General Dictionary
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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items. |
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The 6th letter of the Roman alphabet
The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
A degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
A nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite
; free or impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"
A secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justic
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
United States novelist (1896-1940)
The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
Extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
Russian goldsmith noted for creating a series of jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for European royalty (1846-1920)
A member of the Fabian Society in Britain
Using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy"
Of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society"
Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers; leaves yield a tonic and diuretic
Socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law Back to top
An association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism
A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
A short moral story (often with animal characters)
A deliberately false or improbable account
Celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
The underlying structure; "restoring the framework of the bombed building"; "it is part of the fabric of society"
Make up something artificial or untrue
Put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"
Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth
The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
The act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
Writing in a fictional form
A deliberately false or improbable account
Someone who tells lies
A person who tells or invents fables
Barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
Extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" Back to top
In a fabulous manner; "she was a fabulously gifted player"
The face or front of a building
A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
The act of confronting bravely; "he hated facing the facts"; "he excelled in the face of danger"
A vertical surface of a building or cliff
The side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object); "he dealt the cards face down"
The striking or working surface of an implement
The general outward appearance of something; "the face of the city is changing"
The expression on a person''s face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"
Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn''t believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty"
Status in the eyes of others; "he lost face"
The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"
The part of an animal corresponding to the human face
A specific size and style of type within a type family
A contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"
A surface forming part of the outside of an object; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf"
A part of a person that is used to refer to a person; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces"
Deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"
Oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" Back to top
Cover the front or surface of; "The building was faced with beautiful stones"
Line the edge (of a garment) with a different material; "face the lapels of the jacket"
Turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction; "Turn and face your partner now"
Turn so as to expose the face; "face a playing card"
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"
Be opposite; "the facing page"; "the two sofas face each other"
A regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to certificate holders on a stated maturity date
Harden steel by adding carbon
Perform cosmetic surgery on someone''s face
(ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players
A hostile disagreement face-to-face
Maintaining dignity or prestige; "a face-saving compromise"
In each other''s presence; "a face-to-face encounter"
Within each other''s presence; "she met the president face-to-face"
Directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table"
Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace"
Without a face or identity; "a faceless apparition"; "the faceless accusers of the police state"
A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building)
Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
A protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component) Back to top
(a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
A distinct feature or element in a problem; "he studied every facet of the question"
A smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
Having facets; "a faceted diamond"
Cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
Not seriously; "I meant it facetiously"
Playful humor
The plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube)
The angle formed by two edges of a polyhedral angle
One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
Bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin
The hair growing on the lower part of a man''s face
Face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets
A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building)
Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building)
Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
Mask that provides a protective covering for the face in such sports as baseball or football or hockey
Start a game by a face-off Back to top
A cream that cleanses and tones the skin
Cosmetic powder for the face
The visual perception of familiar faces
Biometric identification by scanning a person''s face and matching it against a library of known faces; "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists"
An act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige)
An act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige)
Soap used as a toiletry
Accept the unpleasant consequences of one''s actions
A small towel used to dry the hands or face
Involving close contact; confronting each other; "the boy and the policeman suddenly came face-to-face at the corner"; "they spoke facel to face"
Deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
The apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
The value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value
A piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face
A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
Care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams
Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
Of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object
Of or concerning the face; "a facial massage"; "facial hair"; "facial expression"
With respect to the face Back to top
An artery that originates in the external carotid and gives off branches that supply the neck and face
The expression on a person''s face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"
A gesture executed with the facial muscles
A gesture executed with the facial muscles
The ratio (in percent) of the maximum width to the maximum height of the face
Any of the skeletal muscles of the face
Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
Identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces; "facial profiling is a new form of airport security"
Biometric identification by scanning a person''s face and matching it against a library of known faces; "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists"
Tissue paper suitable for use on the face
Any of several veins draining the face
Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
Performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"
Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
Make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge"
Physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse"
Be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"
Freed from difficulty or impediment
Act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential Back to top
The condition of being made easy (or easier); "social facilitation is an adaptive condition"
Freeing from difficulty or impediment; "facilitative changes in the economic structure"
Someone who makes progress easier
Inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity
A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"
Services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"
A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"
A natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
Skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"
The act of confronting bravely; "he hated facing the facts"; "he excelled in the face of danger"
Providing something with a surface of a different material
A protective covering that protects the outside of a building
A lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening
An ornamental coating to a building
Two facing pages of a book or other publication
Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
An exact copy or reproduction
Send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the report right away?"
Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" Back to top
A concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
A statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"
An event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
Designed to find information or ascertain facts; "a fact-finding committee"; "investigative reporting"
A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
A dissenting clique
Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
Not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
A brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
Something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
An independent variable in statistics
An abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a s
Anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"
A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
Resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
The product of all the integers up to and including a given integer; "1, 2, 6, 24, and 120 are factorials"
Of or relating to factorials Back to top
(mathematics) the resolution of an integer or polynomial into factors such that when multiplied together they give the integer or polynomial
(mathematics) the resolution of an integer or polynomial into factors such that when multiplied together they give the integer or polynomial
Resolve (a polynomial) into factors
(mathematics) the resolution of an integer or polynomial into factors such that when multiplied together they give the integer or polynomial
Resolve (a polynomial) into factors
A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Produced in quantity at a factory
A large-scale farming enterprise
Price charged for goods picked up at the factory
A whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea
A whistle at a factory that is sounded to announce times for starting or stopping work
A workman in a mill or factory
To perform a factor analysis of correlational data
Any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variable that account for the int
Of or relating to or the product of factor analysis
Of or relating to or the product of factor analysis
To perform a factor analysis of correlational data
A protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots
A protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin
An enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot Back to top
Resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
Ion of calcium; a factor in the clotting of blood
Coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B
The constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y; usually written y = kx, where k is the factor of proportionality
The ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use
Resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
A coagulation factor
A coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K
A coagulation factor (trade name Hemofil) whose absence is associated with hemophilia A
Coagulation factor that is converted to an enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction that depends on calcium ions and other coagulation factors
Coagulation factor whose deficiency results in a hemorrhagic tendency
Coagulation factor whose deficiency results in prolongation of clotting time of venous blood
In the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot
A servant employed to do a variety of jobs
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
Characterized by fact; "the factual aspects of the case"
Existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not; "de facto segregation is as real as segration imposed by law"; "a de facto state of war"
Of the nature of fact; having actual existence; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"
Based on fact; "factual accuracy"; "a factual account"
Of or relating to or characterized by facts; "factual considerations" Back to top
The quality of being actual or based on fact; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination"
As a fact or based on fact; "they learn much, factually, about the problems of retirement and provision for old age, and, psychologically, in the sharing of their thoughts on retirement"
The quality of being actual or based on fact; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination"
A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
A large bright spot on the sun''s photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
A bright spot on a planet
Not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences"
Granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment"
Able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte"
Of or relating to the mental faculties
One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
The body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
An educator who works at a college or university
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
In a faddish manner
Intensely fashionable for a short time
In a faddish manner
A person who subscribes to a variety of fads
Intensely fashionable for a short time
Gradually ceasing to be visible Back to top
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
Become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
Disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
Reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
A slow or gradual disappearance
A gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances
Become weaker; "The sound faded out"
Become weaker; "The sound faded out"
Weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound"
Gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength
A sad Portuguese folksong
A reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity
A device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which
Foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
A hard mass of dried feces
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
A take-home test in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood; used to detect colorectal cancers Back to top
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
The enchanted realm of fairies
Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers
A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands
A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
The enchanted realm of fairies
Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers
(Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd
Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea; Castanopsis; Chrysolepis; Fagus; Lithocarpus; Nothofagus; Quercus
An order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day''s shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out
A bundle of sticks and branches bound together Back to top
Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"
Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"
A villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets"
Buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum
Or member of genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour
A bundle of sticks and branches bound together
Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"
Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
Beeches
North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
Variety of European beech with pendulous limbs
Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
Large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America
Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves Back to top
Variety of European beech with pendulous limbs
Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
The time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"
Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922)
King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922)
German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
A temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees
A thermometer calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit
Glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
Get worse; "Her health is declining"
Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
Prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
Fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
Judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
Be unsuccessful; "Where do today''s public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" Back to top
Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"
Be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
Eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction; "a fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident"
Guaranteed not to fail; "a fail-safe recipe for cheese souffle"
Unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"
Failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"
A flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife''s failings"
Below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
Unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"
A ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton
An unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic''s failure to check the brakes"
An act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"
An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; "the surprise party was a complete failure"
A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
Loss of ability to function normally; "kidney failure"
Lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure"
Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"
Having made preparations; "prepared to take risks"
In a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it"
The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work Back to top
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne''er won fair lady"
Lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
Indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven''t the faintest idea"
Barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "faint colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"
Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
Weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne''er won fair lady"
The trait of lacking boldness and courage
To a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren''t even faintly true"
The quality of being dim
Barely audible
A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
A sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
A competitive exhibition of farm products; "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
Gathering of producers to promote business; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
Join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
Very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there''s a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" Back to top
Visually appealing; "our fair city"
(used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
Free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
(of a baseball) hit between the foul lines; "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
(of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
Not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
Of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
Showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
More than adequate in quality; "fair work"
In a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
Attractively feminine; "the fair sex"
Just and honest
Favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set"
Rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe
Of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced
Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty
United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)
United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000) Back to top
An open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses
(used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
Not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
A pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship''s rigging to avoid chafing
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
In a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
The quality of being good looking and attractive
Conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim"
The property of having a naturally light complexion
Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty
A commission delegated to ensure opportunities for the expression of opposing views
The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters
Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control
Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers
Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Mushroom that grows in a fairy ring
Rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf Back to top
The enchanted realm of fairies
Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
A story about fairies; told to amuse children
Very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies
A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium
Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
A female character is some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine
A generous benefactor
Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
A small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas)
A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium
Small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
A story about fairies; told to amuse children
Fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse Back to top
A story about fairies; told to amuse children
(baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field
(American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled
A reasonable probability of success
A clean copy of a corrected draft
Fair treatment
A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"
A hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or los
About average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
The conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties
Moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975)
City in northeast Pakistan
King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975)
Loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
Complete confidence in a person or plan etc; "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"
A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
Institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him"
A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
Any loyal and steadfast following Back to top
Marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"
Steadfast in affection or allegiance; "years of faithful service"; "faithful employees"; "we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor"
Not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "he remained faithful to his wife"
In a faithful manner; "it always came on, faithfully, like the radio"
The quality of being faithful
Deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"
In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
Care provided through prayer and faith in God
Care provided through prayer and faith in God
An irreversible accomplishment
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
A person who makes deceitful pretenses
Talk through one''s hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn''t fake anything; it''s real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"
A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man Back to top
A person who makes deceitful pretenses
The act of faking (or the product of faking)
A fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly
A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds
Curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon"
Sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia
Small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia
A rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew
A short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point
Curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon"
A ligament that attaches part of the liver to the diaphragm and the abdominal wall
A genus of Falconidae
Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
Hunt with falcons; "The Arabs like to falcon in the desert"
Female falcon especially a female peregrine falcon
Female falcon especially a female peregrine falcon
A person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
A family of birds of the order Falconiformes
Chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures Back to top
Relating to or resembling a falcon
The art of training falcons to hunt and return
Small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry
A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry
Large and rare arctic falcon having white and dark color phases
Small North American falcon
Small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds
Small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind
Ornamental objects of no great value
A group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British crown colony
United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
The act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"
A movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"
A sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
When a wrestler''s shoulders are forced to the mat
The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" Back to top
A downward slope or bend
The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
The season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"
Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost he
Decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
Come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
Go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"
Occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"
Begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"
Be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"
Come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"
Be cast down; "his eyes fell"
Assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"
Fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"
Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"
Lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"
Slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"
Move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward" Back to top
Be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
Fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
Come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"
Be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"
To be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student"
To be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"
Lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"
Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"
Yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"
Lose one''s chastity; "a fallen woman"
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"
Die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"
Be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"
Come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"
Fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
Deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters
The hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played
Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)
Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" Back to top
Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"
Result of a fallacy or error in reasoning
A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
To break off a military action with an enemy
Killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"
Having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"
Having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building"
Having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk"
An instep flattened so the entire sole rests on the ground
A person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves"
A person who fells trees
The likelihood of making errors
Likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree"
Having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I''m only human"; "frail humanity"
Coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain"
Suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car"
Becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes"
Decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"
A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" Back to top
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality"
Either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus
French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot''s tetralogy (1850-1911)
A congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle
A congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle
Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
The radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
A shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb
Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
Undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"
Small Eurasian deer
A steep descent of the water of a river
Display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards; "This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him"
Become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
Break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"
Go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
Lose one''s emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died"
Larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains Back to top
Change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures"
Diminish in size or intensity
Get worse; "My grades are slipping"
Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Retreat
Move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Fall backwards and down
Have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
Retreat
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
The hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played
Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
Green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria
Fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States
Lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"
September 22
Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
Fall in love with; become infatuated with; "She fell for the man from Brazil"
Be deceived, duped, or entrapped by; "He fell for her charms"; "He fell for the con man''s story" Back to top
Revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior; "The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert"
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
To take one''s place in a military formation or line; "Troops fall in!"
Become part of; become a member of a group or organization; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"
Be included in or classified as; "This falls under the rubric ''various''"
Become clear or enter one''s consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
Agree on (a position, for example)
Begin to experience feelings of love towards; "She fell in love with her former student"
Diminish in size or intensity
Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off"
Come off; "This button had fallen off"
(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eve
Open involuntarily; "His mouth dropped open"; "Her jaw dropped"
Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
Have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"
Leave (a barracks, for example) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out"
Come forth or out; "You stick the coins in, but they come out again"; "His hair and teeth fell out"
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically; "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely"
Fall forward and down; "The old woman went over without a sound" Back to top
Try very hard to please someone; "She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law"
Fail to meet (expectations or standards)
Fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example
Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
Be included in or classified as; "This falls under the rubric ''various''"
Find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
A variety of webworm
(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
Arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
Designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn''t fake anything; it''s real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"
Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
Deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
Erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
A false statement Back to top
In an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
In an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
The state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"
A male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register
Artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice"
A warning that is given about something that fails to occur
Plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho
A plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers
Straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys
A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
Resembles Pteridium aquilinum; of Queensland, Australia
Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
Tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers
A group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
Any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas Back to top
Agaric often confused with the death cup
Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans
North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
A mask worn as part of a masquerade costume
Multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia
Sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia
A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Pungent Old World wild onion
Crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial
The opening between the false vocal folds
North American astilbe with panicles of creamy white flowers
Any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers
A covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment
North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
(law) confinement without legal authority
An erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
Dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers
Any of several plants of the genus Baptisia Back to top
Painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency
Small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers
Small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan
Western United States bushy herb having yellow pealike flowers
An American plant of the genus Malvastrum
Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits
Any of various fungi of the family Peronosporaceae parasitic on e.g. grapes and potatoes and melons
American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe
Stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant
Plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana
Stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant
Plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana
A fungus of the family Helvellaceae
A name that has been assumed temporarily
Any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
Weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
Physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant
(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation Back to top
Tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil is central North America that can cause contact dermatitis; produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever
An incorrect income tax return
Slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers; resembles meadow rue
Slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers; resembles meadow rue
North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
Thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
Southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage
Common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America
Small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion
Disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia
A false statement
Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk
A removable denture
A yellow quartz
Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
Any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle
Any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
Any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
A manifestly unjust verdict; not true to the evidence
Either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization Back to top
Either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization
Evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers
A person who deliberately gives false testimony
A breast-shaped mass of padding worn in a brassiere
Capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
The act of determining that something is false
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
A willful perversion of facts
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
Someone who falsifies
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"
Prove false; "Falsify a claim"
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
The act of determining that something is false
A false statement
The state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"
A dissolute character in Shakespeare''s plays
Of or resembling Falstaff Back to top
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
Speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
Walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
Be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
Unsteady in speech or action
In an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs"
A spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices
Meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song
The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Favorable public reputation
Widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
Relating to or having the characteristics of a family; "children of the same familial background"; "familial aggregation"
Congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis
A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
A person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
A person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders" Back to top
Well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
Within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"
(usually followed by `with'') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with the complex machinery"; "he was familiar with those roads"
The experience of becoming familiar with something
Make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"
Having achieved a comfortable relationship with your environment
Serving to make familiar
An act of undue intimacy
Close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
Usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
A casual manner
Personal knowledge or information about someone or something
The experience of becoming familiar with something
Make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"
Having achieved a comfortable relationship with your environment
Serving to make familiar
In an intimately familiar manner; "Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group"
A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
Having fair knowledge of; "they were acquainted"; "fully acquainted with the facts"
Primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" Back to top
People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
A collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
An association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
A person having kinship with another or others; "he''s kin"; "he''s family"
Widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens
Surgeonfishes
Mites
Hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles
A family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples
Sturgeons
Short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
Tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines
Filamentous anaerobic bacteria
Plant lice
Used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae)
In some classifications considered the family comprising the Old World vultures which are more often included in the family Accipitridae Back to top
Coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes
An Old World reptile family of Sauria
Large family including many familiar mushrooms
Chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae
Poachers
In some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas
Succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds
Bubble shells
Larks
Fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants
Bonefish
Kingfishers
Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.
Whiteflies
Perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes especially genus Allium
Alligators; caimans
A family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Thresher sharks Back to top
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; sometimes included in subfamily Amaryllidaceae
Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
Snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
In some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds
New World salamanders
North American catfishes
Only the bowfins
Sand lances
Lancelets
Worm lizards
Congo snakes
Used in former classifications for plum and peach and almond trees which are now usually classified as members of the genus Prunus
Small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia
The cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac
Wolffishes
Swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks
Freshwater gastropod
Hookworms
A large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground
Alligator lizards Back to top
Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
Screamers
Snakebirds
Legless lizards
Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs
Deathwatch beetles
A family of fish including: flashlight fishes
Saddle oysters
Feather stars
Frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers
Hornworts
Comprising only the pronghorns
Small soft-bodied plant lice
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Aphyllanthes
Plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill
Honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
Mountain beavers
Sea hares
Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
Swifts; in former classifications included in the order Coraciiformes Back to top
Bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
Coextensive with the order Apterygiformes
Widely distributed shrubs and trees
Anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron
Mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: ginseng; hedera
Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae
Soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution
Ark shells
Tiger moths
Herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
Soft ticks
Small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
Orb-weaving spiders; cosmopolitan in distribution
Represented solely by the genus Argonauta
Sea catfishes
Family of birthworts (including wild ginger)
Pill bugs
Wood swallows
Family of one species of frog: tailed frog Back to top
Large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates
Widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice
Robber flies
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae: includes genera Asparagus and sometimes Ruscus
Family of fungi including some common molds
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium; Pleurosorus; Schaffneria
Crayfish
Plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
Small spiny-finned fishes of both salt and fresh water
Small motile sulphur bacteria
Alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
Scrubbirds
Booklice
Trumpetfishes
Fungi having gelatinous sporophores
Used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia
Used in some classifications for the genus Azolla
Piroplasms and cattle pathogens
Typically rod-shaped usually gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores Back to top
Family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals; sometimes associated with acute infective processes
Shoebills
Right whales
Rorquals; blue whales
Stalkless barnacles
Triggerfishes
Distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers
A family of protoctista
Mole rats; sand rats
Family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts
Toadfishes; related to anglers and batfishes
Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America
Family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods
Ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars
Water bugs
A family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous
Shrubs or herbs
Monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
A large Bible with pages to record marriages and births
Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales Back to top
A family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera
A family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales
Domestic cockroaches
One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum; Doodia; Sadleria; Stenochlaena; Woodwardia
A family of fish including: combtooth blennies
Boas and pythons
Family of pore-bearing fleshy fungi having the spores easily separating from the cup and often from each other
Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
Chinese silkworm moth
A family of birds of the suborder Oscines
Bee flies
A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
A family of fish of the order Heterosomata
True antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats
True sloths; in some
Deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas
Small annelid worms with the posterior end modified into an adhesive sucker; especially formerly regarded as modified leeches
Small family of marine fishes having covered gills
Lancelets
Plants with four-petaled flowers Back to top
Narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance
Chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae
Seed beetles
A family of acrocarpous mosses
Whelks
Puffbirds
Hornbills
True toads
Large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews
Family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers
Resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees
A corporation that is entirely owned by the members of a single family
Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees
Constituting the order Opuntiales
Coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
Coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
Small marsupials of southern South America
Spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Dragonets Back to top
Blowflies
Marmosets
Dicot aquatic herbs
A family of fungi belonging to the order Tulostomatales
Shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia
Camels and llamas and vicunas
Family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae
Many of the best known edible crabs
1 genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies
Dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes
2 genera of erect or twining wind-pollinated herbs: genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae
Coextensive with the genus Canna
Barbets
A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis; Cleome; Crateva; Polanisia
Shrubs and small trees and woody vines
Goatsuckers
Boarfishes
Coypus
Leaf bugs
Ground beetles Back to top
Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
Pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
Largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks
Sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae
Somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks
Cranelike South American wading birds
Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
Used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus; Ostryopsis; and Ostryopsis
Small genus of tropical South American trees
Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
Beavers
A family of large ostrich-like birds including cassowaries
1 genus: Casuarina
Condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures
Suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
A family of Hystricomorpha
All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins
Gall midges
In some classifications included in family Moraceae
Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits Back to top
Sunfish family
Shrimpfishes
A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robolos
A family of Nematoda
A family of plants of order Rosales; coextensive with the genus Cephalotus
A family of Cephalotaxaceae
Long-horned beetles
Lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
Coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts
Biting midges; sand flies
American ceratopsian dinosaurs
Fungi having carbonous perithecia with long necks
1 genus
Froghoppers or spittlebugs
Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey
Creepers
Deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer
Coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body
In some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks
Butterfly fishes Back to top
An arthropod family including: chalcidflies
An arthropod family including: chalcidflies
Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria
Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria
Green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts
Tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
Former name of the Characidae
Plover family
Green turtles; hawksbills
Green turtles; hawksbills
Snapping turtles
Includes spinach and beets
Jumping plant lice
A family of Holocephali
Small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents
Midges
Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates
Green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome
Small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Small family of soft-finned bottom-livers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes Back to top
Golden moles
Leaf beetles
Green lacewings
A family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales
Leafhoppers
Cicadas
Cichlids
Tiger beetles
Storks
Wingless flat-bodied blood-sucking insects
Water ouzels
Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats
Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
A family of lichens
Family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns
Fleshy fungi: coral fungi
Beetles that prey on other insects
Coextensive with the genus Clethra
Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas
Herrings; shad; sardines; etc. Back to top
Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
Loaches
Scale insects
The ladybugs
The honeycreepers
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted: Colchicum; Gloriosa
Nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species
Doves and pigeons
Former usage synonymous with Antedonidae
A family of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Myrtales
Large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts
Plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
Marine eels
Mostly tropical climbing shrubs or small trees; closely related to Leguminosae
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit
Used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus
Rollers
Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
Small family of spiny ovoviviparous African lizards Back to top
Soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
Squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs
Water bugs
A rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba; Cornus; Corokia; Curtisia; Griselinia; Helwingia
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
Crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay
Dobsons
Used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus
A large family of mostly gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales
Large active pelagic percoid fish
Cotingas; umbrella birds
Sculpins
A court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children)
Curassows; guans; chachalacas
Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae
Shrimps
Succulent shrubs and herbs
Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
True crocodiles
New World vipers: pit vipers Back to top
Plants with four-petaled flowers
Large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders
A family of Blattodea
One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
Large burrowing spiders
Includes cuckoo; ani; roadrunner
A family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
Mosquitoes
Trees or shrubs or climbers; mostly southern hemisphere
Cypresses and junipers and many cedars
True weevils: snout beetles
New World botflies
Tropical tree ferns
Ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids
Lumpfishes
Tritons
A family of Hymenoptera
A family of Dermoptera
Tonguefishes
Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant Back to top
Family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries
A family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
Large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia
The honeycreepers
A family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
Cochineal insects
Flying gurnards
Sand stargazers
Small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies
Sting rays
Armadillos
Agoutis and pacas
Dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded anteaters; Tasmanian devils
Dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded anteaters; Tasmanian devils
Comprising solely the aye-aye
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
Dolphins
Family of imperfect mushrooms having dark-colored hyphae or conidia
Woodhewers or woodcreepers Back to top
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
Carpet beetles
Sea turtles
Unicellular algae
True vampire bats
North temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales
Armored scales
Large and small highly aquatic salamanders
Tree ferns: genera Dicksonia; Cibotium; Culcita; Thyrsopteris
Mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome
Opossums
Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia; Hibbertia
Moas
Spiny puffers
Albatrosses
Yams
Old World jerboas
Chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads
Chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins
Family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue Back to top
A general practitioner who treats all the family members
Oceanic tunicates
Greatly elongated roundworm
Hawaiian honeycreepers
Swift-running bipedal dinosaurs
A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs
Fruit flies
Alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
A family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller''s sea cow
Water beetles
Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships
Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships
A family of reptiles of the order Pelycosauria
A family of protoctista in the order Coccidia
Shrubs or small trees often armed
Genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae
Cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes
Click beetles and certain fireflies
Small family comprising the electric eels Back to top
Sleepers
Elephants
Tarpons and ladyfishes
Viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes
Heathlike shrubs
Box and water turtles
A large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract
Anchovies
A large family of gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
Mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects
Australasian shrubs or small trees
Ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
Mayflies
Small family comprising the spadefishes
Horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals
Sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies
New World arboreal porcupines
Heathers
True hedgehogs Back to top
Chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts
Family of fungi parasitic mostly on leaves; includes powdery mildews
A family of plants of order Geraniales; have drupaceous fruit
Comprising only the gray whales
Pikes; pickerels; muskellunges
Considered green algae
A family of plants of order Geraniales
Coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi
Flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks
A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea; Castanopsis; Chrysolepis; Fagus; Lithocarpus; Nothofagus; Quercus
A family of birds of the order Falconiformes
A family of Trematoda
Cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers
Threadlike roundworms
Marine limpets
Cornetfishes
A family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs
Typical earwigs Back to top
Antbirds
Ants
Small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States
Frigate birds
Finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings
Small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds
Plant hoppers: lantern flies
Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman''s breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta
E.g. ovenbirds
Large family of important mostly marine food fishes
Jacamars
Horse botflies
Sticklebacks
Gavials
Loon family
A family of earthstar fungi belonging to the order Lycoperdales
Geckos
Important economic pests
Snake mackerels Back to top
Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals
A family of fungi belonging to the order Helotiales
Measuring worms
North American pocket gophers
Small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes
Chiefly herbaceous plants
Mojarras
An arthropod family that includes water striders
Mojarras
An arthropod family that includes water striders
Large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales
A family of protoctista
Constituting the order Ginkgoales; includes the genus Ginkgo and extinct forms
Giraffes
Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers
A family of ferns belonging to order Filicales
Dormice and other Old World forms
A family of protoctists
Flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies
Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as Gnetum Back to top
Clingfishes
Gobies
Elephants extinct since the Pleistocene
Coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
A family of sappy plants that grow in Australasia and southeast China
Leaf miners
The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
In some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry
Cranes
Crickets
Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
Whirligig beetles
Duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous
Oystercatchers
Some genera placed in family Liliaceae
Bird parasites
Grunts
A family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture
Abalones Back to top
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales
Comprises genera Hamamelis; Corylopsis; Fothergilla; Liquidambar; Parrotia; other small genera
Land snails including the common edible snail and some pests
Only known venomous lizards
A fungus family of order Helotiales
Family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous
Brown lacewings
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hemerocallis
Tree swifts
Halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide
Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats
Greenlings
Primitive sharks
Winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Hippopotami
Old World leafnose bats
A family of Hirudinea
Swallows and martins Back to top
Part of a patient''s medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases
Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
A family of Holothuroidea
Large-clawed lobsters
Modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta
One of many families or subfamilies in which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Hyenas
Tooth fungi
A family of flowering plants in Africa and Argentina that are parasitic on the roots of other plants
Sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae
Storm petrels
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
Capybara
Sea snakes
Perennial woodland herbs
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance
Tree frogs
Used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae Back to top
Terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns
Used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae
Beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae
Family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales
Warble flies
In some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae
Old World porcupines
Ibises
Ichneumon flies
Later ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous; widely distributed in both hemispheres
American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks
New World lizards
New World lizards
Iguanodons
Honey guides
A family of Lemuroidea
Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
A family of birds of the suborder Oscines
Large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs
Quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes Back to top
Sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins
In some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
Hard ticks
Family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications
External male sex organs
Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
Tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes
A family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales
Comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales
Primitive termites of warm regions
In some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos
Mud turtles; musk turtles
Sea chubs
The mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary
Wrasses
Old World lizards
Lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid
Lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid
The mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary
Large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters Back to top
Oceanic sharks
Opahs
Fireflies
Shrikes
Stout-bodied lizards
Thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit
Armored catfish
Gull family: gulls and terns
Tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths
Extinct except for the coelacanth
A family of Lauraceae
A fungus family of the division Lichenes
Large tropical trees bearing large fruits with woody skins
A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
Primitive New Zealand frogs
Coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order
Family of small free-floating thalloid plants
Typical lemurs; of Madagascar
Family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico
Carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia; Pinguicula; Genlisea Back to top
Goose barnacles
Family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa
Fossil plants characterized by conspicuous spirally arranged leaf scars on the trunk
A family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk
Firebrats
Comprises the genus Lepisosteus
Hares and rabbits
New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae
Blind snakes
Includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Sm
Slugs
Horseshoe crabs
A widely distributed family of plants
People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
Primitive New Zealand frogs
Snailfishes
Snailfishes
Deep-sea crabs of cold waters
Periwinkles
Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia Back to top
Not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae
Tripletails
Short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
A dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales
Small family of usually scandent ferns
Large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
Very small family of tree ferns
In some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria
Slow-moving omnivorous nocturnal primates of tropical Asia; usually tailless
Very small family of New Zealand ferns
Stag beetles
Snappers
Louvars
Family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs
A fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs
A family of ferns belonging to the order Lycopodiales
Wolf spiders
Lygaeid bugs
Tussock moths
Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers Back to top
Jumping bristletails
Kangaroos; wallabies
Bellows fishes
Grenadiers
Grenadiers
Subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron; Magnolia; Manglietia
Spider crabs
Short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored
Tropical shrubs or trees
Herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra
Extinct family: mastodons
A man whose family is of major importance in his life
Coextensive with the order Pholidota
Mantises
Mantises
Mantispids
Tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes
Constituting the order Marattiales: chiefly tropical eusporangiate ferns with gigantic fronds
Liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli
Clover ferns Back to top
In most classifications not considered a separate family but included in the Pedaliaceae
Extinct family: mastodons
Primitive termites
A monocotyledonous family of bog plants of order Xyridales
Medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit
Leaf-cutting and mason bees
Old World false vampire bats
Two-toed sloths
Megalosaurs
Megapodes
Extinct ground sloths
Rust fungi
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted: includes Aletris; Narthecium; Veratrum
A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
Turkeys and some extinct forms
Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees
Honey eaters
Blister beetles
Plant hoppers: treehoppers Back to top
Herbaceous or woody climbers
Lyrebirds
A dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales
Bee-eaters
Spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment; includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes
Wormfishes
Narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
Sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae: mockingbirds; catbirds; thrashers
Family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Leaf bugs
Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae
Large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas
Ocean sunfishes
Mastiff bats; freetail bats
A family of birds of the order Coraciiformes
Family of imperfect fungi having white or brightly colored hyphae and spores that are produced directly on the mycelium and not aggregated in fruiting bodies
Filefishes
Narwhals
Used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes
Trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis Back to top
A family of edible fungi including the true morels
Pipits and wagtails
Large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food products
Gray mullets
Goatfishes or red mullets
Marine eels
Originally Old World rats now distributed worldwide; distinguished from the Cricetidae by typically lacking cheek pouches
Treelike tropical Asian herbs
Old World (true) flycatchers
Two-winged flies especially the housefly
Touracos
Weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens
A family of wasps
Soft-shell clams
Fungus gnats
A family of bacteria
Pleomorphic gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria; parasitic in mammals
Deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
Eagle rays
Extinct South American edentates Back to top
Constituting the order Myricales
Family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds
New World anteaters
Antlions
Family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida
Trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil
Small shrimp-like crustaceans
Marine mussels
Slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
Bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung
Former terms for Cyanophyceae
Monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers
Monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers
The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member''s given name)
Moonshells
Spiral-shelled cephalopods
Coextensive with the genus Nepenthes
In some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
Water scorpions
Neritids Back to top
Bird''s-nest fungi
Usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria
Cutworms; armyworms
Blue-green algae
Aquatic carnivorous insects
Pouched moles
A family of fossil protoctists
A family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
Dicot aquatic plants
Large beautifully colored butterflies
A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees
Family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves
Pikas and extinct forms
A family of Octopoda
Walruses and extinct forms
Sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae
Filamentous green algae
Warble flies
Batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes
Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac Back to top
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
A large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales
A family of Isopoda
Eel-like marine fishes
Fishes closely related to greenlings
A family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution
Comprising the hoatzins
Jawfishes
Beach fleas
Enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers
Nurse sharks and carpet sharks
Old World orioles
Platypus
Brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Aardvarks
Blue green algae
Smelts
Large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas
Boxfishes
Boxfishes Back to top
Oysters
Eared seals: sea lions and fur seals
Bustards
A family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
Pinworms
Perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America
Hermit crabs
Prawns
Spiny lobsters
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus
Ospreys
A family of insects of the order Mecoptera
Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Birds of paradise
Titmice and chickadees
Coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae
A family of lichens Back to top
New World warblers
True sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds
Tropical woody tendril-climbing vines
Marine limpets
Scallops
The family of plants of order Polemoniales
True lice: human lice and related forms
Pelicans
Diving petrels
Spadefoot toads
Sweepers
Tropical prawns
Sea pens
Bandicoots
Active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches
Percoid flatheads
Marine and freshwater dinoflagellates
A family of Onychophora
A family of Onychophora
Parasitic fungi: downy mildews Back to top
A fungus family of division Lichenes
Lampreys
Large family comprising many typical cup fungi
Tropicbirds
Cormorants
Phalangers; koalas
A family of Phalangida
Phalaropes
A family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns
Pheasants; quails; partridges
Stick insects
Stick insects
Leaf insects
Earless seals
Flamingos
Wood hoopoes
A family of Bivalvia
A family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
A family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
Crab lice Back to top
Leaf insects
A family of Phyllocladaceae
New World leaf-nosed bats
New World leaf-nosed bats
Plant lice
Sperm whales
Freshwater snails
Chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca; Agdestis; Ercilla; Rivina; Trichostigma
Woodpeckers
Cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies
A family of Pinaceae
Tiny soft-bodied crabs
Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
Tongueless frogs
Manakins
Pittas
Limiting the number of children born
Cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
Malaria parasites
Family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants Back to top
Spoonbills
Coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees
River dolphins
Scorpaenoid flatheads
Small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults
Sea gooseberries
Righteye flounders
Weaverbirds
Perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in salt-water areas
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
Frogmouths
Coextensive with the order Podicipitiformes
Gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves
Topminnows
A widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers
Bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung
Trees, shrubs, and herbs widely distributed throughout both hemispheres
A family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
Threadfins Back to top
Paddlefishes
Old World tree frogs
Ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)
Fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees
Damselfishes
Food and game fishes related to pompanos
Usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons
Aquatic or bog plants
Sow bugs
Family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas
Swimming crabs
Otter shrews
Plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae
Medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit
Small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas
A dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
Large primitive rays with elongated snouts
Includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea
Petrels; fulmars; shearwaters;
Raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas Back to top
Large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
Mud puppies
Hedge sparrow
Scale-like insects: mealybugs
Rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria; include important plant and animal pathogens
Paleozoic plants
Small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves
Coextensive with the order Psittaciformes
A family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation; related to booklice
Trumpeters
Very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies
Jumping plant lice
One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided
Pearl oysters
Sandgrouses
A reptile family in the order Pterosauria
Bowerbirds
Large important family of rust fungi
Many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals
1 species: pomegranates Back to top
Australian and Tasmanian lizards
Bee moths; corn borers; flour moths
Bee moths; corn borers; flour moths
Evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola; Chimaphila; Moneses; Orthilia
Firebugs
Fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
In some classifications a family separate from Boidae comprising Old World boas
Family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia
A family of parasitic plants of the order Aristolochiales
Bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
Rails; crakes; gallinules; coots
Toucans
A family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs
A family of Ranunculaceae
South American herbs somewhat resembling members of the Juncaceae
Extinct dodos and solitaires
A family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies
Long-legged shorebirds
Assassin bugs
Ribbonfishes Back to top
State of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette
Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value
A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes
Small-toothed sharks comprising only one species
Primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies
Rhinoceroses
Old World leaf-nosed bats
Large widely distributed family of termites of temperate to tropical regions
Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria
A small family of rod-shaped bacteria
Trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts
A family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores
A family of protoctista
Primitive plants of the Paleozoic
Microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates
A fungus family of division Lichenes
A recreation room in a private house
In some classifications included in the family Droseraceae
A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens Back to top
Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Used in some classification systems for the genus Russula
A family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales; have flowers that are divide into four or five parts and usually have a strong scent
Coextensive with the genus Rynchops: skimmers
Family of fungi comprising the typical yeasts: reproduce by budding and ferment carbohydrates
Secretary birds
Salamanders
Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus
Salmon and trout
A small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea
A family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals
Water ferns
Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit
Chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins
Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
Small whitish mites
Family of fungi belonging to the order Pezizales
Insectivorous plants
Important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known Back to top
A widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods
Family of perennial aromatic herbs: genera Saururus; Anemopsis; Houttuynia
A large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
Scarab or dung beetles
Parrotfishes
A family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales
A family of Trematoda
Small family of mainly tropical ferns
Former terms for Cyanophyceae
A family of fungi belonging to order Endomycetales
Family comprising a single genus that until recently was considered part of Taxodiaceae
Warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
Fungus gnats
Skinks
True squirrels; ground squirrels; marmots; chipmunks; flying squirrels; spermophiles
A family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs
A fungus family of order Helotiales
Sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers
Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
Only sauries Back to top
Only sauries
Marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna
Scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
A family of Chilopoda
Small bottom-dwelling sharks
A family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi
Lesser clubmosses: terrestrial chiefly tropical plants resembling mosses
True cuttlefishes
A family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota
Marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish
An arthropod family including: alderflies
Small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia
Old World catfishes
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit
Blackflies and sand flies
Sirens
An arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies
Nuthatches
Large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum; Atropa; Brugmansia; Capsicum; Datura; Hyoscyamus; Lycopersicon; Nicotiana; Petunia; Physalis; Sola Back to top
Soles
Razor clams
Shrews
Mole rats
Coextensive with the genus Sparganium
Porgies; scups
Parasitic fungi having globose and sometimes necked or beaked perithecia
Monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity
Liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales
Mud daubers; some digger wasps
Comprising all existing penguins
Hawkmoths
Monotypic family of large active fishes of tropical and subtropical waters: barracuda
Hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks
Rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria
Large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters
Coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
Dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
Bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
Crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore Back to top
A family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone
Rove beetles
Oilbirds
Long-horned grasshoppers
Jaegers and skuas:
A large family of plants of order Malvales
Pricklebacks
Cicada killers
Woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae
Higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes
A family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes
Butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
The family of conchs
Sometimes included in family Agaricaceae
Tall terrestrial birds: ostriches
Old World starlings
A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales
Pigs; hogs; boars
Gannets and boobies
In some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers Back to top
A dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales
A fungus family of order Chytridiales
Pipefishes
Soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes
Horseflies
Small family of tropical herbs
Parasites on other insects
Echidnas
A family of Cestoda
Moles
Family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)
Tapirs and extinct related forms
Coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers
Sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
Peccaries
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Whiptails; etc.
A family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
Tenrecs and extinct related forms
Sawflies Back to top
Marine burrowing or tube-forming polychete worms usually having long thick bodies
Shipworms
Termites
Land tortoises
Sea hares
Succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds
Plant-feeding mites
Puffers
Grouse
Long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales
Fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores
Genera Thelypteris; Phegopteris; others
Family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae
Large tropical spiders; tarantulas
Any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole
A family of comb-footed spiders
Free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds
Tanagers
Ibises Back to top
Thrips
Family of tough-barked trees and shrubs and herbs especially of Australia and tropical Africa
Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia; Corchorus; Entelea; Grewia; Sparmannia
A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster
Babblers
Comprising the tinamous
Clothes moths
Lace bugs
Crane flies
Herbivorous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous
A family of birds of the order Coraciiformes
Electric rays
Leaf rollers and codling moths
Archerfishes
Ribbonfishes
Chevrotains
Family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae
Successive generations of kin
A family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally
Fruit flies; some leafminers Back to top
Small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
Small smooth-skinned sharks lacking spines on dorsal fins
Simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae
Comprising only the manatees
Cutlassfishes
Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
Large marine hard-shell clams
In some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)
Small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Soft-shelled turtles
A family of Notostraca
Hummingbirds
Wrens
Coextensive with the order Trogoniformes
Mites
Mites
Coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum
Fruit flies; some leafminers
Family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple Back to top
Large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi
Stalked puffballs
Stalked puffballs
Tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates
Thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidae
Small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail
A family of Nematoda
Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves
Blind snakes
Comprising only the barn owls
An extinct family of Dinocerata
A dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus; Celtis; Planera; Trema
Thin flat or tubular green algae
Plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill
Freshwater mussels found worldwide
Primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
Hoopoes
Stargazers
Bears and extinct related forms
A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs Back to top
Fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea; Evernia; Ramalina; Alectoria
A fungus family of loose smuts
Genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor
Monitor lizards
Hard-shell clams
Family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
The majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world
An arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps
A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola; Hybanthus; Hymenanthera; Melicytus
Old World vipers
Small insectivorous American songbirds
In some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae
A family of vines belonging to order Rhamnales
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria
Genets; civets; mongooses
Genets; civets; mongooses
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
Unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates
Wombats
In some classifications included in the Gnetaceae Back to top
Small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
Night lizards
Alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens
In some classifications the family of the genus Xenopus which is otherwise included in the family Pipidae
Monotypic family of Mexican lizards
Comprising the common swordfishes
Family of fungi characterized by dark brown to back spores
Plants of tropical to temperate regions; usually in wet places
A family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias
Alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species
Jumping mice
A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi
A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales
Beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae
Eelpouts
Used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae
Pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses
Small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum; Tribulus; Guaiacum: Larrea
A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death Back to top
An acute insufficiency
Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
Be hungry; go without food; "Let''s eat--I''m starving!"
Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
A histamine blocker (trade name Pepcid) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux
Widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
In a splendid manner; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously"
In a manner or to an extent that is well known; "in his famously anecdotal style"
A widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity"
A close attendant (as to a scholar)
A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
An ardent follower and admirer
An enthusiastic devotee of sports
Make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
Strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
Separate from chaff; "She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field"
Agitate the air
Civet of Madagascar Back to top
A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can''t change his mind and won''t change the subject"--Winston Churchill
Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"
Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"
In a passionately fanatic manner; "he followed the teachings of his guru fanatically"
Excessive intolerance of opposing views
Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
With superficial adornments added; "all gussied up in sequins and feathers"
A person having a strong liking for something
Indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
Having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
Not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child''s imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
In a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated"
A rare congenital anemia characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplasia of the bone marrow
A rare congenital anemia characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplasia of the bone marrow
Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
A predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
Imagine; conceive of; see in one''s mind; "I can''t see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler''s window"
Not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" Back to top
A ball at which guests wear costumes and masks
Having no commitments or responsibilities; carefree; "a fancy-free bachelor"
Decorative needlework
A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party
Goods that are chiefly ornamental
A woman''s lover
Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
A provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
The fans of a sport or famous person
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
A showy outward display
Hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
Having fangs
A small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position
A semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan Back to top
A window in a roof to admit daylight
A window above a door and hinged to a transom
Resembling a fan
Especially spread in a fan shape; "the peacock''s fanned tail"; "the spread-out cards"
An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages
An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
External female sex organs; "in England `fanny'' is vulgar slang for female genitals"
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
Nautical term for tinned meat
Little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"
A waist pack worn with the pouch in back
United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
Of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
An overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as their sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
A Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0 or 1 or 2 or 3) modulo 4
A musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes
Portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife"
Indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" Back to top
A creator of fantasies
Portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife"
Indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"
Someone who predicts the future
Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet''s assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
Extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
Exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory"
Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance"
Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet''s assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
In a fabulous manner; "she was a fabulously gifted player"
Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
An imaginary life lived in a fantasy world
Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
An ill-defined state of irritability and distress
Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
Common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers Back to top
A belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator
Blade of a rotating fan
A solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
Large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
A letter that is a piece of fan mail
Mail sent to public figures from their admirers; "he hired someone to answer his fan mail"
Move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
Palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
The carved tracery on fan vaulting
An elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans
The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture
A list of questions that are frequently asked (about a given topic) along with their answers
A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to reinstitute Hutu control; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"
At a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future"
Being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"
Beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right"
Being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse"
At or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" Back to top
Remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past"
To a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together"
At or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"
To an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far"
Widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
Remote; "far-flung corners of the Empire"
Distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West''s far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout"
Very far away in space or time; "faraway mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times"
Informal terms; strikingly unconventional
Having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms"
Extremely conservative
The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
The English physicist nd chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
A lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures
Very far away in space or time; "faraway mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times"
Far removed mentally; "a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes"
The property of being remote
A powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug traffikers
A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs Back to top
A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
In a farcical manner; "a farcically inept bungler"
A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
An agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports"
The food and drink that are regularly consumed
A paying (taxi) passenger
The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
Eat well
Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He''s come a long way"
A section along the route of a bus for which the fare is the same
State of perfection; the utmost degree; "they polished the furniture to a fare-thee-well"
The act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"
An acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
Increase in the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
Highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
Largest city in North Dakota; located in eastern North Dakota on the Red river
Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
Composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand"
Resembling starch Back to top
Shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries
Named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered
Named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered
Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
Collect fees or profits
Be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"
A farm together with its buildings
A person who operates a farm
An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year
Mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
Alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay
An open-air marketplace for farm products
A former minor political party in the United States in the early 20th century
A woman working on a farm
A hired hand on a farm
House for a farmer and family
Working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there''s no work on the land any more" Back to top
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
A residential town in central Connecticut
A town in northwestern New Mexico
A rural area where farming is practiced
A rural area where farming is practiced
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
A farm together with its buildings
A farm together with its buildings
The buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm
An area adjacent to farm buildings
Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit
A statute that would regulate farm production and prices
A boy who has grown up on a farm
A building on a farm
Mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
A minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)
A cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses; originally capitalized by the federal government but now owned by its members and borrowers
A girl who has grown up on a farm
A quiet plodding workhorse Back to top
A machine used in farming
Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee; "We rent out our apartment to tourists every year"; "He hired himself out as a cook"
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others
A minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)
A hired hand on a farm
The property of being remote
A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands
A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
King of Egypt who in 1952 was ousted by a military coup d''etat (1920-1965)
A motley assortment of things
United States admiral who commanded Union ships during the American Civil War (1801-1870)
United States operatic soprano noted for the clarity and power of her voice (1920-2002)
United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979)
A person who shoes horses
The production of a litter of pigs
Give birth; "sows farrow" Back to top
The production of a litter of pigs
Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
Capable of seeing to a great distance
The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
A person of Iranian descent; "many Farsi emigrated to India near Bombay"
Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
Able to see distant objects clearly
Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
Expel intestinal gases through the anus
More distant in especially space or time; "they live in the farther house"
More distant in especially degree; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "further from our expectations"; "farther from the truth"; "farther from our expectations"
To or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther'' is used more frequently than `further'' in this physical sense); "farther north"; "moved farther away"; "farther down the corridor"; "the practice may go back still farther to the Druids"; "went onl
To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further'' is used more often than `farther'' in this abstract sense); "further complicated by uncertainty about the future"; "let''s not discuss it further"; "nothing could be further from the
(comparatives of `far'') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don''t go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula"
(comparatives of `far'') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don''t go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula"
Most distant or remote; "man''s farthest goal"
To the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest'' is used more often than `furthest'' in this physical sense); "see who could jump the farthest"; "chose the farthest seat from the door"; "he swam the furthest"
To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest'' is used more often than `farthest'' in this abstract sense); "went the furthest of all the children in her education"; "furthest removed from reality"; "she goes farthest in helping us"
A former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny Back to top
A hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
A method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise
King of Egypt who in 1952 was ousted by a military coup d''etat (1920-1965)
By a considerable margin; "she was by far the smartest student"; "it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten"
Over great areas or distances; everywhere; "he traveled far and wide"; "the news spread far and wide"; "people came from far and near"; "searched for the child far and near"
Over great areas or distances; everywhere; "he traveled far and wide"; "the news spread far and wide"; "people came from far and near"; "searched for the child far and near"
A disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"
Distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry; "it''s a far cry from here"
A popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)
Radical or extremely liberal
Bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate''s power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of Fascism
A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
An installment of a printed work
Muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers
An installment of a printed work
A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men''s hearts"
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" Back to top
Cause to be interested or curious
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell
Intensely interested in or attracted by; "I''m very interested in birds; in fact I''m fascinated by them"
Capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"
Capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story"
In a fascinating manner; "her face became fascinatingly distorted"
The capacity to attract intense interest; "he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations"
A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
The state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)
A genus of Fasciolidae
Flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans
Infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot
A family of Trematoda
Infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia
A genus of Fasciolidae
Fluke that is parasitic on humans and swine; common in eastern Asia
Infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot
A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
An adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
Relating to or characteristic of fascism; "fascist propaganda" Back to top
Relating to or characteristic of fascism; "fascist propaganda"
Characteristic or habitual practice
How something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
Being or in accordance with current fashion; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
Patronized by
In a fashionable manner; "his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man"
Planned and made or fashioned artistically; "beautifully fashioned dresses"
The act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
Someone who advises you about fashionable clothing
Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
Someone who popularizes a new fashion
Makers and sellers of fashionable clothing
Someone who advises you about fashionable clothing
Someone who designs clothing
Makers and sellers of fashionable clothing
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress Back to top
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Abstaining from food
Abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"
Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"
Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"
At a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot"
(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast"
Securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"
Hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
Resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors"
Firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured"
(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"
Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"
Firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight"
Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends"
Occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession; "the broadcast was interrupted by a fast-breaking news story about the invasion"
Moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers"
Tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor"
Of communication that proceeds rapidly; "a fast-paced talker"; "fast-paced fiction" Back to top
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
Make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"
Attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"
Cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
Become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back"
Fastened with strings or cords; "a neatly tied bundle"
Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
Firmly closed or secured; "found the gate fastened"; "a fastened seatbelt"
Intent and directed steadily; "had her gaze fastened on the stranger"; "a fixed expresson"
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
A person who fastens or makes fast; "he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was"
The act of fastening things together
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
Adopt; "take up new ideas"
More quickly
Most quickly
Giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
In a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative"
In a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling" Back to top
The trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress"
Having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)
Abstaining from food
Doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday
A strongly fortified defensive structure
The quality of being fixed in place
A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"
Sleeping deeply; "lying fast asleep on the sofa"; "it would be cruel to wake him; he''s sound asleep"
(basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball
Quick or easy earnings, "they are traders out to make a fast buck"
A day designated for fasting
Dye with fast colors; "These shirts should be fast-dyed"
Inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly
The traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly
A hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation; "life in fashion''s fast lane has taught her a lot"
(Judaism) a Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem
(Judaism) a Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem
A cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"
Nuclear reactor in which nuclear fissions are caused by fast neutrons because little or no moderator is used
(simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one Back to top
A rapid means of achieving a goal; "they saw independence as the fast track to democracy"; "he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder"; "the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped"
Excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"
A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
A chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"
Having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn''t remembered how fat she was"
Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
Lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
Having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
Without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
Any vitamin that is soluble in fats
A Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international
A Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries; "in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group"
A Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries; "in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group"
A terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat''s unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership
Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
Bringing death Back to top
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fata
A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
Relating to or implying fatalism; "fatalistic thinking"
Believing in or inclined to fatalism; "a fatalist person"
Relating to or implying fatalism; "fatalistic thinking"
Believing in or inclined to fatalism; "a fatalist person"
The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
With fatal consequences or implications; "he was fatally ill equipped for the climb"
An accident that causes someone to die
A mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay)
Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"
(usually followed by `to'') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy''s assassination"
Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" Back to top
Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fata
Of ominous significance
In a prophetically fateful manner; "the nurse whispered fatefully to call the priest"
A group of three goddesses of destiny
A man who is a stupid incompetent fool
Used informally
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the be
The head of an organized crime family
A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"
`Father'' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre'' is frequently used in the military
A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"
The founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"
A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"
Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don''t recognize them"
US: third Sunday in June
A man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
The father of your spouse Back to top
The status of a father
The status of a religious leader
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
The kinship relation between an offspring and the father
The country where you were born
Not having a known or legally responsible father
Having no living father
Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
Showing the affection of a father
Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
A Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton
The legendary patron saint of children
A man who takes over all the functions of the real father
(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the be
American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)
A man who takes over all the functions of the real father
(mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore
A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth
Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line Back to top
Come to understand
(of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended
Of depth; capable of being sounded or measured
Depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves
Susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength
Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues"
(always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "po
Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve h
Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue"
Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
Get tired of something or somebody
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day''s shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out
Military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
A crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue
Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues"
Fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury
A group of soldiers on fatigue duty
The first or opening sura of the Quran which is the central prayer of Islam and is used on all special occasions as well as during the five daily prayers
The first or opening sura of the Quran which is the central prayer of Islam and is used on all special occasions as well as during the five daily prayers
Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632) Back to top
Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632)
Discrimination against people who are overweight
Without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
Excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"
A rotund individual
United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
(of market animals) made ready for market
Subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter; "a fattening hog"; "fattening pens"
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity"
Somewhat fat
Discrimination against people who are overweight
A rotund individual
Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
Any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms
Yellow discoloration as a result of the accumulation of certain fats (triglycerides) in the liver; can be caused by alcoholic cirrhosis or pregnancy or exposure to certain toxins
Nonvolatile animal or plant oil Back to top
A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown''s behavior"
Complacently or inanely foolish
Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish
A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown''s behavior"
A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
(Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"
A wealthy and privileged person
Cells composed of fat
Little or no chance of success
Serious condition in which fat blocks an artery; fat can enter the blood stream after a long bone is fractured or if adipose tissue is injured or as a result of a fatty liver
A health spa that specializes in helping people lose weight
European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
A metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body
A rotund individual
The pre-Lenten festival of Shrove Tuesday
A New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; "in Faubourg Sainte Marie"
Of or relating to the fauces
The passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir Back to top
Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx
A piece of armor plate below the breastplate
United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
Responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John''s fault"
The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it"
(geology) a crack in the earth''s crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"
An imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
Put or pin the blame on
Someone who is critical of the motives of others
Persistent petty and unjustified criticism
Tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
Tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be faultfinding"
In an inaccurate manner; "these statements were faultily attributed to me"
The state of being defective
Without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"
Without a fault; in a faultless manner; "he solved all the problems faultlessly"
Characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report" Back to top
Having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
(geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth''s surface
Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat''s tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
All the animal life in a particular region
An excessively polite and well-dressed boy
(Roman mythology) ancient rural deity; later considered a counterpart of Greek Pan
An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
Pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values; "a Faustian pact with the Devil"
Italian theologian who argued against trinitarianism (1539-1604)
An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
Italian theologian who argued against trinitarianism (1539-1604)
An upholstered armchair
A member of a group of French painters who followed Fauvism
An art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and non-natural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists
A member of a group of French painters who followed Fauvism
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn''t fake anything; it''s real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"
A socially awkward or tactless act
Shell beans cooked as limas
Seed of the broad-bean plant Back to top
Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
Anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency
An act of gracious kindness
Souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
An advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"
An inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"
A feeling of favorable regard
Consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"
Promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
Bestow a privilege upon
Treat gently or carefully
Granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer"
Very favorable or advantageous; "a golden opportunity"
Tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
At a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
Favorably disposed; not antagonistic; "a government favorable to our interests"
The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
The quality of being a competitive advantage Back to top
Acceptance as satisfactory; "he bought it on approval"
Showing approval; "he reviewed the play favorably"
Supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
Preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
Blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her cousin"; "born into the favored classes"
Supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative argument"
Something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"
A special loved one
A competitor thought likely to win
Appealing to the general public; "a favorite tourist attraction"
Preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
A politician favored mainly in his or her home state
Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
An inclination to favor some person or group
An act of gracious kindness
Souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
An advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"
An inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"
A feeling of favorable regard
Consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored" Back to top
Promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
Bestow a privilege upon
Treat gently or carefully
Tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
At a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
The quality of being a competitive advantage
Acceptance as satisfactory; "he bought it on approval"
Showing approval; "he reviewed the play favorably"
Something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"
A special loved one
A competitor thought likely to win
Appealing to the general public; "a favorite tourist attraction"
Preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
A politician favored mainly in his or her home state
Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
An inclination to favor some person or group
A contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East Back to top
English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
Young deer
A color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat"
Have fawns; "deer fawn"
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
Show submission or fear
Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
California dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tinged
Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
Send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the report right away?"
A university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks
A town in south central North Carolina
A town in central West Virginia on the New River
Disturb the composure of
Caused to show discomposure; "refused to be fazed by the objections"
Meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song
A federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice
A special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
An independent governmeent agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite Back to top
A cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses; originally capitalized by the federal government but now owned by its members and borrowers
A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products
A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
A profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God"
An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"
Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
Be uneasy or apprehensive about; "I fear the results of the final exams"
Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "I fear I won''t make it to your wedding party"
Be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event; "I fear she might get aggressive"
Experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "
Timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
Extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst" Back to top
In fear, "she hurried down the stairs fearfully"
In an alarming manner; "they were fearfully attacked"
The trait of being afraid
An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them
Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
Possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set
Resolute and without fear
Without fear; "fearlessly, he led the troops into combat"
The trait of feeling no fear
Feeling no fear
Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "
In a fearsome manner; "a sabre slammed fearsomely through the thicket in all directions"
The quality of being doable
Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
In a practicable manner; so as to be feasible
The quality of being doable
Something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"
An elaborate party (often outdoors)
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" Back to top
A ceremonial dinner party for many people
Gratify; "feed one''s eyes on a gorgeous view"
Partake in a feast or banquet
Provide a feast or banquet for
Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
A day designated for feasting
(Judaism) a Jewish harvest festival
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
Celebration in the Eastern Orthodox church of the Virgin Mary''s being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic church and is also celebrated on August 15th
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
The 10th day of Dhu''l Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God''s ransom of Abraham''s son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity
(Judaism) a Jewish harvest festival
(Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
(Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
Look at with great enjoyment; "She feasted her eyes on the Tuscan landscape"
A notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort"
Turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds Back to top
Grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already"
Turn the oar, while rowing
Turn the paddle; in canoeing
Cover or fit with feathers
Join tongue and groove, in carpentry
A plant of the genus Hottonia
A mattress stuffed with feathers
Hire more workers than are necessary
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let''s not mollycoddle our students!"
The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
Adorned with feathers or plumes
Having or covered with feathers or plumage; "our feathered friends"
A thin tapering edge
Having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade
A plant of the genus Hottonia
A light softness
Turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
Having no feathers; "a featherless biped"; "the unfeathered legs of an Orpington"
Resembling a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees" Back to top
Suggestive of feathers in lightness; "feathery snowflakes"
A variety of reed grass
Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
A professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
Weighs 126-139 pounds
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
Of a weight class of 123-126 pounds for prizefighters; "the featherweight class"
Adorned with feathers or plumes
Characterized by a covering of feathers; "the feathery congregaton of jays"
Resembling a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees"
Suggestive of feathers in lightness; "feathery snowflakes"
A low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico
A mattress stuffed with feathers
A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
Enrich oneself by taking advantage of one''s position; "The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business"
Palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
A variety of reed grass
Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms Back to top
An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
The characteristic parts of a person''s face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular"
A prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning"
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca''"
Have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"
Having facial features as specified; usually used in combination; "a grim-featured man"
Made a feature or highlight; given prominence; "a featured actor"; "a featured item at the sale"
Lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning"
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca''"
The month following January and preceding March
A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever
Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen"
A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
The month following January and preceding March
The day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered
A day for the exchange of tokens of affection Back to top
If the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter
The day on which George Washington is remembered
The name of the day that is added during a leap year
Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs
The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917
Feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland
Foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
A hard mass of dried feces
Accumulation of hardened feces in the rectum or lower colon which the person cannot move
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
A take-home test in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood; used to detect colorectal cancers
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner''s Law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887)
(psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber
Generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
Not fit to assume responsibility
In a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently
With ineptitude; in an incompetent manner; "he performed his functions ineptly"
Worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual
Excreta (especially of insects) Back to top
Foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
Capable of producing offspring or vegetation
Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
Introduce semen into (a female)
Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
The intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies; "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term
Any federal law-enforcement officer
(plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel
A feared paramilitary unit formed in 1995 by young soldiers to serve Saddam Hussein against domestic opponents
Extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli
Any federal law-enforcement officer
A member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
National; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"
Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederatons"
Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" Back to top
Of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government"
The act of being put under federal control
The state of being under federal control; "the federalization of postal service"
Unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war"
Enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
Put under the control and authority of a federal government
The idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
An advocate of federalism
A member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government
A major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
The act of being put under federal control
The state of being under federal control; "the federalization of postal service"
Unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war"
Enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
Put under the control and authority of a federal government
By federal government; "it''s federally regulated"
An administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
A federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice Back to top
The law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationawide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
An independent governmeent agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite
A court establish by the authority of a federal government
An excess of the federal government''s spending over its revenue; "federal deficits can cause inflation"
Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
A department of the federal government of the United States
A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions
A district set apart as the seat of government of a federation
An independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
A government with strong central powers
The central credit system for thrift institutions
A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
The federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages
A country on the Comoro Islands
A law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment
The judiciary of the United States which is responsible for interpreting and enforcing federal laws
A center in the Department of the Treasury that trains law enforcement professionals for more tha seventy federal agencies
A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages
A department of the federal government of the United States
Any federal law-enforcement officer Back to top
A major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
An agency in the General Services Administration that is a security organization to provide a safe environment where Federal agencies can conduct their business
A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
A republic in north central Europe on the North Sea; established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat; reunified with East Germany in 1990
A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country
A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe
The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies; "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term
One of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region
The 7-member board governing the Federal Reserve System
A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies; "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term
A federally chartered savings bank
The internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
The internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
A member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
Lien of the United States on all property of a taxpayer who fails to pay the federal government the taxes for which he or she is liable
An independent agency of the United States fedeal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft
Unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war"
Enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
United under a central government Back to top
United under a central government
A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
The act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
A union of political organizations
An organization formed by merging several groups or parties
A country on several of the Leeward Islands; located east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983
A federation (as of American Indians)
The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world''s leading coffee exporter
A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains
Felt hat with a creased crown
Having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"
An interest in land capable of being inherited
A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
Lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"
Mentally deficient Back to top
Retarded in intellectual development
Severe mental deficiency
The quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
In a halting and feeble manner; "reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win"
In a faint and feeble manner; "the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway"
Food for domestic livestock
Introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
Give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don''t give the child this tough meat"
Take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn''t eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
Serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
Feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
Provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
Gratify; "feed one''s eyes on a gorgeous view"
Profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
Support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
Response to an inquiry or experiment
The process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output Back to top
A circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system
A circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system
A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head
An animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
A machine that automatically provides a supply of some material; "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock"
A branch that flows into the main stream
Someone who consumes food for nourishment
A branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline)
The act of consuming food
The act of supplying food and nourishment
A bottle that holds a baby''s milk; has a rubber teat
A chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray
A building where livestock are fattened for market
Respond to a query or outcome
Submit (information) again to a program or automatic system
A long trough for feeding cattle
Grain grown for cattle feed
Introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
Be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"
Be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor" Back to top
Manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
A property perceived by touch
An intuitive awareness; "he has a feel for animals" or "it''s easy when you get the feel of it";
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
Seem with respect to a given sensation given; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"
Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone''s behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"
Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn''t like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
Examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
Pass one''s hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater"
Examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient''s stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse"
Undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
Undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"
Grope or feel in search of something; "He felt for his wallet"
Produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home again"
Find by testing or cautious exploration; "He felt his way around the dark room"
Be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
One of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish
Sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations" Back to top
A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"
The experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
An intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"
A physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm"
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
A vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
With great feeling; "she spoke feelingly of her early childhood"
Emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity); "the remark hurt his feelings"
The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
Share the suffering of
Have an inclination for something or some activity; "I feel like staying in bed all day"; "I feel like a cold beer now"
Be in excellent health and spirits; "he feels like a million after he got the promotion"
Be in excellent health and spirits; "he feels like a million after he got the promotion"
Try to learn someone''s opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor"
With the feet foremost; "he jumped into the pool feetfirst"
A fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away
Payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral
A fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away
A liquid solution of copper sulfate and potassium tartrate and sodium hydroxide that is used to test for sugar in the urine; solution turns reddish when sugar is present Back to top
United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929)
Make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
Make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
Not genuine; "feigned sympathy"
The act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
Pretending with intention to deceive
Dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves
South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit
South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit
Any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
Deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"
A nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
Irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make judicious decisions"
Showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Feldene) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions
Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium
Genus of tropical African herbs or subshrubs with usually blue flowers
Hairy South African or Australian subshrub with blue-rayed daisylike flowers
Softly hairy South African herb having flowers with bright blue rays Back to top
Express congratulations
The act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration
(usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage"
Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker"
Marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"
In a felicitous manner; "a not felicitously chosen word"
Pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
Pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws
Cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers
Any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws
Of or relating to cats; "feline fur"
Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats
Small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia
Any domesticated member of the genus Felis
Small Asiatic wildcat
Large American feline resembling a lion
Any domesticated member of the genus Felis
Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia Back to top
Widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor
A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis
Nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat
Slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat
Bushy-tailed European wildcat resembling the domestic tabby and regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat
Medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat
Small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil
Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat
German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925)
German musician and Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)
Port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
The act of felling something (as a tree)
Seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
Sew a seam by folding the edges
Pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin''s roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there''s a fellow at the door"; "he''s a likable cuss"
An agricultural laborer in Arab countries Back to top
A member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
Oral stimulation of the penis
Oral stimulation of the penis
Made to fall (as by striking or cutting or shooting or by illness or exhaustion); "the felled boxer lay stretched on the canvas"; "felled trees covered the hillside"; "the downed oxen lay panting in the heat"; "a downed deer"
Seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there''s a fellow at the door"; "he''s a likable cuss"
A person who fells trees
Rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I''d known he was her boyfriend I wouldn''t have asked"
A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there''s a fellow at the door"; "he''s a likable cuss"
A person who is member of your class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers"
A person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
An informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what''s up?"
An association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
Money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
The state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"
Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
A traveler who accompanies you
A communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party) Back to top
A traveler who accompanies you
A communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party)
An associate you work with
Rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
An act of deliberate self destruction
A person who kills himself intentionally
Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
Involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"
A serious crime (such as murder or arson)
Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium
A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes"
Cover with felt; "felt a cap"
Mat together and make felt-like; "felt the wool"
A pen with a writing tip made of felt (trade name Magic Marker)
A pen with a writing tip made of felt (trade name Magic Marker)
Made by combining fibers with a binder using heat and pressure; "felt is a felted cloth"
East Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus
Fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States Back to top
Felt hat with a creased crown
A pen with a writing tip made of felt (trade name Magic Marker)
Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes"
A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean
Gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas
An independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"
For or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"
Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
The properties characteristic of the female sex
A woman who is an aristocrat
The body of a female human being
The formation of a close personal relationship between women
The chest of a woman
A youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle"
Excision of the clitoris
External female sex organs; "in England `fanny'' is vulgar slang for female genitals"
External female sex organs; "in England `fanny'' is vulgar slang for female genitals" Back to top
External female sex organs; "in England `fanny'' is vulgar slang for female genitals"
Female equine animal
The reproductive organs of a woman
Animals that nourish their young with milk
A female sovereign ruler
A child who is female
A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
The reproductive system of females
A person''s sister
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
Associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
Of grammatical gender
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"
The properties characteristic of the female sex
The trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women
The process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration
To give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man"
Assume (more) feminine characteristics; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs" Back to top
The movement aimed at equal rights for women
A doctrine that advocates equal rights for women
A supporter of feminism
Of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women; "feminist critique"
The movement aimed at equal rights for women
The process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration
To give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man"
Assume (more) feminine characteristics; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs"
A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
Of or relating to or near the femur or thigh
The chief artery of the thigh; a continuation of the external iliac artery
The biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally
One of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh
Pulse of the femoral artery (felt in the groin)
A vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein
The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
The branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses
A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
One quadrillionth of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond Back to top
A unit of potential equal to one quadrillionth of a volt (or one thousandth of a nanosecond)
The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England"
100 fen equal 1 yuan
A barrier that serves to enclose an area
A dealer in stolen property
Have an argument about something
Surround with a wall in order to fortify
Fight with fencing swords
Enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"
Receive stolen goods
A person who won''t take sides in a controversy
Enclosed by a fence
Enclosed by a confining fence
Not fenced in; "unfenced pasture"
Resembling a fence
Someone skilled at fencing
A face mask made of fine mesh that is worn over a fencer''s face
A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
Surround with a wall in order to fortify Back to top
Enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"
A boundary line created by a fence
Spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico
Social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics); "they moved forward from a period of fence mending to substantive changes in the country"
A rail that is split from a log
The art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
A barrier that serves to enclose an area
Material for building fences
A face mask made of fine mesh that is worn over a fencer''s face
Material for building fences
A stick used instead of a sword for fencing
A sword used in the sport of fencing
Withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"
Try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"
A cushion-like device that reduces shock due to contact
A barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud; "in England they call a fender a wing"
A low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth
An inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
A collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage
Argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike" Back to top
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let''s avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
Oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
A small membrane-covered opening (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear)
Of or relating to windows
Of or relating to or having a fenestra
Surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
The arrangement of windows in a building
Fenestra leading into the cochlea
Fenestra leading into the cochlea
Fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it
Fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it
Fenestra leading into the cochlea
Fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it
A city in northeastern China
Rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi); the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves
Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England"
Leaves used for seasoning
Aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
Any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
Nigella of Spain and southern France Back to top
Aromatic anis-scented seeds
One of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders
(Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin
Trade names of a narcotic analgesic that can be inhaled and that acts on the central nervous system and may become addictive; used as a veterinary anesthetic and with other drugs before, during, and after surgery; also used as a nonlethal gas to incapacit
Aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry
Annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry
Aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry
Birch leaf miner
Small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
Small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green racemose flowers
Small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green racemose flowers
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
A piece of land held under the feudal system Back to top
Trade name of a drug rich in iron; used to treat some kinds of anemia
Large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
Wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
A person who is not socialized
United States novelist; author of several popular novels (1887-1968)
Joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
King of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)
Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia (1503-1564)
Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637)
Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia who signed the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years'' War (1608-1657)
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
King of Castile and Leon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella I; his marriage to Isabella I marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain (1452-1516)
King of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)
King of Castile and Leon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella I; his marriage to Isabella I marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain (1452-1516)
French romantic painter (1798-1863)
Hungarian playwright (1878-1952) Back to top
A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body
Trade name of a drug rich in iron; used to treat some types of anemia
A dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals
(in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
A weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; "in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria'' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Domin
Of or relating to or being a feria
Wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
A chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced a new leadership"; "social unrest"
A substance capable of bringing about fermentation
Go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
Cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
Work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting Africa"
Be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments"
Capable of being fermented
A chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced a new leadership"; "social unrest" Back to top
The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
Having undergone fermentation; "hard cider"
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
A specialist in wine making
Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
(physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
Any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
A radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955)
Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
Abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth"
Devoid of ferns
Resembling ferns especially in leaf shape; "the ferny shadows of locust leaves"
Abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth"
Resembling ferns especially in leaf shape; "the ferny shadows of locust leaves"
Pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
Families of ferns and fern allies
Genera of ferns and fern allies Back to top
Southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage
Small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible
Genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti
Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
In a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely"
The trait of extreme cruelty
The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm''s violence"
Domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
Ferret of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
Search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"
Hunt with ferrets
Hound or harry relentlessly
Small ferret-like badger of southeast Asia
Search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"
Of or relating to or containing iron
A brown unstable acid formed from ferricyanide
Salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide
A red oxide of iron
A phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment Back to top
Rotating mechanism consisting of a large upright wheel with suspended seats that remain upright as the wheel turns; provides a ride at an amusement park
A solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent
A protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body
A pyrophoric alloy of iron with cerium; used for lighter flints
Concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses
A white unstable acid formed from ferrocyanide salts
Salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate
Relating to or demonstrating ferromagnetism
Phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed
Of or relating to or containing iron
A metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting
Transport by boat or aircraft
A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
Travel by ferry
Transport by ferry
Transport from one place to another
A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
Transport by boat or aircraft
A man who operates a ferry
Capable of reproducing Back to top
Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
Bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
The time in the menstrual cycle when fertilization is most likely to be possible (7 days before to 7 days after ovulation)
The time in the menstrual cycle when fertilization is most likely to be possible (7 days before to 7 days after ovulation)
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
Introduce semen into (a female)
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"
Made pregnant
Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile
The property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"
The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
A drug used to increase a woman''s fertility
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Capable of being fertilized
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure Back to top
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
The age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
The membrane that forms around a fertilized ovum and prevents penetration by additional spermatozoon
Introduce semen into (a female)
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"
Made pregnant
An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
The cell resulting from the union of an ovum and a spermatozoon (including the organism that develops from that cell)
Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile
A switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
Extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
Sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor''s comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"; "a fervent hope"
With passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book"
Extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
With passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book"
Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" Back to top
Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"
Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"
A city in north central Morocco; religious center
Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
Offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
Ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
A fluid product of inflammation
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it''s late!"
Involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson''s disease)
An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
Offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" Back to top
Any joyous diversion
Flower chains suspended in loops between points
An embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
A curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops
Decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
Flower chains suspended in loops between points
A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae
Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
Cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass
A transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
Of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development"
The age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
A medical condition in which body deformation or facial development or mental ability of a fetus is impaired because the mother drank alcohol while pregnant
The system of blood vessels and structures through which blood moves in a fetus
An abnormal condition of a fetus; usually discovered during pregnancy and characterized by an abnormal heart rhythm
Any membrane that functions for the protection or nourishment of respiration or excretion of a developing fetus
An electronic monitor that monitors fetal heartbeat and the mother''s uterine contractions during childbirth
Motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
Go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"
Take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!" Back to top
Be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
Very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
An elaborate party (often outdoors)
Have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating"
A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains
A party of people assembled for social interaction out of doors
A day designated for feasting
Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"
A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
Sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
A belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
The act of destroying a fetus
Offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell"
Bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
Ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"
A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
Sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) Back to top
A belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
One who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
Projection behind and above a horse''s hoof
The joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
The joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
The branch of medicine concerned with the fetus in the uterus
Measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head)
Any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer
A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
A stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman''s abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat
Prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood
A shackle for the ankles or feet
Restrain with fetters
Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
Ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers
Bound by chains fastened around the ankles
The part between the fetlock and the hoof
Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
A state of fitness and good health; "in fine fettle"
Pasta in flat strips wider than linguine Back to top
Fettuccine in cream sauce with cheese
Pasta in flat strips wider than linguine
An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal
A bitter quarrel between two parties
Carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years"
Of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism
The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
Of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism
In a feudal manner; "a feudally organized society"
A man of rank in the ancien regime
The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
A person holding a fief
Owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
Of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship"
Intense nervous anticipation; "in a fever of resentment"
A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Highly excited; "a fevered imagination"
Bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"
Having or affected by a fever Back to top
Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen"
In a feverish manner; "she worked feverishly"
A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Having or affected by a fever
Coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers
Caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)
A state of extreme excitement; "the crowd was at fever pitch"
African tree supposed to mark healthful regions
Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
Ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
Any of several trees having leaves or barks used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever
A small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
An indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a''; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid''s pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women
Leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and Iran
(comparative of `few'' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late"
(superlative of `few'' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the'') quantifier meaning the smallest in number; "the fewest birds in recent memory"
The quality of being small in number
Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
Slightly insane Back to top
United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)
A felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown
A city in north central Morocco; religious center
The federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages
A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
A man who is engaged to be married
A woman who is engaged to be married
A sudden and violent collapse
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
Money that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie
A trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
Tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don''t call it lying"
Someone who tells lies
A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
A slender and greatly elongated solid substance
Of or relating to fiber optics
A communication system using fiber optic cables
Wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets Back to top
A covering material made of glass fibers in resins
Of or relating to fiber optics
The transmission of light signals via glass fibers
A flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs
A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
The transmission of light signals via glass fibers
A cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light
A number in the Fibonacci sequence
A sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two [receding numbers
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
A slender and greatly elongated solid substance
Of or relating to fiber optics
A communication system using fiber optic cables
Wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets
A covering material made of glass fibers in resins
Of or relating to fiber optics
The transmission of light signals via glass fibers
A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
The transmission of light signals via glass fibers Back to top
A cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements; "His heart fibrillated and he died"
Act or process of forming fibrils
Muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
Covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed
A white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets
In the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot
A protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots
An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots
A normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots; "drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically"
Peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood
Characterized by the presence of fibrin
Benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen
A cell from which connective tissue develops
Involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue
Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
Of or relating to fibrocartilage
The presence of one or more cysts in a breast
The presence of one or more cysts in a breast Back to top
The most common congenital disease; the child''s lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; there is no cure
Benign tumor containing fibrous tissue (especially in the uterus)
Nonmalignant tumor of connective tissue
Local inflammation of muscle and connective tissue
Development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ
Inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths)
(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
Any of numerous begonias having fibrous rather than tuberous or rhizomatous roots
Star-shaped cells with long processes; found in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord
A disturbance in which bone that is undergoing lysis is replaced by an abnormal proliferation of fibrous tissue resulting in bone lesions or skin lesions
An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
Tissue consisting of or containing fibers in both animals and plants
A unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem
The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
Accompany the peroneal arteries; arising in the heel and running up the back of the leg to join the posterior tibial veins of the popliteal vein
A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system
A nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
A lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman
Liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" Back to top
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt''s volatile affections"
Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
Capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
Susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
Of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware"
A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
A deliberately false or improbable account
Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
Related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
Writing in a fictional form
A literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction
Convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event"
Make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
Writing in a fictional form
A literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction
Convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event"
Make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
Animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children''s stories)
An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" Back to top
Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
Capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
A strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
Shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
Shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
Large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber
Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
Thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the Biblical sycamore
Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
Try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it''s not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
Manipulate manually or in one''s mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don''t fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
Play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely" Back to top
Play the violin or fiddle
Commit fraud and steal from one''s employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
Avoid (one''s assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
Trivial nonsense
Of a leaf shape
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers
An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
Someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
A musician who plays the violin
Burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male
A bow used in playing the violin
Manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled her thumbs while waiting for the interview"
(informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over nig
Accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
The quality of being faithful
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) Back to top
A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he''s got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness"
Move restlessly; "The child is always fidgeting in his seat"
A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he''s got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness"
Unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child"
Based on trust
Used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement; "a fiducial point"
Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power"
A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"
Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power"
The legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary
The legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter
Popular United States conductor (1894-1979)
A piece of land held under the feudal system
An organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group
The domain controlled by a feudal lord
A particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
A place where planes take off and land
The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event Back to top
All of the horses in a particular horse race
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
A region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
A piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
Extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he''s out of my orbit"
Select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
Answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
Play as a fielder
Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
A transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
Electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
An officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
Variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage Back to top
An early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
An early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
An early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
An early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
Test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used; "The Army field tested the new tanks"
A member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting
A member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat
A play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter
Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter
A hired hand on a farm
(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field
English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)
(baseball) the percentage of times a fielder handles a batted ball properly; number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances
Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
A member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting
Stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material
A temporary fortification built by troops in the field
A researcher who works in the field
Movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) Back to top
Low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to GB naturalized in United States
Trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder
Weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed
Annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia
The maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold
European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America
Densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone
The electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine
Corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
Common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings
A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
A time of unusual pleasure and success
A day for outdoor athletic competition
(military) a day for military exercises and display
The emission of electrons that are stripped from parent atoms by a high electric field
A competition that takes place on a field rather than on a running track
An outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions
Pungent Old World wild onion
The position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team; "quarterback is the most important position on the team" Back to top
(football) the person who plays quarterback
A small refracting telescope
An optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes
A score in American football; a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents'' goal posts
A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
A guidebook describing natural objects of some type that might be encountered in the field; "a field guide to mushrooms"
Movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)
A hired hand on a farm
Hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents'' net
Ball used in playing field hockey
Of Eurasia and Greenland and North America
A temporary military hospital near the battle lines
An athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport
A building for indoor sports
Temporary military shelter
The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field
A football official
The lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with morethan one lens
An imaginary line in a field of force; direction of the line at any point is the direction of the force at that point
White-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control Back to top
A magnet that provides a magnetic field in a dynamo or electric motor
Shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge
European herb with bright yellow flowers; a common weed in grain fields
An officer holding the highest rank in the army
European mint naturalized in United States
Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
Densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone
Common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce
Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields
An officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
The area that a weapon or group of weapons can coverr effectively with gun fire from a given position
The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
The scene of a duel
A particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
A region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment
A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" Back to top
The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment
Common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers
Coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender
Variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage
Seed of the field pea plant
Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
Annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
Security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces
A variety of pussytoes
Rations issued for United States troops in the field
Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Perennial having bluish-lilac flowers; introduced in the eastern United States
Seeds used as livestock feed
Large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat; cross between cocker and Sussex spaniel
Common North American finch of brushy pasturelands
European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America
A sport that is played outdoors
The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field
An electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity Back to top
A canvas tent for use in the field
A test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
(physics) a theory that explains a physical phenomenon in terms of a field and the manner in which it interacts with matter or with other fields
Stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads
A test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving
A test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
A contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving
A group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination
The electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine
An investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters
European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties
One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can''t change his mind and won''t change the subject"--Winston Churchill
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "in
As a devil; in an evil manner; "his writing could be diabolically satiric"
Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
Ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" Back to top
In a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely"
In an emotionally fierce manner; "she was fiercely proud of her children"
The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm''s violence"
With passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book"
The heat of fire
A writ ordering a levy on the belongings of a debtor to satisfy the debt
Like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere"
Very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
An elaborate party (often outdoors)
Straggling California annual herb with deep purple or violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Nemophila
A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
The railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel
Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold
The cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
Being one more than fourteen
Position 15 in a countable series of things
Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
A quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon Back to top
A fifth part
Position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
In the fifth place; "fifthly, we must adhere to the rules set by the local government"
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government''s prosecution of persons accused of crimes; mandates due process of law and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy; requires just compensation if
An avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side
A subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
A Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered
A fifth part
A steering bearing that enables the front axle of a horse-drawn wagon to rotate
An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
Someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
The time of life between 50 and 60
The decade from 1950 to 1959
Position 50 in a countable series of things
The ordinal number of fifty in counting order
A United States bill worth 50 dollars
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and five Back to top
Being ten more than forty
A United States coin worth half of a dollar
Being eight more than fifty
The ordinal number of fifty-five in counting order
Equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight"
Being five more than fifty
Being four more than fifty
Being nine more than fifty
Being one more than fifty
Being seven more than fifty
Being six more than fifty
Being three more than fifty
Being two more than fifty
A United States bill worth 50 dollars
A half expressed as a percentage
A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits Back to top
Large greenish June beetle of southern United States
A boxing match; "the fight was on television last night"
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
An aggressive willingness to compete; "the team was full of fight"
An intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate"
Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"
Fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don''t fight it!"
Make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women''s rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his fa
A high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
Someone who fights for a cause
Someone who fights (or is fighting)
A high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
A military or naval pilot of fighter planes
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
Disposed to loud disagreements and fighting
Engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"
Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"
A fixed chair from which a salt-water angler can fight a hooked fish Back to top
A cock bred and trained for fighting
A French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
Fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don''t fight it!"
Defend oneself
Fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don''t fight it!"
Force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
A contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
Consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
Inability to see shapes and contours
Decorating with a design
Representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
Consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
In a figurative sense; "figuratively speaking,..."
A predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures"
A decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
A model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus"
The impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure"
The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" Back to top
Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
A unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
A well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music"
An amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested"
One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers; "0 and 1 are digits"
A combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
Understand; "He didn''t figure her"
Make a mathematical calculation or computation
Judge to be probable
Imagine; conceive of; see in one''s mind; "I can''t see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
Be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"
Of e.g. fabric design; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
A loom for weaving figured fabrics
A bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played
Figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
A person used as a cover for some questionable activity
An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
A skating figure that carves an 8 in the ice Back to top
A knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose
A loom for weaving figured fabrics
A knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn''t going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He
Dance on skates
Ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures
A small carved or molded figure
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
A covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful
A leaf from a fig tree
Any of several South African plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum cultivated for showy pink or white flowers
Moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored foods
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
A hard cream-colored wax obtained from a Javanese fig tree
An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands Back to top
The Oceanic language spoken on Fiji
A native or inhabitant of Fiji
Of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture; "the Fijian population"; "Fijian folktales"
A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
The basic unit of money in Fiji
A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads
(literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose
Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
A thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells
The stalk of a stamen
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view; "afilar eyepiece"
European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage
Slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects
European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage
Related to or infested with of transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria Back to top
A disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels
Of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae
Threadlike roundworms
A bobbin used in spinning silk into thread
Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
Small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
Make off with belongings of others
A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
File a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
Place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"
Record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
Smooth with a file; "file one''s fingernails"
Proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom"
Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file
A string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS"
A clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization Back to top
A party who files a notice with a law court
Lace having a square mesh
A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
Cut into filets; "filet the fish"
Decorate with a lace of geometric designs
Rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastry
Small steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin
The prt of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)
Place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"
Put into an archive
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
A clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization
Folder that holds papers together in a filing cabinet
Enter by marching in a file
(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file
A string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS"
March out, in a file
(computer science) a digital computer that provides workstations on a network with controlled access to shared resources
A system of classifying into files (usually arranged alphabetically) Back to top
Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network
Relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring; "filial respect"
Designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
Duty of a child to its parents
Fix the paternity of; "The court filiated the child born out of wedlock"
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual''s progenitors
A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
A legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
Obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation
A legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
True (leptosporangiate) ferns
Ferns
Ferns
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do"
The act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
The entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return"
A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file Back to top
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
A clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization
A system of classifying into files (usually arranged alphabetically)
Official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages
A native or inhabitant of the Philippines
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs; "the Philippine President"; "our Filipino cook"
Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)
Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446)
A quantity sufficient to satisfy; "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"
Any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench"
Plug with a substance; "fill a cavity"
Become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"
Fill or meet a want or need
Fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
Appoint someone to (a position or a job)
Assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"
Occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"
Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult); "the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins" Back to top
Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
A young woman; "a young lady of 18"
(usually followed by `with'' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with; "theirs was a house filled with laughter"; "a large hall filled with rows of desks"; "fog-filled air"
(of time) taken up; "well-filled hours"
The tobacco used to form the core of a cigar
Anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
Copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper
100 filler equal 1 forint
Used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
A bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
Cut into filets; "filet the fish"
Decorate with a lace of geometric designs
Lean flesh of any of several flatfish
A maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)
The act of filling something
(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling'' is `stopping''" Back to top
The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
Flow into something (as a container)
Any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench"
A service station that sells gasoline
Anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"
Elected Vice President and became the 13th President of the United States when Zachary Taylor died in office (1800-1874)
A young female horse under the age of four
Fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please"
Supply with information on a specific topic; "He filled me in on the latest developments"
Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form"
Represent the effect of shade or shadow on
Be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
Become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"
Make bigger or better or more complete
Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form"
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra"
Supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"
Be what is needed or be good enough for what is required; "Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?" Back to top
Become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"
Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
Fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?"
A thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"
Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
A medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
Record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
Make films; be a film maker
(used of a story or literary work) capable of being adapted to motion picture form
Recorded on film; made into a movie; "a filmed documentary"; "the filmed version of the novel"
The act of making a film
A producer of motion pictures
So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
Any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves
Any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or terrestrial on mossy banks
A mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector Back to top
A strip of motion picture film used in a telecast
The person who directs the making of a film
The activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
Any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves
A cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year)
Those involved in producing and distributing movies
A producer of motion pictures
Become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"
A producer of motion pictures
Projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
A star who plays leading roles in the cinema
Someone who writes screenplays
A family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)
Animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae
A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait; equal to one thousandth of a dinar
100 Yemeni fils are worth one Yemeni rial
Device that removes something from whatever passes through it
An electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" Back to top
Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"
Of a cigar or cigarette; having a tip designed to filter the smoke; "filter-tipped cigarettes"
A cigarette with a filter tip
Filter consisting of a layer of sand or gravel for filtering water
Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
A porous unsized paper used for filtering
An air filter on the end of a cigarette; contains material that filters the smoke
A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
The state of being covered with unclean things
Any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
In a filthy unclean manner; "a dirtily dressed camel driver"
A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
Thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we''re having"
Vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
The product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter
Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
The act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter
The process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium Back to top
A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells
Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
Having a fringe of slender processes
Organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
A stabilizer that resembles the fins of a fish
A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
Show the fins above the water while swimming; "The sharks were finning near the surface"
Propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
Equip (a car) with fins
Liable to a fine
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
A deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
An examination administered at the end of an academic term
The final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
Not to be altered or undone; "the judge''s decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say"
Occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"
Conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result" Back to top
The concluding part of any performance
The closing section of a musical composition
The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
The act of finalizing
Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let''s finalize the proposal"
A contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition
The quality of being final or definitely settled; "the finality of death"
The act of finalizing
Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let''s finalize the proposal"
As the end result of a succession or process; "ultimately he had to give in"; "at long last the winter was over"
After a long period of time or an especially long delay; "at length they arrived"
The item at the end; "last, I''ll discuss family values"
The final edited version of movie as approved by the director and producer
A judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment
An examination administered at the end of an academic term
An examination administered at the end of an academic term
Injunction issued on completion of a trial
A judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment
The final payment of a debt
The last period of play in a game Back to top
Something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio"
The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
The concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
The commercial activity of providing funds and capital
The management of money and credit and banking and investments
The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets
Obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"
Sell or provide on credit
Supported financially; "a privately financed project"
Assets in the form of money
A committee appointed to consider financial issues
A financial institution (often affiliated with a holding company or manufacturer) that makes loans to individuals or businesses
The minister responsible for state finances
Involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility"
From a financial point of view; "this was financially unattractive"
Assistance given in the form of money
An analyst who studies the financial performance of corporations
An attestation that the client''s financial statement is accurate
Financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
The part of a city where financial institutions are centered Back to top
The condition of finances
A law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering
A forecast of the expected financial position and the results of operations and cash flows based on expected conditions
The amount of monetary gain
An institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets
Loss of money or decrease in financial value
The federal agency in the Treasury Department that manages the government''s disbursement and collection systems and provides central accounting and financial reporting
An obligation to pay money to another party
An officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds
An institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets
An institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets
A document showing credits and debits
Financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
Any accounting period of 12 months
A person skilled in large scale financial transactions
Conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
The act of financing
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
A law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering Back to top
Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
The act of discovering something
A productive insight
Accept and make use of one''s personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn''t like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
Make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
Decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"
Make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
Succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
Perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You''ll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
Obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
Get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest Back to top
Someone who is the first to observe something
Someone who comes upon something after searching
A fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposes; "the agency got a finder''s fee when their candidate was hired as the new CEO"
The act of determining the properties of something
The decision of a court on issues of fact or law
Something that is found; "the findings in the gastrointestinal tract indicate that he died several hours after dinner"; "an area rich in archaelogical findings"
A collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
(law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment
A finding as to the applicability of a rule of law to particular facts
Harass with constant criticism; "Don''t always pick on your little brother"
Accept and make use of one''s personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
Trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
Money extracted as a penalty
Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"
Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
(of weather) pleasant; not raining, perhaps with the sun shining; "a fine summer evening"
Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction" Back to top
; free or impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything''s fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I''d have
Of texture; being small-grained or smooth to the touch or having fine particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"
Superior to the average; "in fine spirits"; "a fine student"; "made good grades"; "morale was good"; "had good weather for the parade"
Thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"
Being in good health; "he''s feeling all right again"; "I''m fine, how are you?"
Sentence-initial expression of agreement
In a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
In a superior and skilled manner; "the soldiers were fighting finely"
Drawn out to extreme thinness; "fine-drawn features"; "fine-drawn wire"
Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells; "fine-grained birch"
Consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"
Common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women a
Having fine teeth set close together; "a fine-toothed comb"
Having fine teeth set close together; "a fine-toothed comb"
A method of examining in minute detail; "he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes"
A comb with teeth set close together
A method of examining in minute detail; "he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes"
A comb with teeth set close together Back to top
Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
Adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine"
Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one''s style of writing"
Liable to a fine
Punished by the imposition of a penalty
Sew together very finely
In a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
In an elegant manner; "finely costumed actors"
In tiny pieces; "the surfaces were finely granular"
In a superior and skilled manner; "the soldiers were fighting finely"
The quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine"
The quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
Having a very fine texture; "the fineness of the sand on the beach"
The property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
(comparative of `fine'') greater in quality or excellence; "a finer wine"; "a finer musician"
Elaborate or showy attire and accessories
Developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
Subtly skillful handling of a situation
Surpassing in quality; "top-grade ore" Back to top
A mixture of finely chopped fresh herbs; "an omlet flavored with fines herbes"
The products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
The study and creation of visual works of art
Material printed in small type; "he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print"
The part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type; "don''t sign a contract without reading the fine print"
Precipitation in very small drops
The presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elements; "the fine structure results from slightly different energy levels"
A large cave with basaltic pillars on Staffa Island in Scotland
The part of a glove that provides a covering for one of the fingers
Any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"
The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
Examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
Feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"
Search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Apply colors with one''s fingers
Painting by using the fingers to spread the paint
A painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers Back to top
The imputation of blame; "they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop"
A basketball shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to Sign Language; "The Deaf often fingerspell"
A narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
A bank of keys on a musical instrument
A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
Having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters"
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Touching something with the fingers
The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument
Not having or having lost fingers
Resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut"
A young or small fish
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger
The nail at the end of a finger
Paint that has the consistency of jelly
The imputation of blame; "they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop"
A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger Back to top
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger
Biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used as evidence in criminal investigations
A generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator''s fingerprints all over it"
Take an impression of a person''s fingerprints
The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person''s fingerprints for the purpose of identification
A specialist in identifying fingerprints
A specialist in identifying fingerprints
A specialist in identifying fingerprints
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to Sign Language; "The Deaf often fingerspell"
An alphabet of manual signs
A sheath worn to protect a finger
The end (tip) of a finger
An alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
Small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table
A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
Food to be eaten with the fingers
Any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils
Grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns
A hole for inserting a finger Back to top
One of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
Paint that has the consistency of jelly
A flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
Biometric identification by automatically scanning a person''s fingerprints electronically
Biometric identification by automatically scanning a person''s fingerprints electronically
An alphabet of manual signs
A wave made with the fingers
An ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis
Exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
Exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
The concluding part of any performance
The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
The act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker''s finishing was greeted with applause"
A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance); "the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"
(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"
Event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"
The downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict); "booze will be the finish of him"; "it was a fight to the finish"
Designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the most points at the finish"
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhuasted as their destination came into view" Back to top
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph
The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
Cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
Come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master''s Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
Finish eating all the food on one''s plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
Provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end
Brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"
Ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript"; "the manuscript is finished"; "almost finished with his studies"
(of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product"
Having a surface coating or finish applied; "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones"
(of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist"
A worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process
A painter who applies a finishing coat
(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
The act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker''s finishing was greeted with applause"
A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance); "the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"
The final coating of plaster applied to walls and ceilings; "we can''t paint until they put on the finishing coat"
The final coat of paint Back to top
A line indicating the location of the finish of a race
A private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities
A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
The final coating of plaster applied to walls and ceilings; "we can''t paint until they put on the finishing coat"
The final coat of paint
A line indicating the location of the finish of a race
Finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"
Fill out; "These studies round out the results of many years of research"
Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
Finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"
Bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
Of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
With a finite limit; "there are finitely many solutions to this problem"
The quality of being finite
The quality of being finite
Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917
A native or inhabitant of Finland
Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter
Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter Back to top
Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter
Former president of Ireland; first woman to be democratically elected head of state (born in 1930)
One of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages
Of or relating to or characteristic of Finland or the people of Finland; "Finnish architecture"
The capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center
Monetary unit in Finland
A family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
A family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Able to communicate in a Finno-Ugric language
Aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
Relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century); "fin de siecle art"
A metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway
A wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
A woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a whistle mouthpiece
A woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a whistle mouthpiece
Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas Back to top
Nonresinous wood of a fir tree
The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
A fireplace in which a fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
Intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don''t give me any flak"
The event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
A severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors'' first discoveries"
Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
Bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
Destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
Cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
Go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
Start firing a weapon
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
Drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
Provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
Terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
Toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches on its underside
Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn Back to top
Evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
A performer who pretends to swallow fire
A belligerent grouch
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
Poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
Malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising"
Difficult to burn
Difficult to burn
Difficult to burn
Difficult to burn
A performer who pretends to swallow fire
Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center
Worship of fire
A portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
The luminous center of a nuclear explosion
A ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning)
A highly energetic and indefatigable person
An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
An artillery base to support advancing troops
Tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage Back to top
Eastern subspecies of northern oriole
The male is bright red with black wings and tail
A boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront
A bomb that is designed to start fires; are most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)
Attack with incendiary bombs; "The rioters fire-bombed the stores"
A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned
Someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel"
A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning
Lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces
A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
Brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys
A true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain
A criminal who illegally sets fire to property
A heat-resistant clay
Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
Having lost your job
A mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air
Metal supports for logs in a fireplace; "the andirons were too hot to touch"
A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires Back to top
Nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs
Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
A metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)
A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
A station housing fire apparatus and firemen
The light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
(a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
A muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock
Play in which children take the roles of firemen and pretend to put out a fire
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
A pitcher who does not start the game
A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
An ax that has a long handle and a head with one cutting edge and a point on the other side
An ax that has a long handle and a head with one cutting edge and a point on the other side
The act of carrying a person over your shoulder
A city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
(military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target
Make resistant to fire Back to top
Impervious to damage by fire
(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"
A sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
A piece of flint that is struck to light a fire
An outburst of controversy; "the incident triggered a political firestorm"
A storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area
Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire
The application of maximum thrust; "he slammed the throttle to the firewall"
Fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle
(computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet
Any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum)
An American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers
Tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
Eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers
Wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood"
(usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc.
An alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke Back to top
A shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
(Old Testament) God''s means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of fire and brimstone"
Omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
A bell rung to give a fire alarm
A disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
British name for a fire department
A private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires
Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
Evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
The head of a fire department
Set of standards established and enforced by government for fire prevention and safety in case of fire as in fire escapes etc
A private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires
Preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target
Naval radar that controls the delivery of fire on a military target
Naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target
The department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires
A fire-resistant door that can be closed to stop the spread of a fire
An exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire
Any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire Back to top
A stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits emergency exit in the case of fire
A manually operated device for extinguishing small fires
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
Fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
A large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire
An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
Insurance against loss due to fire
Metal fireside implements
The head of a fire department
An official who is responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires
An opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors
Perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals
A pit whose floor is incandescent lava; "the fire pit of the crater"
European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots
A sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire
A sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy
A metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)
A weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships
A station housing fire apparatus and firemen
Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries Back to top
Tongs for taking hold of burning coals
A watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires
A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
A trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire
Any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire
Begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees'' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"
Someone who walks barefoot on burning coals
The ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers
An official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest
(during World War II in Britain) someone whose duty was to watch for fires caused by bombs dropped from the air
(during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky
Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center
The act of discharging a gun
The termination of someone''s employment (leaving them free to depart)
The act of setting on fire or catching fire
The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
Chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
The most advanced and responsible group in an activity; "the firing line is where the action is"
The line from which soldiers deliver fire Back to top
The action that ignites the charge in a firearm
The act of discharging a gun
A squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution
Striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer
A practice range for target practice
A squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution
A small wooden keg
A British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons
Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"
Make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"
Become taut or tauter; "Yur muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"
Strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"
Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends"
Securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"
Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce"
Not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"
Marked by the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles"
Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
Securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country''s leading poet"
Not subject to revision or change; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer" Back to top
Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm"
(of especially a person''s physical features) not shaking or trembling; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step"
With resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"
The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
Relating to the firmament or upper regions
A chisel with a thin blade for woodworking
Small genus of Asian trees or shrubs
Deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
With resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"
With firmness; "held hard to the railing"
In a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely"
The quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place
The trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"
The property of being unyielding to the touch
The firmness and tone of healthy tissue; "his muscle firmness"
(computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory
Eggs beaten with milk or cream and cooked until set
Arrange firmly; "firm up one''s plans"
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base
The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving Back to top
An honours degree of the highest class
The first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"
The first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"
The time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
Being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills"
Ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
Serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
Serving to set in motion; "the magazine''s inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner''s maiden voyage"
Preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"
Highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections; "first soprano"; "the first violin section"; "played first horn"
Indicating the beginning unit in a series
Before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
The initial time; "when Felix first saw a garter snake"
Prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"
Before another in time, space, or importance; "I was here first"; "let''s do this job first"
Kit consisting of a set of bandages and medicines for giving first aid
A station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained
Of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
By first-class conveyance; with first-class accommodations; "we always travel first class"
An honours degree of the highest class Back to top
Mail that includes letters and postcards and packages sealed against inspection
Not accepting reservations
Burn causing redness of the skin surface
Someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions
A partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)
A finish in first place (as in a race)
Of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"
Quite well; "she doesn''t feel first-rate today"
One who is first-rate
Of the regular members of a team; not substitutes; "first-string players"
Of members of a team; not substitutes
Used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college"
The offspring who came first in the order of birth
First in order of birth; "the firstborn child"
Received directly from a source; "firsthand information"
At first hand or directly; "I heard this story firsthand"
Before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
Emergency care given before regular medical aid can be obtained
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Of greatest importance; "first and foremost, we must feed the refugees" Back to top
Taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist"
The act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"
First or lowest balcony
British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)
English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)
English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)
British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)
The initial stage in accomplishing something; "we didn''t get to first base with that approach"
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base
The base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball
(baseball) the person who plays first base
Battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
At the first glimpse or impression; "at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails"
A self-caused agent that is the cause of all things; "God is the first cause"
The most expensive accommodations on a ship or train or plane Back to top
The highest rank in a classification
Mail that includes letters and postcards and packages sealed against inspection
The child of your aunt or uncle
A collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa
A Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there
A degree of one; "all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree"
The result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)
British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
British field marshal (1850-1916)
British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881)
English statesman who brought the Seven Years'' War to an end (1708-1778)
Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
British field marshal in North Africa in World War II; he defeated the Italians before being defeated by the Germans (1883-1950)
The first New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle
A New Testament book containing the first epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth
A New Testament book containing Saint Paul''s first epistle to the Thessalonians
A New Testament book containing Saint Paul''s first epistle to Timothy; contains advice on pastoral matters
The first New Testament book traditionally attributed to Saint Peter the Apostle
A New Testament book containing the first epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth Back to top
A New Testament book containing Saint Paul''s first epistle to the Thessalonians
A New Testament book containing Saint Paul''s first epistle to Timothy; contains advice on pastoral matters
The first of the three estates of the realm; the clergy in France and the lords spiritual in Britain
The floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building
The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
Students beginning elementary school
The first of two halves of play
The lowest tone of a harmonic series
Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold
The wife of a chief executive
The leading woman in an art or profession
One''s native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
A body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force
The fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
A commissioned officer in the army or air force or marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain
The first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown
The officer below the master on a commercial ship
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values Back to top
A mortgage that has priority over all mortgages and liens except those imposed by law
The name that precedes the surname
Before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
Someone convicted for the first time
Before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
Observed in the United States to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia in honor of labor
An armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain; seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime; "GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States"
The first period of play in a game
Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur
The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
The first fourth of the moon''s period of revolution around the Earth
The first presentation of a bill in a legislature
The lands ruled by Charlemagne; a continuation of the Roman Empire in Europe
The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
(baseball) the person who plays first base
A sergeant in the army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
The first of a series of actions; "he memorized all the important chess openings"
The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
The initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons; considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country''s ability to retaliate; "the Pakistani president promised no first strike against India" Back to top
A team representing a college or university
Time period extending from the first day of the last menstrual period through 12 weeks of gestation
Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
The highest quality gems
A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
A long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
A firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel
A large firth on the east coast of Scotland; location of Edinburgh
Of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir
The seed-producing cone of a fir tree
Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas
An act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separa
A state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor''s private purse
Involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility"
In financial matters; "fiscally irresponsible"
A government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing)
Any accounting period of 12 months
United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943) Back to top
German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)
German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)
A type of slime mushroom
Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish"
The flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends"
Seek indirectly; "fish for compliments"
Similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly; larvae are used as fishing bait
Worship of fish
A bone of a fish
A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
A state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl"
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Someone whose occupation is catching fish
Someone whose occupation is catching fish
A knot for tying a line to a spar or ring
A knot for tying the ends of two lines together
(angling) any bright artificial bait consisting of plastic or metal mounted with hooks and trimmed with feathers Back to top
A workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Of or relating to a fisheye lens
A camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
A sharp barbed hook for catching fish
In a questionably unusual manner; "this money had been queerly come by"
The act of someone who fishes as a diversion
The occupation of catching fish for a living
A vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive
Of southeast Europe and central Asia
Gear used in fishing
A license authorizing the bearer to fish during a specified period of time
A license authorizing the bearer to fish during a specified period of time
A length of cord to which the leader and float and sinker and hook are attached
A net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in
A license authorizing the bearer to fish during a specified period of time
A rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line
Gear used in fishing
A rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line Back to top
The season during which it is legal to catch fish
A vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive
Gear used in fishing
A vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive
Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Resembling a fish; "an extinct fishlike vertebrate"
Someone who sells fish
A net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in
A paste of fish or shellfish
Metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams
Small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young
A freshwater pond with fish
Slow down by moving the tail sideways; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway"
A drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear
Attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage
Someone who sells fish
Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
Fried fish and french-fried potatoes
A fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes Back to top
Well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock
A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
A state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl"
A fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes
Chowder containing fish
Brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout
Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
Large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years
Any of various families of fish
A workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food
A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
A long fillet of fish breaded and fried
Similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly; larvae are used as fishing bait
A cookout where fried fish is the main course
Small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons
Any of various genus of fish
An upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers
Gelatinous substance obtained by boiling skins fins and bones of fish
Large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years Back to top
A punch made of rum and brandy and water or tea sweetened with sugar syrup
A butt joint formed by bolting fish plates to the sides of two rails or beams
A small table knife with a spatula blade used for eating fish
A series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam
Flaked fish baked in a loaf with bread crumbs and various seasonings
A kind of copepod
(angling) any bright artificial bait consisting of plastic or metal mounted with hooks and trimmed with feathers
Ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock
Mousse made with fish
Oil obtained from fish
Scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
A food turner with a broad slitted blade used for turning or serving fish or other food that is cooked in a frying pan
Cross-section slice of a large fish
A stew made with fish
A long fillet of fish breaded and fried
A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
Capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood"
Capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material"
A nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts Back to top
Capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material"
A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
The tendence to break into parts; "the fissipairty of religious sects"
Reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish
Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"
Reproducing by fission
Terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons
In some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora
Terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons
(anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
A long narrow opening
A long narrow depression in a surface
Break into fissures or fine cracks
Type genus of the family Fissurellidae: keyhole limpets
Marine limpet having a conical shell with an opening at the apex
Marine limpets
A brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes
The deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres
A hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)
A fight with bare fists Back to top
Fight with the fists; "The man wanted to fist-fight"
The quantity that can be held in the hand
Fighting with the fists
A fight with bare fists
About seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow)
An abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface
A chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse
Like a reed or tube
Type genus of the family Fistulariidae
Cornetfishes
Like a reed or tube
Fungi having each pore separate though crowded
A family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other
A popular edible fungus with a cap the color of liver or raw meat; abundant in southeastern United States
Like a reed or tube
Of or pertaining to or attacked by a fistula
A chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse
A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning"
The manner in which something fits; "I admired the fit of her coat"
A sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" Back to top
A display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene"
Insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can''t fit himself into our work environment"
Make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
Make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater"
Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don''t agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect''s fingerprints don''t match those on the gun"
Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won''t fit into the puzzle"
Satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
Be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs"
Conform to some shape or size; "How does this shirt fit?"
Physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"
Meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "a fit subject for discussion"; "it is fit and proper that you be there"; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you see fit to"
(usually followed by `to'' or `for'') on the point of or strongly disposed; "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time"
Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
Intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
Occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"
In a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully"
The quality of being spasmodic and irregular
In an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed"
Any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture); "she liked the kitchen fitments" Back to top
The condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position"
The quality of being qualified
Good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
Fitness to traverse the seas
Repeated bursts of activity; "they worked in fits and starts"
Furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation; "well-outfitted expedition to the South Pole"
Prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"
Furnished with all equipment needed for voyaging
A sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress
Someone who fits a garment to a particular person
Improved in health or physical condition
Trying on clothes to see whether they fit
(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
Being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first"
In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"
In an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed"
The condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position"
United States scat singer (born in 1918) Back to top
United States novelist (1896-1940)
English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)
Meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "a fit subject for discussion"; "it is fit and proper that you be there"; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you see fit to"
Go together; "The colors don''t harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"
Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"
Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
Be what is needed or be good enough for what is required; "Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?"
Meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "a fit subject for discussion"; "it is fit and proper that you be there"; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you see fit to"
A team that plays basketball
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
Being one more than four
Any of a numerous plants grown for their 5-petal flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties
Hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers
A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits
The ordinal number of five hundred in counting order
Of a chemical compound having a ring with five members
Small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado
A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal Back to top
A United States bill worth 5 dollars
Having five units or components
A five-cent piece
A United States bill worth 5 dollars
A game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
Five people considered as a unit
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
A United States bill worth 5 dollars
A card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
The cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
Denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
Middle-distance iron
A league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon
A determination of the location of something; "he got a good fix on the target"
An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear; "collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers"
The act of putting something in working order again
Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug; "she needed a fix of chocolate"
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
Make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized" Back to top
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
Make fixed, stable or stationary; "let''s fix the picture to the frame"
Decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
Take vengeance on or get even; "We''ll get them!"; "That''ll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"
Cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
Put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
Set or place definitely; "Let''s fix the date for the party!"
Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
A shop specializing in repairs and maintenance
Capable of being made ready for service
Become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"
Make fixed, stable or stationary; "let''s fix the picture to the frame"
Pay attention to exclusively and obsessively; "The media are fixating on Princess Diana''s death"
Attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way; "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40"
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
The activity of fastening something firmly in position
An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely Back to top
A varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging
A compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study
Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes"
Directed with intense concentration; "a fixed stare"; "an intent gaze"
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
Securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
Specified in advance; "a given number"; "we will meet at a given time and location"
Fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O''Brien; "a face rigid with pain"
Not increasing as the amount taxed increases
Mended or put in working order; "a reconditioned sewing machine"; "a repaired vacuum cleaner"; "the broken lock is now fixed"
Intent and directed steadily; "had her gaze fastened on the stranger"; "a fixed expresson"
Drug containing fixed amounts of two or more ingredients
An operation that is completed in a specified number of regularly timed execution cycles
(financial) of investments that pay a constant rate of return; "fixed-income investments do not protect an investor in times of rising inflation"
A radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention
A number represented in fixed-point notation
The positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808
A radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention
A typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter)
In a fixed manner; "he stared at me fixedly" Back to top
The quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her"
The quality of being fixed in place
Remaining in place
A periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
A periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
A periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit
The intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer
An investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized
Nonvolatile animal or plant oil
A phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc.
Any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion
(computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed
Taken care of or made comfortable; "went back to work after she got her scraped arm fixed up"
Synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
Someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
A skilled worker whose job is to repair things
A chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
A house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price)
The act of putting something in working order again Back to top
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
The sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
The accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity); "an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings"; "he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"
Food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad"
A chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
The quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
The quality of being fixed in place
The act of putting something in working order again
A object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)
The quality of being fixed in place
A regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"
Make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?"
Find (something or someone) for; "I''ll fix you up with a nice girl"
A firework that fizzes as it moves
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
An effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
Form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
Hissing and bubbling
End weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" Back to top
End weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
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