7-letter words starting with fe
- felling — simple past tense of fall.
- fellini — Federico [Italian fe-de-ree-kaw] /Italian ˌfɛ dɛˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1920–1993, Italian film director and writer.
- felloes — The outer rim of a wheel, to which the spokes are fixed.
- fellows — Plural form of fellow.
- felonry — the whole body or class of felons.
- felsite — a dense, fine-grained, igneous rock consisting typically of feldspar and quartz, both of which may appear as phenocrysts.
- felspar — feldspar.
- felting — a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- felucca — a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
- felwort — (botany) A European herb, Swertia perennis, of the gentian family.
- fem lib — women's liberation.
- females — Plural form of female.
- fembots — Plural form of fembot.
- femidom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- feminal — Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism.
- feminie — womankind; women collectively
- femoral — of, relating to, or situated at, in, or near the thigh or femur.
- fenagle — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fencers — Plural form of fencer.
- fencing — 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.
- fenders — Plural form of fender.
- fending — to ward off (often followed by off): to fend off blows.
- fenelon — François de Salignac de La Mothe [frahn-swa duh sa lee-nyak duh la mawt] /frɑ̃ˈswa də sa liˈnyak də la ˈmɔt/ (Show IPA), 1651–1715, French theologian and writer.
- fengjie — a city in E Sichuan province, in S central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- fenians — a legendary band of Irish warriors noted for their heroic exploits, attributed to the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad
- fenland — a low area of marshy ground.
- fennecs — Plural form of fennec.
- fennish — resembling or belonging to a fen
- fenster — an erosional break in an overthrust rock sheet, exposing the rocks that underlie the sheet.
- fenuron — a white crystalline compound, C 9 H 12 N 2 O, used as an herbicide.
- feodary — a feudal vassal.
- feoffee — a person invested with a fief.
- feoffer — to invest with a fief or fee; enfeoff.
- feoffor — Alternative form of feoffer.
- ferally — Wildly; in the manner of an undomesticated animal.
- fergana — a city in E Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent.
- fermata — the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion.
- fermate — the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion.
- ferment — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fermion — any particle that obeys the exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics; fermions have spins that are half an odd integer: 1/2, 3/2, 5/2, ….
- fermium — a transuranic element. Symbol: Fm; atomic number: 100.
- fernery — a collection of ferns in a garden or a potted display.
- fernier — pertaining to, consisting of, or like ferns: ferny leaves.
- ferning — (of cervical mucus) the formation of a fern-like pattern
- ferrara — a city in N Italy, near the Po River: medieval university and cathedral.
- ferrari — Enzo (ˈɛntso). 1898–1988, Italian designer and manufacturer of racing cars
- ferraro — Geraldine Anne ("Gerry") 1935–2011, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1978–84; first woman chosen as the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party 1984.
- ferrate — a salt of the hypothetical ferric acid, H 2 FeO 4 .
- ferrero — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1942, Italian historian and sociologist.
- ferrets — Plural form of ferret.