firebase
An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base.

firebases
plural of firebase

firedrake
A fire-breathing dragon.
A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
A kind of firework
A worker at a furnace or fire

firedrakes
plural of firedrake

firelock
A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.
A firearm using such a gunlock.

firelocks
plural of firelock

firemaster
The chief of a fire brigade.
An artillery officer who supervised the composition of fireworks.

firemasters
plural of firemaster

firepan
A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially (firearms) the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

firepans
plural of firepan

fireplan
A plan of attack or siege using an array of firearms

fireplans
plural of fireplan

fireport
A small opening in the armor or wall of a fortification, vehicle, or ship, designed for firing weapons while providing protection to the shooter.

fireports
plural of fireport

firepower
The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target.
The ability to deliver fire.
The ability and resources to dominate.

firepowers
plural of firepower

fisgig
Alternative spelling of fizgig.

fisgigs
plural of fisgig

fishgig
Alternative spelling of fizgig.

fishgigs
plural of fishgig

fishspear
A spear for catching fish.

fishspears
plural of fishspear

fissgig
Obsolete form of fizgig (“a type of harpoon”).

fissgigs
plural of fissgig

fixie
A fixed-gear bicycle.
A fixed-blade knife.

fixies
plural of fixie

fizgig
A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

fizgigs
plural of fizgig.

flail
A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.

flailed
simple past and past participle of flail

flailing
present participle and gerund of flail

flailings
plural of flailing

flails
plural of flail

flamberg
Alternative spelling of flamberge.

flamberge
A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.

flambergen
plural of flamberge

flamberges
plural of flamberge

flambergs
plural of flamberg

flamethrower
A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
Someone who is extremely good at throwing or shooting balls.

flamethrowers
plural of flamethrower

flamfew
A worthless thing; a trifle or bauble.

flamfews
plural of flamfew

flanconades
plural of flanconade

flaregun
Alternative spelling of flare gun.

flareguns
plural of flaregun

flashpan
Alternative form of flash pan.

flashpans
plural of flashpan

flechette
A small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.
The game of lawn darts.

flechettes
plural of flechette

flickies
plural of flicky

flicky
Easily flicked; thus, light and fast.
Resembling or characteristic of a flick.

flintlock
An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

flintlocks
plural of flintlock

flourishings
plural of flourishing

flowers
plural of flower

flowre
Obsolete spelling of flower.

flowres
plural of flowre

flyssa
A sharp weapon that originates in precolonial Algeria.

flyssas
plural of flyssa

fn
Abbreviation of footnote.
Abbreviation of function.
Abbreviation of Fortnite.

fns
plural of fn

foibles
plural of foible

foinery
Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

foki
staff

fokis
plural of foki

folder
An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
A machine or person that folds things.
A folding knife, typically a pocketknife.

folderol
Nonsense or foolishness.
A decorative object of little value; a trifle or gewgaw.

folderols
plural of folderol

folders
plural of folder

foon
Synonym of spork.

foons
plural of foon

fopoon
Synonym of spork.

fopoons
plural of fopoon

forcepstail
A member of Diplura (two-pronged bristletails) in the families Evalljapygidae, Parajapygidae, and especially Japygidae.
A member of dragonflies in the genera Phyllocycla (lesser forcepstails) and Aphylla (greater forcepgenus|stails).

forcepstails
plural of forcepstail

forecharge
To charge in advance.

forecharges
plural of forecharge

foregrip
A pistol grip-type forestock on the front of a firearm that improves handling characteristics, counters the effects of recoil, and is cooler to the touch than a standard forestock.

foregrips
plural of foregrip

forend
Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand.

forends
plural of forend

foresight
The ability, or the due use of one's ability, to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
The ability to foresee future events in a supernatural or paranormal way, such as psychically.
The front sight on a firearm (e.g., rifle, handgun).
A bearing taken forwards towards a new object.

foresights
plural of foresight

forestock
forearm; handguard

forestocks
plural of forestock

fortes
plural of forte

fourgon
A French baggage wagon.
An ammunition wagon.

fourgons
plural of fourgon

fpoon
Synonym of spork.

fpoons
plural of fpoon

fps
Initialism of frames per second.
Initialism of feet per second.

framelock
Alternative form of frame lock.

framelocks
plural of framelock

francisca
A throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks.

franciscas
plural of francisca

freakings
plural of freaking

fribbles
plural of fribble

fripperies
plural of frippery

frippery
Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Useless things; trifles.
Cast-off clothes.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.
The place where old clothes are sold.
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

frizel
A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

frizels
plural of frizel

frizzen
An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms, positioned over the flash pan so to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel, such that when fired the flint scrapes it so as to create a spark.

frizzens
plural of frizzen

fudd
Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”).
Synonym of fuddy-duddy.

fudds
plural of fudd

fullers
plural of fuller

fusarole
Synonym of astragal

fusaroles
plural of fusarole

fyrdman
An English militiaman of the Saxon period; often a land worker called to arms in support of the king or a local lord, and usually armed with a spear and shield.

fyrdmen
plural of fyrdman

galvanocauteries
plural of galvanocautery

galvanocauterization
Synonym of galvanocautery.

galvanocauterizations
plural of galvanocauterization

galvanocautery
Cautery by means of a knife or needle heated by a galvanic current.

gatka
A traditional South Asian form of combat training in which wooden sticks are used to simulate swords in sparring matches.

gats
plural of gat

gavelock
A spear or dart.
An iron crowbar.

gavelocks
plural of gavelock

geriarchies
plural of geriarchy

gisarm
Archaic form of gisarme.

gisarme
A type of polearm having a spearhead and a reverse hooked spike on the back.