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All words starting with letter [F].

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fabricate: v. To invent fancifully or falsely.
fabulous: adj. Incredible.
facet: n. One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem.
facetious: adj. Amusing.
facial: adj. Pertaining to the face.
facile: adj. Not difficult to do.
facilitate: v. To make more easy.
facility: n. Ease.
facsimile: n. An exact copy or reproduction.
faction: n. A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
factious: adj. Turbulent.
fallacious: adj. Illogical.
fallacy: n. Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
fallible: adj. Capable of erring.
fallow: n. Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
famish: v. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
fanatic: n. A religious zealot.
fancier: n. One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
fanciless: adj. Unimaginative.
fastidious: adj. Hard to please.
fathom: n. A measure of length, 6 feet.
fatuous: adj. Idiotic
faulty: adj. Imperfect.
faun: n. One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
fawn: n. A young deer.
fealty: n. Loyalty.
feasible: adj. That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable.
federate: v. To league together.
feint: n. Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
felicitate: v. To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
felicity: n. A state of well-founded happiness.
felon: n. A criminal or depraved person.
felonious: adj. Showing criminal or evil purpose.
felony: n. One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment.
feminine: adj. Characteristic of woman or womankind.
fernery: n. A place in which ferns are grown.
ferocious: adj. Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature.
ferocity: n. Savageness.
fervent: adj. Ardent in feeling.
fervid: adj. Intense.
fervor: n. Ardor or intensity of feeling.
festal: adj. Joyous.
festive: adj. Merry.
fete: n. A festival or feast.
fetus: n. The young in the womb or in the egg.
feudal: adj. Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
feudalism: n. The feudal system.
fez: n. A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
fiasco: n. A complete or humiliating failure.
fickle: adj. Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
fictitious: adj. Created or formed by the imagination.
fidelity: n. Loyalty.
fiducial: adj. Indicative of faith or trust.
fief: n. A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
filibuster: n. One who attempts to obstruct legislation.
finale: n. Concluding performance.
finality: n. The state or quality of being final or complete.
financial: adj. Monetary.
financier: n. One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
finery: n. That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
finesse: n. Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
finite: adj. Limited.
fiscal: adj. Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
fishmonger: n. One who sells fish.
fissure: n. A crack or crack-like depression.
fitful: adj. Spasmodic.
fixture: n. One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
flag-officer: n. The captain of a flag-ship.
flagrant: adj. Openly scandalous.
flamboyant: adj. Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
flatulence: n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
flection: n. The act of bending.
fledgling: n. A young bird.
flexible: adj. Pliable.
flimsy: adj. Thin and weak.
flippant: adj. Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
floe: n. A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
flora: n. The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district.
floral: adj. Pertaining to flowers.
florid: adj. Flushed with red.
florist: n. A dealer in flowers.
fluctuate: v. To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
fluctuation: n. Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another.
flue: n. A smoke-duct in a chimney.
fluent: adj. Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
fluential: adj. Pertaining to streams.
flux: n. A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
foggy: adj. Obscure.
foible: n. A personal weakness or failing.
foist: v. To palm off.
foliage: n. Any growth of leaves.
folio: n. A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
folk-lore: n. The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
fondle: v. To handle tenderly and lovingly.
foolery: n. Folly.
foot-note: n. A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
foppery: n. Dandyism.
foppish: adj. Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
forbearance: n. Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
forcible: adj. Violent.
forecourt: n. A court opening directly from the street.
forejudge: v. To judge of before hearing evidence.
forepeak: n. The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
foreshore: n. That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
forebode: v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
forecast: v. To predict.
forecastle: n. That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
foreclose: v. To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property.
forefather: n. An ancestor.
forego: v. To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
foreground: n. That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
forehead: n. The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair.
foreign: adj. Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country.
foreigner: n. A citizen of a foreign country.
foreknowledge: n. Prescience.
foreman: n. The head man.
foreordain: v. To predetermine.
foreordination: n. Predestination.
forerun: v. To go before as introducing or ushering in.
foresail: n. A square sail.
foresee: v. To discern beforehand.
foresight: n. Provision against harm or need.
foretell: v. To predict.
forethought: n. Premeditation.
forfeit: v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
forfend: v. To ward off.
forgery: n. Counterfeiting.
forgo: v. To deny oneself.
formation: n. Relative disposition of parts.
formidable: adj. Difficult to accomplish.
formula: n. Fixed rule or set form.
forswear: v. To renounce upon oath.
forte: n. A strong point.
fortify: v. To provide with defensive works.
fortitude: n. Patient courage.
foursome: adj. Consisting of four.
fracture: n. A break.
fragile: adj. Easily broken.
frailty: n. Liability to be broken or destroyed.
fragile: adj. Capable of being broken.
frankincense: n. A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
frantic: adj. Frenzied.
fraternal: adj. Brotherly.
fraudulence: n. Deceitfulness.
fraudulent: adj. Counterfeit.
fray: v. To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
freemason: n. A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
freethinker: n. One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
free trade: n. Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
frequency: n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
fresco: n. The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
freshness: n. The state, quality, or degree of being fresh.
fretful: adj. Disposed to peevishness.
frightful: adj. Apt to induce terror or alarm.
frigid: adj. Lacking warmth.
frigidarium: n. A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
frivolity: n. A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
frivolous: adj. Trivial.
frizz: v. To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
frizzle: v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
frolicsome: adj. Prankish.
frontier: n. The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
frowzy: adj. Slovenly in appearance.
frugal: adj. Economical.
fruition: n. Fulfillment.
fugacious: adj. Fleeting.
fulcrum: n. The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
fulminate: v. To cause to explode.
fulsome: adj. Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
fumigate: v. To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection.
functionary: n. An official.
fundamental: adj. Basal.
fungible: adj. That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
fungous: adj. Spongy.
fungus: n. A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
furbish: v. To restore brightness or beauty to.
furlong: n. A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
furlough: n. A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
furrier: n. A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
further: adj. More distant or advanced.
furtherance: n. Advancement.
furtive: adj. Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
fuse: v. To unite or blend as by melting together.
fusible: adj. Capable of being melted by heat.
futile: adj. Of no avail or effect.
futurist: n. A person of expectant temperament.

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