epicentre
The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake.
The point on the surface of the earth directly above an underground explosion.
The focal point of any activity, especially if dangerous or destructive.
The geographical area in which an ongoing disaster, illness, crisis, or other destructive event is currently most severe.

epicentres
plural of epicentre

epitheories
plural of epitheory

epitheory
A theory based on a more fundamental theory or on a metatheory; A theory which doesn't describe all causes; handling some of them as givens, especially when other theories do analyze these givens.
branch-theory, subtheory

escritoire
A writing desk with a hinged door that provides the writing surface.

escritoires
plural of escritoire

etagere
A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments.

etageres
plural of etagere

ethnarch
The governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
A leader of an ethnic community, especially a Jewish or (in the Ottoman Empire) Eastern Orthodox leader having political as well as spiritual authority.

ethnarchs
plural of ethnarch

eucrites
plural of eucrite

excircle
An escribed circle; a circle outside a polygon (especially a triangle, but also sometimes a quadrilateral) that is tangent to each of the lines on which the sides of the polygon lie.

excircles
plural of excircle

exemplars
plural of exemplar

exoethnonym
An ethnonym used by those who do not belong to the ethnic group it describes.

exoethnonyms
plural of exoethnonym

expresso
Alternative form of espresso.

expressos
plural of expresso

ezafe
A grammatical particle found in some Iranian and Iranian-influenced languages which links two words together; it consists of the unstressed vowel -e / -ye (Persian, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi), -i / -yi (Classical Persian, Kurdish, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Ottoman Turkish), or -ı (Ottoman Turkish) between the words it connects, and often approximately corresponds in usage to the English preposition "of", similar to but not to be confused with Arabic ʾiḍāfa.

ezafeh
Alternative form of ezafe.

ezafehs
plural of ezafeh

ezafes
plural of ezafe

fatawa
plural of fatwa

fatwah
Alternative spelling of fatwa.

fedayee
An Arab guerrilla or commando.
A fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

fedayeen
plural of fedayee

fedayees
plural of fedayee

femal
Obsolete form of female.

female
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

females
plural of female

femals
plural of femal

femidom
Synonym of female condom.

femidoms
plural of femidom

fetii
Misconstructed plural form of fetus (the standard plural is fetuses).

fetwa
Archaic spelling of fatwa.

fetwah
Archaic spelling of fatwa.

fetwahs
plural of fetwah

fetwas
plural of fetwa

fiberboard
A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or making furniture.

fiberboards
plural of fiberboard

fibreboard
British and Canada standard spelling of fiberboard.

fibreboards
plural of fibreboard

fidayee
Alternative spelling of fedayee.

fidayeen
plural of fidayee

fidayees
plural of fidayee

fideicommissa
plural of fideicommissum

fideist
A subscriber to fideism.

fideists
plural of fideist

floormat
A mat that is laid on the floor.

foldaway
That may be folded away when not in use.

foldaways
plural of foldaway

footbar
A bar for supporting a person's foot, as in furniture or exercise machines.

footbars
plural of footbar

footpost
A bedpost at the foot of a bed.
A messenger who travels on foot.

footrest
A support on which to rest the feet.

footslopes
plural of footslope

foreleg
Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.

forelegs
plural of foreleg

forgivement
forgiveness

forgivements
plural of forgivement

fragor
A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

fragors
plural of fragor

fruitwood
The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications.
In orchard culture, the woody growth of the scion of any grafted fruit tree above the graft, as opposed to the rootstock, which is the part of the plant below the graft.
Particular branches or twigs in particular positions, or of particular types or ages, that may be expected to bear fruit in most types of orchard trees, since fruit is not borne randomly all over the tree.

fruitwoods
plural of fruitwood

fugutoxin
tetrodotoxin

furn
Abbreviation of furniture.

furnishings
plural of furnishing

furnituremakers
plural of furnituremaker

furnituremaking
The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.

furnitures
plural of furniture

fusariotoxin
Any mycotoxin produced by fusaria

fusariotoxins
plural of fusariotoxin

fusuma
A vertical rectangular sliding panel, often painted or decorated, used in Japan as a door or movable wall.

futwa
Archaic spelling of fatwa.

futwah
Archaic spelling of fatwa.

futwahs
plural of futwah

futwas
plural of futwa

galenical
galenic

galenicals
plural of galenical

gamings
plural of gaming

gammoid
A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.

gammoids
plural of gammoid

garderobe
A storeroom or wardrobe.
A lavatory, especially in a castle and built into the outer wall, with vent directly over the moat or midden.

garderobes
plural of garderobe

gastromancy
Divination by interpreting the sounds and signs of the belly.
Divination by noting magical visions in large-bellied glasses, sometimes described as a technique where a child is placed in front of a glass filled with water, the images in the glass then interpreted. Similar to crystallomancy.

gateleg
A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down; having such a leg or legs.
A piece of furniture (especially a table) with a leg or legs of this kind.

gatelegs
plural of gateleg

geometrodynamics
Any of several reformulations of general relativity that attempt to describe spacetime and associated phenomena completely in terms of geometry.

geomyth
A myth that describes some geological event.

geomyths
plural of geomyth

geoparticle
Describing the use of elementary particles in the exploration of the internal geological structure of the Earth.

geosynchrotron
Used attributively to describe the acceleration of charged particles in the Earth's magnetic field

gerundive
A verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
A verbal adjective ending in -ing, also called a "present participle".

gerundives
plural of gerundive

ginkgotoxin
The neurotoxin 5-(hydroxymethyl)-4-(methoxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol occurring in the ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

gire
Obsolete form of gyre.

gires
plural of gire

girlcum
female ejaculation
The semen produced by a trans woman.

glassite
A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.

glissette
The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

glissettes
plural of glissette