| first | (adjective) preceding all others in time or space or degree | Synonyms: 1st |
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| (adjective) highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections | - |
| (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: foremost, world-class |
| (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: beginning |
| (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | Synonyms: first base |
| (noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first gear, low, low gear |
| (noun) an honours degree of the highest class | Synonyms: first-class honours degree |
| (noun) the first element in a countable series | Synonyms: number 1, number one |
| (noun) the first or highest in an ordering or series | Synonyms: number one |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| (adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first of all, first off, firstly, foremost |
| (adverb) prominently forward | Synonyms: foremost |
| (adverb) the initial time | - |
| (adverb) before another in time, space, or importance | - |
| firstborn | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
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| (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
| firsthand | (adjective) received directly from a source | - |
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| (adverb) from the original source; directly | Synonyms: at first hand |
| firstly | (adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first, first of all, first off, foremost |
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| firth | (noun) a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland) | - |
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| fisc | (noun) a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse | - |
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| fiscal | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: financial |
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| fiscally | (adverb) in financial matters | Synonyms: in fiscal matters |
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| fish | (noun) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of fish used as food | - |
| (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| fishbone | (noun) a bone of a fish | - |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| fisher | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher cat, Martes pennanti, pekan |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisherman |
| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| fisheye | (adjective) of or relating to a fisheye lens | Synonyms: wide-angle |
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| fishgig | (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fizgig, gig, lance, spear |
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| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| fishily | (adverb) in a questionably unusual manner | Synonyms: queerly |
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| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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| fishnet | (noun) a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in | Synonyms: fishing net |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| fishplate | (noun) metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams | - |
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| fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| fishwife | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishmonger |
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| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| fishy | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling fish | - |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: funny, shady, suspect, suspicious |
| fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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| (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
| fission | (noun) a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy | Synonyms: nuclear fission |
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| (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts | - |
| fissionable | (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissile |
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| fissiparity | (noun) the tendency to break into parts | - |
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| (noun) reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish | - |
| fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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| (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
| fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| fist | (noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) | Synonyms: clenched fist |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| (verb) fight with the fists | - |
| fistful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: handful |
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| fisticuffs | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, pugilism |
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| (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, slugfest |
| fistmele | (noun) about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow) | - |
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| fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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| (noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
| fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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| (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
| fit | (adjective) physically and mentally sound or healthy | - |
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| (adjective) meeting adequate standards for a purpose | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: primed, set |
| (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: burst |
| (noun) the manner in which something fits | - |
| (noun) a sudden uncontrollable attack | Synonyms: convulsion, paroxysm |
| (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, scene, tantrum |
| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: match |
| (verb) make fit | - |
| (verb) insert or adjust several objects or people | - |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit |
| (verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) conform to some shape or size | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, suit |
| fitch | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| fitful | (adjective) intermittently stopping and starting | Synonyms: interrupted, off-and-on |
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| (adjective) occurring in spells and often abruptly | Synonyms: spasmodic |
| fitfully | (adverb) in a fitful manner | - |
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| fitfulness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: jerkiness |
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| fitly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| fitment | (noun) any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture) | - |
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| fitness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fittingness |
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| (noun) the quality of being qualified | - |
| (noun) good physical condition; being in shape or in condition | Synonyms: physical fitness |
| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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| fitted | (adjective) being the right size and shape to fit as desired | - |
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| fitter | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: healthier |
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| (noun) someone who fits a garment to a particular person | - |
| fitting | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: meet |
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| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: decent |
| (noun) putting clothes on to see whether they fit | Synonyms: try-on, trying on |
| (noun) a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: appointment |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment |
| fittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, properly, suitably |
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| fittingness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fitness |
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| five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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| (noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
| (noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fivefold | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, quintuple |
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| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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| fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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| fives | (noun) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls | - |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fix | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear | - |
| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: localisation, localization, locating, location |
| (noun) something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
| (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
| (verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fixate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| (verb) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study | - |
| (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) take vengeance on or get even | Synonyms: get, pay back, pay off |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, secure |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, posit, situate |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) set or place definitely | - |
| (verb) to be about to do something | - |
| (verb) influence an event or its outcome by illegal means | - |
| fixate | (verb) become fixed (on) | Synonyms: settle on |
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| (verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fix |
| (verb) pay attention to exclusively and obsessively | - |
| (verb) attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way | - |
| fixation | (noun) (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | Synonyms: fixing |
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| (noun) the activity of fastening something firmly in position | - |
| (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, infantile fixation, regression |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| fixed | (adjective) securely placed or fastened or set | - |
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| (adjective) (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value | - |
| (adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: rigid, set |
| (adjective) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices" | Synonyms: frozen |
| fixedly | (adverb) in a fixed manner | - |
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| fixedness | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixity, fixture, secureness |
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| (noun) the quality of being fixed and unchangeable | Synonyms: unalterability |
| (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: immobility, stationariness |
| fixer | (noun) synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction | Synonyms: dolophine hydrochloride, methadon, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin |
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| (noun) someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee) | Synonyms: influence peddler |
| (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: mender, repairer |
| (noun) a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image) | Synonyms: fixing agent |
| fixing | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: altering, neutering |
| (noun) (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | Synonyms: fixation |
| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast |
| fixings | (noun) the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity) | Synonyms: trimmings |
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| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: ingredient |
| fixity | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness |
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| (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: immutability, immutableness |
| fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
| fizgig | (noun) a firework that fizzes as it moves | - |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, gig, lance, spear |
| fizz | (noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) | - |
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| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
| fizzing | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzy |
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| fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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| (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
| (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
| fizzy | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzing |
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