English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 11 of 373

facultativitynoun

The state or quality of being facultative.

Having a faculty or faculties of a specified kind.

plural of faculty

Alternative form of facultize.

To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work.

Having many faculties; skillful.

The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.

eloquent, articulate

eloquent; wordy

eloquence; loquaciousness

A surname from Spanish.

fadnoun

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.

fadanoun

The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.

Capable of fading, or losing its colour.

A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

plural of fada

Pronunciation spelling of father

Faddeev-Popov ghostnoun

An extraneous field introduced into gauge quantum field theories to maintain the consistency of the path integral formulation.

faddish behaviour or beliefs

In a faddy manner.

The quality of being faddy.

Being or relating to a fad; trendy.

In a faddish way.

faddishnessnoun

The state or condition of being faddish.

The behaviour of a faddist; following fads.

A person or entity given to following fads.

To fiddle (play aimlessly).

Having characteristics of a fad.

Weak; insipid; tasteless.

To lose strength, become weaker; to wane; to disappear or reduce slowly.

To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.

To slowly disappear; to wither away.

The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.

fade to blackverb

To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.

An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity.

That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

In a faded manner.

The quality of being faded.

Not fading; eternal

Without fading; lastingly or eternally.

fadelessnessnoun

The property of never fading.

A surname.

A device that measures the degree to which an ink sample will fade when exposed to light.

A gradual disappearance or fading away.

Resistant to fading.

A device used to raise and lower sound volume.

plural of fade

Characterised or marked by fading; apt to fade

third-person singular simple present indicative of fade

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The English alphabetical index for the letter F contains 18,613 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 373 pages, and you are currently viewing page 11. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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