English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 132 of 373
A strip of metal, glass, etc., to protect a painted or polished door from finger marks.
A rhyme for young children consisting of a set of hand movements coordinated with a song or chant.
A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost.
The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
Any fine powder used in dusting for fingerprints by crime scene investigators and others in law enforcement.
Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with finger-like roots used as a spice.
The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.
A fastidious forensic search of a crime scene, usually performed by investigators crawling along the ground.
A small village and civil parish (served by Constable Burton and Finghall Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE1889).
A variant of Finnish language that is spoken by the descendants of Finnish immigrants to North America, the vocabulary of which is heavily influenced by English. It is far from being a uniform language, mainly exists in spoken form, and seems bound to disappear.
A former territory situated in what is now the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and inhabited primarily by the Fingo people.
Especially in Gothic architecture: an ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, a pediment, a pinnacle, etc.
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 132. 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.