English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 3 of 373
An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
A habitational surname. An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places named "fair bank" etc.
A surname transferred from the nickname that was originally a nickname for someone with long fair hair.
An area where a fair (an event for public entertainment) or other public event is held; a showground.
A coastal suburb of Lytham St Annes, Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3427).
Produced in such a way that everybody involved in the production receives a fair wage for their work.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.
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 3. 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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