expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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(noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
factotum | (noun) a servant employed to do a variety of jobs | - |
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factual | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts | - |
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(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: actual |
factuality | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factualness |
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factually | (adverb) as a fact or based on fact | - |
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factualness | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factuality |
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fatuity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuousness, silliness |
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fatuous | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: asinine, inane |
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fatuously | (adverb) vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish | Synonyms: inanely |
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fatuousness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
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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 |
(verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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(adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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fettuccine | (noun) pasta in flat strips wider than linguine | Synonyms: fettuccini |
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fettuccini | (noun) pasta in flat strips wider than linguine | Synonyms: fettuccine |
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fetus | (noun) an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal | Synonyms: foetus |
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filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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finitude | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finiteness |
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fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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(noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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(adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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(noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
(noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
(noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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(noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
flatulency | (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulence, gas |
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flatulent | (adjective) generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, gassy |
flatus | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, wind |
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floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
(verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
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fluctuation | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: wavering |
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(noun) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change | Synonyms: variation |
(noun) a wave motion | - |
foetus | (noun) an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal | Synonyms: fetus |
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foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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(noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
forfeiture | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeit |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit |
fortitude | (noun) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage | - |
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fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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(adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
fortuitously | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortunately, luckily |
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fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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(adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
(adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
(noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
(verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
(verb) become fractured | - |
(verb) violate or abuse | - |
(verb) break into pieces | - |
(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
frustum | (noun) a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed | - |
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furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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future | (adjective) yet to be or coming | - |
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(adjective) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened | - |
(adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: next, succeeding |
(adjective) effective in or looking toward the future | - |
(noun) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date | - |
(noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future | Synonyms: future tense |
(noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: futurity, hereafter, time to come |
futureless | (adjective) having no prospect or hope of a future | - |
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futurism | (noun) the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future | - |
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(noun) an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age | - |
futurist | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futuristic |
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(noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
(noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
futuristic | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futurist |
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futuristics | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futurology |
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futurity | (noun) the quality of being in or of the future | - |
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(noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, hereafter, time to come |
futurology | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futuristics |
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gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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(adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
gesture | (noun) motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling | - |
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(noun) something done as an indication of intention | - |
(noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: motion |
(verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
getup | (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: outfit, rig, turnout |
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gnetum | (noun) small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves; exploited for its edible young leaves and seeds that provide a fine flour | Synonyms: Gnetum gnemon |
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gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
gratuitously | (adverb) in an uncalled-for manner | - |
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gratuity | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, pourboire, tip |
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(noun) an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation | - |
gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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(adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
(noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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habitual | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, customary, wonted |
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habitually | (adverb) according to habit or custom | - |
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habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
habituation | (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions | - |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency |
habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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habitus | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, physique |
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(noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) | - |
haematocyturia | (noun) the presence of red blood cells in the urine | Synonyms: hematocyturia |
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haematuria | (noun) the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease | Synonyms: hematuria |
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halitus | (noun) exhaled breath | Synonyms: exhalation |
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hebetude | (noun) mental lethargy or dullness | - |
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hematocyturia | (noun) the presence of red blood cells in the urine | Synonyms: haematocyturia |
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hematuria | (noun) the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease | Synonyms: haematuria |
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hiatus | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: foramen |
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(noun) a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) | - |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension |
horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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ictus | (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: raptus, seizure |
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immature | (adjective) not yet mature | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of a lack of maturity | - |
(adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | Synonyms: young |
(adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: unfledged |
(adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: green, unripe, unripened |
immaturely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: jejunely |
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immatureness | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immaturity |
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immaturity | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immatureness |
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imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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(adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
impetuously | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impulsively |
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impetuousness | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuosity |
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