| 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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| fauld | (noun) a piece of armor plate below the breastplate | - |
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| fault | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, mistake |
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| (noun) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: demerit |
| (noun) responsibility for a bad situation or event | - |
| (noun) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, flaw |
| faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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| faultfinding | (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
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| faultiness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: defectiveness |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| faultlessness | (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: impeccability |
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| faun | (noun) ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr | - |
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| fauna | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature |
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| (noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: zoology |
| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| favism | (noun) anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency | - |
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| favor | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favour |
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| (noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favour, party favor, party favour |
| (noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favour |
| (noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favour |
| (noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favour |
| favorableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| favorite | (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
| favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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| (noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
| (noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
| favourableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| favourite | (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
| favouritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favoritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favoritism |
| favus | (noun) a contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East | - |
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| fawn | (noun) a young deer | - |
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| (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: dun, grayish brown, greyish brown |
| fawner | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| fax | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile, facsimile machine |
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| fay | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, sprite |
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| fealty | (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: allegiance |
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| fear | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fearfulness, fright |
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| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, concern |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, reverence, veneration |
| fearfulness | (noun) the trait of being afraid | - |
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| (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fright |
| fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
| feasibility | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibleness |
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| feasibleness | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibility |
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| feast | (noun) something experienced with great delight | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: fete, fiesta |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, spread |
| (noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: banquet |
| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| feat | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, exploit |
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| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
| (noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
| (noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
| (noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
| featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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| febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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| febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| fecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, stercolith |
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| feces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, ordure, stool |
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| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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| fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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| feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
| fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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| fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
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| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |