward who drops deep into midfield.
false nutmeg noun: Synonym of African nutmeg (“Pycnanthus angolensis”).
false owlet moth noun: Any moth of the subfamily Thyatirinae, resembling moths of the family Noctuidae.
false oxlip noun: A naturally occurring hybrid species (Primula × polyantha) of common cowslip and common primrose.
false pimpernel noun: The chaffweed (Centunculus minimus).
false pineapple noun: A bromeliad of species Ananas macrodontes.
false plane tree noun: A sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), native to North America.
false plum anemone noun: Pseudactinia flagellifera, a species of African sea anemone.
false positive noun: A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
false potato beetle noun: Leptinotarsa juncta, a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States.
false pregnancy noun: Synonym of pseudocyesis.
false pretence noun: Alternative spelling of false pretense.
false pretense noun: A representation made of untrue assertions in order to convey a false impression.
false primary noun: Any flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on a bird's wing.
false quarter noun: A cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot.
false Queen Anne's lace noun: Ammi majus (bishop's flower)
false rail noun: A thin piece of timber placed on top of the headrail to strengthen it.
false relation noun: A type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic...
false rhubarb noun: A plant, (Rheum rhaponticum), whose appearance is somewhat like rhubarb.
false rib noun: Any of the ribs that do not articulate directly with the sternum, but connect indirectly via cartilage.
false saber-toothed cat noun: US spelling of false sabre-toothed cat
false sabre-toothed cat noun: A nimravid.
false sandalwood noun: Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering tree or shrub in the figwort family endemic to Hawai'i, highly variable in its form, the size and shape of its leaves, in...
false scent noun: A scent laid down to distract a predator that hunts by smell from the scent trail of its prey.
false scorpion noun: pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones)
false scorpionfish noun: Centrogenys vaigiensis, the only described species in the family Centrogenyidae, which very closely resemble scorpionfish.
false sergeant noun: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Pseudathyma; distinguished from the sergeants.
false sharing noun: A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.
false shower noun: A pattern in which all the props (usually balls) are thrown in the same direction like a shower, but with the hands crossing and uncrossing.
false signal noun: An event or emanation to which a sensing device gives an undesired positive response.
false start noun: The act of an athlete starting a race before being signaled to do so.
false step noun: A misstep; a stumble.
false strawberry noun: A plant, Potentilla indica, that produces a fruit resembling a strawberry.
false summit noun: A minor peak or shoulder on a mountain which appears, when approached from below, to be the principal summit.
false tack noun: A coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.
false teeth noun: Dentures.
false tree noun: Synonym of camouflage tree.
false trevally noun: A fish of the species Lactarius lactarius.
false truffle noun: Any of various fungi that have underground fruiting bodies which resemble truffles.
false vacuum noun: A (hypothetical) metastable vacuum whose energy state is at a local minimum different from the global minimum; a vacuum that is relatively stable and...
false vampire bat noun: A New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum; spectral bat.
false verbena noun: Synonym of blue snakeweed.
false violet noun: Synonym of dewdrop (the plant Dalibarda repens)
false violin spider noun: Any araneomorph spider in the family Drymusidae.
false widow noun: a spider with an appearance similar to the black widow, but which is not known to be deadly to humans, unlike the black widow.
false witness noun: A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
false works noun: Construction works, such as scaffolding, to facilitate the erection of the main work.
falsecard noun, verb: A card played in order to deceive an opponent as to one's true holding
falsed adjective, verb: Feigned, fake.
falsedom noun: The sphere or realm of falseness.
falseface noun: A mask covering the face.
falseful adjective: False.
falsefully adverb: In a falseful manner: falsely.
falseheart adjective, noun: Wood that gives an erroneous impression of being heartwood.
falsehearted adjective: Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
falseheartedly adverb: In a falsehearted manner.
falseheartedness noun: The quality of being falsehearted.
falsehood noun /ˈfɒlsˌhʊd/: The property of being false.
falsely adverb: In a false manner.
falsemallow noun: Alternative form of false mallow.
falsen verb: To make false; falsify
falseness noun: The characteristic of being false.
falsening noun, verb: The act or process of making false; falsification
falser adjective, noun /ˈfɔːlsə/: A deceiver.
falseticker noun: A timeserver that transmits an inaccurate time via the Network Time Protocol.
falsettist noun: One who sings falsetto.
falsetto noun, verb /fɔːlˈsɛt.əʊ/: The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for...
falsettoed adjective: Uttered in a falsetto.
falsework noun: A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
falsey adjective: Alternative form of falsy.
falsidical adjective /fɑlˈsɪdɪkəl/: Having a false basis.
falsidicality noun: The property of being falsidical.
falsidically adverb: In a falsidical manner.
falsie noun: Padding worn inside a brassiere to make the breasts appear larger or appear to exist.
falsifiability noun: The quality of being falsifiable.
falsifiable adjective /ˈfɒl.sɪˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/: Logically capable of being proven false.
falsifiably adverb: In a falsifiable way.
falsificate verb: To falsify or counterfeit.
falsification noun /ˌfɔːl.sɪf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/: The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
falsificationism noun: A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then...
falsificationist adjective, noun: Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
falsificator noun: A falsifier; a person who falsifies or forges something.
falsificatory adjective: Relating to falsification
falsified adjective, verb: Demonstrated to be false.
falsifier noun: One that falsifies.
falsify verb /ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/: To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
falsifying noun, verb: falsification
falsiness noun: The property of being falsy, i.e. evaluating to false in a Boolean context.
falsing noun, verb: False decoding (by a telecommunications decoder).
falsish adjective /ˈfɔːlsɪʃ/: Somewhat false.
falsism noun: A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device.
falsity noun /ˈfɔːl.sɪ.ti/: Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
Falstaff noun: A fat and jolly knight.
Falstaffian adjective: Having the traits of the comic character Falstaff: especially, corpulent and jolly.
falstatin noun: A cysteine protease inhibitor of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Falster proper noun: An island in south-east Denmark.
falsterite noun: A rare pegmatitic phosphate mineral with the formula Ca₂MgMn²⁺₂(Fe²⁺_(0.5)Fe³⁺_(0.5))₄Zn₄(PO₄)₈(OH)₄(H₂O)₁₄.
falsum noun: An arbitrary contradiction, denoted ⊥.
falsy adjective: Evaluating to false in a Boolean context.
falt noun: An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
Falta proper noun: A village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India.
faltboat noun: A kind of collapsible canoe.
faltche noun: A Moldavian unit of measure for area.
falter noun, verb /ˈfɒltə/: An unsteadiness.
falterer noun: One who falters.
faltering adjective, noun, verb: hesitant, halting
falteringly adverb: In a faltering manner; hesitantly, making pauses
faltu adjective /ˈfɑːl.tuː/: Useless; unnecessary; of no value or purpose.
Falu red noun: A hematite pigment used to make a deep-red paint traditionally used on wooden cottages and barns.
faluche noun: A type of beret, decorated with ribbons and badges, traditionally worn by some French students.
Falun proper noun: A city and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.
Falun red noun: Alternative form of Falu red.
Falvey proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Falwell proper noun: A surname.
Falwellian adjective: Of or relating to Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist associated with the Moral Majority.
falx noun /fælks/: A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
falx cerebelli noun: A fold of the dura mater that divides the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
falx cerebri noun /ˌfælks ˈsɛɹ.əˌbɹaɪ/: The larger of the two folds of dura mater separating the hemispheres of the brain that lies between the cerebral hemispheres and contains the sagittal sinuses.
Falzone proper noun: A surname from Italian.
fam noun /fæm/: Clipping of family.
fam bam noun: Family.
fam flight noun: Abbreviation of familiarization flight
fam'ly adjective, noun: Pronunciation spelling of family.
fam trip noun: A free (or low cost) trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service.
Fama proper noun: The Roman equivalent of the Greek Pheme, a personification of fame and renown.
fama clamosa noun: Any notorious rumour ascribing immoral conduct to a minister or office-bearer in a church.
famacide noun: A slanderer or person who destroys another's reputation
famadihana noun: A Madagascan ceremony in which a corpse is exhumed, wrapped in fresh cloth, and reburied, to the accompaniment of dancing.
Famagusta proper noun /ˌfæməˈɡʊstə/: A city in Northern Cyprus.
famalam noun: Alternative form of fam (“family”).
Famatina tuco-tuco noun: Ctenomys famosus, a species of tuco-tuco rodent.
famatinite noun: A tetragonal-scalenohedral pale brownish pink mineral containing antimony, copper, and sulfur.
fambam noun: Alternative form of fam-bam.
famble noun, verb /ˈfæmbəl/: A hand.
fambly noun: A family.
famciclovir noun /fæmˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/: A prodrug form C₁₄H₁₉N₅O₄ of the antiviral agent penciclovir that after oral administration is converted to penciclovir by cellular kinases and that is used...
fame noun, verb /feɪm/: Something said or reported; gossip, rumour.
fame-ish adjective: Characteristic of fame; famous
fame-worthy adjective: Worthy or deserving of fame.
famed adjective /feɪmd/: Having fame; famous or noted.
fameflower noun: Any of several flowering plants in different families within the order Caryophyllales.
fameless adjective: Without fame.
famelessly adverb: Without fame.
famelessness noun: Lack of fame; obscurity.
famelic adjective: Of or pertaining to hunger.
Famennian proper noun: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
famesque adjective: famous for being famous.
Fameuse noun: A kind of sweet red apple originating in Canada.
fameworthy adjective: Alternative form of fame-worthy.
Famiclone noun: Any electronic hardware designed to replicate the Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.
Famicom noun: A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).
famigerate verb: To report or carry news from abroad.
Famiglietti proper noun: A surname from Italian.
famil noun: A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel wholesaler or airline as a means of promoting their service.
familect noun /ˈfæm.ɪˌlɛkt/: The language variant used by a family when speaking among themselves.
familia noun /fəˈmɪlɪə/: A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
familial adjective /fəˈmɪljəl/: Of or pertaining to a human family.
familial British dementia noun: Synonym of Worster-Drought syndrome (“form of heritable dementia”).
familial DNA noun: The DNA of a family relative.
familial Mediterranean fever noun: A hereditary inflammatory disorder, characterized by recurrent fever, that affects groups of people originating from around the Mediterranean Sea, including...
familialism noun: An ideology that prioritizes the family by advocating a welfare system that assumes that households, not the state, take responsibility for the care of...
familiality noun: The quality of being familial.
familialize verb: To give familial character to
familially adverb: Within a family; among blood relatives
familiar adjective, noun /fəˈmɪl.i.ə/: Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
familiar fraud noun: A type of fraud in which someone fraudulently opens accounts or makes purchases in someone else's name, in which the victim is a close friend or family member.
familiar stranger noun: A stranger who is nonetheless recognized by another from regularly sharing a common physical space such as a street or bus stop, but with whom one does not...
familiarisation noun: Alternative spelling of familiarization.
familiarise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of familiarize.
familiariser noun: Alternative form of familiarizer.
familiarism noun: The quality of being intimate or friendly.
familiarity noun /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/: The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
familiarity breeds contempt proverb: A prolonged closeness or exposure or a profound knowledge of someone or something often leads to diminished respect or appreciation.
familiarization noun: The act, process or result of familiarizing.
familiarize verb /fəˈmɪliəɹaɪ̯z/: To make or become familiar with something or someone.
familiarizer noun: One who, or that which, familiarizes.
familiarly adverb /fəˈmɪl.jɚ.li/: In a casual or informal manner, as with a close acquaintance; especially when such behavior may be considered inappropriate.
familiarness noun: Quality of being familiar.
familiary adjective: Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
familicidal adjective: Of or pertaining to familicide.
familicide noun: The murder of an entire family by a family member.
familied adjective: That has, or is part of, a family.
famililess adjective: Alternative spelling of familyless.
familiocracy noun: A system where people are ruled by a family or by their own family groupings.
familiocratic adjective: Pertaining to a familiocracy.
familiolect noun: A language variety spoken within a single family.
familism noun: The beliefs or practice of the Family of Love religious sect, active in sixteenth century England.
familist noun: A member of the Family of Love religious group in 16th-century England.
familistic adjective: Pertaining to familism.
familistical adjective: Alternative form of familistic.
familistically adverb: In a familistical manner.
famille rose noun: A type of Chinese porcelain, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, decorated in (chiefly pink) overglaze enamels.
familon noun /ˈfæmɪlɒn/: A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and...
family adjective, noun /ˈfæm(ɪ)li/: A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an...
family allowance noun: A former type of social security payment made to families with children; now replaced by child benefit.
family and consumer science noun: Synonym of home economics
family annihilation noun: The killing of multiple members of one's own nuclear family in a killing spree, often before committing suicide.
family annihilator noun: A person who kills multiple members of their own nuclear family in a killing spree (also known as a familicide), often before committing suicide.
family bed noun: A bed in which parents and their children cosleep.
family Bible noun: A Bible handed down through a family, with each successive generation recording information about the family's history inside it.
family business noun: A business whose owners are all members of the same family; in many cases a small business (a mom-and-pop business), and in other cases one that is large...
family car noun: a car that is suitable for and large enough for a family.
family celebrant noun: A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.
family circle noun: A gallery in a theater, generally one containing inexpensive seats.
family court noun: A court convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as the custody of children.
family doctor noun: A practitioner of family medicine.
family friend noun: An unrelated friend or familiar acquaintance of one's family.
family-friendliness noun: The quality of being family-friendly.
family-friendly adjective: Suitable for families consisting of parents and minor children.
family ganging noun: A form of medical fraud in which the patient is encouraged to refer or bring along family members who have no particular reason to come but will provide the...
family grouping noun: The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
family guy noun: Synonym of family man.
family historian noun: a genealogist or historian who studies family history
family history noun: An extension to genealogy in which the life and times of the people concerned are investigated.
family home evening noun: An evening, usually Monday, set apart once a week for family activity such as lessons, games, and prayer.
family jewels noun /ˌfæ.m(ɪ.)li ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lz/: The testicles.
family law noun: The area of private law pertaining to family matters and domestic relations.
family leave noun: Synonym of parental leave.
family man noun: An adult male with a spouse and children to whose well-being he is dedicated.
family meal noun: A meal eaten together by the members of a family.
family medicine noun: A particular specialty in the field of medicine, one that deals with only general conditions, but of all persons.
family member noun: A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.
family name noun: Synonym of surname: a name designating a person as a member of a family.
family newspaper noun: A newspaper with editorial standards barring the publication of vulgarity or other topics not suitable for children, especially in reference to omitted or...
family of orientation noun: The family in which a person grows up.
family of procreation noun: A family that is formed when a couple have their first child.
family office noun: A business whose function is to centralize the asset management of a large family fortune (wealth held by a family).
family pajamas noun: A set of matching pajamas of varying sizes, intended for the use of a family, sometimes including pets.
family physician noun: A family doctor.
family planning noun: Birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples.
family pole noun: A totem pole whose carvings tell the story of a particular family or clan.
family resemblance noun: Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
family restaurant noun: An eating establishment that serves relatively simple food at reasonable prices, and welcomes children as well as adults.
family reunification noun: The bringing together of family members so that they can live in the same country.
family reunion noun: An infrequent gathering of family members or distant relatives who are usually geographically separated.
family romance noun: A romantic story about a given family.
family roof noun: A large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
family room noun: A comfortable room in a dwelling, for frequent leisure use.
family-run adjective: Of a business or establishment, that is owned and operated by a family.
family size noun: A size for a container of goods, among the largest sizes meant for sale to a householder consumer.
family-sized adjective: Large enough for an entire family.
family-style adjective: Designating an informal kind of sit-down restaurant suitable for family outings.
family tree noun: A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
family unit noun: A unit of people consisting of family members, distant or immediate.
family valuer noun: Someone who strongly supports family values (especially in the right-wing euphemistic sense).
family values noun: Political and social beliefs that hold the traditional nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society.
family voting noun: A form of electoral fraud where family members enter a voting booth together and collude, discuss, or direct voting intentions.
family wage noun: A wage that is sufficient to raise or support a family.
family woman noun: An adult female with a spouse and children to whose well-being she is dedicated.
familygram noun: A message sent by family members to one serving in the navy.
familyhood noun: The state of being a family.
familying noun: Taking part in activities together as a family.
familyish adjective: Suitable for, or characteristic of, family.
familyism noun /ˈfæməliɪzm/: The study or promotion of familial relations.
familyist noun: A proponent of familyism
familyless adjective: Without a family.
familylessness noun: The state or condition of being familyless.
familylike adjective: Resembling a family
familymaxx verb: Synonym of babymaxx.
familymoon noun: A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
familywise adverb: In terms of a family of related inferences.
famine noun /ˈfæm.ɪn/: Extreme shortage of food in a region.
famine bread noun: Any famine food more or less resembling bread, or made by substituting less nutritious elements into a bread recipe.
famine fever noun: typhus
famine food noun: Any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of extreme poverty or starvation.
famine or feast noun: Synonym of feast or famine.
famine resistant adjective: Overweight, fat.
famine weed noun: A plant of the species Parthenium hysterophorus, native to Central America, considered invasive in Africa, India, Australia

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.