English dictionary: words starting with f

abbreviation

(in the uk) football association, the governing body of soccer in england.

Usage examples:

The fa premier league

noun

Short for fanny adams (sense 1).

Usage examples:

He knows sweet fa about football

adjective

Fabulous; wonderful.

Usage examples:

I admired the fab photography

noun

A microchip manufacturing plant.

Usage examples:

The process will reduce the environmental damage caused by chip fabs

verb

Produce (a microchip).

Usage examples:

The company is fabbing silicon supporting mimo today and will bring it to products in the near futu…

noun

A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

Usage examples:

The fable of the sick lion and the wary fox

verb

Tell fictitious tales.

Usage examples:

I do not dream nor fable

adjective

Famous, especially by reputation.

Usage examples:

A fabled art collection

verb

Tell fictitious tales.

Usage examples:

I do not dream nor fable

noun

A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

Usage examples:

The fable of the sick lion and the wary fox

verb

Tell fictitious tales.

Usage examples:

I do not dream nor fable

noun

Cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibres.

Usage examples:

Heavy cream fabric

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

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Officers fabricated evidence

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

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Officers fabricated evidence

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

noun

The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.

Usage examples:

The assembly and fabrication of electronic products

noun

The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.

Usage examples:

The assembly and fabrication of electronic products

noun

A person who invents or produces something false in order to deceive someone

Usage examples:

He’s an admitted plagiarist and fabricator., she will fight to prove that she is not a fabricator.,…

noun

Cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibres.

Usage examples:

Heavy cream fabric

noun

A person who composes or relates fables.

Usage examples:

Though a self-proclaimed australian writer, carey is a fabulist who does not write in any recogniza…

noun

A person who composes or relates fables.

Usage examples:

Though a self-proclaimed australian writer, carey is a fabulist who does not write in any recogniza…

adjective

Extraordinary, especially extraordinarily large.

Usage examples:

Fabulous riches

adverb

Extremely well; wonderfully.

Usage examples:

We all seemed to be getting on fabulously

noun

The principal front of a building, that faces on to a street or open space.

Usage examples:

The house has a half-timbered facade

noun

The principal front of a building, that faces on to a street or open space.

Usage examples:

The house has a half-timbered facade

noun

The front part of a person's head from the forehead to the chin, or the corresponding part in an animal.

Usage examples:

She was scarlet in the face and perspiring profusely

verb

Short for typeface.

idiom

Accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions

phrase

Be confronted with the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.

Usage examples:

We would later have to face the music over our bold moves

adverb

If you talk to someone face to face, you talk directly to them, not by phone, email, online, etc.

Usage examples:

Banking customers still often want to do business face to face., the ceo refused our request for a …

idiom

Looking at another person

Usage examples:

We sat face-to-face., he’s suddenly come face-to-face with his own weakness.

phrasal verb

To accept that a difficult situation exists

Usage examples:

She's going to have to face up to the fact that he's not going to marry her.