| 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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| ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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| ferrule | (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: collet |
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| ferry | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferrying |
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| (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferryboat |
| (verb) travel by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport from one place to another | - |
| ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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| fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
| (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
| fertilisation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilization |
| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fertiliser | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertilizer, plant food |
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| fertility | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: prolificacy, rankness, richness |
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| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fecundity |
| (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility rate, natality |
| fertilizable | (adjective) capable of being fertilized | - |
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| fertilization | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation |
| fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
| fertilizer | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertiliser, plant food |
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| ferule | (noun) a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children | - |
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| fervency | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
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| fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| fervently | (adverb) with passionate fervor | Synonyms: fervidly, fierily |
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| fervid | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervent |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| fervidly | (adverb) with passionate fervor | Synonyms: fervently, fierily |
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| fervidness | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire |
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| fervor | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervour, fire |
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| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervour, inflammation |
| fervour | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire |
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| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, inflammation |
| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| fescue | (noun) grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns | Synonyms: fescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescue |
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| fess | (noun) (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield | Synonyms: fesse |
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| fesse | (noun) (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield | Synonyms: fess |
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| festal | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festive, gay, merry |
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| fester | (noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus | Synonyms: suppurating sore |
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| (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| festivity | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: celebration |
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| festoon | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoonery |
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| (noun) an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work | - |
| (noun) a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves | - |
| (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
| festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| fetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: foetal |
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| fetch | (noun) the action of fetching | - |
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| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| fetching | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: taking, winning |
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| fete | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: festival |
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| (noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: feast, fiesta |
| (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: celebrate |
| feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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| fetich | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetish |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetish, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| fetichism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetishism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetishism |
| feticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: aborticide |
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| fetid | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
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| fetidness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: foulness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness |
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| fetish | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetich |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body | - |
| fetishism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetichism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetichism |
| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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| fetlock | (noun) projection behind and above a horse's hoof | - |
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| (noun) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern | Synonyms: fetlock joint |
| fetology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the fetus in the uterus | Synonyms: foetology |
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| fetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: foetometry |
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| fetoprotein | (noun) any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer | Synonyms: foetoprotein |
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| fetor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| fetoscope | (noun) a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat | Synonyms: foetoscope |
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| fetoscopy | (noun) prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood | Synonyms: foetoscopy |
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| fetter | (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: hobble |
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| (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
| fetterbush | (noun) showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel | Synonyms: fetter bush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia |
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| (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda |
| fettered | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: shackled |
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| fettle | (noun) a state of fitness and good health | - |
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| (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
| 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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| feud | (noun) a bitter quarrel between two parties | - |
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| (verb) carry out a feud | - |
| feudal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudalistic |
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| feudalism | (noun) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | Synonyms: feudal system |
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| feudalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudal |
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| feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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| feudally | (adverb) in a feudal manner | - |
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| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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| (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
| fevered | (adjective) highly or nervously excited | - |
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| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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| (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
| (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
| feverishly | (adverb) in a feverish manner | - |
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| feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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| (noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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| few | (adjective) a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number | - |
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| (noun) a small elite group | - |
| fewer | (adjective) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of | - |
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| fewest | (adjective) (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number | - |
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| fewness | (noun) the quality of being small in number | - |
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| fey | (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: touched |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: elfin |
| fez | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: tarboosh |
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| fiance | (noun) a man who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: groom-to-be |
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| fiancee | (noun) a woman who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: bride-to-be |
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| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| fiat | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, order, rescript |
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| fib | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
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| (verb) tell a relatively insignificant lie | - |
| fibber | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, storyteller |
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| fibbing | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: paltering |
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| fiber | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fibre, vulcanized fiber |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fibre |
| (noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fibre |
| (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fibre, roughage |
| (noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fibre |
| fiberboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fibreboard, particle board |
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| fiberglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fibreglass |
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