fabaceous
adj. - like a bean.
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fabiform
adj. - bean-shaped.
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fabulist
n. - recounter of fables; liar.
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facies
n. - Medicine, facial expression, as symptom; general aspect or appearance.
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facinorous
adj. - extremely wicked; depraved; infamous
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facon de parler
phr. - way of speaking: manner of expression
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factice
n. - vulcanized oil, used as substitute for rubber.
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factitious
adj. - artificial; spurious.
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facula
n. - small bright patch on sun
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facundity
n. - eloquence
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fadaise
n. - an obvious or silly remark
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faex
n. - dregs. faex populi, the rabble.
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fagaceous
adj. - belonging to beech family of trees.
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faience
n. - glazed decorative earthenware.
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faineant
adj. - lazy, indolent
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falcate
adj. - sickle-shaped.
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falchion
n. - broad curved sword.
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faldstool
n. - prayer desk; bishop's round armless chair.
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falsidical
adj. - giving false impression.
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famicide
n. - a slanderer; a destroyer of one's reputation
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fanfaronade
n. - boasting; bluster; blast on trumpets.
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fanion
n. - small marking flag.
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farctate
adj. - full; crammed; plethoric
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farcy
n. - disease affecting lymphatic glands of horses and cattle.
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fard
v. - to put on makeup, to fard your face
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fardel
n. - cumbersome bundle
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farina
n. - flour or meal of cereals, nuts, etc. farinaceous, adj. like or consisting of flour. farinose, adj. like or yielding flour; mealy.
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farobank
n. - establishment where the gambling game of faro is played
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farouche
adj. - wild; gauche; shy.
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farrago
n. - a mixture of diverse objects, hodgepodge
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farrier
n. - horse-shoeing smith. farriery, n. art or place of shoeing horses.
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farrow
v. - give birth (of pigs); n. act of giving birth to pigs; litter.
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fasces
n. - bundle of rods with an axe carried before ancient Roman magistrates, symbolizing authority.
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fascia
n. - (pl. -ae ) band of color; band or layer of connective tissue; name-board over shop; dashboard. fasciate, fasciated a. tied round with a band or fillet; striped. fasciation n.
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fascicle
n. - small bundle; part of book published separately; collection of written or printed sheets.
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fascine
n. - bundle of sticks used in building fortifications.
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fasti
n. -pl. pl. record; register; calendars of ancient Rome.
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fastigate
adj. - pointed. fastigiate, adj. narrowing at apex, fastigium, n. (pl. - gia) roof; top; gable.
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fastuous
adj. - arrogant; showy.
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fata morgana
n. - mirage.
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fatidic
adj. - foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory
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fatiferous
adj. - destructive; deadly
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fatwa
n. - proscription pronounced by Islamic religious leader.
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faucial
adj. - pertaining to fauces. faucitis, n. inflammation of fauces.
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fauteuil
n. - 'armchair'; stall seat in theatre; membership of French Academy.
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faux naif
phr. - falsely simple or naive; feigning artlessness
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faveolate
adj. - honey-combed. faviform, adj. honeycomb-like.
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favonian
adj. - like the west wind; mild
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favus
n. - contagious parasitive skin desease.
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feazings
n. - an unraveled rope end
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febricant
adj. - causing fever. febricity, n. feverishness. febrific, adj. feverish; febricant.
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febricula
n. - slight fever
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febrifuge
adj.,n. - (drug) allaying fever. febrifugal, adj.
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febrile
adj. - characterized by or symptomatic of fever; feverish. febrility, n.
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februation
n. - exorcism; religious purification
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fecit
phr. - 'made (it)'.
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feculent
adj. - containing or covered with filth; faecal; turbid. feculence, n.
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fedifragous
adj. - treacherous, deceitful
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fefnicute
n. - hypocrite; sneak
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felicific
adj. - producing happiness
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feliform
adj. - cat-like. feline, adj.
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fellness
n. - destructive cruelty
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felloe
n. - outer edge of a wheel, also the rim of a tire
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felo de se
n. - (pl. felones ...) self-murder or self-murderer.
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felon
n. - criminal. felonious, adj. felony, n. serious crime.
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feme
n. - Law, woman. feme covert, married woman. feme sole, unmarried woman or widow.
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femicide
n. - killing or killer of woman.
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feneration
n. - usury
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feracious
adj. - productive of good results; fruitful
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feretory
n. - shrine; chapel for bier; bier.
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feria
n. - (pl. -ae ) feast day; holiday; Ecclesiastical, day neither feast nor fast. ferial, adj.
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feriation
n. - taking a holiday; not working
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ferine
adj. - feral.
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ferity
n. - wild state; barbarism.
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ferruginous
adj. - ferreous; pertaining to or colored like iron rust. ferruginate, v. stain with iron compound.
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ferule
n. - rod or flat ruler for punishment. ferulaceous, adj. reed-like.
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fervescent
adj. - becoming feverish. fervescence, n.
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fescennine
adj. - obscene; lewd; licentious; scurrilous
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fescue
n. - stick used by teacher as pointer; several tall kinds of grass.
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fess, fesse
n. - horizontal band across a shield.
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festina lente
phr. - 'make haste slowly'.
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festination
n. - haste; hurrying walk, symptom of some nervous diseases.
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festucine
adj. - straw-colored.
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fetial
adj. - pertaining to declaration of war and peace; heraldic.
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fetor
n. - stench.
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fettle
n. - health or well-being
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fewterer
n. - a dog-keeper
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fiacre
n. - small hackney carriage.
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fibrin
n. - fibrous protein in blood formed in clotting. fibrination, n. condition of having excessive fibrin in blood. fibrinogen, n. substance in blood producing fibrin. fibrinosis, n. disease marked by fibrination.
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fibroma
n. - (pl. -ta) benign fibrous tumour. fibromatous, adj.
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fichu
n. - sheer, triangular cape worn over the shoulders
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ficiform
adj. - fig-shaped. ficoid, adj. fig-like.
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fictile
adj. - pertaining to pottery; moulded; able to be moulded into shape or new shape. fictility, n.
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fideism
n. - depending on faith rather than reason
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fideism
n. - reliance on faith alone.
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fidicinal
adj. - pertaining to stringed musical instrument.
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fidimplicitary
adj. - fully trusting someone
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figuline
adj. - fictile; n. clay vessel, object. figulate, adj. made of clay; fictile.
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figurant
n. - (fem. figurante ) ballet dancer who dances only with group; minor character in play.
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figurate
adj. - having a definite shape or form; Music, florid.
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filar
adj. - pertaining to thread; having threads across eye-piece. filarial, filarian, filarious, adj. pertaining or due to thread-worms. filariasis, n. infestation with thread-worms. filariform, adj. thread-like.
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filature
n. - drawing out or reeling of silk threads; apparatus or factory for doing this.
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filicide
n. - killing or killer of own child.
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filiciform
adj. - fern- or frond-shaped. filicoid, adj. fern-like.
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filiferous
adj. - bearing threads. filiform, adj. thread-like. filigerous, adj. flagellate. filipendulous, adj. hanging by a thread.
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filiopietistic
adj. - pertaining to ancestor worship
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filipendulous
adj. - hanging by a thread or string
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filoselle
n. - floss-like silk.
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fils
n. - son.
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fimble
n. - female hemp plant
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fimbrial
adj. - pertaining to or having a fringe. fimbriate, adj. fringed; v.t. fringe; hem. fimbriation, n. fimbricate, adj. fringed. fimbrillate, adj. having small fringe.
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fimetarious
n. - growing or living in excrement
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fimetic
adj. - pertaining to dung. fimicolous, adj. living in dung.
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finial
n. - ornament at apex of gable, etc.; pinnacle.
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firman
n. - Oriental ruler's edict, authorisation, etc.
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fissilingual
adj. - having a forked tongue
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fitch
n. - hair of polecat; brush of such hair. fitchew, n. polecat.
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fizgig
n. - a woman who flirts and gads about
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flabellate
adj. - fan-shaped. flabelliform, adj. flabellation, n. use of fan to cool.
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flagitate
v. - demand repeatedly. flagitation, n.
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flagitious
adj. - outrageous, flagrantly wicked, scandalous,vicious
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flambeau
n. - (pl. -beaux ) burning torch.
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flamen
n. - pagan priest. flamineous, adj. pertaining to flamen. flamenical, adj.
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flammeous
adj. - flame-colored. flammulated, adj. ruddy. flammulation, n. flame-colored or flame-shaped marking.
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flaneur
n. - an intellectual trifler
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flatulopetic
adj. - pretentious, pompous, inflated
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flavedo
n. - yellowness, especially of plants. flavescent, adj. turning yellow. flavic(ant), adj. yellow; yellowish. flavid, adj. golden yellow.
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fleer
v. - to laugh lecherously or derisively
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flense, flench
v. - cut up or skin, especially whale or seal.
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fleurette
n. - ornament in the shape of a small flower.
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flews
n. - pl. pendulous lips; chops
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flexanimous
adj. - mentally flexible
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floccify
v. - to consider worthless
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floccilation
n. - searching for imaginary objects
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floccose
adj. - woolly.
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flocculate
v. - collect into lumps or tufts; a. having hairy tufts. flocculent, adj. woolly; consisting of soft flakes; tufted. flocculence, n. flocculus, n. (pl. - li ) flake; small tuft. flocculation, n.
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floriated, floreated
adj. - decorated with flowers and leaves.
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florilegium
n. - (pl. -gia) collection of flowers; description of flora; anthology.
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floruit
phr. - 'he flourished'; period during which person lived (abbr. fl.); dates indicating when a person was active, especially in brackets after person's name.
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fluminous, fluminose
adj. - pertaining to or having many rivers.
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focillate
v. - to comfort
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fodient
adj. - pertaining to digging.
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Foehn
n. - dry warm wind blowing down northern slopes of Alps.
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foiter
n. - riddle or puzzle
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foliaceous
adj. - pertaining to, like or consisting of leaves or laminae.
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folie a' deux
phr. - a shared psychosis or delusion, especially one passed from one to another
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foliferous
adj. - bearing leaves. foliform, adj. leaf-shaped.
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foliolate
adj. - pertaining to or having leaflets. folioliferous, adj. bearing leaflets.
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fomes
n. - (pl. -mites ) substance carrying infection.
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fons et origo
phr. - 'source and origin'.
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fontinal
adj. - growing by or in springs.
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foramen
n. - (pl. -mina ) small orifice. foraminate, adj. having such; v.t. pierce. foraminous, adj.
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foraneous
adj. - pertaining to forum.
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forcipate
adj. - like forceps.
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fordo
n. - to exhaust through overwork
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forfex
n. - pair of scissors
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forficate
adj. - deeply forked. forfication, n.
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forisfamiliate
v. - to disinherit; to shed parental authority
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formication
n. - the feeling that bugs are crawling on you
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forslug
v. - to lose or destroy by sluggishness
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fossa
n. - (pl. -sae) depression or cavity, e.g. in bone.
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fossarian
n. - a clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger
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fossick
v. - search for by turning or picking over, especially for gold; rummage. fossicker, n.
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fossorial
adj. - for use in digging. fossor, n. grave-digger.
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fother
v. - to stop a leak
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foudroyant
adj. - striking, as lightning; sudden, dazzling
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foveate, foveated
adj. - pitted. foveolate, adj. bearing small pits.
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fraenum, frenum
n. - fold of membrane restraining an organ, as beneath the tongue.
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framis
n. - comic doubletalk blending actual words with made-up words
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frampold
adj. - peevish, touchy, quarrelsome
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franion
n. - the perennial hedonist, reveler
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freemartin
n. - sterile female twin calf.
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fremescent
adj. - an incipient murmur; becoming noisy
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fremitus
n. - vibration.
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fretum
n. - (pl. -ta) constriction.
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frigoric
adj. - pertaining to cold. frigiferous, frigorific, adj. causing cold.
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fringilline
adj. - like a finch; belonging to finch family of birds. fringillaceous, fringilliform, fringilloid, adj. finch- like.
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frisette
n. - curly fringe, often of artificial hair, worn on the forehead.
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frisket
n. - parchment or paper mask used in printing or retouching work.
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frit
n. - prepared material from which glass is made.
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fritillary
n. - several kinds of spotted butterfly and bulbous plant.
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frondesce
v. -i. open leaves. frondiferous, frondigerous, adj. bearing leaves or fronds. frondiform, adj. frond-shaped. frondivorous, adj. feeding on leaves. frondose, adj. having or like leaves. frondescence, n. frondescent, adj.
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frontogenesis
n. - meeting of two different air currents creating weather front.
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frottage
n. - rubbing, especially the making of rubbings on thin paper of objects underneath, e.g. ornamental brasses.
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frotteur
n. - someone who gets their kicks by rubbing against people in crowds
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froward
adj. - perverse; willfully contrary; obstinately disobedient;refractory
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fructuous
adj. - productive; fruitful; profitable
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frumenty
n. - dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar. frumentaceous, adj. like or made of grain.
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frustraneous
adj. - vain, useless
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fucatory
adj. - counterfeit; deceitful
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fucus
n. - (pl. -ci ) kind of flat seaweed; rockweed. fucoid, n. & a. (plant) like seaweed. fucous, adj.
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fugacious
adj. - fleeting; ephemeral; transitory; evanescent
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fugleman
n. - soldier standing in front of others to demonstrate drill, etc.; model.
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fulgent
adj. - radiant. fulgid, adj. glittering.
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fulgurant
adj. - like lightning. fulgurate, v.i. flash. fulgurating, adj. Medicine, applied to intense sudden pains. fulgurous, adj. flashing.
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fuliginous
adj. - like soot. fuliginosity n.
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fuliguline
adj. - pertaining to or like a sea duck; belonging to sea duck family of birds.
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fullams
n. - cheater's dice
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fulmar
n. - gull-like sea bird.
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fulminate
v. -i. explode; thunder; denounce in loud or violent manner. fulminant, adj. Medicine, developing suddenly. fulmineous, fulminous a. pertaining to or like thunder and lightning. fulmination, fulminator, n. fulminatory, adj.
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fulsome
adj. - excessive or overdone to the point of being in bad taste or even at times nauseating
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fulvous
adj. - tawny. fulvescent, adj. somewhat tawny.
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fumacious
adj. - fond of smoking
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fumatory
n. - place for fumigating. fumiduct, n. smoke vent.
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funambulist
n. - a tightrope walker
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fundiform
adj. - sling-shaped.
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fundus
n. - base of an organ or part furthest from its opening.
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funest
adj. - harbinger of evil or death
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fungible
adj.,n. - (thing) mutually interchangeable.
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funicular
adj. - pertaining to small cord, rope or tension. funicular railway, cable mountain railway. funiform a. cord- or rope-like. funipendulous, adj. hanging by a rope.
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furacious
adj. - thievish
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furcate, furcal
adj. - branched. furcellate, adj. slightly branched. furcation, n.
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furcula, furculum
n. - (pl. -lae or - la) any forklike part, especially the wishbone.
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furibund
adj. - furious, enraged
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furmety
n. - frumenty.
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furor loquendi
phr. - a passion to speak
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furor scribendi
phr. - a passion to write
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furore
n. - outburst of public indignation; outburst of enthusiasm.
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furuncle
n. - boil. furuncular, furunculous, adj. furunculoid, adj. like a boil. furunculosis, n. outbreak of boils.
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fusarole
n. - Architecture, decoration resembling a string of beads.
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fuscous
adj. - dark in color; tawny.
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fusee
n. - large-headed match; spirally grooved spindle used as counter weight in old clocks.
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fusiform
adj. - spindle-shaped. fusoid, adj.
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fussock
n. - a big, fat woman
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fustian
n. - pompousness, pretentiousness
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fustigate
v. - to beat; to criticize severely
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fusuma
n. - sliding paper screen separating rooms in Japanese house.
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fuzee
n. - red signal light used by RR to warn approaching trains
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fyrdung
n. - military training session
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