English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 180 of 373
A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
A strip of flexible material that can be used for drawing curves, measuring posture, etc.
The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.
A form of polymorphism in which the style and stigma of hermaphroditic flowers move over time.
The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons.
An arrangement that allows employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must include certain periods (core time) when they must be at work.
Of or relating to modern medical practices that crystallized with the 1910 publication of the Flexner Report, which criticized the loose standards of medical education in the United States at the time and advocated the establishment of stricter scientific standards.
Any of a set of regions of a nematic liquid crystal formed in the presence of an alternating electric field
The mechanoelectrical production of electricity by bending a material (especially some types of liquid crystal)
A method of printing using a rubber or polymer rotating printing plate, most commonly used for packaging (labels, tape etc.).
A muscle in the anterior compartment of the human forearm which flexes the radiocarpal joint.
A muscle in the intermediate layer of the anterior compartment of the human forearm.
Any of various surgical treatments for weakness or limited action of a flexor muscle.
A disk that connects the output from an engine to the input of a torque converter in a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission, taking the place of the flywheel found in a conventional manual transmission setup.
A type of transducer that uses flexible, elastic shells to transmit and amplify displacements.
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 180. 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.
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