English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 146 of 373

first-wave feminismnoun

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).

First-Worldishadj

Resembling or characteristic of a First World country.

firstableadv

First of all; firstly

firstbornnoun

The first child to be born to a parent or family.

firstcomernoun

One who comes first; a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence.

firsternoun

A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).

firstestadj

very first.

firstfruitnoun

An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.

firstfruitsnoun

plural of firstfruit

firsthandadj

Direct, without intermediate stages.

firsthoodnoun

The state or condition of being first; priority.

firstienoun

A first-class cadet.

firstlingnoun

The first produce or result, notably firstborn offspring.

firstlyadv

In the first place; before anything else; first.

firstmostadj

superlative form of first: most first; first even among others of leading rank.

Firstname Bunchofnumbersname

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.

firstnessnoun

The quality of being first; originality; priority

firstripeadj

Of fruit, the earliest to ripen; the freshest.

firstsnoun

plural of first

Firstspacenoun

Space as it is directly perceived by the senses.

firthnoun

An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

Firthianadj

Of or relating to John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), English linguist.

firtleverb

To mess around, to waste time.

firtreenoun

A fir.

firwoodnoun

The wood of the fir tree.

firyadj

Obsolete form of fiery.

FISnoun

Initialism of flight information service.

fis phenomenonnoun

The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.

FISAname

Acronym of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

fisbonoun

A property being sold by the owner, without the aid of a broker.

fiscnoun

The public treasury of Rome.

fiscaladj

Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

fiscal yearnoun

An accounting period of one year, not necessarily coinciding with the calendar year.

fiscalamitynoun

An economic or budgetary crisis, especially one attributed to poor fiscal management by a government.

fiscalismnoun

The idea that taxation should form a central part of a government's economic policy.

fiscalistnoun

An adherent of fiscalism, one who believes that fiscal policy should function as the macroeconomic stabiliser.

fiscalitynoun

All matters concerning taxation

fiscalizeverb

To make fiscal.

fiscallyadv

In a fiscal manner; concerning finance

Fischbachname

A surname from German.

Fischername

A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].

Fischer esterificationnoun

The esterification of a carboxylic acid by heating it with an alcohol in the presence of a strong acid as the catalyst.

Fischer indole synthesisnoun

A class of chemical reaction in which a phenylhydrazine is reacted with an aldehyde or ketone to form an indole.

Fischer projectionnoun

A two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional organic molecule by projection, used mainly in organic chemistry and biochemistry.

Fischer random chessnoun

A chess variant that differs from standard chess in that the pieces on the back ranks are almost completely shuffled.

Fischer's chameleonnoun

Kinyongia fischeri, a species of Tanzanian chameleon.

Fischer's lovebirdnoun

The small parrot Agapornis fischeri.

Fischer-Tropsch processname

The synthesis of hydrocarbons by the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide.

Fischerianadj

Of or relating to Kurt W. Fischer, professor of education whose "dynamic skill theory" is one of the neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development.

fischerindolenoun

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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