| fall | (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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| (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
| (noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: drop |
| (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
| (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: autumn |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
| (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
| (verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
| (verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
| (verb) come out; issue | - |
| (verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
| (verb) begin vigorously | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
| (verb) be cast down | - |
| (verb) go as if by falling | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
| (verb) move in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
| (verb) slope downward | - |
| (verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
| (verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
| (verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
| (verb) be captured | - |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
| (verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
| (verb) lose office or power | - |
| (verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
| (verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
| (verb) lose one's chastity | - |
| (verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
| (verb) be due | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
| fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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| (adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
| (adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
| fallaciousness | (noun) result of a fallacy or error in reasoning | - |
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| fallacy | (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: false belief |
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| fallal | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| fallback | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, pullout |
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| fallboard | (noun) the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played | Synonyms: fall-board |
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| fallen | (adjective) killed in battle | - |
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| (adjective) having fallen in or collapsed | - |
| (adjective) having dropped by the force of gravity | - |
| (adjective) having lost your chastity | - |
| faller | (noun) a person who falls | - |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman |
| fallibility | (noun) the likelihood of making errors | - |
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| fallible | (adjective) likely to fail or make errors | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: frail, imperfect, weak |
| falling | (adjective) becoming lower or less in degree or value | - |
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| (adjective) decreasing in amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: dropping |
| falloff | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, slack, slump |
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| fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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| (noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
| fallow | (adjective) undeveloped but potentially useful | - |
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| (adjective) left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season | - |
| (noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
| falls | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: waterfall |
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| (noun) the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris) | - |