firescreen
A screen placed in front of a hearth to shield the rest of the room from the fire.

firescreens
plural of firescreen

fireset
A set of fire irons, typically including tongs, shovel, and poker.

firesets
plural of fireset

fireshed
A boundary between places in which a wildfire would move in different directions; a boundary between fireplains.

firesheds
plural of fireshed

fireside
The area near a domestic fire or hearth.
One's home.
Home life.
A supplementary meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

firesides
plural of fireside

fivepin
Any of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling.

flacket
A barrel-shaped bottle, or a flagon.

flackets
plural of flacket

flareback
A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.

flarebacks
plural of flareback

flashback
A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.

flashbacked
simple past and past participle of flashback

flashbacks
plural of flashback

flashbulb
A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.

flashbulbs
plural of flashbulb

flaskful
As much as a flask will hold.

flaskfuls
plural of flaskful

flasklet
A small flask; a phial.

flasklets
plural of flasklet

flasksful
plural of flaskful

flatbow
a bow with non-recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are approximately rectangular in cross-section.

flatbows
plural of flatbow

flaxcomb
A hackle, a toothed instrument for cleaning the fibres of flax.

flaxcombs
plural of flaxcomb

fleabag
A bed or sleeping bag.
A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
An unkempt mammal.
A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.

fleabags
plural of fleabag

fleadh
An Irish music festival with competitions for the best performance on various instruments.

fleadhs
plural of fleadh

fletton
A clay brick.

flettons
plural of fletton

flexicuffs
disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties

flexitank
A liquid storage container made from flexible material such as polyurethane.

flexitanks
plural of flexitank

flightshot
The distance to which an arrow can be fired.

flipover
A screen wipe effect resembling the turning of the page of a book.

flipovers
plural of flipover

flipperdinger
A toy consisting of a reed tube with a hole of a certain shape coming out one side. When the user blows into it, the air exiting the hole serves to levitate a small, light ball.

floatboard
A board on the rim of an undershot water wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel.

floatboards
plural of floatboard

floatline
Synonym of corkline.

floatlines
plural of floatline

flokatis
plural of flokati

flone
An arrow.

flones
plural of flone

floorlet
A component of an interest rate floor, a derivative instrument that effectively prevents the interest payments on an otherwise variable-rate loan from falling below an agreed level (the "floor"). Each floorlet, analysable as a put option, covers one interest accrual period (such as three months); the whole interest rate floor is made up of a series of consecutive floorlets.

floorlets
plural of floorlet

floorstone
A stone making up part of a floor or flooring.
Stone pavement, serving as a floor.

floorstones
plural of floorstone

flowerpot
A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.

flowerpots
plural of flowerpot

flowline
A large-diameter pipe that carries oil from the seabed to a drilling rig.

flowlines
plural of flowline

fluidics
The branch of engineering and technology that is concerned with the construction of devices that use the flow and pressure of a fluid in circuits analogous to electronic ones

flutina
An early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the "draw" of the bellows.

flutinas
plural of flutina

flycrank
A type of mechanical crank.

flycranks
plural of flycrank.

flypast
A low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US)

flypasts
plural of flypast

flytrap
A trap built to catch flies.
The Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant.
Any contrivance by which a plant catches insects, such as pitchers or tentacles.
The spreading dogbane.

flytraps
plural of flytrap

flyweight
A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force.
A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 112 pounds or 50.8 kilograms.
Small, light or unimportant.

flyweights
plural of flyweight

focaloid
A shell bounded by two concentric, confocal ellipses (in two dimensions) or ellipsoids (in three dimensions).

focaloids
plural of focaloid

foetoscopies
plural of foetoscopy

foetoscopy
Alternative form of fetoscopy.

foistware
Software that is installed without the user's knowledge or consent, often bundled with another product.

foldscope
A microscope or similar optical instrument made by origami-like folding of a single piece of card (plus one or more lenses)

foldscopes
plural of foldscope

footbow
A bow whose arc is kept in place by the archer's feet when its string is drawn by hand.

footbows
plural of footbow

footgolf
A variant of golf in which players attempt to kick a football (“soccer ball”) into a depressed cup set into the turf.

footlight
A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.

footlights
plural of footlight

footmaker
An assistant glassblower who forms the foot of the glass vessel.

footmakers
plural of footmaker

footnail
Synonym of toenail.

footnails
plural of footnail

footrope
a rope attached to the lower part of a sail
a rope attached to a yard that sailors stood on to stabilize it when furling or reefing
a rope or chain forming the bottom edge of a trawl net, helping to maintain the net's shape and depth in the water.

footropes
plural of footrope

foots
third-person singular simple present indicative of foot

footwheel
Any wheel worked by means of the foot.

footwheels
plural of footwheel

foralite
A tube-like marking found in sandstone and other strata.

foralites
plural of foralite

forasdar
A holder of foras land.

forasdars
plural of forasdar

forcipation
torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers

forebrace
A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

forebraces
plural of forebrace

forecarriage
The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled carriage.

forecarriages
plural of forecarriage

forechain
A chain securing the lower shrouds of the foremast.

forechains
plural of forechain

forehammer
A sledge or sledgehammer; the large hammer which strikes first, or before the smaller one.

forehammers
plural of forehammer

forehearth
The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

forehearths
plural of forehearth

forelevel
A level positioned at or near the front (of anything); a prior or previous level.

forelevels
plural of forelevel

foreline
A piece of tube connecting components in a vacuum system.

forepack
A pack or container carried or located on the front or forward side.

forepacks
plural of forepack

foreshaft
The front, projecting part of an object, especially of an arrow or other projectile, on which the tip is attached

foreshafts
plural of foreshaft

forestick
The stick at the front of a fire in a hearth.

foresticks
plural of forestick

foretruck
A truck on the foremast (from which the Blue Peter is hoisted)

foretrucks
plural of foretruck

formwork
A temporary mold, made from planks, into which concrete is poured.

formworks
plural of formwork