English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 128 of 373

financistnoun

A person involved in finance.

financièreadj

Involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.

financynoun

Finance (Monetary resources).

finangleverb

Alternative form of finagle.

finanscapenoun

Alternative form of financescape.

finasteridenoun

A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.

Finauname

A surname from Tongan.

finbacknoun

A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.

Finbarname

A male given name from Irish.

fincanoun

A country estate, farm or ranch in Spain or Hispanic America.

Fincastlename

A glen in Perthshire, Scotland.

finchnoun

Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).

Finchamname

A surname.

finchbillnoun

Any of the birds in the genus Spizixos, found in Southeast Asia and China.

Finchelname

The ship of characters Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry from the television series Glee.

fincherynoun

A structure into which finches are decoyed so that they can be caught in a net.

finchingnoun

A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings

Finchleyname

A suburban area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London.

finchlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a finch.

finclipnoun

An identification clip fixed to the fin of a fish etc.

findverb

To locate

find a friendly bushverb

To urinate or defecate or to seek relative privacy for that purpose; to relieve oneself, particularly outdoors.

find another gearverb

To suddenly achieve an extra burst of athletic performance, especially after a sustained period of competitive exertion.

find faultverb

To criticize something excessively.

find inverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see find, in.

find one's accountverb

To find satisfactory profit or advantage (in something).

find one's feetverb

To grow in confidence in a new situation as one gains experience.

find one's placeverb

To discover one's vocation, purpose, and/or sense of belonging to or passion for something.

find one's tongueverb

To speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.

find one's voiceverb

To become willing or able to talk or otherwise express one's opinions.

find one's wayverb

Arrive; get to.

find oneselfverb

To learn, or attempt to learn, the essence or nature of one's character and the aims or desires one pursues in life.

find outverb

To discover, as by asking or investigating.

find out the hard wayverb

To acquire knowledge through failure or any other undesirable experience.

find the ladynoun

Three-card monte (a card gambling game).

find the latchstring outverb

To meet with hospitality; to be welcome.

find the netverb

to score a goal

findabilitynoun

The ability to be found.

findableadj

Able to be found.

findablenessnoun

The property of being capable of being found.

findeverb

Archaic spelling of find.

findernoun

One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

finderlistnoun

A list of words in one language together with, for each word, a list of words (or glosses) in the second language that have the same or related meanings.

finderscopenoun

A small telescope, or other sighting device, mounted on top of a main telescope to enable approximate directional positioning.

findestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of find

findethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of find

findfaultnoun

A faultfinder.

Findiannoun

A member of the group of Finnish-Native Americans that live around the Great Lakes.

findingnoun

A result of research or an investigation.

findingsnoun

plural of finding

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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 128. 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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