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- electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
- epithelialized — Simple past tense and past participle of epithelialize.
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- for the better — by way of improvement
- for the moment — for now
- for the record — officially, openly
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- geothermometer — a thermometer for measuring temperatures below the surface of the earth
- get in the way — be an obstacle
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- get the needle — to feel dislike, distaste, nervousness, or annoyance (for)
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition