English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 112 of 373
A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points.
Each of the commissions which rank a (para)military officer below the (highest) class of general officers, but above other commissioned officers and NCOs.
An artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.
A slow, introspective African-American song type that has its origin in solo work songs, featuring a meandering melody, irregular rhythms, and various forms of wordless vocalization.
The systematic process of collecting data in order to answer a scientific question.
A mobile kitchen used to provision personnel on or near the site of a military operation.
In certain nations the highest military rank, ranking below only the commander in chief; now mostly disused, being reserved for wartime or post-wartime use, and having become ceremonial in some countries.
The area that a projectile weapon (or group of weapons) can reach from a given position.
The area that a person, an animal, etc. can see with its eyes (or each eye individually) without turning the head.
To go out as a result of a ball caught by the centerfield, left field or right field player.
A police force charged with maintaining order beyond towns and other settlements, in the countryside or bush.
A prepackaged meal, easily prepared and eaten, carried by military troops on the battlefield.
To dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.
A trip, usually in a group and especially by students, to a place of special interest for education, research or exploration; a trip into the field.
To test something using the conditions that it was designed to operate under, especially out in the real world instead of in a laboratory or workshop.
Including a combination of strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries (and optionally also blackberries) as ingredients.
A kind of riding boot with lacing at the vamp, traditionally worn by officers ranked "field grade" or higher.
A member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control.
The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
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 112. 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.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "F" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.