English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 130 of 373
A combination of herbs that are a mainstay of French cuisine: finely chopped parsley, chives, tarragon, and chervil.
A point in time or a relatively brief period of time when an especially distinguished, admirable, or effective set of actions is performed.
A seacave on the island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, known for its natural acoustics.
An extinct variety of English formerly spoken in Fingal, Ireland, thought to have been an offshoot of Middle English.
A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses.
A simplified form of preparation for a task, in which a team verbally describes each portion of the task, counted sequentially (thus evoking a sense of "fingers"), rather than engaging in practice exercises or training.
Food that can be eaten with one's hands, as opposed to requiring utensils; often appetizers and snacks.
The act of fingering; using or inserting one's fingers into another person's genitalia, anus, or other part of the body to stimulate them sexually.
A long, narrow lake of glacial origin, especially one of the Finger Lakes of New York state.
An ornament worn looped over the fingers during ceremonial dancing by various indigenous people of Alaska.
Something serving to indicate, as opposed to the thing being indicated.
A man who is too lazy to search for information online and asks others for the answers through an online forum or chat.
A woman who is too lazy to search for information online and asks others for the answers through an online forum or chat.
An attention to or focus on or awareness of current or prevailing trends, public opinion, or shifting circumstances.
Fumbling use of the fingers that causes mistakes to occur, especially the pressing of wrong buttons on a machine or wrong keys on a keyboard.
The sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister; a phrase that is very difficult to sign correctly.
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 130. 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.