Name Report For First Name FIA:

FIA

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

Rhymes with FIA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming FIA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FİA AS A WHOLE:

afia efia safia yafiah zsofia agafia sofian fiallan fiamain fianait fianna sofia fiacra fiannan fiacre zofia lufian

NAMES RHYMING WITH FİA (According to last letters):

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

aminia ashia fowsia kamaria tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia berengaria bethia cambria ingria abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasia basilia callia calligenia cassiopeia castalia celosia cosimia cynthia demetria dionysia egeria eileithyia elefteria erytheia eulallia eunomia euphemia eurycleia filia gelasia georgia harmonia hedia helia hesperia hestia hippodamia hygeia hypatia idalia iphegenia lamia lampetia laodamia lelia lethia obelia oleisia orithyia ortygia parthenia pelagia pelicia pelopia polyhymnia pythia sinovia sophia sophronia stasia terentia thalia theophania theophilia titania urania xenia xylia zelia zenia zenobia halia kaiolohia melia

NAMES RHYMING WITH FİA (According to first letters):

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

fibh fida fidel fidele fidelma fie fielding fifi fifine fifna fifne fil filbert filberta filbuk filburt 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 FİA:

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

fabia fabiana fadheela fadwa fala 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 fayola fayza fazia fearchara fearcharia fearnlea fedora fela felberta felda felecia felicia felicita felisa felisberta fenella feodora ferda fermina fernanda flanna flavia fleta floarea florencia florenta florentina floressa floretta floria floriana florica florida florina florinda florinia florita florka flyta fola foma fonda forba forbia forsa fortuna francena francesca francia francina francisca franciska franta frantiska franziska freca freda fredda frederica frederika fredrika freira freja frenchesca fresca frescura freya freyja frieda

English Words Rhyming FIA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FİA AS A WHOLE:

acidifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.

affiancenoun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
 noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
 verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affiancingnoun (p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance

affiancernoun (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

affiantnoun (n.) One who makes an affidavit.

alkalifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

calorifiantadjective (a.) See Calorificient.

classifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being classified.

defiancenoun (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
 noun (n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
 noun (n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.

defiantadjective (a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

defiatoryadjective (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance.

diversifiabilitynoun (n.) The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.

diversifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being diversified or varied.

electrifiableadjective (a.) Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.

exemplifiableadjective (a.) That can be exemplified.

falsifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.

fiacrenoun (n.) A kind of French hackney coach.

fiancenoun (n.) A betrothed man.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.

fianceenoun (n.) A betrothed woman.

fiantsnoun (n.) The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

fiarnoun (n.) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
 noun (n.) The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

fiasconoun (n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

fiatnoun (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
 noun (n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
 noun (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.

fiauntnoun (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

fortifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being fortified.

graafianadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.

identifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being identified.

invitrifiableadjective (a.) Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass.

justifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

liquefiableadjective (a.) Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

magnifiableadjective (a.) Such as can be magnified, or extolled.

modifiabilitynoun (n.) Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.

modifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being modified; liable to modification.

mollifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being mollified.

maffianoun (n.) Alt. of Mafia

mafianoun (n.) A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.

olefiantadjective (a.) Forming or producing an oil; specifically, designating a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon called ethylene.

qualifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.

pacifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

raffianoun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.

rarefiableadjective (a.) Capable of being rarefied.

ratafianoun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.

rectifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.
 adjective (a.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve.

ruffiannoun (n.) A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
 noun (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
 adjective (a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
 verb (v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

ruffianagenoun (n.) Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.

ruffianishadjective (a.) Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.

ruffianlikeadjective (a.) Ruffianly.

ruffianlyadjective (a.) Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

ruffianousadjective (a.) Ruffianly.

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


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - English Words That Ends with ia:


abdominalianoun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

acacianoun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
 noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
 noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

acholianoun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile.

acinesianoun (n.) Same as Akinesia.

aconitianoun (n.) Same as Aconitine.

acontianoun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.

acranianoun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
 noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists.

acrasianoun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy

acrisianoun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy

actinarianoun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

actinianoun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
 noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae.

adansonianoun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

adelphianoun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

adenalgianoun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy

adularianoun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

adversarianoun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

adynamianoun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

aegicranianoun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

aerophobianoun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby

aesthesianoun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

agalactianoun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy

agraphianoun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

akinesianoun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

albuminurianoun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

alcyonarianoun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

alfilarianoun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

alleluianoun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah

almadianoun (n.) Alt. of Almadie

alopecianoun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy

alpianoun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

amblyopianoun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy

ambrosianoun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
 noun (n.) An unguent of the gods.
 noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
 noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
 noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.

amentianoun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

ametropianoun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

amianoun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

ammonianoun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

amnesianoun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

amphibianoun (n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates.
  (pl. ) of Amphibium

anaemiaadjective (a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

anaesthesianoun (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

analgesianoun (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain.

anaphrodisianoun (n.) Absence of sexual appetite.

anesthesiaadjective (a.) Alt. of Anesthetic

anglomanianoun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

anglophobianoun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English.

anomianoun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

anopsiaadjective (a.) Alt. of Anopsy

anorexianoun (n.) Alt. of Anorexy

anosmianoun (n.) Loss of the sense of smell.

anthobranchianoun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

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


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


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.

ficenoun (n.) A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.

ficheadjective (a.) See FitchE.

ficttelitenoun (n.) A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.

fichunoun (n.) A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.

fickleadjective (a.) Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.

ficklenessnoun (n.) The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.

ficonoun (n.) A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.

fictileadjective (a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.

fictionnoun (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
 noun (n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
 noun (n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
 noun (n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
 noun (n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

fictionaladjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

fictionistnoun (n.) A writer of fiction.

fictiousadjective (a.) Fictitious.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FİA:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.