FALA
First name FALA's origin is Native American. FALA means "choctaw name meaning "crow." flo". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FALA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of fala.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with FALA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming FALA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FALA AS A WHOLE:
falak falakeeNAMES RHYMING WITH FALA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ala) - Names That Ends with ala:
cala alala kaikala keala makala borbala akshamala apala kamala shitala upala natala posala sitala soyala takala zitkala lusala wanjala ala' aala amala ardala ayala derforgala fionnghuala fionnuala gala gilala imala jala kilala lala leala macala magdala mckala micheala mikala neala nuala pascala phiala tala ciqala tokala borsala mahala gyalaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (la) - Names That Ends with la:
adeola fayola fola hola layla nangila ndila ramla sela adila najla donella alula bela ludmila pavla svetla laila arabella sybylla akila jamila karola anatola eustella idola iola neola onella pamela panphila phila philomela scylla suadela thecla alaula akela lahela ola adiella leela bella gisella behula lajila mahila agnella agnola gabriella isabellaNAMES RHYMING WITH FALA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (fal) - Names That Begins with fal:
falcon falerina faline falk falke falken fallamhain fallon fallyn falon falynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (fa) - Names That Begins with fa:
faber fabia fabian fabiana fabien fabienne fabio fabion fachnan fadheela fadi fadil fadilah fadl fadwa fae faegan faelen faer faerrleah faerwald faeryn faethe fagan fagen fagin fahad fahd fahesh fahey fahy faiion fain fainche faine faing fairfax fairlie faisal faith faithe faizah fajer fajr fakhir fakhiri fakhry faki fakih fana fanceen fanchon fanchone fane fanetta fanette fang fanni fannia fannie fanny fanous fanta fantina fantine fanuco faodhagan faoiltiama faolan faqueza fara farah faraj faraji faran faras fardoragh fareed fareeda fareeha fareeq farees faren farhan farhana farid faridah fariha farihahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FALA:
First Names which starts with 'f' and ends with 'a':
fatima fatina fatuma fauna faunia fausta faustina fawna fawnia fawziya fayanna fayela fayina fayza fazia fearchara fearcharia fearnlea fedora fela felberta felda felecia felicia felicita felisa felisberta fenella feodora ferda fermina fernanda fia fiacra fianna fida fidelma fifna filberta filia filicia filipa filipina filomena filomenia fina fineena finella fingula finna finola fiona fionna fiorenza firtha flanna flavia fleta floarea florencia florenta florentina floressa floretta floria floriana florica florida florina florinda florinia florita florka flyta foma fonda forba forbia forsa fortuna fowsia francena francesca francia francina francisca franciska franta frantiska franziska freca freda fredda frederica frederika fredrika freira freja frenchesca frescaEnglish Words Rhyming FALA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FALA AS A WHOLE:
falanaka | noun (n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FALA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ala) - English Words That Ends with ala:
acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
acephala | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
ala | noun (n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
archencephala | noun (n. pl.) The division that includes man alone. |
argala | noun (n.) The adjutant bird. |
amygdala | noun (n.) An almond. |
noun (n.) One of the tonsils of the pharynx. | |
noun (n.) One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula. |
baggala | noun (n.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean. |
bandala | noun (n.) A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis). |
cabala | noun (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means. |
noun (n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery. |
cicala | noun (n.) A cicada. See Cicada. |
gala | noun (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity. |
ganocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes. |
gyrencephala | noun (n. pl.) The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted. |
itala | noun (n.) An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version). |
kabala | noun (n.) See Cabala. |
kamala | noun (n.) The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm. |
koala | noun (n.) A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth. |
lipocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
lyencephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary. |
magdala | adjective (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc. |
mala | noun (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. |
(pl. ) of Malum |
marsala | noun (n.) A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily. |
myelencephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata. |
polygala | noun (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort. |
prosopocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda. |
ravenala | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana. |
rhizocephala | noun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix. |
rhynchocephala | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia. |
scala | noun (n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus. |
noun (n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea. |
scybala | noun (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces. |
stegocephala | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta. |
trehala | noun (n.) An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FALA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (fal) - Words That Begins with fal:
falcade | noun (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. |
falcate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Falcated |
falcated | adjective (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed. |
falcation | noun (n.) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. |
falcer | noun (n.) One of the mandibles of a spider. |
falchion | noun (n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages. |
noun (n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors. |
falcidian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. |
falciform | adjective (a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. |
falcon | noun (n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. |
noun (n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game. | |
noun (n.) An ancient form of cannon. |
falconer | noun (n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. |
falconet | noun (n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later. |
noun (n.) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. | |
noun (n.) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice. |
falcongentil | noun (n.) The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius). |
falconine | adjective (a.) Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae |
falconry | noun (n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game. |
noun (n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks. |
falcula | noun (n.) A curved and sharp-pointed claw. |
falculate | adjective (a.) Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon. |
faldage | noun (n.) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. |
faldfee | noun (n.) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. |
falding | noun (n.) A frieze or rough-napped cloth. |
faldistory | noun (n.) The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. |
faldstool | noun (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. |
falernian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine. |
falk | noun (n.) The razorbill. |
falling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fall |
noun (a. & n.) from Fall, v. i. |
fall | noun (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. |
noun (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. | |
noun (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. | |
noun (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. | |
noun (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. | |
noun (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. | |
noun (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. | |
noun (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. | |
noun (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. | |
noun (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. | |
noun (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. | |
noun (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. | |
noun (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. | |
noun (n.) The act of felling or cutting down. | |
noun (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. | |
noun (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. | |
verb (v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. | |
verb (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. | |
verb (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. | |
verb (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. | |
verb (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. | |
verb (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. | |
verb (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. | |
verb (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. | |
verb (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. | |
verb (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. | |
verb (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. | |
verb (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. | |
verb (v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. | |
verb (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. | |
verb (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive. | |
verb (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. | |
verb (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. | |
verb (v. t.) To belong or appertain. | |
verb (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. | |
verb (v. t.) To let fall; to drop. | |
verb (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. | |
verb (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. | |
verb (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. |
fallacious | adjective (a.) Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. |
fallacy | noun (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. |
noun (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
fallals | noun (n.pl.) Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. |
fallax | noun (n.) Cavillation; a caviling. |
fallen | adjective (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. |
(p. p.) of Fall |
fallency | noun (n.) An exception. |
faller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, falls. |
noun (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. |
fallfish | noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
fallibility | noun (n.) The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser. |
fallible | adjective (a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible. |
fallopian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. |
fallow | noun (n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. |
noun (n.) Plowed land. | |
noun (n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. | |
noun (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. | |
noun (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. | |
adjective (a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. |
fallowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fallow |
fallowist | noun (n.) One who favors the practice of fallowing land. |
fallowness | noun (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. |
falsary | adjective (a.) A falsifier of evidence. |
false | adjective (a.) To report falsely; to falsify. |
adjective (a.) To betray; to falsify. | |
adjective (a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. | |
adjective (a.) To feign; to pretend to make. | |
superlative (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. | |
superlative (superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. | |
superlative (superl.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement. | |
superlative (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. | |
superlative (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. | |
superlative (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. | |
superlative (superl.) Not in tune. | |
adverb (adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely. |
falsehood | noun (n.) Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. |
noun (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. | |
noun (n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. | |
noun (n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. |
falseness | noun (n.) The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word. |
falser | noun (n.) A deceiver. |
falsetto | noun (n.) A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. |
falsifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. |
falsification | noun (n.) The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. |
noun (n.) Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. | |
noun (n.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. |
falsificator | noun (n.) A falsifier. |
falsifier | noun (n.) One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FALA:
English Words which starts with 'f' and ends with 'a':
fabella | noun (n.) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals. |
facia | noun (n.) See Fascia. |
faecula | noun (n.) See Fecula. |
fanega | noun (n.) A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land. |
fantasia | noun (n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form. |
farina | noun (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. |
noun (n.) Pollen. |
fascia | noun (n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller. |
noun (n.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column. | |
noun (n.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis. | |
noun (n.) A broad well-defined band of color. |
fasciola | noun (n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. |
fauna | noun (n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna. |
favella | noun (n.) A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae. |
fecula | noun (n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. |
noun (n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. | |
noun (n.) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll. |
felucca | noun (n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean. |
fenestra | noun (n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear. |
feria | noun (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. |
ferrara | noun (n.) A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
ferula | noun (n.) A ferule. |
noun (n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire. |
fibrilla | noun (n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril. |
fibroma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue. |
fibula | noun (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle. |
noun (n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. | |
noun (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds. |
fidia | noun (n.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America. |
filaria | noun (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm. |
fimbria | noun (n.) A fringe, or fringed border. |
noun (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. |
fissilinguia | noun (n. pl.) A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards. |
fissipara | noun (n. pl.) Animals which reproduce by fission. |
fissipedia | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia. |
fissurella | noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet. |
fistuca | noun (n.) An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles. |
fistula | noun (n.) A reed; a pipe. |
noun (n.) A pipe for convejing water. | |
noun (n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. |
fistularia | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity. |
flea | noun (n.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix. |
verb (v. t.) To flay. |
flora | noun (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring. |
noun (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants. |
flota | noun (n.) A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America. |
flotilla | noun (n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels. |
fodientia | noun (n.pl.) A group of African edentates including the aard-vark. |
foraminifera | noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda. |
forficula | noun (n.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1. |
formica | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant. |
formula | noun (n.) A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said. |
noun (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines. | |
noun (n.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula. | |
noun (n.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound. | |
noun (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound. |
forsythia | adjective (a.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms. |
fossa | noun (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds. |
fossoria | noun (n. pl.) See Fossores. |
foussa | noun (n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws. |
foutra | noun (n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt. |
fovea | noun (n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa. |
foveola | noun (n.) A small depression or pit; a fovea. |
fovilla | noun (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain. |
fra | noun (n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo. |
adverb (adv. & prep.) Fro. |
frambaesia | noun (n.) The yaws. See Yaws. |
freya | noun (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. |
frigga | noun (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya. |
fringilla | adjective (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling. |
fritillaria | noun (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial. |
frugivora | noun (n. pl.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit. |
fuchsia | noun (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation. |
fuga | noun (n.) A fugue. |
fughetta | noun (n.) a short, condensed fugue. |
fulcra | noun (n. pl.) See Fulcrum. |
(pl. ) of Fulcrum |
fulgurata | noun (n.) A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. |
fungia | noun (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter. |
furcula | noun (n.) A forked process; the wishbone or furculum. |
fiesta | noun (n.) Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity. |