| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| caprifig | (noun) wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs | Synonyms: Ficus carica sylvestris |
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| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| configuration | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: conformation, contour, form, shape |
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| (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: constellation |
| configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| configured | (adjective) organized so as to give configuration to | - |
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| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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| disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| effigy | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: image, simulacrum |
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| fig | (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: figure |
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| (noun) fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried | - |
| (noun) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica |
| figeater | (noun) large greenish June beetle of southern United States | Synonyms: green June beetle |
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| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
| fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
| fighting | (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: active, combat-ready |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
| figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| figured | (adjective) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns | - |
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| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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| figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| (verb) fight with the fists | - |
| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| outfight | (verb) to fight better than; get the better of | - |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |