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English Wordbook/F

From The Anglish Moot

Staff F of the English Wordbook.

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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