English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 184 of 373
A flip phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than those of the traditional featurephone variety; a smart flip phone.
To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.
A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
A poison pill giving current shareholders of the targeted company the right to purchase additional stock at a discount before a potential takeover, so that the potential acquirer risks discriminatory dilution in the target company. The threshold level therefore effectively sets a ceiling on the amount of stock that any shareholder can accumulate before launching a proxy contest.
Synonym of flashcard (“card to aid memorization, with a cue on one side and a response on the other”).
A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.
A pseudophilosophy under which all decisions are made at random, as if by flipping a coin.
A low-resolution, originally duotone, flipbook-style animation created in the Nintendo application Flipnote Studio.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
Any enzyme located in the membrane responsible for aiding the movement of phospholipid molecules between the two leaflets that compose a cell's membrane (transverse diffusion).
In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming.
An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette that has been modified to be double-sided, allowing data storage on both sides of the disk.
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 184. 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.