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  • factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
  • factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
  • factitiously — In a factitious manner.
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • factory acts — laws relating to factories
  • factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
  • factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
  • fascioliasis — liver-rot.
  • fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
  • felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
  • fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
  • film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
  • final notice — last warning before legal action
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
  • flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • fluorouracil — a pyrimidine analog, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of certain cancers.
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