English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 186 of 373
The National Liberation Front political party (of various countries, but chiefly associated with Algeria).
Nickname for Florence: a city, the county seat of Florence County, South Carolina, United States.
A sensor that detects the level of liquid in a tank and can react to changes in the measurement.
A board on the rim of an undershot water wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel.
Alternative spelling of floaty (“object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on; one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands to help the wearer float in water and learn to swim”).
A method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.
An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar.
A signifier—that is, a linguistic sign, a label or slogan—with a vague and variable meaning.
A rare disease characterized by the triad of proportionate short stature with delayed bone age, characteristic facial appearance, and delayed speech development.
A builder of floats (decorated trailers or vehicles for display in a parade or pageant).
A marine construction in which an upper structure is prebuilt and then floated into position over a lower part, often used for offshore oil rigs.
A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
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 186. 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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