| fantail | (noun) an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
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| fantan | (noun) a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) | Synonyms: fan tan |
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| (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: parliament, sevens |
| fantasia | (noun) a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes | - |
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| fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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| fantasm | (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
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| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
| fantast | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: futurist |
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| fantasticalness | (noun) The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical. | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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| fanweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, stinkweed, Thlaspi arvense |
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| fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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| faqir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faquir |
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| faquir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faqir |
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| farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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| farandole | (noun) a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures | - |
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| farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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| farce | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce comedy, travesty |
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| (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: forcemeat |
| farcicality | (noun) The property of resembling a farce; of being ludicrous, absurd. | - |
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| fardel | (noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) | - |
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| fare | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: menu |
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| (noun) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed | - |
| (noun) a paying (taxi) passenger | - |
| (noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: transportation |
| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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| farina | (noun) fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings | - |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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| farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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| farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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| farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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| farming | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
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| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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| farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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| faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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| farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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| farrow | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrowing |
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| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| fart | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind |
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| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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| fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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| fasces | (noun) bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism | - |
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| fascia | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: dashboard |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc | Synonyms: facia |
| fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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| fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
| fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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| fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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| fasciolosis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fascioliasis |
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| fascism | (noun) a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | - |
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| fascist | (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
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| fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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| fashion | (noun) characteristic or habitual practice | - |
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| (noun) consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: manner, mode, style, way |
| (noun) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior | - |
| fashionableness | (noun) The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance. | - |
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| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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| fast | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fasting |
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| fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fastidiousness | (noun) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style | - |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| fastnacht | (noun) doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday | - |
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| fastness | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: stronghold |
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| (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: speed, swiftness |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness |
| fat | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness |
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| (noun) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs | Synonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissue |
| (noun) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | - |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fatback | (noun) salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
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| fate | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: destiny |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: destiny |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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| fathom | (noun) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | Synonyms: fthm |
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| (noun) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore | Synonyms: fthm |
| fathometer | (noun) depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves | Synonyms: sonic depth finder |
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| fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| fatism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fattism |
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| fatness | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fat |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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| fatty | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatso, roly-poly |
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| fatuity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| fatuousness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
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| fatwa | (noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority | - |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| fauces | (noun) the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | - |
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| faucet | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: spigot |
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