English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 163 of 373
A specialized excretory cell that composes the protonephridium in nemerteans, rotifers, and some flatworms.
A Gloriosa lily (superb lily) whose yellow and red petals look like wavy, rising wisps of flame.
To become suddenly angry; to break out into indignation or similar emotion; to flare up.
An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.
Content in an online forum, such as a newsgroup, with the intent of provoking anger, resulting in flames and sometimes flame wars.
A visual representation of hierarchical data used to analyze system and application performance metrics.
A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
A cocktail made by filling a shot glass with three parts amaretto and one part high-proof liquor — layered, not mixed — then setting it on fire and dropping it into a glass of beer, which extinguishes the flames.
A 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I.
A homosexual, and often cross-dressing, man acting in an ostentatious and flaunting manner akin to a diva.
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 163. 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.