| edible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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| eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
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| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head | Synonyms: labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense |
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| (noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates | Synonyms: chemical equilibrium |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equipoise |
| (noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | - |
| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| exbibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibits or 2^60 bits | Synonyms: Eibit |
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| exbibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes | Synonyms: EB, EiB, exabyte |
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| exhaustible | (adjective) capable of being used up | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being used up; capable of being exhausted | - |
| exhibit | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, showing |
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| (noun) an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence | - |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exhibition | (noun) the act of exhibiting | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: expo, exposition |
| exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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| exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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| expandible | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expansible, expansile |
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| (adjective) able to expand or be expanded | Synonyms: expandable, expansible |
| expansible | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansile |
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| (adjective) able to expand or be expanded | Synonyms: expandable, expandible |
| expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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| extendible | (adjective) capable of being lengthened | Synonyms: extendable |
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| extensible | (adjective) capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | Synonyms: extensile |
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| extractible | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractable |
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| fallibility | (noun) the likelihood of making errors | - |
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| fallible | (adjective) likely to fail or make errors | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: frail, imperfect, weak |
| feasibility | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibleness |
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| feasible | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, practicable, viable, workable |
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| feasibleness | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibility |
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| feasibly | (adverb) in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible | Synonyms: practicably |
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| fib | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
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| (verb) tell a relatively insignificant lie | - |
| fibber | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, storyteller |
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| fibbing | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: paltering |
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| fiber | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fibre, vulcanized fiber |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fibre |
| (noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fibre |
| (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fibre, roughage |
| (noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fibre |
| fiberboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fibreboard, particle board |
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| fiberglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fibreglass |
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| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fiberoptics | (noun) the transmission of light signals via glass fibers | Synonyms: fiber optics, fibre optics, fibreoptics |
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| fiberscope | (noun) a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs | - |
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| fibre | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fiber, vulcanized fiber |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fiber |
| (noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fiber |
| (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, roughage |
| (noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fiber |
| fibreboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fiberboard, particle board |
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| fibreglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fiberglass |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| fibreoptics | (noun) the transmission of light signals via glass fibers | Synonyms: fiber optics, fiberoptics, fibre optics |
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| fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| fibrin | (noun) a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets | - |
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| fibrinase | (noun) in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot | Synonyms: factor XIII |
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| fibrinogen | (noun) a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots | Synonyms: factor I |
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| fibrinolysin | (noun) an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots | Synonyms: plasmin |
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| fibrinolysis | (noun) a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots | - |
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| fibrinopeptide | (noun) peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood | - |
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| fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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| fibroadenoma | (noun) benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen | - |
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| fibroblast | (noun) a cell from which connective tissue develops | - |
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| fibrocalcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue | - |
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| fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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| fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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| fibroid | (noun) benign tumor containing fibrous tissue (especially in the uterus) | Synonyms: fibroid tumor |
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| fibroma | (noun) nonmalignant tumor of connective tissue | - |
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| fibromyositis | (noun) local inflammation of muscle and connective tissue | - |
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| fibrosis | (noun) development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ | - |
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| fibrositis | (noun) inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths) | - |
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| fibrosity | (noun) the quality of being fibrous | Synonyms: fibrousness |
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| fibrous | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: sinewy, stringy, unchewable |
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| (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: hempen |
| fibrousness | (noun) the quality of being fibrous | Synonyms: fibrosity |
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| fibula | (noun) the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: calf bone |
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| filibuster | (noun) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | - |
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| (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibusterer |
| (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
| filibusterer | (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibuster |
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| flexibility | (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibleness |
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| (noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibleness |
| (noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: tractability, tractableness |
| flexible | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexile |
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| (adjective) capable of being changed | - |
| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory |
| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant |
| (adjective) bending and snapping back readily without breaking | Synonyms: whippy |
| flexibleness | (noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibility |
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| (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibility |
| flexibly | (adverb) with flexibility | - |
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| flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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| foible | (noun) the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip | - |
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| (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: idiosyncrasy, mannerism |
| (noun) a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior. | - |
| forcible | (adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance | Synonyms: physical, strong-arm |
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| forcibly | (adverb) in a forcible manner | - |
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| frangibility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibleness |
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| frangible | (adjective) capable of being broken | - |
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| frangibleness | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibility |
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| fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| fungible | (adjective) of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation | - |
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| (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
| fusible | (adjective) capable of being melted and fused | - |
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| garibaldi | (noun) a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers | - |
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| gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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| gib | (noun) a castrated tomcat | - |
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| gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| gibbet | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallous, gallows-tree, gallows tree |
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| (verb) hang on an execution instrument | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: pillory |
| gibbon | (noun) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | Synonyms: Hylobates lar |
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| gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
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| gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
| gibbousness | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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