Name Report For First Name FIBH:

FIBH

First name FIBH's origin is Scottish. FIBH means "from fifeshire". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FIBH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of fibh.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scottish) with FIBH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with FIBH - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming FIBH

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FÝBH AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH FÝBH (According to last letters):

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

amblaoibh amhlaoibh

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

meadhbh sadbh sadhbh brandubh dubh macdhubh meadghbh

NAMES RHYMING WITH FÝBH (According to first letters):

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

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

fia fiacra fiacre fiallan fiamain fianait fianna fiannan fida fidel fidele fidelma fie fielding fifi fifine fifna fifne fil filbert filberta filbuk filburt filia filicia filipa filipina filippo filmarr filmer filmore filomena filomenia fina finan finbar findabair fineen fineena finella fingal finghin fingula finian finlay finn finna finnbar finneen finnegan finnian finnin finnobarr finola fiona fionan fionn fionna fionnbarr fionnghuala fionnlaoch fionnuala fiorenza firas firdaws firdoos firenze firman firth firtha firyal fishel fiske fitch fitche fitz fitzadam fitzgerald fitzgibbon fitzgilbert fitzhugh fitzjames fitzpatrick fitzsimmons fitzsimon fitzsimons fitzwalter fitzwater fiynn

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FÝBH:

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

fadilah faerrleah fahesh faith faizah fakih farah fardoragh faridah farihah farleigh farrah fateh fath fatimah fatinah fawziyyah fayth fearbhirigh fearnhealh fearnleah feich fellah fogartaigh frannsaidh fridolph friedrich fytch

English Words Rhyming FIBH

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FÝBH AS A WHOLE:



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


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


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


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


fibnoun (n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
 verb (v. i.) To speak falsely.
 verb (v. t.) To tell a fib to.

fibbingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fib

fibbernoun (n.) One who tells fibs.

fibernoun (n.) Alt. of Fibre

fibrenoun (n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
 noun (n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
 noun (n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
 noun (n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
  () A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

fiberedadjective (a.) Alt. of Fibred

fibredadjective (a.) Having fibers; made up of fibers.

fiberlessadjective (a.) Alt. of Fibreless

fibrelessadjective (a.) Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

fibriformadjective (a.) Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

fibrilnoun (n.) A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

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

fibrillaradjective (a.) Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

fibrillaryadjective (a.) Of of pertaining to fibrils.

fibrillatedadjective (a.) Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

fibrillationnoun (n.) The state of being reduced to fibers.

fibrilloseadjective (a.) Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

fibrillousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.

fibrinnoun (n.) A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
 noun (n.) The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
 noun (n.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.

fibrinationnoun (n.) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

fibrineadjective (a.) Belonging to the fibers of plants.

fibrinogennoun (n.) An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.

fibrinogenousadjective (a.) Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.

fibrinoplasticadjective (a.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.

fibrinoplastinnoun (n.) An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.

fibrinousadjective (a.) Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.

fibrocartilagenoun (n.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.

fibrochondrostealadjective (a.) Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.

fibroidnoun (n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
 adjective (a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.

fibroinnoun (n.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

fibrolitenoun (n.) A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.

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

fibrospongiaenoun (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.

fibrousadjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.

fibrovascularadjective (a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

fibsternoun (n.) One who tells fibs.

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.

fibularenoun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FÝBH:

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

faintishadjective (a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

fairishadjective (a.) Tolerably fair.

faithnoun (n.) Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
 noun (n.) The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
 noun (n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
 noun (n.) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
 noun (n.) That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
 noun (n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
 noun (n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
 noun (n.) Credibility or truth.
  (interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily.

fallfishnoun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

farfetchnoun (n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.
 verb (v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

fashnoun (n.) Vexation; anxiety; care.
 verb (v. t.) To vex; to tease; to trouble.

fastishadjective (a.) Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

fattishadjective (a.) Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

feldspathnoun (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.

fellahnoun (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

felspathnoun (n.) See Feldspar.

fennishadjective (a.) Abounding in fens; fenny.

festlichnoun (n.) Festive; fond of festive occasions.

fetchnoun (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
 noun (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
 verb (v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
 verb (v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
 verb (v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
 verb (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
 verb (v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

fetichnoun (n.) Alt. of Fetish

fetishnoun (n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
 noun (n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic

fetwahnoun (n.) A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.

feverishadjective (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
 adjective (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
 adjective (a.) Hot; sultry.
 adjective (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

fiendishadjective (a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

fifteenthnoun (n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
 noun (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
 noun (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
 noun (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
 adjective (a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

fifthnoun (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
 noun (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
 adjective (a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

fiftiethnoun (n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
 adjective (a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

filefishnoun (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

filthnoun (n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
 noun (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

finchnoun (n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

finfishnoun (n.) A finback whale.
 noun (n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

finishnoun (n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
 noun (n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
 noun (n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.
 noun (n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
 noun (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
 noun (n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.
 verb (v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
 verb (v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
 verb (v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate.
 verb (v. i.) To end; to die.

finnishnoun (n.) A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.

firefishnoun (n.) A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

firthnoun (n.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

fishnoun (n.) A counter, used in various games.
 noun (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
 noun (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
 noun (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
 noun (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
 noun (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
 noun (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
 verb (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
 verb (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
 verb (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
 verb (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
 verb (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
 verb (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
  (pl. ) of Fish

fitchnoun (n.) A vetch.
 noun (n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
 noun (n.) The European polecat; also, its fur.

flanchnoun (n.) A flange.
 noun (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

flashnoun (n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
 noun (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
 noun (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
 noun (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
 noun (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
 noun (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
 noun (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
 noun (n.) A pool.
 noun (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
 adjective (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
 adjective (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
 verb (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
 verb (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
 verb (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
 verb (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
 verb (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

flatfishnoun (n.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

flattishadjective (a.) Somewhat flat.

flaundrishadjective (a.) Flemish.

flemishnoun (n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

fleshnoun (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
 noun (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
 noun (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
 noun (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.
 noun (n.) Human nature
 noun (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
 noun (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
 noun (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
 noun (n.) Kindred; stock; race.
 noun (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
 verb (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
 verb (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
 verb (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

flinchnoun (n.) The act of flinching.
 verb (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
 verb (v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

flitchnoun (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
 noun (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
 noun (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
 noun (n.) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.

floshnoun (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

flourishnoun (n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
 noun (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
 noun (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
 noun (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
 noun (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
 noun (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
 verb (v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
 verb (v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
 verb (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
 verb (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
 verb (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
 verb (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
 verb (v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
 verb (v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
 verb (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
 verb (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
 verb (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

flushnoun (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
 noun (n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
 noun (n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
 noun (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
 noun (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
 noun (n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.
 adjective (a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
 adjective (a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
 adjective (a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.
 verb (v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
 verb (v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
 verb (v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
 verb (v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
 verb (v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
 verb (v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
 verb (v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
 adverb (adv.) So as to be level or even.
 verb (v. t.) To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.
 verb (v. i.) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
 verb (v. i.) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

flutemouthnoun (n.) A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

flyfishnoun (n.) A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

flyschnoun (n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

foolfishnoun (n.) The orange filefish. See Filefish.
 noun (n.) The winter flounder. See Flounder.

foolishadjective (a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
 adjective (a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
 adjective (a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

footbathnoun (n.) A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

footbreadthnoun (n.) The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.

footclothnoun (n.) Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.

footpathnoun (n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

foppishadjective (a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

forehearthnoun (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

forespeechnoun (n.) A preface.

forsoothnoun (n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.
 adverb (adv.) In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.
 verb (v. t.) To address respectfully with the term forsooth.

forthnoun (n.) A way; a passage or ford.
 adverb (adv.) Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
 adverb (adv.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
 adverb (adv.) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
 adverb (adv.) Throughly; from beginning to end.
 prep (prep.) Forth from; out of.

fortiethnoun (n.) One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.
 adjective (a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
 adjective (a.) Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

fourteenthnoun (n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
 noun (n.) The octave of the seventh.
 adjective (a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
 adjective (a.) Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.

fourthnoun (n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
 noun (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
 adjective (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
 adjective (a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

foxearthnoun (n.) A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

foxfishnoun (n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
 noun (n.) The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

foxishadjective (a.) Foxlike.

frankishadjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

freakishadjective (a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

frenchnoun (n.) The language spoken in France.
 noun (n.) Collectively, the people of France.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

freshnoun (n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.
 noun (n.) A flood; a freshet.
 noun (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
 verb (v. t.) To refresh; to freshen.
  (superl) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
  (superl) New; original; additional.
  (superl) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
  (superl) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
  (superl) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
  (superl) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
  (superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.

friborghnoun (n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

friesishadjective (a.) Friesic.

frithnoun (n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
 noun (n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.
 adjective (a.) A forest; a woody place.
 adjective (a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.

frogfishnoun (n.) See Angler, n., 2.
 noun (n.) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

frogmouthnoun (n.) One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

froppishadjective (a.) Peevish; froward.

frostfishnoun (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
 noun (n.) The smelt.
 noun (n.) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

frothnoun (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
 noun (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
 noun (n.) Light, unsubstantial matter.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to foam.
 verb (v. t.) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
 verb (v. i.) To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

frumpishadjective (a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.
 adjective (a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

frushnoun (n.) Noise; clatter; crash.
 noun (n.) The frog of a horse's foot.
 noun (n.) A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.
 adjective (a.) Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
 verb (v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces.

famishadjective (a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.
 verb (v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
 verb (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
 verb (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
 verb (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.
 verb (v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.
 verb (v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
 verb (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

furloughadjective (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

furnishnoun (n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
 verb (v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
 verb (v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.

featherstitchnoun (n.) A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

fluviographnoun (n.) An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.