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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

falafel
felafel noun small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds

Falange
noun the Spanish Nazi party under Franco

falangist
phalangist noun a Spanish member of General Franco`s political party

falcate
falciform adjective curved like a sickle; `a falcate leaf`; `falcate claws`; `the falcate moon`

Falcatifolium
genus Falcatifolium noun sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia

falchion
noun a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point

falciform ligament
noun a ligament that attaches part of the liver to the diaphragm and the abdominal wall

Falco
genus Falco noun a genus of Falconidae

Falco tinnunculus
noun small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind

falcon
noun diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight

falcon-gentle
falcon-gentil noun female falcon especially a female peregrine falcon

falconer
noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

Falconidae
family Falconidae noun a family of birds of the order Falconiformes

Falconiformes
order Falconiformes noun chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures

falconine
adjective relating to or resembling a falcon

falconry
noun the art of training falcons to hunt and return

Falkland Islands
noun a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British crown colony

fall
autumn noun the season when the leaves fall from the trees; `in the fall of 1973`

fall
noun when a wrestler`s shoulders are forced to the mat

fall all over
verb display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards; `This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him`

fall apart
go to pieces verb lose one`s emotional or mental composure; `She fell apart when her only child died`

fall armyworm
Spodoptera frugiperda noun larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains

fall asleep
dope off verb change from a waking to a sleeping state; `he always falls asleep during lectures`

fall back
lose 1 drop off verb retreat

fall dandelion
arnica bud noun fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States

fall for
verb fall in love with; become infatuated with; `She fell for the man from Brazil`

fall from grace
verb revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior; `The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert`

fall in love
verb begin to experience feelings of love towards; `She fell in love with her former student`

fall into
fall under verb be included in or classified as; `This falls under the rubric `various``

Fall of Man
noun (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death

fall off
verb come off; `This button had fallen off`

fall out
verb have a breach in relations; `We fell out over a trivial question`

fall out
verb come off; `His hair and teeth fell out`

fall over
go over verb fall forward and down; `The old woman went over without a sound`

fall over backwards
bend over backwards verb try very hard to please someone; `She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law`

fall short of
verb fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example

fall through
fall flat verb fail utterly; collapse; `The project foundered`

fall upon
come upon 9 light upon verb find unexpectedly; `the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb`; `she struck a goldmine`; `The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake`

fall webworm
noun a variety of webworm

fall-blooming hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata noun deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters

Falla
Manuel de Falla noun Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)

fallacious
unsound adjective containing or based on a fallacy; `fallacious reasoning`; `an unsound argument`

fallacious
fraudulent adjective intended to deceive; `deceitful advertising`; `fallacious testimony`; `smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice` - S.T.Coleridge; `a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes`

fallaciousness
noun result of a fallacy or error in reasoning

fallacy
false belief noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

fallboard
fall-board noun the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played

fallen
adjective killed in battle; `to honor fallen soldiers`

faller
noun a person who falls; `one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller`; `a faller among thieves`

fallibility
noun the likelihood of making errors

fallible
frail adjective having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; `I`m only a fallible human`; `frail humanity`

falling
adjective decreasing in amount or degree; `falling temperature`

Fallopian tube
uterine tube noun either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus

Fallopius
Gabriele Fallopius noun Italian anatomist who first described the Fallopian tubes (1523-1562)

Fallot
Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot noun French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot`s tetralogy (1850-1911)

fallout
radioactive dust noun the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion

fallout shelter
noun a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb

fallow
adjective undeveloped but potentially useful; `a fallow gold market`

fallow deer
Dama dama noun small Eurasian deer

falls
noun the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris)

false
hollow adjective deliberately deceptive; `hollow (or false) promises`; `false pretenses`

false alarm
noun a warning that is given about something that fails to occur

false alumroot
fringe cups noun plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho

false asphodel
noun a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers

false azalea
fool`s huckleberry noun straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers

false bracken
Culcita dubia noun resembles Pteridium aquilinum; of Queensland, Australia

false buckthorn
chittamwood 1 chittimwood 1 shittimwood 1 black haw 2 Bumelia lanuginosa noun deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

false bugbane
Trautvetteria carolinensis noun tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers

false chamomile
noun any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas

false deathcap
Amanita mappa noun agaric often confused with the death cup

false dogwood
jaboncillo noun evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans

false dragonhead
false dragon head noun North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers

false face
noun a mask worn as part of a masquerade costume

false foxglove
Gerardia pedicularia noun multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia

false gavial
Tomistoma schlegeli noun crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial

false goatsbeard
Astilbe biternata noun North American astilbe with panicles of creamy white flowers

false gromwell
noun any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers

false heather
golden heather noun North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers

false hellebore
noun perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

false imprisonment
noun (law) confinement without legal authority

false indigo
noun an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers

false lily of the valley
noun small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers

false lupine
golden pea noun western United States bushy herb having yellow pea-like flowers

false mistletoe
noun American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe

false miterwort
noun plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana

false mitrewort
noun plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana

false morel
noun a fungus of the family Helvellaceae

false nettle
bog hemp noun any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs

false pregnancy
pseudocyesis noun physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant

false pretense
false pretence noun (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation

false return
noun an incorrect income tax return

false rue anemone
false rue noun slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers; resembles meadow rue

false saber-toothed tiger
noun North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon

false sago
fern palm noun southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage

false scorpion
pseudoscorpion noun small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion

false tamarisk
German tamarisk noun Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk

false teeth
noun a removable denture

false topaz
common topaz noun a yellow quartz

false vampire
false vampire bat noun any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects

false verdict
noun a manifestly unjust verdict; not true to the evidence

false vocal cord
false vocal fold noun either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization