Nouns

furbelow

noun

a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

furcation

noun

the place where something divides into branches

furcula

noun

a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most...

furfural

noun

a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant h...

furfuraldehyde

noun

a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant h...

furfuran

noun

a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of...

furnivall

noun

English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Di...

furring

noun

strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard

furtiveness

noun

a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surrep...

furuncle

noun

a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

furunculosis

noun

acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many fur...

furze

noun

very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-ye...

fusain

noun

a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

fusee

noun

a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and train...

fusil

noun

a light flintlock musket

fusilier

noun

(formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintloc...

fustian

noun

pompous or pretentious talk or writing

futurity

noun

the time yet to come

futurology

noun

the study or prediction of future developments on the basis...

fuzee

noun

a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and train...

g

noun

one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four n...

gaberdine

noun

a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles

gabfest

noun

light informal conversation for social occasions

gabonese

noun

a native or inhabitant of Gabon

gaboriau

noun

French writer considered by some to be a founder of the dete...

gabun

noun

a republic on the west coast of Africa

gaddi

noun

a cushion on a throne for a prince in India

gadgeteer

noun

a person who delights in designing or building or using gadg...

gadoid

noun

a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae

gadolinite

noun

a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silic...

gadolinium

noun

a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent meta...

gadsden

noun

an industrial town in north central Alabama

gael

noun

a Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of...

gafsa

noun

a city in west central Tunisia

gagman

noun

someone who writes comic material for public performers

gaillardia

noun

any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having...

gainfulness

noun

the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

gaiter

noun

a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankl...

gaiseric

noun

king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North...

galactagogue

noun

agent that induces milk secretion

galactose

noun

a simple sugar found in lactose

galago

noun

agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly...

galangal

noun

southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots

galatia

noun

an ancient country in central Asia Minor

galbanum

noun

a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida

galingale

noun

European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of re...

gallberry

noun

evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leather...

gallfly

noun

fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants

gallicanism

noun

a religious movement originating among the French Roman Cath...

gallicism

noun

a word or phrase borrowed from French