(historical) An Islamic cleric, an expert in Islamic law and jurisprudence, especially in medieval and early modern Spain.
aquifer
aquifer
noun
An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
auliffe
aurifex
aurific
aurific
adj
That produces gold
beaufin
beaufin
noun
Alternative form of biffin
bufagin
bufagin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
dainful
fabliau
fabliau
noun
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
failure
failure
noun
An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
Bankruptcy.
Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
faipule
faipule
noun
The leader of an atoll of Tokelau.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
falutin
famulli
faneuil
faquirs
faquirs
noun
plural of faquir
fatigue
fatigue
noun
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
(often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
verb
(intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
(transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
fatuism
fatuism
noun
(obsolete) fatuity
fatuity
fatuity
noun
Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
fatuoid
faubion
faucial
faucial
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
faunish
faunist
faunist
noun
One who describes the fauna of a country.
fauvism
fauvism
noun
An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
fauvist
fauvist
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
An artist who used this style.
fayumic
fibulae
fibulae
noun
plural of fibula
fibular
fibular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fibula
fibulas
fiducia
figurae
figurae
noun
plural of figura
figural
figural
adj
(mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
(music) Figurate.
(obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
(rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
Figurative, not literal.
Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
fissura
fistuca
fistuca
noun
(historical) A kind of piledriver used by the ancient Romans.
fistula
fistula
noun
(Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses).
(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
fiumara
fiumara
noun
A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
flavius
fluavil
fluavil
noun
(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha as a yellow resinous substance.
fluidal
fluidal
adj
(chiefly geology) Pertaining to a fluid, or to a flowing motion.
flutina
flutina
noun
(music) An early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the "draw" of the bellows.
fluvial
fluvial
adj
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
foujita
fuchsia
fuchsia
adj
Having a purplish-red colour.
noun
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
fuegian
fuegian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Tierra del Fuego.
Noun
A native of Tierra del Fuego.
fuirena
fujisan
fulanis
fulmina
fulviah
fumaria
fumaria
noun
plural of fumarium
fumaric
fumaric
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to fumaric acid or its derivatives.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from fumitory.
fumarin
funaria
funfair
funfair
noun
(UK, Ireland) A travelling amusement park.
fungian
fungian
noun
(zoology) Any of the Fungiidae, a family of stony corals.
funkias
funkias
noun
plural of funkia
furandi
furiant
furiosa
furivae
furlani
fusains
fusains
noun
plural of fusain
fustian
fustian
adj
Imaginary; invented.
Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.
Useless; worthless.
noun
(alcoholic beverages, archaic) Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.
(figuratively) Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
gainful
gainful
adj
Contrary.
Disposed to taking advantage of.
Providing gain; profitable.
Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
guilfat
hafnium
hafnium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Hf) with an atomic number of 72: a lustrous, silvery-grey tetravalent transition metal.
hauflin
ideaful
ideaful
adj
Full of ideas.
ifugaos
infauna
infauna
noun
Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments