English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 159 of 373
Fan-shaped; having parts or segments that are flattened and lengthened on one side, such that they are long and narrow.
A disease of silkworms, resulting from their consumption of infected or contaminated mulberry leaves.
A string of flags (usually red) used to demarcate boundaries that contain wildlife such as wolves, and deter them from crossing.
A flag worn over the shoulders (in a manner resembling the capes of superheroes), usually as a patriotic gesture.
A person carrying a standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield.
An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
Registration of a ship in a country chosen for its low taxes, permissive regulations, etc.
A fervent nationalist who poses with, or decorates their neighbourhood with, national flags as an indicator of nationalism.
The act of burning a flag, especially the flag of a nation as an act of protest at that nation's activities.
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 159. 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.