| female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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| (adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | - |
| feminineness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: femaleness |
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| femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
| femoral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the femur or thigh | - |
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| femoris | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femur, thighbone |
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| femtochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses | - |
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| femtometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometre, fermi |
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| femtometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometer, fermi |
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| femtosecond | (noun) one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond | - |
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| femtovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one quadrillionth of a volt (or one thousandth of a picovolt) | - |
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| femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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