Name Report For First Name FOLA:

FOLA

First name FOLA's origin is African. FOLA means "yoruba of nigeria name meaning "honor."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FOLA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of fola.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with FOLA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with FOLA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming FOLA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FOLA AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH FOLA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ola) - Names That Ends with ola:

adeola fayola hola karola anatola idola iola neola ola agnola leola paola xola zola sabola amapola amitola carola carrola enola finola jola lola maola keola theola nicola winola guennola nola sativola

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (la) - Names That Ends with la:

layla nangila ndila ramla sela adila cala najla donella alula bela ludmila pavla svetla laila arabella sybylla akila jamila alala eustella onella pamela panphila phila philomela scylla suadela thecla alaula akela kaikala keala lahela makala adiella leela bella borbala gisella akshamala apala behula kamala lajila mahila shitala upala agnella gabriella isabella natala adsila fala kimimela malila posala sitala soyala takala zitkala angela costela gabriela imanuela ionela izabela mihaela mirela

NAMES RHYMING WITH FOLA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (fol) - Names That Begins with fol:

foley

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (fo) - Names That Begins with fo:

fodjour fogartaigh fogarty fogerty foma fonda fonsie fonso fontaine fontane fontanne fontayne fonteyne fonzell fonzie fonzo forba forbes forbia ford forde forest forester forrest forrester forsa fortun fortuna fortune foster fouad foursan fowler fowsia

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FOLA:

First Names which starts with 'f' and ends with 'a':

fabia fabiana fadheela fadwa falerina fana fanetta fannia fanta fantina faoiltiama faqueza fara fareeda fareeha farhana fariha fatima fatina fatuma fauna faunia fausta faustina fawna fawnia fawziya fayanna fayela fayina fayza fazia fearchara fearcharia fearnlea fedora fela felberta felda felecia felicia felicita felisa felisberta fenella feodora ferda fermina fernanda fia fiacra fianna fida fidelma fifna filberta filia filicia filipa filipina filomena filomenia fina fineena finella fingula finna fiona fionna fionnghuala fionnuala fiorenza firtha flanna flavia fleta floarea florencia florenta florentina floressa floretta floria floriana florica florida florina florinda florinia florita florka flyta francena francesca francia francina francisca franciska franta frantiska

English Words Rhyming FOLA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FOLA AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FOLA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ola) - English Words That Ends with ola:


ametabolanoun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

angolanoun (n.) A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

areolanoun (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.
 noun (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

aureolanoun (n.) Alt. of Aureole

bengolanoun (n.) A Bengal light.

carambolanoun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

collembolanoun (n. pl.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

cupolanoun (n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
 noun (n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
 noun (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
 noun (n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
 noun (n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

colanoun (n.) L. pl. of Colon.
 noun (n.) A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.
 noun (n.) Same as Cola nut, below.

dongolanoun (n.) A government of Upper Egypt.
 noun (n.) Dongola kid.

fasciolanoun (n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

foveolanoun (n.) A small depression or pit; a fovea.

gondolanoun (n.) A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
 noun (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.
 noun (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads.
 noun (n.) An elongated car under a dirigible.

gorgonzolanoun (n.) A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.

hemimetabolanoun (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

holometabolanoun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

hyperbolanoun (n.) A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

metabolanoun (n.) Alt. of Metabole
 noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia

miliolanoun (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

molanoun (n.) See Sunfish, 1.

mandolanoun (n.) An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.

paleolanoun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

palolanoun (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.

parabolanoun (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.
 noun (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

pergolanoun (n.) Lit., an arbor or bower;
 noun (n.) An arbor or trellis treated architecturally, as with stone columns or similar massive structure.

pimolanoun (n.) An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.

roseolanoun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.

rubeolanoun (n.) the measles.
 noun (n.) Rubella.

rupicolanoun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

salsolanoun (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

scagliolanoun (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

scaliolanoun (n.) Same as Scagliola.

semiparabolanoun (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.

sholanoun (n.) See Sola.

solanoun (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
 adjective (a.) See Solus.
 adjective (fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

stolanoun (n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

taeniolanoun (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

tolanoun (n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

vaginicolanoun (n.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

variolanoun (n.) The smallpox.

violanoun (n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
 noun (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FOLA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (fol) - Words That Begins with fol:


foldingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fold
 noun (n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
 noun (n.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.

foldnoun (n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
 noun (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
 noun (n.) A boundary; a limit.
 verb (v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
 verb (v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
 verb (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
 verb (v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
 verb (v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
 verb (v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
 verb (v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
 verb (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
 verb (v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
 verb (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.

foldagenoun (n.) See Faldage.

foldernoun (n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

folderolnoun (n.) Nonsense.

foldlessadjective (a.) Having no fold.

foliaceousadjective (a.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
 adjective (a.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.

foliagenoun (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
 noun (n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

foliagedadjective (a.) Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

foliaradjective (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.

foliateadjective (a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
 verb (v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
 verb (v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

foliatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foliate

foliatedadjective (a.) Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
 adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
 adjective (a.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
 adjective (a.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
 adjective (a.) Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Foliate

foliationnoun (n.) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
 noun (n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
 noun (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
 noun (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
 noun (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
 noun (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

foliaturenoun (n.) Foliage; leafage.
 noun (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

foliernoun (n.) Goldsmith's foil.

foliferousadjective (a.) Producing leaves.

folilyadjective (a.) Foolishly.

folionoun (n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.
 noun (n.) A sheet of paper once folded.
 noun (n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
 noun (n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
 noun (n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
 noun (n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.

fol'ioadjective (a.) Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.
 verb (v. t.) To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.

foliolenoun (n.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

foliomortadjective (a.) See Feuillemort.

folioseadjective (a.) Having many leaves; leafy.

foliositynoun (n.) The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.

foliousadjective (a.) Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.
 adjective (a.) Foliose.

foliumnoun (n.) A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
 noun (n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

folknoun (n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks

folksnoun (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
 noun (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
 noun (n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.

folklandnoun (n.) Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.

folkmotenoun (n.) An assembly of the people
 noun (n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

folkmoternoun (n.) One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.

folliclenoun (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
 noun (n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
 noun (n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
 noun (n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

follicularadjective (a.) Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
 adjective (a.) Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.

folliculatedadjective (a.) Having follicles.

folliculousadjective (a.) Having or producing follicles.

follifuladjective (a.) Full of folly.

followingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Follow
 noun (n.) One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
 noun (n.) Vocation; business; profession.
 adjective (a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
 adjective (a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.

followernoun (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
 noun (n.) A sweetheart; a beau.
 noun (n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
 noun (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
 noun (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
 noun (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

follynoun (n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
 noun (n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
 noun (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
 noun (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.

folkethingnoun (n.) The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

follownoun (n.) The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot.
 verb (v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
 verb (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
 verb (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
 verb (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
 verb (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
 verb (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
 verb (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
 verb (v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
 verb (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FOLA:

English Words which starts with 'f' and ends with 'a':

fabellanoun (n.) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

facianoun (n.) See Fascia.

faeculanoun (n.) See Fecula.

falanakanoun (n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

falculanoun (n.) A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

faneganoun (n.) A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.

fantasianoun (n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

farinanoun (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
 noun (n.) Pollen.

fascianoun (n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
 noun (n.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
 noun (n.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
 noun (n.) A broad well-defined band of color.

faunanoun (n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

favellanoun (n.) A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.

feculanoun (n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
 noun (n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.
 noun (n.) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

feluccanoun (n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

fenestranoun (n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

ferianoun (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.

ferraranoun (n.) A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

ferulanoun (n.) A ferule.
 noun (n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.

fibrillanoun (n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

fibromanoun (n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

fibulanoun (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
 noun (n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
 noun (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.

fidianoun (n.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.

filarianoun (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

fimbrianoun (n.) A fringe, or fringed border.
 noun (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.

fissilinguianoun (n. pl.) A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.

fissiparanoun (n. pl.) Animals which reproduce by fission.

fissipedianoun (n. pl.) A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.

fissurellanoun (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

fistucanoun (n.) An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.

fistulanoun (n.) A reed; a pipe.
 noun (n.) A pipe for convejing water.
 noun (n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.

fistularianoun (n.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

fleanoun (n.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix.
 verb (v. t.) To flay.

floranoun (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
 noun (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

flotanoun (n.) A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.

flotillanoun (n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

fodientianoun (n.pl.) A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.

foraminiferanoun (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

forficulanoun (n.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.

formicanoun (n.) A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.

formulanoun (n.) A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
 noun (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
 noun (n.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
 noun (n.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
 noun (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

forsythiaadjective (a.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

fossanoun (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.

fossorianoun (n. pl.) See Fossores.

foussanoun (n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

foutranoun (n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt.

foveanoun (n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

fovillanoun (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

franoun (n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
 adverb (adv. & prep.) Fro.

frambaesianoun (n.) The yaws. See Yaws.

freyanoun (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

frigganoun (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

fringillaadjective (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

fritillarianoun (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

frugivoranoun (n. pl.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

fuchsianoun (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

fuganoun (n.) A fugue.

fughettanoun (n.) a short, condensed fugue.

fulcranoun (n. pl.) See Fulcrum.
  (pl. ) of Fulcrum

fulguratanoun (n.) A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.

fungianoun (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

furculanoun (n.) A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

fiestanoun (n.) Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.