English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 27 of 373
A town, port, and civil parish with a town council in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8132).
A cold dessert originated in Iran and also popular in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally made from rose syrup and vermicelli.
Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.
A deciduous tree, of species Robinia pseudoacacia, native to the United States; the black locust.
The act of publishing, transmitting, distributing, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally (or recklessly) to promote the sale of property, goods, or services.
A warning signal (such as the call of sentry, the ringing of a bell, or the shriek of a siren) which turns out to have been given erroneously.
A word that appears to be cognate (etymologically related) to another given word, but in fact is not.
Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning).
A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world.
A branching in which the main axis appears to divide dichotomously at the apex but is in reality suppressed, the growth being continued by lateral branches (as in the dichasium).
A non-targeted card that falls out from a card data deck, when a rod search is performed.
An attempt to economize that fails because the less expensive approach is inferior in some way, or ultimately wastes more money than was saved.
A ruse, in the days of sail, in which an attacking ship would fly the colours of its enemy until close enough to open fire.
Any of the several flowering plants of the genus Camelina, especially Camelina sativa, which is cultivated for oil.
A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
A flowering shrub or tree of species Osmanthus heterophyllus, in the olive family, native to East Asia.
Any beetle of the family Schizopodidae, which resemble and are closely related to jewel beetles (buprestids).
A point of view resulting in a misleading or inaccurate representation of a person, situation, or fact.
Behavior that is intended to seem humble but comes across as fake and unflattering.
Any moth of the subfamily Thyatirinae, resembling moths of the family Noctuidae.
Any flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on a bird's wing.
Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering tree or shrub in the figwort family endemic to Hawai'i, highly variable in its form, the size and shape of its leaves, in the number of flowers in a group and in the shape of its fruit.
Centrogenys vaigiensis, the only described species in the family Centrogenyidae, which very closely resemble scorpionfish.
A (hypothetical) metastable vacuum whose energy state is at a local minimum different from the global minimum; a vacuum that is relatively stable and long-lived but which still may decay to a lower-energy state.
a spider with an appearance similar to the black widow, but which is not known to be deadly to humans, unlike the black widow.
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 27. 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.