Select a letter for some words
Face
To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; .
Facetious
Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; .
Fairing
A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Falsehood
Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Fantastical
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fardingdale
A farthingale.
Fattener
One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Febrile
Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it;
Fecula
Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
Feigner
One who feigns or pretends.
Felicify
To make happy; to felicitate.
Ferment
To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
Ferrier
A ferryman.
fibreboard
Same as .
Fidicinal
Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Fike
See .
Filibuster
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
Filter
Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
Finner
A finback whale.
Fire
The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
fishtail
to slow down by moving the tail sideways, of an airplane.
Flat
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Flatterer
One who flatters.
Flattery
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
Flavored
Having a distinct flavor; .
Flea-louse
A jumping plant louse of the family , of many species. That of the pear tree is .
Fleet
To take the cream from; to skim.
Fleetness
Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; .
Flesher
A butcher.
Flittiness
Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
Flocculent
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Floriage
Bloom; blossom.
Flour
The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance;
Fluid
A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Fluty
Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.
Fool-born
Begotten by a fool.
football
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
Footrope
The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a .
Foraminifer
One of the .
Fore
The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
Forefoot
One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written .
Forest
Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
Fortuitous
Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; .
Fourteen
The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
Fractious
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly;
Frank
The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Fraughtage
Freight; loading; cargo.
freaky
markedly unusual or abnormal; .
Frieze
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See , , 2.
Fripper
One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
Frisker
One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
Fritting
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
Froppish
Peevish; froward.
Frothing
Exaggerated declamation; rant.
Frugality
The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to .
Fruticous
Fruticose.
Full
Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else;
full-fledged
having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; -- of a bird.
Fulling
The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.
futz
To fool around; to act without plan or purpose; -- usually used with ; .
-fy
A suffix signifying , , etc.;