English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 136 of 373

finrozolenoun

A drug which acts as aromatase inhibitor thus reducing estrogen production; used e.g. in treating breast cancer.

finsnoun

plural of fin

Finsburyname

An urban area of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3182).

Finsbury Parkname

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).

Finsen lightnoun

Highly actinic light, derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous disorders.

finspinenoun

A bony structure supporting the fins in some fish

finstaverb

African-American Vernacular and Southern US form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.

finstagramnoun

Synonym of finsta.

finstagramsnoun

plural of finstagram

Finstallname

A village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9870).

finsubnoun

A submissive who submits to financial domination.

finswimmernoun

One who takes part in the sport of finswimming.

finswimmingnoun

An underwater sport involving swimming with the use of fins.

fintanoun

A yearly synagogue membership fee (in Western Sephardic communities)

fintechnoun

Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.

Fintonname

A surname.

Fintushel-Stern knotnoun

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.

fintwitnoun

That part of the Twitter microblogging community that tweets about finance and stock markets.

Finucanename

A surname from Irish.

Finvenkismnoun

An ideology that hopes for, or works toward, a time when Esperanto becomes a predominant second language throughout the world

FIOnoun

Initialism of field interrogation and observation.

FiO2noun

Initialism of fraction of inspired oxygen.

Fionaname

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, in regular use since the 20th century, first in Scotland, then in England.

fior di lattenoun

A style of mozzarella cheese.

fiordnoun

Alternative spelling of fjord.

Fiordlandname

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.

Fiordland penguinnoun

A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, with distinctive blue-grey upperparts, which breed on the Fiordland coast and on nearby islands.

Fiorellaname

A female given name from Italian.

Fiorentinoname

A surname from Italian.

Fiorenzaname

A surname from Italian.

Fiorettiname

A surname from Italian.

fiorinoun

A form of decorative extruded pasta.

Fiorilloname

A surname from Italian.

fiorinnoun

creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera).

fiorinonoun

The monetary unit of Tuscany from 1826 to 1859, subdivided into 100 quatrini; a florin.

fioritenoun

A variety of opal occurring in the cavities of volcanic tuff, having a pearly lustre and forming botryoidal masses.

Fioritoname

A surname from Italian.

Fiorittoname

A surname from Italian.

fiorituranoun

A musical embellishment or ornamentation.

fioriturenoun

flourishes in a melody by a singer or musician.

FiOSnoun

Fiber Optic Subscribers

fios de ovosnoun

A traditional Portuguese sweet food made of eggs (chiefly yolks), drawn into thin strands and boiled in sugar syrup.

fipnoun

fippenny bit

fipennynoun

A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.

fipexidenoun

A psychoactive piperazine drug formerly used as a nootropic.

fipplenoun

The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.

Fippsname

A surname.

fipronilnoun

A broad-spectrum insecticide, belonging to the phenylpyrazole family, that disrupts the insect's central nervous system.

fiqhnoun

Jurisprudence in the Islamic law, shari'a.

fiquenoun

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.

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