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- film clip — a strip of motion-picture film, especially an excerpt from a longer film or one inserted as part of another presentation, as of a telecast or full-length motion picture.
- film crew — a group of people who are involved in the practical and technical business of shooting a film
- film gate — (in motion-picture cameras and projectors) a mechanism that holds the film flat in the focal plane of the lens during exposure or projection.
- film noir — a motion picture with an often grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair.
- film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
- film star — A film star is a famous actor or actress who appears in films.
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- filmgoing — the activity of going to see films
- filminess — The quality of being filmy.
- filmmaker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmology — (film) A 1950s\u201360s movement of theoretical study relating to film.
- filmstars — Plural form of filmstar.
- filmstrip — a length of film containing a series of related transparencies for projection on a screen.
- filoplume — a specialized, hairlike feather having a slender shaft with few or no barbs.
- filopodia — thin projections extending from the edge of migrating cells
- filoselle — Floss silk, or silk thread resembling this, used in embroidery.
- filoviral — Relating to filoviruses.
- filovirus — any of several filamentous, single-stranded RNA viruses of the family Filoviridae, defined by their unique appearance and reproductive strategies, as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
- filtabyte — (networking, hardware) An Ethernet controller card made by LRT based on the LANCE and SIA. It uses DMA. Its Ethernet address can be changed by software.
- filtering — Present participle of filter.
- filthiest — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
- filtrable — filterable.
- filtrated — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- filtrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filtrate.
- fin whale — finback.
- finagling — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- final cut — the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer.
- finalised — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finalise.
- finalists — Plural form of finalist.
- finalized — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalizer — (computing) In some programming languages, a function that runs when an object is garbage collected, similar to a destructor.
- finalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finalize.
- financial — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- fine gael — one of the major political parties in the Republic of Ireland, formed in 1933
- fine nail — a short steel finishing nail from 1 to 1½ inches (2.5 to 3.8 cm) long.
- finlander — an inhabitant of Finland, especially a native who customarily speaks Swedish.
- finlandia — symphonic poem, opus 26, composed in 1899 by Jean Sibelius.
- finletter — Thomas Knight, 1893–1980, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- fire line — firebreak.
- fire opal — a red Mexican opal, often with a color play.
- fire sale — a special sale of merchandise actually or supposedly damaged by fire.
- fire wall — a fireproof wall to prevent the spread of fire, as from one room or compartment to the next
- fire-plow — a stick that is rubbed in a wooden groove to produce sparks for igniting a fire.
- fireballs — Plural form of fireball.
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- fireflies — Plural form of firefly.
- firefloat — a boat used for firefighting
- fireflood — a procedure designed to extract more oil from a well by injecting compressed air into the ground and burning some of the oil to increase the flow.