English Words: F

A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.

Title-case initialism of free as in freedom.

Hội An.

A clan of the Hmar tribal people of Assam, members of which speak a dialect of the Hmar language (a Tibeto-Burman language).

To be unsuccessful.

Alternative form of feal and divot.

Of an access control system: to automatically block all traffic in the case of a failure. For example, an electronic safe becoming impossible to unlock in the event of a power outage.

To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.

Of an access control system: to automatically let all traffic through in the case of a failure. For example, an emergency door unlocking in the event of a power outage.

To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.

To advance in one's career despite failure or incompetence.

An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.

Of a nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an automatic, immediate, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.

That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.

Capable of failing or becoming exhausted.

fault; failure; omission

The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).

Synonym of boyfailure.

An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class child of wealthy and influential parents.

An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class woman who is protected from economic duress by her family's wealth or influence.

Obsolete spelling of fail.

simple past and past participle of fail

A state that has failed to meet the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government; one that has lost physical control of its territory, the ability to provide public services, etc.

One who fails.

second-person singular simple present indicative of fail

third-person singular simple present indicative of fail

Synonym of girlfailure.

present participle and gerund of fail

If that condition is not met, otherwise, or else.

In a failing manner.

The quality of being failing.

A Filipino person who is an advocate of, or showing an execessive display of toxic Filipino pride culture.

A surname from Italian.

A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

A surname from French.

An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.

Resistant to failure; that cannot go wrong.

third-person singular simple present indicative of fail

Alternative form of fail-safe.

Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.

An incompetent, unsuccessful middle- or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family's wealth or influence.

Amusing while also a failure.

State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.

Failing to prepare will cause one to lose or fail.

Without failure.

Synonym of failproof.

plural of failure

Often followed by of: glad, well-pleased.

To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.

One who fainaigues.