English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 136 of 373
A drug which acts as aromatase inhibitor thus reducing estrogen production; used e.g. in treating breast cancer.
An urban area of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3182).
A park and suburban area (named after the park) in the borough of Islington, borough of Haringey and borough of Hackney, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3187).
Highly actinic light, derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous disorders.
African-American Vernacular and Southern US form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
A village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9870).
Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.
The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
That part of the Twitter microblogging community that tweets about finance and stock markets.
An ideology that hopes for, or works toward, a time when Esperanto becomes a predominant second language throughout the world
A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, in regular use since the 20th century, first in Scotland, then in England.
A mountainous and largely uninhabited geographic region with many fiords (actually named sounds) in Southland Region in the south-western part of the South Island of New Zealand, virtually all of which is a national park.
A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, with distinctive blue-grey upperparts, which breed on the Fiordland coast and on nearby islands.
A variety of opal occurring in the cavities of volcanic tuff, having a pearly lustre and forming botryoidal masses.
A traditional Portuguese sweet food made of eggs (chiefly yolks), drawn into thin strands and boiled in sugar syrup.
A broad-spectrum insecticide, belonging to the phenylpyrazole family, that disrupts the insect's central nervous system.
A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.
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 136. 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.