9-letter words starting with fe
- fellating — Present participle of fellate.
- fellation — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellatrix — A woman who performs fellatio.
- fellowman — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- fellowmen — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- felonious — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- felt side — the top side of a sheet of paper, the side against the felt rollers during manufacture, normally preferred for printing.
- feme sole — an unmarried woman, whether never married, widowed, or divorced.
- femineity — feminine nature; womanliness.
- feminines — Plural form of feminine.
- feminised — Alternative spelling of feminized.
- feminists — Plural form of feminist.
- feminized — Made feminine; made to have more feminine behaviour, traits or physiology.
- feminizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feminize.
- femtocell — A very small mobile phone base station that is connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used in areas where the mobile signal is weak and considered to be smaller than a picocell.
- fenagling — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fence off — If you fence off an area of land, you build a fence round it.
- fence-off — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- fenceless — Without a fence; unfenced.
- fencelike — Resembling a fence (artificial barrier) or some aspect of one.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- fenestral — (archaeology) A casement or window sash closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- fenugreek — a plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, of the legume family, indigenous to western Asia, but extensively cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds, which are used in medicine.
- feoffment — (legal) The grant of a feud or fee.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- feralized — having once been domesticated but subsequently returned to wildness
- ferberite — a mineral, ferrous tungstate, FeWO 4 , in the wolframite group: a source of tungsten.
- ferdinand — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- ferhoodle — to confuse or mix up: Don't ferhoodle the things in that drawer.
- fermanagh — a county in SW Northern Ireland. 653 sq. mi. (1691 sq. km). County seat: Enniskillen.
- fermented — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fermenter — A container in which fermentation takes place.
- fermentor — The vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- fermionic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
- fern seed — the spores of ferns, formerly supposed to have the power to make persons invisible.
- fernandel — real name Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin. 1903–71, French comic film actor
- fernandez — Juan [hwahn,, wahn;; Spanish hwahn] /ʰwɑn,, wɑn;; Spanish ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1536?–1602? Spanish navigator: explorer in South America and the Pacific.
- fernbrake — a thicket or dense growth of ferns.
- fernticle — (obsolete, dialect, Scotland) A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferreting — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferriages — Plural form of ferriage.
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.
- ferrogram — a slide prepared to illustrate the suspended iron particles in the lubricant of a machine
- ferrotype — to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin)
- ferruling — a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- fertigate — to fertilize and irrigate at the same time, by adding fertilizers to the water supply