English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 53 of 373
The diacritical mark ـَ (-a) used in the Persian script to denote the short vowel sound a, analogically to Arabic fatha.
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
A mythical figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
One who represents, behaves as, or is regarded as equivalent to a father for another person or group of people.
In Slavic culture, especially Russia, a traditional Yuletide gift-bearing character.
The longing felt by (especially young) men for approbation from a father, or father figure.
A type of Russian-designed, large-yield conventional bomb, the Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power.
A separate language for expressing ideas, as opposed to the vernacular (mother tongue) which is employed for everyday speech.
A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).
A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.
The state of being a father (biological father, stepfather, adoptive father, foster father; sometimes the biological father specifically).
Relating to or characteristic of the fatherland, especially in the context of Nazi Germany.
A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
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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 53. 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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