English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 145 of 373

first past the postnoun

A voting system where the candidate with the most votes (a plurality) wins, without any form of preference transfer.

first personnoun

Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.

first port of callnoun

The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage

first principlesnoun

The set of basic statements on which a method, theory, or organisation is founded.

First Reichname

The Holy Roman Empire.

first respondernoun

A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene, or among those first on the scene, at an emergency.

first schoolnoun

In the three-tier education system, a school for children until thee age of eight or nine.

first shiftnoun

A regularly scheduled period of work, being the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; often the first of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; sometimes the first of two, and sometimes with other time values.

first shiftsnoun

plural of first shift

First Statename

Official nickname for Delaware: a state of the United States.

first strikenoun

An attack (typically nuclear) launched without warning in the absence of a prior attack by one's opponent, with the intention of destroying one's opponent's ability to retaliate.

first stringnoun

the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on)

first success distributionnoun

Shifted geometric distribution.

first thingadv

Early in the morning.

first things firstphrase

Let's deal with matters of highest priority first; let's deal with matters in logical sequence.

first touchnoun

A player's initial contact with the moving ball, used to get the ball under control.

first truthnoun

A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.

first waternoun

The highest quality of gemstones, especially of diamonds and pearls.

First Worldname

Those countries aligned with the West during the Cold War.

first world problemnoun

A complaint or frustration regarded as trivial that is experienced only by inhabitants in wealthy or developed nations.

First World Warname

World War I.

First Worldernoun

Somebody from the First World.

first yearnoun

A first-year student.

first-aid boxnoun

A first aid kit; the box that contains the kit's contents.

first-aidernoun

Someone who is able to administer first aid.

first-chance exceptionnoun

An exception (error condition) when handled by a debugger, such that the programmer has the first chance to study it; such an exception would otherwise proceed to a handler or (in its absence) crash the program.

first-chopadj

First-rate, excellent.

first-class continuationnoun

A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, granting it a powerful ability to control the flow of execution.

first-class continuationsnoun

plural of first-class continuation

first-degreeadj

At the first level of some system

first-generationadj

Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.

first-handadj

Alternative spelling of firsthand.

first-lineadj

Of first resort.

first-namelessadj

Without a first name.

first-nighternoun

One who attends the opening night of a play or other performance.

first-of-its-kindadj

Unique and exceptionally different.

first-orderadj

Of one of a series of models, languages, relationship, forms of logical discourse, etc., being the simplest one or the first in a sequence.

first-order questionnoun

A direct question about facts or values, as opposed to a metaquestion.

first-partyadj

Of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.

first-person pluralnoun

The plural of the first-person form of a verb or pronoun, which in some languages can either be inclusive ("you and I") or exclusive ("them and I"). In other languages, there is no distinction.

first-person singularnoun

The form of a verb used with the pronoun I (or its equivalent in other languages).

first-personaladj

Relating to the first person.

first-rateadj

Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen.

first-ratenessnoun

The state of being first-rate

first-runadj

made available for public screening for the first time

first-stringernoun

A member of a first string.

first-teamernoun

Someone in the first team.

first-timeadj

Happening for the first time; doing something for the first time.

first-time buyernoun

A person purchasing a house for the first time, as opposed to one who already owns a house and is selling it in order to buy another.

first-timernoun

a person engaging in any activity for the first time

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 145. 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.

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