English Words: F
18,613 words · Page 82 of 373
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
A combination of the drugs fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly prescribed for weight loss.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
A broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintic used against gastrointestinal parasites.
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used primarily to treat inflammation in osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and tendinitis.
A stimulant developed in the 1960s as an appetite suppressant, later withdrawn due to problems with dependence and abuse.
A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
One who takes neither side of an argument or controversy, but maintains a neutral position.
To make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's Supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table.
A town or city official who administers fence laws by inspecting new fences and settles disputes arising from trespass by livestock that had escaped enclosure.
Social assistance given to a community in order to retain popularity with the electorate.
A state of inaction or indecision over a particular matter, not taking sides and deciding one way or another.
The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.
The land adjacent to a fence; the entire right of way of the fence, including the fence itself and any bushes and trees that grow next to it.
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
A thick, tough, durable, rust-resistant wire designed to be strung between fence posts to form fences in rural settings.
A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and silicon.
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 82. 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.