Name Report For First Name FORD:

FORD

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

Rhymes with FORD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming FORD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FORD AS A WHOLE:

ashford pickford ransford rexford stanford aescford aisford berford biecaford biford blandford blanford burhford clyford forde guifford haraford harford heanford huxeford jefford linford lynford oxnaford picford raedford rangford redford reeford rockford rufford ryscford salford salhford stamford steathford stefford talford twiford watelford weiford wiellaford wilford wylingford telford welford watford warford twyford sanford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hartford hanford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford alford hlaford bradford crawford gilford halford hrytherford hwitford langford lawford milford orford rumford rutherford stratford tilford walford whitford rayford

NAMES RHYMING WITH FORD (According to last letters):

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

alvord cord kord raynord rexlord word ord

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

ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard rikard hildegard irmgard irmigard stockhard stokkard adalhard adelhard aegelweard aethelhard aethelweard alhhard archerd athelward baird bamard bayhard beamard bearnard berinhard bernard bernhard bird brainerd branhard burghard ceard cenehard cynhard deerward deorward eadgard eadward eadweard ealhhard eallard eckerd edgard eduard edvard edward eferhard eideard einhard ekerd ekhard erhard erkerd everard everhard evrard eward garrard gaspard gehard gerd gerhard gifuhard goddard hagaward heahweard hobard hobbard hoireabard hubbard hulbard laird maynard meinyard millard rainhard reginhard reinhard ricard rickard ricweard rikkard rikward riobard riocard risteard roibeard ruhdugeard

NAMES RHYMING WITH FORD (According to first letters):

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

forba forbes forbia forest forester forrest forrester forsa fortun fortuna fortune

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

fodjour fogartaigh fogarty fogerty fola foley foma fonda fonsie fonso fontaine fontane fontanne fontayne fonteyne fonzell fonzie fonzo foster fouad foursan fowler fowsia

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FORD:

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

faerwald fahad fahd fareed farid farold fassed ferdiad fernald fernand fitzgerald floyd fred freeland fshd

English Words Rhyming FORD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FORD AS A WHOLE:

affordingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afford

affordableadjective (a.) That may be afforded.

affordmentnoun (n.) Anything given as a help; bestowal.

crawfordnoun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

fordingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ford

fordableadjective (a.) Capable of being forded.

fordlessadjective (a.) Without a ford.

fordoneadjective (a.) Undone; ruined.

fordrunkenadjective (a.) Utterly drunk; very drunk.

fordryadjective (a.) Entirely dry; withered.

hartfordnoun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

oxfordadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

telfordadjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

telfordizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telfordize

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


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


abordnoun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
 verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost.

backswordnoun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.
 noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick.

bedcordnoun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

bordnoun (n.) A board; a table.
 noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
 noun (n.) See Bourd.

broadswordnoun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

bywordnoun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
 noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

catchwordnoun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
 noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
 noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

chordnoun (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
 noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
 noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
 noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
 noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
 verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
 verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

clarichordnoun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

clavichordnoun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

concordnoun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
 noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
 noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
 noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
 noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
 noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
 verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together.

cordnoun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
 noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
 noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
 noun (n.) See Chord.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
 verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Core

decachordnoun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon

disaccordnoun (n.) Disagreement.
 verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent.

discordnoun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
 verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
 verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

disordnoun (n.) Disorder.

fiordnoun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

fjordnoun (n.) See Fiord.

forewordnoun (n.) A preface.

gordnoun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

harpsichordnoun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

heptachordnoun (n.) A system of seven sounds.
 noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords.
 noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

koordnoun (n.) See Kurd.

landlordnoun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
 noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.

loordnoun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

lordnoun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
 noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
 noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
 noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
 noun (n.) A husband.
 noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
 noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
 noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
 verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
 verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
 verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

miswordnoun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
 verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

monochordnoun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

milordnoun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

naywordnoun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

neurochordadjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal

neurocordnoun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.

notochordnoun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

octachordnoun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

octochordnoun (n.) See Octachord.

ordnoun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

overlordnoun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

passwordnoun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

pentachordnoun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
 noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds.

polychordnoun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.
 noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
 adjective (a.) Having many strings.

rheochordnoun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

seabordnoun (n. & a.) See Seaboard.

smallswordnoun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

soordnoun (n.) Skin of bacon.

sordnoun (n.) See Sward.

swordnoun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
 noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
 noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
 noun (n.) The military power of a country.
 noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

tetrachordnoun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

trichordnoun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

urochordnoun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

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


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


fornoun (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
 prep (prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
 prep (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
 prep (prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
 prep (prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
 prep (prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
  (conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
  (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.

foragenoun (n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
 noun (n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
 verb (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
 verb (v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

foragingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forage

foragernoun (n.) One who forages.

foralitenoun (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

foramennoun (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

foraminatedadjective (a.) Having small opening, or foramina.

foraminifernoun (n.) One of the foraminifera.

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.

foraminiferousadjective (a.) Having small openings, or foramina.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.

foraminousadjective (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

foraynoun (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
 verb (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.

forayernoun (n.) One who makes or joins in a foray.

forbearnoun (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
 verb (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
 verb (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
 verb (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
 verb (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
 verb (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
 verb (v. t.) To cease from bearing.

forbearingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbear
 adjective (a.) Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.

forbearancenoun (n.) The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
 noun (n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.

forbearantadjective (a.) Forbearing.

forbearernoun (n.) One who forbears.

forbiddingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbid
 adjective (a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

forbiddancenoun (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

forbiddenadjective (a.) Prohibited; interdicted.
  (p. p.) of Forbid

forbiddernoun (n.) One who forbids.

forblackadjective (a.) Very black.

forcenoun (n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
 noun (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
 noun (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
 noun (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
 noun (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
 noun (n.) Validity; efficacy.
 noun (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
 noun (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
 noun (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
 noun (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
 noun (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
 noun (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
 noun (n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
 noun (n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
 noun (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
 noun (n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
 noun (n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
 verb (v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
 verb (v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
 verb (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
 verb (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

forcingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Force
 noun (n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
 noun (n.) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.

forcedadjective (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Force

forcefuladjective (a.) Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.

forcelessadjective (a.) Having little or no force; feeble.

forcemeatnoun (n.) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.

forcementnoun (n.) The act of forcing; compulsion.

forcepsnoun (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
 noun (n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.

forcernoun (n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives.
 noun (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
 noun (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.

forcibleadjective (a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
 adjective (a.) Violent; impetuous.
 adjective (a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.

forciblenessnoun (n.) The quality of being forcible.

forcipaladjective (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

forcipateadjective (a.) Alt. of Forcipated

forcipatedadjective (a.) Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

forcipationnoun (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

forenoun (n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
 verb (v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
 adverb (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
 adverb (adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
 adverb (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
 adverb (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
 prep (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

foreallegingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreallege

foreappointmentnoun (n.) Previous appointment; preordinantion.

forearmnoun (n.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
 verb (v. t.) To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.

forebeamnoun (n.) The breast beam of a loom.

forebearnoun (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.

forebodingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
 noun (n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

forebodenoun (n.) Prognostication; presage.
 verb (v. t.) To foretell.
 verb (v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
 verb (v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.

forebodementnoun (n.) The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

forebodernoun (n.) One who forebodes.

forebracenoun (n.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

forebrainnoun (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FORD:

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

facedadjective (a.) Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Face

facetedadjective (a.) Having facets.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Facet

faciendnoun (n.) The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.

facoundnoun (n.) Speech; eloquence.

facundadjective (a.) Eloquent.

fadnoun (n.) A hobby ; freak; whim.

fadedadjective (a.) That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fade

fagendnoun (n.) An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.
 noun (n.) The refuse or meaner part of anything.

fahlbandnoun (n.) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
 noun (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

faintheartedadjective (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

fairhoodnoun (n.) Fairness; beauty.

fairylandnoun (n.) The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

faithedadjective (a.) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.

falcatedadjective (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.

falsehoodnoun (n.) Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
 noun (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
 noun (n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
 noun (n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.

famousedadjective (a.) Renowned.

fangedadjective (a.) Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

fangledadjective (a.) New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.

fantasiedadjective (a.) Filled with fancies or imaginations.

faradnoun (n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

farandnoun (n.) See Farrand, n.

fardnoun (n.) Paint used on the face.
 verb (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

farfetchedadjective (a.) Brought from far, or from a remote place.
 adjective (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

farmsteadnoun (n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

farmyardnoun (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

farrandnoun (n.) Manner; custom; fashion; humor.

farsightedadjective (a.) Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
 adjective (a.) Hypermetropic.

farstretchedadjective (a.) Streatched beyond ordinary limits.

fasciatedadjective (a.) Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
 adjective (a.) Banded or compacted together.
 adjective (a.) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
 adjective (a.) Broadly banded with color.

fascicledadjective (a.) Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

fasciculatedadjective (a.) Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

fashionedadjective (a.) Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fashion

fastigiatedadjective (a.) Narrowing towards the top.
 adjective (a.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
 adjective (a.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

fatedadjective (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
 adjective (p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny.
 adjective (p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate.

fatheadnoun (n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
 noun (n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

fatherhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

fatherlandnoun (n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

fauldnoun (n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

favoredadjective (a.) Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
 adjective (a.) Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Favor

faxedadjective (a.) Hairy.

featheredadjective (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
 adjective (a.) Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
 adjective (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
 adjective (a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Feather

featuredadjective (a.) Shaped; fashioned.
 adjective (a.) Having features; formed into features.

fecundadjective (a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.

feednoun (n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
 noun (n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
 noun (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
 noun (n.) A meal, or the act of eating.
 noun (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
 noun (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
 noun (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
 noun (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
 verb (v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
 verb (v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
 verb (v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
 verb (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
 verb (v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
 verb (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
 verb (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
 verb (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
 verb (v. i.) To take food; to eat.
 verb (v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
 verb (v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
 verb (v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fee

feignedadjective (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Feign

fendnoun (n.) A fiend.
 verb (v. t.) To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
 verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

fenestratedadjective (a.) Having windows; characterized by windows.
 adjective (a.) Same as Fenestrate.

fenowedadjective (a.) Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.

feodnoun (n.) A feud. See 2d Feud.

ferruginatedadjective (a.) Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

fervidadjective (a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.
 adjective (a.) Ardent; vehement; zealous.

fetidadjective (a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.

fetteredadjective (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

feudnoun (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
 noun (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
 noun (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

fiberedadjective (a.) Alt. of Fibred

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

fibrillatedadjective (a.) Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

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

fidnoun (n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
 noun (n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
 noun (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
 noun (n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.

fiddlewoodnoun (n.) The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

fieldnoun (n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
 noun (n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
 noun (n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
 noun (n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.
 noun (n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
 noun (n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
 noun (n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
 noun (n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
 noun (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
 noun (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
 verb (v. i.) To take the field.
 verb (v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
 verb (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

fieldedadjective (a.) Engaged in the field; encamped.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Field

fiendnoun (n.) An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.

figulatedadjective (a.) Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.

figuratedadjective (a.) Having a determinate form.

figuredadjective (a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
 adjective (a.) Not literal; figurative.
 adjective (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
 adjective (a.) Indicated or noted by figures.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Figure

figureheadnoun (n.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
 noun (n.) A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.

filametoidadjective (a.) Like a filament.

filicoidnoun (n.) A fernlike plant.
 adjective (a.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.

filigranedadjective (a.) See Filigreed.

filigreedadjective (a.) Adorned with filigree.

fimbriatedadjective (a.) Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
 adjective (a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fimbriate

finchbackedadjective (a.) Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

finchedadjective (a.) Same as Finchbacked.

findnoun (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
 verb (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
 verb (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
 verb (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
 verb (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
 verb (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
 verb (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
 verb (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
 verb (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
 verb (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
 verb (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.

fingeredadjective (a.) Having fingers.
 adjective (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.
 adjective (a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Finger

finishedadjective (a.) Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Finish

finnedadjective (a.) Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fin

firebirdnoun (n.) The Baltimore oriole.

fireboardnoun (n.) A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.

firebrandnoun (n.) A piece of burning wood.
 noun (n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.

fireweednoun (n.) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
 noun (n.) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

firewoodnoun (n.) Wood for fuel.

fissipednoun (n.) One of the Fissipedia.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Fissipedal

fistularioidadjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.

fitchedadjective (a.) Fitche.

fitweednoun (n.) A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.

fixedadjective (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
 adjective (a.) Stable; non-volatile.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fix

flabellinervedadjective (a.) Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

flaccidadjective (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

flammulatedadjective (a.) Of a reddish color.

flanchedadjective (a.) Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

flangedadjective (a.) Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Flange

flanneledadjective (a.) Covered or wrapped in flannel.

flashboardnoun (n.) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.

flatheadnoun (n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
 adjective (a.) Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

flavoredadjective (a.) Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Flavor

flaxseednoun (n.) The seed of the flax; linseed.

flaxweednoun (n.) See Toadflax.

fleecedadjective (a.) Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
 adjective (a.) Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Fleece