Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).
Noun
Fixed-bit index.
Female body inspector.
fei
ffi
fia
fib
fib
noun
(informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
(informal, rare) A liar.
(medicine, informal) The fibula.
(neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.
verb
(archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
(informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
fid
fid
noun
(nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
(nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
(nautical, slang) The penis.
A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
A small thick piece of anything.
A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
verb
To support a topmast using a fid.
fie
fie
intj
(archaic) Often followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
fig
fig
noun
(Newfoundland, dated) a raisin (dried grape)
(colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
A small piece of tobacco.
Abbreviation of figure. (diagram or illustration)
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
verb
(colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
(soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
(transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
fil
fil
noun
(chess) Alternative form of alfil.
A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.
fin
fin
noun
(UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
(US, slang, dated) a five-dollar bill; the sum of five dollars.
(film, television, road signs) The finish, the end
(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
verb
(intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
(intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
(transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
(transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
fio
fip
fip
noun
(US, obsolete) fippenny bit
fir
fir
noun
(chiefly countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.
(chiefly countable) Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
(advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
(archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
(bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
(medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
(statistics) Goodness of fit.
A seizure or convulsion.
A sudden burst (of an activity).
A sudden outburst of emotion.
Conformity of elements one to another.
The degree to which something fits.
The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
verb
(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, dated) simple past tense and past participle of fight; fought.
(intransitive) To be in harmony.
(intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
(intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
(intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
(intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
(transitive) To adjust.
(transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
(transitive) To be in agreement with.
(transitive) To be suitable for.
(transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
(transitive) To equip or supply.
(transitive) To make ready.
(transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
(transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
To be proper or becoming.
fix
fix
noun
(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
A determination of location.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
A repair or corrective action.
verb
(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
(transitive) To mend, to repair.
(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
(transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
(transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
(transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
(transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
(transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
(transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
fiz
fiz
verb
Archaic form of fizz.
fri
fyi
gif
gif
noun
Alternative letter-case form of GIF
iaf
idf
ifb
ifc
ife
iff
iff
conj
(mathematics, logic) If and only if; used to show that the truth values of two statements are the same.
(mathematics, logic) logically equivalent to rephrases:
Obsolete spelling of if.
XNOR
biconditionally
equal
just in case or just in the case that
that is to say
ifo
ifr
ifs
ifs
noun
plural of if
imf
inf
iof
isf
kif
kif
noun
A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
lif
lif
noun
The fibre by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.