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Fair
Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

Fair-spoken
Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.

Fall
To let fall; to drop.

Fallacy
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

Fallen
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Fathom
To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.

Faulty
Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.

Fear
To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

Featheriness
The state or condition of being feathery.

Febriferous
Causing fever; .

Feint
Feigned; counterfeit.

Felicify
To make happy; to felicitate.

Fenceful
Affording defense; defensive.

Fensi-ble
Fencible.

Fere
Fierce.

Feringee
The name given to Europeans by the Hindos.

Ferriage
The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

Ferricyanate
A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

Ferro-concrete
Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also , and most commonly .

Festive
Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.

Fibrinoplastin
An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also .

Fichtelite
A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.

Fightingly
Pugnaciously.

Figurant
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

Filicide
The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

Filmy
Composed of film or films.

Finch
A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family .

Find
Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

Finedrawn
Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; .

firebug
a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist.

Fireman
A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.

Fitchy
Fitch.

Flamboyer
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of .

Flapdragon
A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.

Flax
A plant of the genus , esp. the , which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called , , , , etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

Fledge
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

Flexuose
Flexuous.

Flighter
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.

Flounder
The act of floundering.

Fluosilicate
A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of ; -- called also .

Flute
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

Foil
To tread under foot; to trample.

follow-up
a second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; .

Fond
Foundation; bottom; groundwork;

Footing
Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

Footless
Having no feet.

Foremostly
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.

Forensal
Forensic.

foreshore
the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks.

Forgo
To pass by; to leave. See 1st .

Fossorial
Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging;

Foundationless
Having no foundation.

Fourgon
An ammunition wagon.

Fracas
An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

Fred
Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names;

free-burning
burning in a continuous manner; -- of an electric arc; .

Frequentable
Accessible.

Frequentation
The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.

Frequently
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.

Frieze
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See , , 2.

fringepod
An annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.

Fritfly
A small dipterous fly of the genus , esp. , injurious to grain in Europe, and , injurious to clover in America.

Frost-free
not accumulating frost; -- used especially of refrigerators with an automatic defrost cycle such that the freezer compartment remains free of ice without need for a manual defrosting.

Fruticous
Fruticose.

fuck
to have sexual intercourse (with).

Fucoidal
Fucoid.

Fugitiveness
The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

full-length
accommodating the full height of the human figure; .

Furthersome
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.