| affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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| (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
| (noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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| (noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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| airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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| confirmation | (noun) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | - |
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| (noun) a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | - |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) information that confirms or verifies | - |
| (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: ratification |
| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| firm | (noun) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | Synonyms: business firm, house |
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| firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| firmness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: steadiness |
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| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve |
| (noun) the property of being unyielding to the touch | - |
| (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: soundness |
| firmware | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: microcode |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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| infirmity | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism |
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| reaffirmation | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reassertion |
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| repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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