English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 146 of 373
The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of suffrage (the right to vote).
One who comes first; a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence.
A Twitter user suspected to be a troll, sockpuppet, or bot due to having a default-style account name and a history of odd, tendentious, or offensive posts.
The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
An economic or budgetary crisis, especially one attributed to poor fiscal management by a government.
An adherent of fiscalism, one who believes that fiscal policy should function as the macroeconomic stabiliser.
The esterification of a carboxylic acid by heating it with an alcohol in the presence of a strong acid as the catalyst.
A class of chemical reaction in which a phenylhydrazine is reacted with an aldehyde or ketone to form an indole.
A two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional organic molecule by projection, used mainly in organic chemistry and biochemistry.
A chess variant that differs from standard chess in that the pieces on the back ranks are almost completely shuffled.
The synthesis of hydrocarbons by the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide.
Of or relating to Kurt W. Fischer, professor of education whose "dynamic skill theory" is one of the neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development.
Any of several antimicrobial alkaloids, obtained from a blue-green alga of the genus Fischerella, having a structure similar to hapalindole.
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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 146. 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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