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- FICTORAn artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
- FICUSAny plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant, of species Ficus elastica.
- FIDEISMThe doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
- FIDEISTA subscriber to fideism.
- FIDIBUSA piece of paper used for lighting a pipe, etc.
- FIDUCIALAccepted as a fixed basis of reference.
- FIDUCIARYRelating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
- FIERCEExceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
- FIESTAA religious festival.
- FIGMENTA fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
- FIGULINEA piece of pottery decorated with representations of natural objects.
- FIGURALRepresenting by means of a figure; emblematic.
- FIGURATIONThe act of giving figure or determinate form.
- FILACEOUSComposed of threads, stringy.
- FILACERA former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
- FILAMENTA fine thread or wire.
- FILANDERSA disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms (probably Capillaria), and of filaments of coagulated blood, stemming from the rupture of a vein.
- FILARHaving a thread across the field of view.
- FILARIAAny of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
- FILATORYA machine for forming threads.
- FILEA collection of papers collated and archived together.
- FILIALPertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
- FILIFORMShaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
- FILIGREEA delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
- FILIOQUEThe use of the Latin word filioque (“and from the son”) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as oppo
- FILIOQUESThe use of the Latin word filioque (“and from the son”) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as oppo
- FILLETA headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
- FILOPLUMEA hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
- FILOSETerminating in a thread-like process, or threadlike
- FILTERA device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- FILTRATEThe liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.
- FILUMa filamentous anatomical structure
- FIMBRIAA series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe. An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
- FIMBRIATETo fringe; to hem.
- FIMICOLOUSInhabiting dung.
- FINALA final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- FINALEThe grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
- FINESenses referring to subjective quality. Of superior quality.
- FINESSEA skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
- FINISOf a book or other work: the end.
- FINITEHaving an end or limit; constrained by bounds; whose number of elements is a natural number.
- FINITOFinished; over with; done.
- FINITUDEThe state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
- FIRMA business partnership; the name under which it trades.
- FISCThe public treasury of Rome.
- FISCALRelated to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
- FISSILEAble to be split.
- FISSIONThe process whereby one item splits to become two.
- FISSIPEDHaving the toes separated from each other.
- FISSUREA long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- FISTULAAn abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
- FISTULATETo make or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
- FISTULOSEFormed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
- FISTULOUSOf or pertaining to a fistula.
- FITCHEWpolecat
- FIXATETo make something fixed and stable; to fix.
- FIXUREFixed position; stable condition; firmness.
- FLAGITIOUSGuilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
- FLAGRANTObvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
- FLAIRA natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- FLAMENA priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively
- FLAREA sudden bright light.
- FLATULENCEThe state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a
- FLATUSGas generated in the digestive tract.
- FLAVESCENTyellowish in colour, or turning yellow
- FLAVIDyellow
- FLAVONEAny of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids.
- FLAVONOIDAny of many compounds that are plant metabolites, being formally derived from flavone; they have antioxidant properties, and sometimes contribute to flavor.
- FLAWNA flan (custard-based dessert)
- FLECTIONAlternative spelling of flexion.
- FLEMISHEllipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).
- FLEXFlexibility, pliancy.
- FLEXIONThe act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
- FLEXORA muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
- FLEXUOUSwinding from side to side; sinuous
- FLEXUREThe act of bending or flexing; flexion.
- FLOCA floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
- FLOCCOSECovered or growing in wooly tufts
- FLOCCULEA small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc.
- FLOCCULENTFlocculated, resembling bits of wool; woolly.
- FLOCCULUSA small fluffy tuft.
- FLOCCUSA cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulu
- FLORAPlants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
- FLORALOf, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
- FLORESCENTFlowering or budding.
- FLORIDHaving a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
- FLORISTA person who sells flowers.
- FLORUITLived, flourished; used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive or known to have been notably active, when dates of birth and/or
- FLOTSAMDebris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
- FLOURISHTo thrive or grow well.
- FLUCTUANTThat fluctuates or causes fluctuation.
- FLUCTUATETo vary irregularly; to swing.
- FLUCTUATIONA motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
- FLUENCYThe quality of smoothness of flow.
- FLUENTThat flows; flowing, liquid.
- FLUMEA ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
- FLUORThe mineral fluorite.
- FLUORINEThe chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals.
- FLUVIATICBelonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.
- FLUXThe act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.