English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 140 of 373
Any of several species of finch in the genus Lagonosticta, found across sub-Saharan Africa.
To lengthen or widen the body of a cartridge case by firing it in a gun that has the same calibre but a larger chamber.
A free, open-source, cross-platform, graphical web browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
An opening fitted with a door, giving access to the firebox of a steam locomotive, through which coal can be shovelled and the fire tended.
a long pole with a hook at the end, used to pull down buildings and roof thatch to suppress a fire.
The act of dousing a fire, as a firefighter might put down a fire by dousing it with a large amount of water.
A house containing a fire to heat it; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, a stable, or other outhouse.
A state primary election run by a political party rather than by the government.
A small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires.
The act or process of making a fire; especially, the skill in getting a fire going, even despite adverse conditions, such as wet weather, darkness, and so on.
A fire whirl (a whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires, similar in appearance to a tornado made out of fire).
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 140. 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.