English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 187 of 373
The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
To collect (suspended particles, sediment, etc.) into loose, fluffy aggregations resembling tufts of wool.
A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.
A small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc.
A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2415).
A tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. It is a novel invariant that arises as an infinite-dimensional analog of finite-dimensional Morse homology.
To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.
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 187. 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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