| epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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| epidermal | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermic |
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| epigrammatic | (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic |
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| epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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| epithelioma | (noun) a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue | - |
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| erythema | (noun) abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation) | - |
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| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| estimable | (adjective) deserving of respect or high regard | - |
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| (adjective) may be computed or estimated | Synonyms: computable |
| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, good, honorable, respectable |
| estimate | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimation |
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| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimation, idea |
| (noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimation |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimation |
| (noun) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
| estimation | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimate |
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| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, idea |
| (noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimate |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimate |
| estimator | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, figurer, reckoner |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| exanimate | (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: lifeless |
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| exanthema | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthem, skin eruption |
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| exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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| exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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| (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
| (noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| exhumation | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, disinterment |
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| exothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermic, heat-releasing |
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| extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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| fathomable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: plumbable, soundable |
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| (adjective) (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended | - |
| female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| fermata | (noun) (music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest | - |
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| (noun) a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount | - |
| ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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| ferromagnet | (noun) any material that has ferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| ferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating ferromagnetism | - |
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| ferromagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed | - |
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| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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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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| fibroma | (noun) nonmalignant tumor of connective tissue | - |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| filmable | (adjective) (used of a story or literary work) capable of being adapted to motion picture form | - |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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| (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
| (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
| 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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| firmamental | (adjective) relating to the firmament or upper regions | - |
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| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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| flammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: inflammable |
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| flatmate | (noun) an associate who shares an apartment with you | - |
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| foeman | (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, opposition |
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| footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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| footmark | (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footprint, step |
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| foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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| (noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
| foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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| foremast | (noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
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| forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
| formal | (adjective) being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) | - |
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| (adjective) (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | - |
| (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, stately |
| (adjective) logically deductive | - |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, schematic |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority | - |
| (noun) a gown for evening wear | Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown |
| (noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: ball |
| formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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| formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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| formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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| formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
| formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
| formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
| formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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| formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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| formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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| (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
| (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
| formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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| formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
| formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
| formally | (adverb) in a formal manner | - |
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| (adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: officially |
| formalness | (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formality |
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| formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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| format | (noun) the general appearance of a publication | - |
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| (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, formatting |
| (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
| (verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
| formation | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: shaping |
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| (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization |
| (noun) creation by mental activity | - |
| (noun) a particular spatial arrangement | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit | - |
| (noun) (geology) the geological features of the earth | Synonyms: geological formation |
| (noun) natural process that causes something to form | - |
| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| foulmart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| foumart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| freedman | (noun) a male person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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| freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freshman | (adjective) used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college) | Synonyms: first-year |
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| (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: fresher |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| fugleman | (noun) a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader) | - |
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| fulmar | (noun) heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions | Synonyms: fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis |
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| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| gamma | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted | - |
| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| gasman | (noun) someone employed by a gas company | - |
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| gasmask | (noun) a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases | Synonyms: gas helmet, respirator |
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| gemma | (noun) small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual | - |
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| gemmation | (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: pullulation |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlemanlike | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanly |
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| gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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