9-letter words starting with fa
- farrakhan — Louis (Louis Eugene Walcott) born 1933, U.S. religious leader: head of the Nation of Islam.
- farrowing — a litter of pigs.
- farseeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.
- farthings — Plural form of farthing.
- fasciated — Showing abnormal fusion of parts or organs, resulting in a flattened, ribbonlike structure.
- fascicled — Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster.
- fascicles — Plural form of fascicle.
- fascicule — a fascicle, especially of a book.
- fasciculi — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fasciitis — inflammation of the fascia.
- fascinate — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fascistic — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- fash pack — people who are influential in the fashion industry
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fast food — junk food
- fast lane — Also called express lane. the lane of a multilane roadway that is used by fast-moving vehicles, as when passing slower traffic.
- fast scsi — (hardware) A variant on the SCSI-2 bus. It uses the same 8-bit bus as the original SCSI-1 but runs at up to 10MB/s - double the speed of SCSI-1.
- fast talk — to persuade with facile argument, usually with the intention to deceive or to overwhelm rational objections: The salesperson tried to fast-talk me into buying a suit I didn't want.
- fast time — daylight-saving time.
- fast-food — of or specializing in fast food.
- fast-talk — to persuade with facile argument, usually with the intention to deceive or to overwhelm rational objections: The salesperson tried to fast-talk me into buying a suit I didn't want.
- fastbacks — Plural form of fastback.
- fastballs — Plural form of fastball.
- fasteners — Plural form of fastener.
- fastening — something that fastens, as a lock or clasp.
- fastigial — Relating to a fastigium.
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- fastpaced — Alternative spelling of fast-paced.
- fat depot — adipose tissue.
- fat mouse — any nocturnal African mouse of the genus Steatomys, of dry regions: eaten as a delicacy by Africans because of their high fat content: family Muridae
- fat stock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- fatalists — Plural form of fatalist.
- fatalness — The quality of being fatal; deadliness.
- fatedness — The quality of being fated; destiny.
- fatefully — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- fatheaded — foolish; fatuous; witless.
- fathering — a male parent.
- fathogram — the record made by a sonic depth finder.
- fathoming — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fatidical — prophetic.
- fatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
- fatiguing — weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- fatiscent — having cracks or chinks
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- fatteners — Plural form of fattener.
- fattening — to make fat.
- fattiness — The quality of being fatty.
- fatty oil — fixed oil.