| alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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| defilade | (noun) the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire | - |
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| enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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| (verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
| filaggrin | (noun) the main protein of the keratohyalin granules | - |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| filagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filigree, fillagree |
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| filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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| (noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
| (noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
| filamentlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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| filamentous | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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| filar | (adjective) related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | - |
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| filaree | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| filaria | (noun) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects | - |
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| (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
| filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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| filariasis | (noun) a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels | - |
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| filariid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae | - |
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| filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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| unifilar | (adjective) having or using only one filament | - |
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