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- EXTRUSIONA manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
- EXUBERANTVery cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
- EXULTTo rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
- EXULTANCYexultance, exultation
- EXUVIAEplural of exuvia
- EXUVIALRelated to something sloughed off or stripped away.
- EXUVIATETo shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- EXUVIUMSynonym of exuviae.
- EYREA journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
- EYRIEThe nest of a bird of prey.
- FABACEOUSHaving the nature of a bean; like a bean.
- FABLEA fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- FABRICAn edifice or building.
- FABRICATETo form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
- FABRICATIONThe act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
- FABULAROf, or pertaining to, fables.
- FABULATETo tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
- FABULOSITYFabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- FABULOUSOf or relating to fable, myth or legend.
- FACADEThe face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
- FACEThe front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- FACETIAEWitty or amusing writings or remarks.
- FACETIOUSTreating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- FACIALOf or affecting the face.
- FACIENDThe multiplicand.
- FACIESGeneral appearance.
- FACILITYThe physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
- FACINOROUSExtremely wicked.
- FACSIMILEA copy or reproduction.
- FACTIONA group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
- FACTIONARYBelonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
- FACTIOUSOf, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
- FACTITIOUSCreated by humans; artificial.
- FACTORA doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- FACTOTUMA person employed to perform all sorts of duties.
- FACTUMSomebody's own act and deed.
- FACTUREThe act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
- FACULAA bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- FACULTYThe academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- FACUNDITIESeloquence; loquaciousness
- FACUNDITYeloquence; loquaciousness
- FADEWeak; insipid; tasteless.
- FADOA Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the
- FAGOTAlternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
- FAIRYA mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although typically depicted as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that i
- FAITHA trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- FAITHERSA trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- FAITOURA charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
- FALCADEA horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.
- FALCATEShaped like a sickle.
- FALCATEDSynonym of falcate.
- FALCHIONA somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao
- FALLACIOUSCharacterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
- FALLACYDeceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
- FALSITYSomething that is false; an untrue assertion.
- FALXA short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- FAMILIARKnown to one, or generally known; commonplace.
- FAMILYA group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- FAMINEExtreme shortage of food in a region.
- FAMISHTo starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
- FAMOUSWell known.
- FAMULUSA close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.
- FANUMThe site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.
- FARCEA style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
- FARCYThe horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
- FARINAA fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- FARINACEOUSMade from, or rich in, starch or flour.
- FARINOSEYielding or related to farina
- FARINOSELYYielding or related to farina
- FARMERSomeone or something that farms, as: A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- FARSEA vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
- FASCESA Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.
- FASCIAA wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
- FASCIATETo bind.
- FASCINATETo evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
- FASCIOLAA band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- FASCISMAny right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of critic
- FASHTo worry; to bother, annoy.
- FASHIONA current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- FASTIThe calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac. They were generally engraved on stone, e.g. marble
- FASTIGIUMAn apex or summit; culmination.
- FATALProceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
- FATIDICOf or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
- FATIDICALHaving power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
- FATIGABLESusceptible to fatigue; easily able to become physically exhausted.
- FATIGUEA weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- FATSIAAny of the genus Fatsia of Asian evergreen shrubs.
- FATUOUSObnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- FAUCALRelating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.
- FAUCESThe narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
- FAUCIALPertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
- FAULTCulpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
- FAUNA woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- FAUTORPatron, protector.
- FAVELflattery; cajolery; deceit
- FAVEOLATEHaving cavities or cells like those of a honeycomb.
- FAVORABLEUS standard spelling of favourable.
- FAVOSEHoneycombed.
- FAVOURABLEApt to win favour; pleasing.
- FAVUSA severe, chronic infection of ringworm.