English Wordbook/F
From The Anglish Moot
Staff F of the English Wordbook.
| fable | n | tale |
| fabric | n | cloth |
| fabricate | vb | bring into being, build, make, put together, run up, set up, shape; think up, write; lie, make up, |
| fabulous | adj | amazing |
| facade | n | building foreside, foreside, out side, outer side, outer skin, outward look, bold outer, seeming, outward show, airs, put-on |
| face | n | side, foreside, (anatomy) mug, blee, andlit, anleth (Middle English anleth), leer (Originally meant the face), hue |
| facet | n | a side(of a many-sided thing), bearing |
| facetious | adj | biting, tongue-in-cheek, sharp-witted, salty, smart, witty |
| facilitate | vb | help, hasten, open up, quicken, smooth the way, walk one through |
| facsimile | n | likeness |
| fact | n | truth |
| fact, in | adv phr | in truth, in sooth, indeed, indeedy, nothing else but, |
| factor | n | maker, doer; grounds |
| factory | n | buildworks, mill |
| faculty | n | lorehalldeal |
| fad | n | hit, brainstorm |
| fade | vb | dwindle, wane |
| faeces | n | shit, shite, stool |
| faggot | n | stickbind, stickfasten |
| fagocyte | n | eatcell |
| faience | n | earthenware |
| fail | phr vb | found wanting, break down, die out, lose strength |
| faint | vb | swoon, flake out, black out |
| fair | n | hoppings |
| fait accompli | n | fulfilled, carried out, (thing) over and done |
| faith | n | belief, trust |
| faithful | adj | true, trothen, steadfast |
| fallible | adj | wanting, unsound |
| false | adj | wrong, fake, untrue |
| fame | n | daily talk, name, goodname, goodstanding; stardom, limelight, greatness |
| familiar | aj | kithy |
| family | n | kin, household, clan, ilk |
| famine | n | hunger, starving, dearth |
| famished | adj | hungry, starving, hunger-bitten |
| famous | adj | well-known, heard of, widely known, nameknown |
| fan | n | blower |
| fanatic | n | diehard, hardnose, onlyright |
| fanatism | n | overingod |
| fancy | n | liking, longing, bent, flighty thought, daresay, brainwave |
| fancy | adj | showy |
| fanfare | n | outward show, loud outburst, great-to-do |
| fantastic | adj | wonderful |
| fantasy | n | brainchild, daydream, flight, woolgathering, harebrainer, hope, make-believe, mindwander, wishful-thinking, wonderwork |
| farce | n | take-off, dry-wit |
| farm | n | wick, thorp |
| farmer | n | acreman, ploughman, yeoman, tiller, tillerman, tillman |
| farming | n | tilling, husbandry |
| farrago | n | mash, mashing, all-kinds-of, gleaning, sundry |
| fascia | n | strip. band |
| fascinate | vb | bewitch, spellbind, draw, fire, inthrall |
| fascinated | adj | inthralled, bewitched, spellbound |
| fashion | n | trend, way |
| fashionable | adj | trendy, dapper |
| fashioned, old | adj | old-fangled |
| fastidious | adj | choosy, picksome |
| fatal | adj | deadly |
| fatamorgana | n | airglass |
| fate | n | doom, wird |
| fatigue | n | weariness, burn out, bone sore, strengthlessness, weakliness |
| fatuous | adj | weak, silly, mindless, shallow, brainless, cock-eyed, hollow, thoughtless, unthinking, witless, unwitty, |
| fault | n | want, weakness, drawback, misplay, mistake, wale, warp, weal, wrongness |
| fauna | n | wightlife |
| faux-pas | n | mistake |
| favor, grace, pleasure | n | est |
| favourable | adj | fair-boding |
| favourite | adj | beloved, darling |
| fawn | adj | (hue) brownish-yellow, dun, dun-brown |
| fawn | vb | bow, stoop, bootlick, yield, woo, suck up to |
| fax | n | farwrit |
| fax machine | n | farwriter |
| feasible | adj | likely, seemingly, timely, welltimed, wieldly, worthwhile |
| feast | n | merrymaking |
| feature | n | shape, look, make, mark, |
| february | n | solmonth, horningmonth |
| february | n | solmonth, horningmonth |
| feckless | adj | bootless, careless, carefree, easy-going, heedless, useless, good-for-nothing, worthless untrustworthy, thoughtless, thriftless, unthinking |
| federal | adj | bandish |
| federalist | n | bandisher |
| federation | n | band |
| fee | n | toll, scot |
| feeble | adj | weak |
| fee simple | n | freehold |
| feign | vb phr | make believe, let on like, make as if, make out like, play, put on |
| feint | n | blind, hoodwinking, make- believe, put-on, red-herring, |
| felicitate | vb phr | make happy |
| female | adj | she-kind, (pref.) she- |
| feminism | n | shekindmovement |
| femto-byte | pre | Fifteen-bite |
| femur | n | the thigh bone |
| fence | n | wall, hedge |
| fend (off) | vb | ward off, hold off, keep off |
| fender | n | shield, windshield, hob; midriff |
| fennec | n | [desert]fox |
| feodalism | n | loanframework |
| feral | adj | wild, untamed, running mad, tameless, wolfish |
| feric | adj | ironlike, iron-having, of iron |
| feriferous | adj | iron-yielding |
| ferment | n | barm |
| ferocious | adj | fiendish, mad, grim, warlike, |
| ferret | n | whitrat |
| ferret | vb | hound, harry, seek out |
| fertile | n | berryish, blooming, running-over, overflowing, thriving, yielding, loamy |
| fervent | adj | fevered, fiery, heated, het-up, hardworking, heartfelt, whole-hearted |
| fester | vb | burn, rot, weep, blain |
| festive | adj | festlike, hearty, merry, |
| festoon | n | wreathe, streamers |
| festoon | vb | dress up |
| fetid | adj | bad-smelling, flyblown, smellful, smelly, stenchy, wormy, wretched, awful, forbidding |
| feudal | adj | toll-run, feeholding |
| feud | n | foe-fighting, bad blood, ill-feeling |
| fever | n | rithing |
| fiancee | n | betrothed, husband-to-be, wife-to-be |
| fiasco | n | out-and out breakdown, full-blight, misdeal |
| fibre | n | thread, thrum |
| fibula | n | calf bone, bow pin |
| fiction | n | makebelieve |
| fidelity | n | trueness, truelock, troth |
| field of battle | n | badewang, list |
| figment | n | brainchild, farfetchery, make belief, |
| figure out | vb | work out |
| filter | n | sieve |
| filter | vb | sieve, sift, winnow, trawl |
| final | adj | end, last |
| finalé | n | showdown |
| finally | adv | at last, in the end |
| finance | n | goldlore |
| fine | adj | good, well |
| fine (fee) | n | lawslight |
| finish | vb | end, fullcome |
| finish | n | ending |
| firm | adj | fast |
| firmament | n | sky, welkin, heaven |
| fiscal | n | tollstaid, geldstaid |
| fissure | n | crack, split, chine, cleft |
| fix | vb | fasten |
| fix | n | fastning |
| fixed | adj | given, fast, fastened |
| flaccid | adj | limp |
| flagellate | n | whipwight |
| flame | n | blaze, fire, fire-shoot, lowe |
| flamingo | n | stiltswan, fireswan |
| flange | n | rim |
| flatulence | n | wind |
| flavour | n | smack |
| flax | n | linwirt |
| flexible | adj | lithe, bendy, limber, bendsome, bowsome |
| flinch | vb | draw back, wince, hang back, reel, shy, startle, blench |
| flirt | vb | eye-tease, eye play |
| floccinaucinihilipilificate | vb | deem worthless |
| flora | n | bloomlife, wortlife |
| flour | n | meal |
| flourish | vb | bloom, blossom |
| flower | n | bloom, blossom |
| fluctuate | n | swing |
| fluent | adj | flowing, smoothspoken |
| fluorescent | aj | flowglowing |
| flux | n | flowing |
| focus | n | sharpness |
| fondant | n | frosting, icing |
| fondue | n | smeltcheese |
| fool's gold | n | mullock |
| foolhardy | adj | brash, bold, headlong, heedless, hot-headed, daring, daresome, reckless |
| footprint | n | footspoor, footmark, trod |
| force | n | might, strength, groundswell, dint |
| forceps | n | tongs |
| forcible | adj | strong-arm |
| foreign | adj | altheodish, farlandish, outlandish, outland, fremd, overseas |
| foreign country | n | altheod, farland, faraway land, outland |
| foreigner | n | outlander, outsider, altheodi, farlander, frem-folk |
| forest | n | holt, woodland, wood, wold, weald |
| forficula | n | earwig, forky tail, clipshear |
| forge | n | smithy |
| form | n | shape, |
| form | vb | shape, make, begin, build |
| formal | adj | starchy, stiff, stilted |
| formation | n | setting up, shaping, building, making |
| formidable | adj | stalwart |
| formula | n | forwrit |
| fort(ress) | n | stronghold, fastness |
| fortitude | n | strength |
| fortress | n | keep, castle |
| fortune | n | hap, luck |
| fossil | n | forstone |
| fotanelle | n | mould |
| found | vb | build, begin, settle |
| foundation | n | groundwork, groundstone, staddle |
| fountain | n | wellspring |
| fountainhead | n | headspring |
| foyer | n | lobby |
| fraction | n | share, lot, breaking |
| fracture | n & vb | break |
| fragile | adj | brittle, weak, unstrong, untrim |
| fragment | n | breakdeal, thrum(s), scrap(s) |
| fragmentation | n | forsplintering |
| France | name | Frankenland, Franksland, Frankrike |
| fraternal | adj | brotherly |
| fraternity | n | brotherhood |
| fraud | n | swindle |
| fray | vb | frazzle |
| frenum (oral) | n | tungfrum |
| frequency | n | oftenness |
| frequently | adv | often |
| fresco | n | chalk[painting] |
| fricative | aj | rubclank |
| friction | n | rubbing |
| fringe | n | edge, outskirt |
| front | n | fore, afore, foreside |
| frontier | n | border |
| fructose | n | berrysugar |
| fruit | n | berry |
| frustrate | vb | thwart |
| fucacae | n | seaweed, float-wort, seawrack |
| fuchsia | n | foxbloom, bellbloom |
| fugitive | n | runaway, lamster, flightling |
| fulfilment | n | fulfilling |
| fuliginous | adj | sooty, grimy, blackish, darkish, dusty, emberlike, cinderly, ashlike, coomy |
| fulmination | n | lightning, skyfire, firelaught, fireflaught, skybolt, blixen, blitzen |
| function | vb | work, workgoal |
| functional | adj | stalworth, working |
| fund | n | groundfest |
| fundament | n | groundwork |
| fundamental | adj | underlying, innermost, key |
| funeral | n | begraving |
| funeral fire | n | baleblaze |
| fungi | n | mushroom |
| furniture | n | fittings, roomware, houseware |
| fuse | n | forsmelt, meld |
| futile | aj | worthless |
| futility | n | worthlessness |
| future | n & phr | hereafter, aftertide, aftertime, tocome (calque from Dutch, "toekomst"), afterday(s), upcoming, time-to-come, yet-to-be, about to be, by-and -by, coming up, towards |
| future | adj | toward |
