| f | (noun) the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: F |
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| fa | (noun) the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization | - |
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| fab | (adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fabulous |
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| fabian | (adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation | - |
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| fable | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, apologue, parable |
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| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: legend |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fabrication, fiction |
| fabled | (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: legendary |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
| (adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
| fabulously | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fantastically, incredibly |
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| facade | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: frontage, frontal |
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| (noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant | Synonyms: window dressing |
| face | (noun) a vertical surface of a building or cliff | - |
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| (noun) the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object) | - |
| (noun) the striking or working surface of an implement | - |
| (noun) the general outward appearance of something | - |
| (noun) status in the eyes of others | - |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, cheek, nerve |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, facial expression, look |
| (noun) the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear | Synonyms: human face |
| (noun) the part of an animal corresponding to the human face | - |
| (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, font, fount, typeface |
| (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: grimace |
| (noun) a surface forming part of the outside of an object | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) a part of a person that is used to refer to a person | - |
| (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: confront, face up |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: confront |
| (verb) line the edge (of a garment) with a different material | - |
| (verb) cover the front or surface of | - |
| (verb) turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction | - |
| (verb) turn so as to expose the face | - |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: front, look |
| (verb) be opposite | - |
| faced | (adjective) having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination | - |
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| faceless | (adjective) without a face or identity | - |
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| facelift | (noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, lift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
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| (noun) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes | Synonyms: face lift, face lifting |
| facepalm | (noun) the act of putting your hand to cover your face to show disappointment or despair | - |
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| faceplate | (noun) a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component) | - |
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| facer | (noun) (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced | - |
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| facet | (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: aspect |
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| (noun) a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone) | - |
| faceted | (adjective) having facets | - |
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| facetious | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiously | (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: jokingly, tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiousness | (noun) playful humor | - |
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| facia | (noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc | Synonyms: fascia |
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| facial | (adjective) of or concerning the face | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object | - |
| (noun) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams | - |
| (noun) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles | Synonyms: facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve |
| facially | (adverb) with respect to the face | - |
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| facile | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) performing adroitly and without effort | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: neat, slick |
| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
| (noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| facility | (noun) a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you | - |
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| (noun) something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service | - |
| (noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: installation |
| (noun) a natural effortlessness | Synonyms: readiness |
| (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness |
| facing | (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: lining |
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| (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: cladding |
| (noun) a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening | - |
| (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: veneer |
| facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
| (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
| fact | (noun) a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred | - |
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| (noun) a concept whose truth can be proved | - |
| (noun) a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened | - |
| (noun) an event known to have happened or something known to have existed | - |
| faction | (noun) a dissenting clique | Synonyms: sect |
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| (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, junto |
| factious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, divisive |
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| factitious | (adjective) not produced by natural forces | - |
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| factoid | (noun) a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item | - |
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| (noun) something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print | - |
| factor | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, gene |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, ingredient |
| (noun) an independent variable in statistics | - |
| (noun) anything that contributes causally to a result | - |
| (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, broker |
| (noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: divisor |
| (noun) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together | - |
| (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) be a contributing factor | - |
| factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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| (noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
| factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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| factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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| 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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| facula | (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots | Synonyms: solar facula |
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| (noun) a bright spot on a planet | - |
| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| faculty | (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: mental faculty, module |
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| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: staff |
| fad | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, furor, furore, rage |
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| faddily | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddishly |
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| faddish | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddy |
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| faddishly | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddily |
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| faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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| faddy | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddish |
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| fade | (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: slice, slicing |
| (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
| faded | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, washed-out, washy |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, weakened |
| fadedness | (noun) The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity. | - |
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| fadeout | (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | - |
| fading | (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: attenuation |
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| fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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| faecal | (adjective) of or relating to feces | Synonyms: fecal |
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| faecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, fecalith, stercolith |
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| faeces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool |
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| faerie | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faery, fairyland |
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| (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faery, fairy, fay, sprite |
| faery | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, fairyland |
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| (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, fairy, fay, sprite |
| fag | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools | - |
| fagged | (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fatigued, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
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| faggot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: fagot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot up, fagot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: fagot |
| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: faggot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| faience | (noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors | - |
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| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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| (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| faille | (noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton | - |
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| failure | (noun) an act that fails | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected omission | - |
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| (noun) lack of success | - |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally | - |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: bankruptcy |
| fain | (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, inclined, prepared |
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| (adverb) with pleasure | Synonyms: gladly, lief |
| faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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| faineant | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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| faint | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, fainthearted, timid |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: light-headed, light, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: weak |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: feeble |
| (adjective) indistinctly understood or felt or perceived | - |
| (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| faintly | (adverb) to a faint degree or weakly perceived | - |
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| faintness | (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: dimness |
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| (noun) barely audible | - |
| (noun) the property of being without strength | - |
| (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintheartedness |
| (noun) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon | - |
| fair | (adjective) (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines | - |
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| (adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: just |
| (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, sightly |
| (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fairish |
| (adjective) free of clouds or rain | - |
| (adjective) gained or earned without cheating or stealing | Synonyms: honest |
| (adjective) attractively feminine | - |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fairish, reasonable |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, mediocre, middling |
| (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: bazaar |
| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, funfair |
| (noun) a competitive exhibition of farm products | - |
| (noun) gathering of producers to promote business | - |
| (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: evenhandedly, fairly |
| (adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | Synonyms: clean, fairly |
| (verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | - |
| fairground | (noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses | - |
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| fairish | (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fair |
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| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fair, reasonable |
| fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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