English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 166 of 373
A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).
Nonce variation of the word flap, usually indicating a series of small or ineffective flaps.
A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.
A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
A sudden outbreak, outburst or eruption (originally of flame, but now used more generally of any violent activity or emotion).
A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
An avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century, rejecting conventional standards of quality and exploring atypical subject matter and tone.
Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
A change made to a complex system with immediate effect, one made without a phase-in period.
A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.
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 166. 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.