| fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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| fast | (adjective) acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly | - |
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| (adjective) at a rapid tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time | - |
| (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: firm, loyal, truehearted |
| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: firm, immobile |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: flying, quick |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous |
| (adjective) resistant to destruction or fading | - |
| (adjective) (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds | - |
| (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fasting |
| (adverb) quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form) | - |
| (adverb) firmly or closely | Synonyms: tight |
| (verb) abstain from eating | - |
| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fastened | (adjective) firmly closed or secured | - |
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| (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: buttoned |
| (adjective) fastened with strings or cords | Synonyms: tied |
| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| faster | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: quicker |
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| fastest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: quickest |
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| fastidious | (adjective) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | - |
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| (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: exacting |
| fastidiously | (adverb) in a fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: painstakingly |
| fastidiousness | (noun) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style | - |
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| fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| fastnacht | (noun) doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday | - |
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| fastness | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: stronghold |
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| (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: speed, swiftness |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness |
| fat | (adjective) having an (over)abundance of flesh | - |
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| (adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fatty |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fertile, productive, rich |
| (adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: juicy |
| (adjective) having a relatively large diameter | - |
| (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness |
| (noun) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs | Synonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissue |
| (noun) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | - |
| (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
| fatal | (adjective) bringing death | - |
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| (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
| fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fatally | (adverb) with fatal consequences or implications | - |
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| fatback | (noun) salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
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| fate | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: destiny |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: destiny |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, doom |
| fated | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate | Synonyms: doomed |
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| fateful | (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fatal |
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| (adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fatal |
| (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: foreboding, portentous |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal |
| fatefully | (adverb) in a prophetically fateful manner | - |
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| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fatherless | (adjective) not having a known or legally responsible father | - |
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| (adjective) having no living father | - |
| fatherlike | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherly |
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| fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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| fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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| fathom | (noun) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | Synonyms: fthm |
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| (noun) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore | Synonyms: fthm |
| (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |
| 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 | - |
| fathometer | (noun) depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves | Synonyms: sonic depth finder |
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| fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
| fatigued | (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
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| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| fatism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fattism |
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| fatless | (adjective) without fat or fat solids | Synonyms: fat-free, nonfat |
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| fatness | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fat |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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| fattened | (adjective) (of market animals) made ready for market | - |
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| fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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| fattish | (adjective) somewhat fat | - |
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| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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| fatty | (adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fat |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatso, roly-poly |
| 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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| fatwa | (noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority | - |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| faucal | (adjective) of or relating to the fauces | - |
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| fauces | (noun) the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | - |
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| faucet | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: spigot |
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| fauld | (noun) a piece of armor plate below the breastplate | - |
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| fault | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, mistake |
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| (noun) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: demerit |
| (noun) responsibility for a bad situation or event | - |
| (noun) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, flaw |
| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
| faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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| faultfinding | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: captious |
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| (adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions | - |
| (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
| faultily | (adverb) in a mistaken manner | - |
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| faultiness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: defectiveness |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| faultless | (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: immaculate, impeccable, incorrupted |
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| faultlessly | (adverb) without a fault; in a faultless manner | - |
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| faultlessness | (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: impeccability |
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| faulty | (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: defective |
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| (adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: incorrect, wrong |
| faun | (noun) ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr | - |
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| fauna | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature |
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| (noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: zoology |
| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| faux | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, imitation, simulated |
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| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| favism | (noun) anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency | - |
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| favor | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favour |
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| (noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favour, party favor, party favour |
| (noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favour |
| (noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favour |
| (noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
| favorable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favourable |
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| (adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favourable |
| (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favourable |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favourable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
| favorableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| favorably | (adverb) showing approval | Synonyms: favourably |
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| favored | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
| favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
| favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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| (noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
| (noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
| favourable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favorable |
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| (adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favorable |
| (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favorable |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
| favourableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| favourably | (adverb) showing approval | Synonyms: favorably |
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| favoured | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
| favouritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favoritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favoritism |
| favus | (noun) a contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East | - |
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| fawn | (noun) a young deer | - |
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| (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: dun, grayish brown, greyish brown |
| (verb) have fawns | - |
| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |