Select a letter for some words
Facility
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; .
Fadedly
In a faded manner.
Fakir
See .
Familiarity
The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; .
Fane
A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
Faren
of ,
Farness
The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.
Fast
In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
Fathership
The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
favel
Yellow; fallow; dun.
Fawn
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Faytour
See .
Federalism
The principles of Federalists or of federal union.
Fee
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Feeling
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
Fell
Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
Fellow
A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
Felt
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
Fend
A fiend.
Feracity
The state of being feracious or fruitful.
Ferforth
Far forth.
Ferie
A holiday.
Fern
Long ago.
Ferret
An animal of the Weasel family ( syn. ), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes. They are sometimes kept as pets.
Fiance
To betroth; to affiance.
fifties
the decade from 1950 to 1959.
Figurable
Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Filature
A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
File
To make foul; to defile.
Filing
A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; .
Filoplume
A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Filth
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
finalization
the act of finalizing.
Finestill
To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
Fining
The act of imposing a fin.
Finishing
The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
Finpike
The bichir. See .
Fiorite
A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from , in Ischia.
Firstly
In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for .
Fitt
See 2d .
Flavor
That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; .
Flax-plant
A plant in new Zealand (), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
Flecker
To fleck.
Flew
of .
Flexuous
Having turns, windings, or flexures.
Flock
To flock to; to crowd.
Flogger
One who flogs.
Flounder
A flatfish of the family , of many species.
fluctuating
moving irregularly in an oscillatory manner, especially up and down; .
Fluviometer
An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.
Flyfish
A California scorpnoid fish (), having brilliant colors.
Fm
The chemical symbol for , a transuranic element.
Foliate
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
Foliated
Having leaves, or leaflike projections; .
Folkland
Land held in villenage, being distributed among the , or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to land or land, which was held by deed.
Fonly
Foolishly; fondly.
Footboard
A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
For-
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also , , or , and sometimes it is intensive, meaning , , as in bathe.
Forbidder
One who forbids.
Forespent
Already spent; gone by; past.
Forestay
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See under .
Forkerve
See ,
Forlese
To lose utterly.
Formication
A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Forrill
Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.
Fossilize
To become fossil.
Foyson
See .
Frame
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
Fray
To rub.
Freckle
To sprinkle or mark with freckles or small discolored spots; to spot.
free-associate
to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used in psychotherapy.
Fringilline
Pertaining to the family ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Fringy
Adorned with fringes.
Frisk
A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
Frontal
Belonging to the front part; being in front
Frowny
Frowning; scowling.
Frugivora
The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See , under .
Fruticulose
Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
Fuga
A fugue.
full-fashioned
knitted to fit the shape of the body; .
Fumbler
One who fumbles.
Funge
A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
Furile
A yellow, crystalline substance, , obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
Fustianist
A writer of fustian.
Fusty
Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.