| fallal | n. | item of finery or showy dress | ||
| false key | n. | lockpick or skeleton key | ||
| famulus | n. | servant or assistant, esp. of magician or scholar of the occult | ||
| fancy-work | n. | (also fancywork or fancy work) ornamental piece of needlework | ||
| fane | n. | temple | ||
| fanfaronade | n. | braggadocio, boastful talk | ||
| fanning bee | n. | informal conference, group discussion, gabfest (from the habit of worker bees ‘fanning’ their wings in hot weather to keep the hive cool) | slang | |
| fantail | n. | overhanging deck at stern of a ship | nautical | |
| fantod | n. | (usu. pl. & usu. preceded by the) the willies | ||
| faradism | n. | treatment with AC electricity | ||
| Faravahar | n. | preeminent symbol of Zoroastrianism, consisting of the upper body of a Persian man in a circle from which project wings and tail feathers and streamers; same symbol used generally for Persia or Iran | ||
| farctate | adj. | absolutely full | ||
| fard | v. | to apply makeup, to paint one’s face | ||
| fardel | n. | burden (esp. of sin or sorrow) | archaic | |
| farl | n. | flatbread or cake, typically cut in quadrants | Scots | |
| farouche | adj. | unsociably sullen; fierce | ||
| farrago | n. | confused mixture, hotchpotch, medley | ||
| farrow | v. | 1 | litter of pigs; to give birth to a litter of pigs | |
| farrow | adj. | 2 | (of a cow) not pregnant, barren | |
| farthing | n. | quarter-penny in the old £sd system of British money | ||
| farthingale | n. | hooped petticoat or frame worn beneath a woman’s skirts to extend them | ||
| fascia | n. | automobile dashboard | British | |
| fasciculate | adj. | arranged in bunches or bundles | ||
| fascicule | n. | a part of a printed work published separately | ||
| fathomer | n. | sailor assigned duty of sounding depth | nautical | |
| fatidic | adj. | prophetic | ||
| fatuity | n. | folly; idiocy | ||
| fatuous | adj. | silly, foolish; inane | ||
| fauces | n. | arched cavity at back of mouth leading to the pharynx | ||
| fauteuil | n. | wooden armchair with open sides | ||
| fazenda | n. | [Portuguese] estate or large farm | ||
| feather | v. | to turn the oar after a stroke so that it stays horizontal over the water’s surface during the return stroke whilst rowing | ||
| febricule | n. | very mild fever | obsolete | |
| feck | n. | efficacy; vigor | ||
| feckless | adj. | irresponsible, unreliable | ||
| feculent | adj. | full of dregs or feces | ||
| fecund | adj. | capable of giving birth or of producing fruit; fruitful, prolific | ||
| feist | n. | mongrel dog; truculent person or animal | ||
| felicitation | n. | congratulation | ||
| fellah | n. | peasant, worker, or farmer of Egypt or North Africa | ||
| felloe | n. | outer part of wheel into which the spokes are inserted | ||
| fellwalker | n. | person who walks over hills or high moors | British | |
| fenugreek | n. | legume native to western Asia; seeds of this plant which are used in cooking and medicine | ||
| feretory | n. | reliquary; part of church where relics are kept | ||
| ferine | adj. | feral, untamed, of or related to the state of animals existing in nature | ||
| feringhee | n. | foreigner, European, white person | slang | |
| ferrety | adj. | of or like a ferret | ||
| ferrididdle | n. | chipmunk, red ground squirrel | ||
| ferruginous | adj. | of the color of rust, reddish brown; containing rust or iron oxides | ||
| ferule | n. | rod, cane, or flat piece of wood (esp. a ruler) used to punish |
