(historical) A piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised.
faure
fause
faute
fauve
fauve
noun
Synonym of fauvist
felup
femur
femur
noun
(anatomy) A thighbone.
(arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
(entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
fetus
fetus
noun
(Australia, Canada, US) A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
(Australia, Canada, US) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
feuar
feuar
noun
(Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.
feuds
feuds
noun
plural of feud
feued
feued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of feu
feune
feute
fique
fique
noun
A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.
fiume
fleur
fleur
noun
fleur-de-lis
flued
flued
adj
Having a flue or flues (of a specified kind).
fluer
flues
flues
noun
(obsolete) Bits of down.
plural of flue
fluey
fluey
adj
As if suffering from influenza.
downy; fluffy
fluke
fluke
noun
(nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
A flounder.
A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
Waste cotton.
verb
(snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
flume
flume
noun
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
verb
(transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.
flute
flute
noun
(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
A long French bread roll, baguette.
A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
verb
(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
(intransitive) To play on a flute.
(transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
(transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
fouke
foute
freud
freud
Proper noun
of origin.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.
fuage
fuage
noun
Alternative form of fumage
fuder
fudge
fudge
intj
(colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
(colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
noun
(US) Chocolate fudge.
(chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
(euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
(uncountable, dated) A made-up story.
verb
(dated, transitive, intransitive) To botch or bungle something.
(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
fuels
fuels
noun
plural of fuel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuel
fuget
fugie
fugie
noun
(Scotland) A cock that will not fight.
(Scotland) A fugitive; a runaway.
fugle
fugle
verb
(colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
fugue
fugue
noun
(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
A fugue state.
Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
verb
To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
fulke
fumed
fumed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fume
fumer
fumer
noun
One who makes or uses perfumes.
That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
fumes
fumes
noun
plural of fume
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fume
fumet
fumet
noun
A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”)
The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
funge
funge
noun
(obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
(obsolete) A fungus.
funje
furey
furie
furze
furze
noun
A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
fused
fused
adj
(organic chemistry) Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings
Furnished with a fuse
Joined together by fusing
Melted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fuse
fusee
fusee
noun
(US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
A fuse for an explosive.
A large friction match.
A light musket or firelock.
One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
fusel
fuses
fuses
noun
plural of fuse
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuse
fuzed
fuzed
adj
Being equipped with a fuze
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fuze
fuzee
fuzee
noun
Alternative form of fusee (conical pulley, large match, fuse for explosives, warning flare)
Alternative form of fusee (flintlock musket)
fuzes
fuzes
noun
plural of fuze
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuze
guelf
ruffe
ruffe
noun
Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
Other species in the same genus.
unfed
unfed
adj
(figurative) Unsupported.
Not fed.
noun
(biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.