FATH
First name FATH's origin is Arabic. FATH means "victory". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FATH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of fath.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with FATH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming FATH
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FATH AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH FATH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ath) - Names That Ends with ath:
ghiyath kadyriath cath heath jarlath kenath math raedpath liosliath ridpath ardath kathRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (th) - Names That Ends with th:
ailith edith okoth alchfrith harith perth month seth thoth ashtaroth roth iorwerth aethelthryth annabeth ardith beth eadgyth edyth elisabeth elsbeth elspeth elswyth elysabeth elyzabeth fayth gormghlaith gweneth gwenith gwyneth gwynith halfrith hepzibeth hildireth jacynth jennabeth liesheth lilibeth lioslaith lisabeth lizabeth lizbeth lyzbeth maegth maridith marineth orghlaith orlaith sheiramoth tanith arth barth both caith conleth coopersmith eth firth gairbith gareth garreth garth griffyth jaith japheth jareth keith kenneth lapidoth layth leith macbeth parth picaworth sigifrith smyth walworth wealaworth weorth winefrith winfrith wintanweorth wynfrith wyth gairbhith worth wordsworth winth wethNAMES RHYMING WITH FATH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (fat) - Names That Begins with fat:
fate fateen fateh fatima fatimah fatin fatina fatinah fatumaRhyming 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 fala falak falakee falcon falerina faline falk falke falken fallamhain fallon fallyn falon falyn 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 fardoraghNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FATH:
First Names which starts with 'f' and ends with 'h':
faridah farihah farleigh farrah fawziyyah fearbhirigh fearnhealh fearnleah feich fellah fibh fionnlaoch fitch fitzhugh fogartaigh frannsaidh fridolph friedrich fytchEnglish Words Rhyming FATH
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FATH AS A WHOLE:
fathead | noun (n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow. |
noun (n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish. |
father | noun (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. |
noun (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. | |
noun (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. | |
noun (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man. | |
noun (n.) A senator of ancient Rome. | |
noun (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. | |
noun (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. | |
verb (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget. | |
verb (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). | |
verb (v. t.) To provide with a father. |
fathering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Father |
fatherhood | noun (n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. |
fatherland | noun (n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors. |
fatherless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. |
adjective (a.) Without a known author. |
fatherlessness | noun (n.) The state of being without a father. |
fatherliness | noun (n.) The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc. |
fatherly | adjective (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a father. |
fathership | noun (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity. |
fathom | noun (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings. |
noun (n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. | |
verb (v. t.) To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. | |
verb (v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. |
fathoming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fathom |
fathomable | adjective (a.) Capable of being fathomed. |
fathomer | noun (n.) One who fathoms. |
fathomless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. |
adjective (a.) Incomprehensible. |
forefather | noun (n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. |
godfather | noun (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. |
verb (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care. |
grandfather | noun (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. |
grandfatherly | adjective (a.) Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. |
stepfather | noun (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage. |
unfathered | adjective (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. |
adjective (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FATH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ath) - English Words That Ends with ath:
aftermath | noun (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. |
allopath | noun (n.) An allopathist. |
automath | noun (n.) One who is self-taught. |
bath | noun (n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath. |
noun (n.) Water or other liquid for bathing. | |
noun (n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water. | |
noun (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. | |
noun (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body. | |
noun (n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution. | |
noun (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure. | |
noun (n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. |
breath | noun (n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. |
noun (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath. | |
noun (n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life. | |
noun (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause. | |
noun (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. | |
noun (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle. | |
noun (n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. | |
noun (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. | |
noun (n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. |
bundesrath | noun (n.) The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called. |
noun (n.) Lit., a federal council, esp. of the German Empire. See Legislature. |
bypath | noun (n.) A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. |
chaetognath | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. |
chilognath | noun (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilognatha. |
counterlath | noun (n.) A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise. |
noun (n.) Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths. | |
noun (n.) Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering. | |
noun (n.) One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished. |
endognath | noun (n.) The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla. |
feldspath | noun (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish. |
felspath | noun (n.) See Feldspar. |
footbath | noun (n.) A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet. |
footpath | noun (n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway. |
heath | noun (n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. |
noun (n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. | |
noun (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. |
homeopath | noun (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy. |
hydropath | noun (n.) A hydropathist. |
heelpath | noun (n.) The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm. |
isothermobath | noun (n.) A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean. |
lath | noun (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. |
verb (v. t.) To cover or line with laths. |
lattermath | noun (n.) The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath. |
loath | adjective (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked. |
adjective (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. |
math | noun (n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. |
meath | noun (n.) Alt. of Meathe |
nematognath | noun (n.) one of the Nematognathi. |
nationalrath | noun (n.) See Legislature. |
oath | noun (n.) A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. |
noun (n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc. | |
noun (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false. | |
noun (n.) A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing. |
osteopath | noun (n.) A practitioner of osteopathy. |
paragnath | noun (n.) Same as Paragnathus. |
path | noun (n.) A trodden way; a footway. |
noun (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). | |
verb (v. i.) To walk or go. |
philomath | noun (n.) A lover of learning; a scholar. |
plectognath | noun (n.) One of the Plectognathi. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. |
rath | noun (n.) A hill or mound. |
noun (n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland. | |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Rathe | |
adverb (adv.) Alt. of Rathe |
reichsrath | noun (n.) The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives. |
sabbath | noun (n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. |
noun (n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like. |
schizognath | noun (n.) Any bird with a schizognathous palate. |
sheath | noun (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. |
noun (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. | |
noun (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses. | |
noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect. |
smeath | noun (n.) The smew. |
sneath | noun (n.) Alt. of Sneathe |
strath | noun (n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore. |
standerath | noun (n.) Alt. of Standerat |
tath | noun (n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle. |
noun (n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture. | |
verb (v. t.) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. | |
(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take. |
towpath | noun (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path. |
uneath | adjective (a.) Not easy; difficult; hard. |
adverb (adv.) Not easily; hardly; scarcely. |
warpath | noun (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition. |
watertath | noun (n.) A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. |
wrath | adjective (a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. |
adjective (a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. | |
adjective (a.) See Wroth. | |
verb (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. |
wreath | noun (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. |
noun (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor. | |
noun (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FATH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (fat) - Words That Begins with fat:
fat | noun (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. |
noun (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. | |
noun (n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose. | |
noun (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land. | |
noun (n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. | |
adjective (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. | |
superlative (superl.) Abounding with fat | |
superlative (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. | |
superlative (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food. | |
superlative (superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. | |
superlative (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture. | |
superlative (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. | |
superlative (superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. | |
superlative (superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. |
fatal | adjective (a.) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. |
adjective (a.) Foreboding death or great disaster. | |
adjective (a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error. |
fatalism | noun (n.) The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity. |
fatalist | noun (n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity. |
fatalistic | adjective (a.) Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism. |
fatality | noun (n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. |
noun (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. | |
noun (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. |
fatalness | noun (n.) Quality of being fatal. |
fatback | noun (n.) The menhaden. |
fate | noun (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. |
noun (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. | |
noun (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. | |
noun (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread. |
fated | adjective (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. |
adjective (p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny. | |
adjective (p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate. |
fateful | adjective (a. .) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. |
adjective (a. .) Significant of fate; ominous. |
fatidical | adjective (a.) Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. |
fatiferous | adjective (a.) Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. |
fatigable | adjective (a.) Easily tired. |
fatigate | adjective (a.) Wearied; tired; fatigued. |
verb (v. t.) To weary; to tire; to fatigue. |
fatigation | noun (n.) Weariness. |
fatigue | noun (n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. |
noun (n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. | |
noun (n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. | |
noun (n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire. |
fatiguing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatigue |
fatiloquent | adjective (a.) Prophetic; fatidical. |
fatiloquist | noun (n.) A fortune teller. |
fatimite | adjective (a.) Alt. of Fatimide |
fatimide | noun (n.) A descendant of Fatima. |
adjective (a.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. |
fatiscence | noun (n.) A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. |
fatling | noun (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. |
fatner | noun (n.) One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. |
fatness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. |
noun (n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. | |
noun (n.) That which makes fat or fertile. |
fattining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatten |
fattener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility. |
fattiness | noun (n.) State or quality of being fatty. |
fattish | adjective (a.) Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. |
fatty | adjective (a.) Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. |
fatuitous | adjective (a.) Stupid; fatuous. |
fatuity | noun (n.) Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. |
fatuous | adjective (a.) Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. |
adjective (a.) Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FATH:
English Words which starts with 'f' and ends with 'h':
faintish | adjective (a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint. |
fairish | adjective (a.) Tolerably fair. |
faith | noun (n.) Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony. |
noun (n.) The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth. | |
noun (n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith. | |
noun (n.) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith. | |
noun (n.) That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church. | |
noun (n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty. | |
noun (n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith. | |
noun (n.) Credibility or truth. | |
(interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily. |
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. |
farfetch | noun (n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem. |
verb (v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously. |
fash | noun (n.) Vexation; anxiety; care. |
verb (v. t.) To vex; to tease; to trouble. |
fastish | adjective (a.) Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. |
fellah | noun (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. |
fennish | adjective (a.) Abounding in fens; fenny. |
festlich | noun (n.) Festive; fond of festive occasions. |
fetch | noun (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. |
noun (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. | |
verb (v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. | |
verb (v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. | |
verb (v. t.) To reduce; to throw. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. | |
verb (v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. |
fetich | noun (n.) Alt. of Fetish |
fetish | noun (n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being. |
noun (n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted. | |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic |
fetwah | noun (n.) A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law. |
feverish | adjective (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. |
adjective (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. | |
adjective (a.) Hot; sultry. | |
adjective (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world. |
fiendish | adjective (a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. |
fifteenth | noun (n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen. |
noun (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. | |
noun (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon. | |
noun (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves. | |
adjective (a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing. |
fifth | noun (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part. |
noun (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key. | |
adjective (a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. |
fiftieth | noun (n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty. |
adjective (a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions. |
filefish | noun (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper. |
filth | noun (n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness. |
noun (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. |
finch | noun (n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae. |
finfish | noun (n.) A finback whale. |
noun (n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish. |
finish | noun (n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects. |
noun (n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish. | |
noun (n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like. | |
noun (n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing. | |
noun (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc. | |
noun (n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. | |
verb (v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish. | |
verb (v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate. | |
verb (v. i.) To end; to die. |
finnish | noun (n.) A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. |
firefish | noun (n.) A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins. |
firth | noun (n.) An arm of the sea; a frith. |
fish | noun (n.) A counter, used in various games. |
noun (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. | |
noun (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces. | |
noun (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. | |
noun (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food. | |
noun (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor. | |
noun (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. | |
verb (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. | |
verb (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. | |
verb (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. | |
verb (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping. | |
verb (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. | |
verb (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n. | |
(pl. ) of Fish |
fitch | noun (n.) A vetch. |
noun (n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt. | |
noun (n.) The European polecat; also, its fur. |
flanch | noun (n.) A flange. |
noun (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side. |
flash | noun (n.) To trick up in a showy manner. |
noun (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. | |
noun (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. | |
noun (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show. | |
noun (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period. | |
noun (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. | |
noun (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes. | |
noun (n.) A pool. | |
noun (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. | |
adjective (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. | |
adjective (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. | |
verb (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. | |
verb (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash. | |
verb (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. | |
verb (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b). |
flatfish | noun (n.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder. |
flattish | adjective (a.) Somewhat flat. |
flaundrish | adjective (a.) Flemish. |
flemish | noun (n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. |
flesh | noun (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles. |
noun (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. | |
noun (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person. | |
noun (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity. | |
noun (n.) Human nature | |
noun (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. | |
noun (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality. | |
noun (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences. | |
noun (n.) Kindred; stock; race. | |
noun (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten. | |
verb (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time. | |
verb (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. | |
verb (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides. |
flinch | noun (n.) The act of flinching. |
verb (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat. | |
verb (v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. |
flitch | noun (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. |
noun (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam. | |
noun (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. | |
noun (n.) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon. |
flosh | noun (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps. |
flourish | noun (n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. |
noun (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty. | |
noun (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. | |
noun (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. | |
noun (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. | |
noun (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. | |
verb (v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. | |
verb (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. | |
verb (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. | |
verb (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. | |
verb (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. | |
verb (v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag. | |
verb (v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. | |
verb (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. | |
verb (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. | |
verb (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand. |
flush | noun (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. |
noun (n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. | |
noun (n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset. | |
noun (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy. | |
noun (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed. | |
noun (n.) A hand of cards of the same suit. | |
adjective (a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. | |
adjective (a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. | |
adjective (a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of cards of one suit. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. | |
verb (v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush. | |
verb (v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. | |
verb (v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. | |
verb (v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. | |
verb (v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to be level or even. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water. | |
verb (v. i.) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood. | |
verb (v. i.) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass. |
flutemouth | noun (n.) A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout. |
flyfish | noun (n.) A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors. |
flysch | noun (n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary. |
foolfish | noun (n.) The orange filefish. See Filefish. |
noun (n.) The winter flounder. See Flounder. |
foolish | adjective (a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. |
adjective (a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act. | |
adjective (a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. |
footbreadth | noun (n.) The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. |
footcloth | noun (n.) Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. |
foppish | adjective (a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners. |
forehearth | noun (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp. |
forespeech | noun (n.) A preface. |
forsooth | noun (n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person. |
adverb (adv.) In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. | |
verb (v. t.) To address respectfully with the term forsooth. |
forth | noun (n.) A way; a passage or ford. |
adverb (adv.) Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. | |
adverb (adv.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. | |
adverb (adv.) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. | |
adverb (adv.) Throughly; from beginning to end. | |
prep (prep.) Forth from; out of. |
fortieth | noun (n.) One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth. |
adjective (a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts. | |
adjective (a.) Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided. |
fourteenth | noun (n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth. |
noun (n.) The octave of the seventh. | |
adjective (a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month. | |
adjective (a.) Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived. |
fourth | noun (n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third. |
noun (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. | |
adjective (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. | |
adjective (a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided. |
foxearth | noun (n.) A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself. |
foxfish | noun (n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark. |
noun (n.) The european dragonet. See Dragonet. |
foxish | adjective (a.) Foxlike. |
frankish | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the Franks. |
freakish | adjective (a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. |
french | noun (n.) The language spoken in France. |
noun (n.) Collectively, the people of France. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. |
fresh | noun (n.) A stream or spring of fresh water. |
noun (n.) A flood; a freshet. | |
noun (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. | |
verb (v. t.) To refresh; to freshen. | |
(superl) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound. | |
(superl) New; original; additional. | |
(superl) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water. | |
(superl) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs. | |
(superl) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship. | |
(superl) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind. | |
(superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. |
friborgh | noun (n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. |
friesish | adjective (a.) Friesic. |
frith | noun (n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. |
noun (n.) A kind of weir for catching fish. | |
adjective (a.) A forest; a woody place. | |
adjective (a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. |
frogfish | noun (n.) See Angler, n., 2. |
noun (n.) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish. |
frogmouth | noun (n.) One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills. |
froppish | adjective (a.) Peevish; froward. |
frostfish | noun (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. |
noun (n.) The smelt. | |
noun (n.) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish. |
froth | noun (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. |
noun (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. | |
noun (n.) Light, unsubstantial matter. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to foam. | |
verb (v. t.) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. | |
verb (v. i.) To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. |
frumpish | adjective (a.) Cross-tempered; scornful. |
adjective (a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. |
frush | noun (n.) Noise; clatter; crash. |
noun (n.) The frog of a horse's foot. | |
noun (n.) A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush. | |
adjective (a.) Easily broken; brittle; crisp. | |
verb (v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces. |
famish | adjective (a.) Smoky; hot; choleric. |
verb (v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. | |
verb (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. | |
verb (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. | |
verb (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine. | |
verb (v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. |
furlough | adjective (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence. |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier. |
furnish | noun (n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. |
verb (v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. | |
verb (v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. |
featherstitch | noun (n.) A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line. |
fluviograph | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river. |