English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 22 of 373

Fakhouryname

A surname from Arabic.

fakienoun

The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.

fakinessnoun

fakeness

fakingnoun

The act of something being faked.

fakirnoun

A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.

fakirismnoun

The practices of fakirs.

Fakkanciname

A Niger-Congo language of Nigeria.

faklemptadj

Alternative form of verklempt.

fakonnoun

Alternative form of facon.

fakyadj

Alternative form of fakey.

Fakémonnoun

An unofficial Pokémon; for example, any Pokémon invented in fanart.

falverb

Obsolete spelling of fall.

Falabellanoun

A horse of a miniature breed.

falafelnoun

A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.

Falaisename

A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

falakanoun

A torture method consisting of whipping a person's bare feet.

falandizationnoun

A dubious interpretation of the law, developed to increase the president's power.

Falanganame

A surname from Italian.

Falangename

A Spanish fascist movement active in the 1930s until its dissolution in 1977.

falanghinanoun

A white grape variety from Campania in Italy.

Falangismnoun

The fascist political ideology of the Spanish Falange.

Falangistnoun

A member of the Falange.

falanoucnoun

A rare mongoose-like euplerid mammal of the species Eupleres goudotii, of Madagascar.

Falashaname

Ethiopian Jew; Beta Israel

Falasteenname

Palestine (a country in Western Asia)

falbalanoun

A furbelow.

FALCnoun

Initialism of fully automated luxury communism.

falcadenoun

A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.

falcatanoun

A sword in pre-Roman Iberia having a concave edge to the blade.

falcateadj

Shaped like a sickle.

falcatedadj

Synonym of falcate.

falcatelyadv

In a falcate manner.

falcationnoun

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.

falcernoun

One of the mandibles of a spider.

falces cerebrorumnoun

plural of falx cerebri

falchionnoun

A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.

falchionedadj

Armed with a falchion.

Falcidianadj

Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.

falciferousadj

Sickle-bearing.

falciformadj

Sickle-shaped.

falciformitynoun

The quality of being falciform; sickle-shapedness.

falciparumnoun

The parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum that causes falciparum malaria

Falconame

A surname from the Romance languages.

falcoidadj

In reference to ribs on shells, in the shape of a wave but initially straight, spoon shaped.

falconnoun

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

Falcon tubenoun

conical centrifuge tube (usually 15 ml or 50 ml) with a screw-cap

falcondoitenoun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and silicon.

Falconename

A surname from Italian.

falconernoun

A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.

falconetnoun

A small or young falcon.

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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 22. 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.

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