English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 25 of 373

fall out uponverb

To be a result of.

To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.

fall over one's feetverb

To hasten.

fall over oneselfverb

To be unusually enthusiastic.

A metal plate resting on the cab floor of a steam locomotive, between engine and tender.

fall pregnantverb

To become pregnant.

To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation; used with to.

Nickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

Fall River Countyname

One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Hot Springs.

fall seven times, stand up eightproverb

One must not give up one's efforts, even those that are in vain.

To be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient.

fall silentverb

To become quiet.

fall throughverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, through.

fall through the cracksverb

To be missed; to escape the necessary notice or attention.

To enter into or begin an activity, especially with enthusiasm or commitment and especially in regard to the activities of eating or drinking.

fall to one's kneesverb

To collapse into a crouched kneeling position.

fall to piecesverb

To break into a number of segments; to collapse.

fall to someone's lotverb

To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.

fall to the groundverb

To come to nothing; to fail.

fall togetherverb

To be merged or coalesce; to become identical.

To belong to for purposes of categorization.

To benefit in the long run from what seems initially to be a setback.

To experience; to suffer.

fall victimverb

To suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions.

A katabatic wind.

Female equivalent of fall guy.

Typical or characteristic of fall (autumn); autumnal.

A surname from Italian.

Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.

fallaciouslyadv

In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.

fallaciousnessnoun

The property of being fallacious.

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

fallacy fallacynoun

The formal fallacy of inferring that if an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.

fallacy of compositionnoun

A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.

A 2007 political scandal in Guernsey over an attempt to avoid a political conflict of interest over a hospital extension plan.

A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.

Costume jewelry; trinkets; fake jewelry as opposed to "real" (fine) jewelry.

A surname.

Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.

cavillation; petty criticism

An act of falling back.

The hinged cover which protects the keyboard of a piano when not in use

A falling down; a decrease or collapse.

past participle of fall

fallen archnoun

An instance of flat feet that results from the arch of the foot collapsing.

Fallen Jerusalem Islandname

An island of the British Virgin Islands.

An exception.

The quality of being fallen or degraded.

One who falls.

A surname from German.

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 25. 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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